The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn grossed $652,252,000 worldwide this year.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn grossed $652,252,000 worldwide this year.
Photograph by: Promo, E1The movie year is almost over, and the numbers are pretty dismal: A 4.9 per cent drop in the North American box office, making it the worst year since 1995. This is an industry that is accustomed to automatic growth, just as it used to be with the stock market. Just imagine how you’d feel if you put all your RRSP money into Mars Needs Moms (budget: $150 million, sales: $39 million).
The reasons people have come up with are the usual suspects. One of those suspects is the Internet - a handy phenomenon that’s also blamed for destroying newspapers, the music business, book publishing, and human interaction, but has done wonders for the fastgrowing sector of informing acquaintances of your every stray thought as it occurs. The other suspect is movie studios aren’t making movies people want to see.
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