besides CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, name another director...

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Have you fukking seen Alien 3? All the characters that you cared about in Aliens were killed off at the very beginning, the whole movie has a dreary depressing aura about it.

 

[Rapmastermind]

Spielberg

Spielberg flopped earlier in his Career. But No DIRECTOR in HISTORY has more Classics Than Steven Did in his 1st 10 years since his debut:


Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

I thought it was common knowledge most films made thier profit from international viewers

 

[gluvnast]

Have you fukking seen Alien 3? All the characters that you cared about in Aliens were killed off at the very beginning, the whole movie has a dreary depressing aura about it.

EVERY ALIEN FILM IS DARK AND BROODING... the hell u talking about??? it's a HORROR SCI-FI FLICK!

 

[gluvnast]

Spielberg flopped earlier in his Career. But No DIRECTOR in HISTORY has more Classics Than Steven Did in his 1st 10 years since his debut:


Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.

spielberg's 1st failure was that 1941 film.

 

[Kartel13]

Alien 3 was considered a failure no matter how you view it. It was a mess from the go. Fincher made it a watchable flick but still, it was critically shelled.

What about Matthew Vaughn?

 

[MidniteJay]

Park Chan-wook

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

EVERY ALIEN FILM IS DARK AND BROODING... the hell u talking about??? it's a HORROR SCI-FI FLICK!

I wouldn't describe the previous alien films as "dark and brooding" they were more intense and scary. Alien 3 was literally depressing and really bleak.

 

[nieman]

Domestic: $53,089,891 48.4%
+ Foreign: $56,586,420 51.6%
= Worldwide: $109,676,311

40 Million Budget, even if you add the overseas, it made 69 Million more minus it's budget. That's not really a commercial success. Profitable, sure but commercial success?. Again people don't understand how the industry works. Studios do not get 100% of of theater profits. Prestige was not considered a huge success. Just cause it made profit doesn't make a commercial success.

Especially since it came off of the heels of The Illusionist, which did much better at the box office. I didn't even think about The Prestige until DVD release.

it STILL made profit, no matter HOW u want to spin it. even domestically. it made profit. as many films that sold UNDER the buget that got it made.

Just because it makes a profit does not mean it's a commercial success. Spider-Man 3 is not considered a commercial success, and it made a profit.

 

[Kartel13]

Especially since it came off of the heels of The Illusionist, which did much better at the box office. I didn't even think about The Prestige until DVD release.

Now you're just making shiit up.

The Illusionist has earned worldwide box office receipts of $87,892,388, including $39,868,642 in the United States.

 

[Kartel13]

Domestic: $53,089,891 48.4%
+ Foreign: $56,586,420 51.6%
= Worldwide: $109,676,311

40 Million Budget, even if you add the overseas, it made 69 Million more minus it's budget. That's not really a commercial success. Profitable, sure but commercial success?. Again people don't understand how the industry works. Studios do not get 100% of of theater profits. Prestige was not considered a huge success. Just cause it made profit doesn't make a commercial success.

still not a flop. Regardless of how you look at it, it was a success on both ends.

 

[Cuban Pete]

I remember the first time I saw this movie

that movie is a classic george clooney swagging with the tribal tats, the dikk gun no homo and prime salma hayek stripteasing showing off her sexy ass feet

 

[Kartel13]

that movie is a classic george clooney swagging with the tribal tats, the dikk gun no homo and prime salma hayek stripteasing showing off her sexy ass feet

exactly. Selma Hayek's dance scene alone

 

[VentiQuattro]

that movie is a classic george clooney swagging with the tribal tats, the dikk gun no homo and prime salma hayek stripteasing showing off her sexy ass feet

Yeah right before that bytch turned into a demonic snake head

 

[gluvnast]

Especially since it came off of the heels of The Illusionist, which did much better at the box office. I didn't even think about The Prestige until DVD release.



Just because it makes a profit does not mean it's a commercial success. Spider-Man 3 is not considered a commercial success, and it made a profit.

spider-man 3 was a COMMERCIAL SUCCESS.. u are confusing it with being a CRITICAL FAILURE. that movie MADE $$$

the prestige DOUBLED its earnings from the budget that it had... it was no in no way a FLOP.