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Does Watchmen's Leak Matter?

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tetracycloide
07/06/09

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rental outlets might care that a very tiny portion of the people that didn't see this in theaters who also download frequently will see the blu-ray or dvd release without paying them a couple bucks for it. i doubt it will stop anyone that was planning to buy the dvd or blu-ray from doing so, however, since it's not like they don't already know what they're getting.
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CodenameV
07/06/09

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People actually *liked* Watchmen, and would want to actually buy it, to ensure the best possible quality plus bonus features.

Further, we've all already seen it in theaters; the big reason behind the Wolverine leak was that no one knew exactly what it was going to be like and wanted to find out...now it doesn't matter as much.

Frankly the only two movies that DIDN'T flop critically this summer were Star Trek and if you go back to spring, Watchmen.

Went up as a group with my scifi club to watch it in the upper west side, then went to a chinese restaurant post-movie to discuss Nite Owl 2's sloppy chinese food eating. What a time that was...
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TheUndercover
07/06/09

@CodenameV: By pretty much every measure (Fan reaction, critic reaction, total box) Watchmen was a failure.
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zerofritz
07/06/09

@TheUndercover: @frederic:

Agreed: by all accounts ([www.boxofficemojo.com]) it's been $50M in profit internationally, which is hardly a failure. did they want/expect more? oh sure: but the real money is in DVD sales, which is a license to print cash.
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goldfarb
07/06/09

@zerofritz:

$182,735,282 on a budget of $130 million (+ god only know how much in promotion, possibly as much as $50 million(more?)) does NOT push this film into 'profit' - the studio(s) get only about 50% of the BO = $90 million.
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Perhaps Not
07/06/09

@goldfarb: Agreed. And studios are pretty notorious about fudging the international numbers, so I would put the total figure closer to even with the production budget (which was likely underreported). With a HUGE marketing push and untold $$ in cast and crew fees, this is one is a pretty big loser.
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