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- From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 12:52:36
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- 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.
-
- Actually, I suspect they will (how have Spike Lee's other films done
- overseas, by the way?). In the States I don't know, but half the
- people I know are waiting until after Christmas to see it (and no, I
- don't have any clue why).
-
- |One might call the film a "White Elephant" if one were a particularly
- |masochistic pundit.
-
- Or not. How much of the cost of the film was donated by Cosby, Oprah,
- Jordan, Lee himself, et al? Wasn't it order 15 million?
-
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- "Why that order?"
- "It takes friends longer to notice a bad personality."
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