Trade Roughage 01/29/08

By Karina Longworth posted 7 months ago

From the Dear God, I Guess It’s Really Happening file: Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum have been cast in the lead roles in Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe movie.
From the Dear God, Why Are You LETTING It Happen file: Starz is turning Paul Haggis’ Crash into a miniseries. “This deal fits well with Starz’s strategy of making TV series out of presold movie commodities,” says Starz’ VP of programming, although as far as I can tell, this’ll be the movie net’s first original scripted drama as well as their first pillage of a “movie commodity.”
Variety notices that Cloverfield dropped almost 70% in its second weekend–a day after the same statistic was glossed over in their own box office writeup–and then lines up excuses for why it’s not *that* bad of a fall-off.

evan said 7 months ago
newsflash - if pamela mclintock would’ve bothered to check the final weekend box office chart on page 6 of her own paper, she would’ve discovered that cloverfield actually dropped 72%, making it the second largest drop-off ever; second only to 2005’s Doom (fitting title there.) would love to see an expose on paramount’s actual costs to produce and market cloverfield and see just how profitable this picture is for the studio. i’m not buying the $25 million price-tag that they’ve been touting; not to mention that they’ve spent at least that amount on media.