Numbers don’t lie, right?
The truth is that box-office attendance actually fell off by 2% between 2008 and 2009.
Basically it was a record-breaking summer that felt more like a really successful spring.
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And now for the numbers themselves.
It’s what we’ve got to work with.
It depends on the film.
Both studios are happy, sure.
Number two was claimed by Paramount thanks mostly to “Transformers”.
Disney’s “The Proposal”, on the other hand is an undeniable winner.
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“-sized success story.
foreign/$42 million budget (est.)
“Funny People”- $51 mil.
domestic/$1.2 mil.
foreign/$75 million budget
And then we have the much-discussed “Inglourious Basterds”.
So why is The Weinstein Company not out of financial trouble?
Checklast week’s box office chartfor reasons why this may have been a bad move.
The summer of 2009 will be remembered for a lot of other reasons, of course.
What is your best movie memory from the past summer?
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