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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
So I have to have read the book to enjoy the film? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of a movie?
I smell a big opening weekend and then flop.
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Big opening weekends are commonplace now. The Dark Knight dropped almost 50% during it's second weekend and continued to plummet after that, eventually slowing down after about 5 weekends of 30-40% drops, week over week. Of course, it started at like $150 M the first weekend, so it still did really well, but pulled almost 1/4 of it's total take in the first 3 days.
Now, Hellboy 2 would be a more appropriate example. It made 50% of it's total domestic take in the first weekend, then dropped precipitously after people realized it was crap.