Phantom Movie Gross — Page 2

There's no reason to discount foreign revenue, especially for a movie entirely funded by foreign money.

I think the movie was probably a letdown in the sense that it wasn't the biggest movie musical of all-time, which was probably Andrew's hope, but everyone involved made money, too.

I wasn't discounting foreign revenue, but I think the domestic gross was a lot lower than expected. (Some movies have done extremely well abroad, even when they didn't do all that well domestically.)

I liked the movie. Didn't love it, but liked it. My friend (who hasn't seen the show) really enjoyed it, and there was a lady there who commented on the sound -- it had moved to one of the smaller screens by that time, and she said the sound was much better the first time. So she liked it enough to come back.

I definitely plan on buying the DVD, which I think is supposed to be released in April? Amazon says May 3.

The movie definitely wasn't a flop. Anytime a movie makes over 50 Million at the box office that is a respectable draw at the box office. You also have to remember that in the beginning, the movie was only playing in select cities. I was amazed how well it did in the theater.

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Yup, the DVD comes out in the US May 3...41 days and counting(Zeppie not updating your countdown again, tsk, tsk.)

I loved it too, and I will be getting the DVD the first day as well, and I know a lot of people who said they will watch the DVD when I get it. Again, considering the reviews, which I still don't get as everyone I personally know who saw it either loved it or liked it...whatever, I think it did pretty well.

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Though not a blockbuster, PHANTOM was hardly a flop. It made a small profit with it's gross worldwide and make more of a profit with the DVD. It wasn't perfect, but I liked it. I think that the reason it was it fared less than expected was, as everyone said: the limited release to wide release, putting absoultely no names in it (you can argue minnie driver, but, come on who's going to go see a movie musical only because Minnie Driver is in it?) And they were depending on reviews to help boost the b.o. (which isn't a smart move, whether the film's a masterpiece or not) and advertising was pretty bad. The best advertising they had was on a few tv shows (i.e. THE VIEW: if yo uwatched it, they basically dedicated the entire episode to PHANTOM and fawned over Emmy). You can say you hated it or loved it, that doesn't make it a fact that it was great or horrible. But it's a fact that it wasn't a flop. Techincally, I'm not quite sure, but respectively it was far from it.

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Curtain Up...I know it's a little late but THAT was hilarious. Definitely need acknowledging...