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Directors Budgets and Rate of Return – Which Big Name Has the Best?

February 4, 2011 By David Sztypuljak Leave a Comment

The guys over at Sofas and Sectionals got in contact with us today to give us a heads up on their ‘Directors Budgets and Rate of Return’ post. They’ve created these rather stat-packed tables detailing just how much money 6 of the biggest name directors in the world have both spent and made on their [...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Avatar, budget, George Lucas, James Cameron, M. Night Shyamalan, Martin Scorsese, michael bay, Rate of Return, Steven Spielberg, takings

Increase in UK Box Office Takings

July 7, 2010 By David Sztypuljak 1 Comment

We’re in the middle of a recession but Hollywood is still proving popular with the UK audience as Variety are reporting that box office takings for the first half of the year are up 3% on the same time in 2009. They claim the increase in 3d movies being release. I guess it would be [...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 3d, Avatar, box office, Clash of the Titans, How to Train your Dragon, Shrek Forever After, takings, UK

The Key To Alice’s Big Box Office… Timing…

March 9, 2010 By Barry Steele 2 Comments

I predicted in my preview ten days ago that Alice in Wonderland would draw big box office. No, it wasn’t exactly a bold prediction, and it was clear to everyone that a lot of money was going to be spent on Alice. I don’t think, however, that anyone could have predicted just how much money [...]