I am in "lesibans" with this movie... alongside Inception, one of the best sci fi flicks on the big screen I've seen this year.
Sin/BG --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Kelwyn" <ravena...@...> wrote: > > http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/17/entertainment/la-et-scott-pilgrim-20100817 > > For Amy Berciano, this was the moviegoing weekend of the summer. > > More than a year before "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" hit movie theaters, the > 20-year-old UCLA junior became a huge fan of the graphic novels that inspired > the film. At July's Comic-Con International in San Diego, she waited more > than an hour to meet the cast and filmmakers; "I even kissed [director] Edgar > Wright on the cheek!" she bragged. > > After attending the debut midnight screening of the movie Thursday night > while dressed as one of the characters Knives Chao, Scott Pilgrim's > obsessive ex-girlfriend Berciano declared herself eminently satisfied. > "They got the tone of the book just right, especially the way they brought to > life those fighting scenes," she said. "I couldn't get enough." > > Her enthusiasm was shared by nearly everyone who saw the film in its opening > weekend, particularly those younger than 35, who gave "Scott Pilgrim" an > average grade of A, according to market research firm CinemaScore. > Universal's internal exit polls were equally strong, and the film attracted > scores of positive reviews. > > But as last weekend's box office numbers rolled in, all that hardly mattered > at all. > > The movie sold only $10.6 million worth of tickets, a disappointing figure > given that Universal Pictures spent about $85 million, before tax credits, on > production and tens of millions more on marketing. > > Comic book hits: > (since 1978) > The Dark Knight, $533,345,358 > Spider-Man $404,706,375 > Spider-Man 2 $373,585,825 > Spider-Man 3 $336,530,303 > Iron Man $318,412,101 > > Comic book misses: > > Sheena $5,778,353 > Batman: Mask of the Phantasm $5,617,391 > Tank Girl $4,064,495 > Barb Wire $3,793,614 > Steel $1,710,972 >
