(December 29, 2014 at 5:34 pm)pocaracas Wrote: You were expecting to cover the investment before the first week was over?The article I read indicated that they originally were counting on a $40-60 million opening week. It seems likely that in time they will recoup their investment and make a small profit, but that doesn't seem to be worth the shot to their reputational groin (so to speak).
How many movies can accomplish that?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould