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There are lots of movies that lost enourmous amounts of money
I was listening to an old adam carolla podcast which had some people from a movie called "Transylmania" I had heard of the movie that came out last year but never saw it, never thought much about it.
During the podcast the producers? or directors brag about how they spent $15 million to hire people with distributor experience and marketing etc to get an indie movie into "1500 theatres" they also say the budget for this movie was $6million "but it looks like 13-14" since it was filmed mostly in Romania. So were talking over $20 million total . This caught my interest because i figured the movie hadn't done well so i was curious how close they came to breaking even.
Here's how one movie site describes the opening weekend (my bold added): "On the complete opposite end of the box office spectrum, the college comedy Transylmania suffered one of the worst wide releases of all-time opening in 1,007 locations to a microscopic $263,941 for a pathetic $262 average. That means on average, each showtime over the weekend attracted only three people."
Now thats impressive, but it gets worse, the movie went from 1007 theatres in week 1 to 118 in week 2. On the wednesday of the 2nd week the movie made $1547 in 118 theatres. So it averaged $13/theatre which i think would equate to .5 people/screening
Terrance posted about a hand at the bahammas tournament involving daniel Negreanu. It was sort of interesting but i didn't really care, i finally watched the video today and it was just sad that this sort of thing would happen in one of the 2-3 biggest tournaments (by prize pool) of the year
I guess major sports often have incompetant umpires/referres and look bad but poker is just on a bizare level of inexplicable incompetance during major events. The floor guy here is just profoundly clueless.
i think the important thing to take away from this situation is that as a player you always have a right to call for a higher level floor person. You will often see the "big name pro" players do this and they usually eventually get the ruling they want. Here at the time the final ruling is made its clear the floor person hasn't remotely gathered the facts or thought about whats really going. If the other player had demanded whomever the TD was to come over I would expect him to get it right, of course in the end daniel would probably figure out the guy has the nuts and fold but at least he wouldn't get the free info
Its interesting to speculate on Daniels motivations, if he 100% saw a hand he could beat would he say call or ask for the floor? Since its on video he would also look like a cheat if he saw the inferior hand and then called a raise without mentioning it, but for him to be speculating with other players about the guys hand is pretty shaky
Extract - Astoundingly bad, after 20 minutes i was just perplexed as to how this movie ever got made and it didn't get better. I laughed a few times but there are really not many jokes in the movie. Office Space was brilliant, Idiocracy was a brilliant premise that barely could stretch to a movie, this one i have no idea what mike judge was thinking or how anyone thought it was good idea.
Big Fan - A great first 30 minutes but after "the incident" it doesn't really go anywhere and then the ending...well i don't want to spoil it but its weak. patton oswalt is an interesting casting choice because he looks perfect for the part but if you know anything about him he's not into sports at all.
White Ribbon - I think almost every Michael Haneke movie i've seen i've enjoyed most of it but left feeling frustrated. That is clearly his motive and yet i'll go see the next one so...i'm not sure if he's good or bad but he's got a style that is at least interesting.
Hurt Locker is out on DVD i think my favorite movie of 2009, though i sitll have some catching up to do on DVDs
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Clearly Black Hole is +EV, I'm sure the payout system will be functional on the other side. Sadly the $100 limit will hurt my profit potential on this one.
The table below illustrates your subject matter strengths and weaknesses. The three columns on the right are marked with asterisks to indicate your performance on each question or topic area.
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By far my best result, given the limited information they show you. I guess the moral of the story is use the schwesser books
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