The Glade 4.0

Wait.. they spent $100 million on *that* marketing? Wow. Somebody got to line his pockets, bigtime.

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No kidding, considering how bad the marketing was.

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Thanks to hollywood accounting, you would be ASTOUNDED what films haven't turned a profit on paper.

Hollywood accounting (also known as Hollywood bookkeeping) refers to the opaque accounting methods used by the film, video and television industry to budget and record profits for film projects. Expenditures can be inflated to reduce or eliminate the reported profit of the project thereby reducing the amount which the corporation must pay in royalties or other profit-sharing agreements, as these are based on the net profit.

Forrest Gump - Worldwide Gross: $677,387,716

Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing. That being so, he has refused to sell the screenplay rights to the novel's sequel, stating that he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure".

A WB receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper.

Hollywood accounting is not limited to movies. An example is the Warner Bros. television series Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski. Straczynski, who wrote 90% of the episodes in addition to producing the show, would receive a generous cut of profits if not for Hollywood accounting. The series, which was profitable in each of its five seasons from 1993–1998, has garnered more than US$1 billion for Warner Bros., most recently US$500 million in DVD sales alone. But in the last profit statement given to Straczynski, Warner Bros. claimed the property was $80 million in debt. "Basically", says Straczynski, "by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits."

However, that doesn't mean it's not making a mint for the studio. Just that it's not a profit, or a financial success, on paper.

Pulled most of that from here (but I'd read quite a bit of it in previous articles) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

Can't imagine how a Gump sequel book movie would possibly work out anyway.

They'd have to do a serious hatchet job on it again to establish continuity. If you do that you loose the best line out of the book.

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Gump and Co. is a sequel to the book, which they butchered for the first movie anyway (movie was actually probably better). The sequel is basically about how the movie, in not following the book, **** up Forrest's life.

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Exactly. So unless you go with that premise it's hard to turn the book into a sequel to the movie.

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Harry Knowles released the presentation reel for the Kerry Conran (of Sky Captain)-directed pitch that lost out to Disney's licensure of the rights.

... those city concepts.

I'll be in my bunk, reading The Gernsback Continuum...

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Interesting. Hard to tell from the storyboards, but it looks like it may have hewn a little more closely to the original.

But, why did Saturn keep showing up in the sky? Maybe that's why this version lost out!

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