{"id":1210,"date":"2006-11-16T06:41:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/money-gets-flushed-away\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T11:41:38","slug":"money-gets-flushed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/money-gets-flushed-away","title":{"rendered":"Money gets Flushed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Wall Street Journal this morning and saw a piece on how DreamWorks Animation will be writing down its costs on Flushed Away<\/a> in the 4Q because of its poor box office. ($ only, so no link for you)<\/p>\n

The film, which chronicles the adventures of a pampered rat who is flushed into a world of tough sewer rats, cost DreamWorks $142.9 million and has so far taken in $40 million at the box office, the company said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t make any mention of the marketing costs (independent of production costs), but a good deal of that tends to get offset by co-promotion with fast food & toys.<\/p>\n

So . . . $143 MILLION?<\/p>\n

For a computer-animated film by the Wallace & Gromit people? WTF did they spend all the money on? Gold throat lozenges for Hugh Jackman & Kate Winslet?<\/p>\n

(I need a ruling here: both Bill Nighy<\/a> and<\/em> Jean Reno<\/a> are in this one, but since it’s only voice-work, does that mean it’ll still automatically be a good movie?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Wall Street Journal this morning and saw a piece on how DreamWorks Animation will be writing down its costs on Flushed Away in the 4Q because of its poor box office. ($ only, so no link for you) The film, which chronicles the adventures of a pampered rat who is flushed … <\/p>\n

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