{"id":1385,"date":"2007-03-10T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hot-gates-hot-box-office\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T17:37:32","slug":"hot-gates-hot-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hot-gates-hot-box-office","title":{"rendered":"Hot Gates, Hot Box Office?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few posts ago<\/a>, I mentioned that I was going to mark-out for 300<\/a>, and that Amy & I would likely go catch it this weekend at the local IMAX, so as to get the full theme-park experience of Thermopylae on a giant screen.<\/p>\n

This morning, I went online and discovered that every single IMAX screening this weekend is sold out.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, my powers of prognostication aren’t the greatest, when it comes to movies and other pop phenomena. I mean, Ghost Rider<\/a> looks like a godawful movie, and it’s based on a godawful character from Marvel’s nadir. So of course<\/em> it ran away with the box office and is going to pass $100 million in sales this weekend. Did I underestimate how bored and\/or stupid teenagers can be in February? I guess so.<\/p>\n

But 300<\/em>? Projected to pull in $60 million in its opening weekend? I’m happy that it’s getting so much exposure, but I’m just afraid that it’ll give Frank Miller so much Hollywood cachet that he’ll pursue a bigscreen version of Give Me Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few posts ago, I mentioned that I was going to mark-out for 300, and that Amy & I would likely go catch it this weekend at the local IMAX, so as to get the full theme-park experience of Thermopylae on a giant screen. This morning, I went online and discovered that every single IMAX … <\/p>\n

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