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- From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:45:46 GMT
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- In article <mattm-301292191224@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >
- >Malcom X, on the other hand grossed forty million. Halve that for
- >return to the studio. Subtract another ten for promotional
- >expenses. The movie's twenty million in the hole. And while
- >Dracula is a story that will sell overseas, do Europeans and
- >Japanese really care to sit for 3 and a half hours on the life of
- >a radical American black activist? I doubt it.
-
- Very good point. However,IF X does very well with the Academy nominations
- and scores well at the Golden Globes the domestic box-office take
- will definetly get a major pre-Oscar boost. Of course,that's a big IF
- since there's so much outstanding competetion this season with
- Chaplin and Lorenzo's Oil still in the wings and Scent of a Woman still
- in a limitted release.
-
- Regards,
-
- -Mark
-