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Hope Investors Lost Boatloads of Money

posted 9 years ago by Link-Master
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Watching it on SyFy now, this thing really sux.

[–] ProsAndConsOfHitchiking 9 years ago

Your comment is the reason why aliens would come to the earth and judge us unworthy of saving.

Or God. Whoever take your pick.

[–] animal900 9 years ago

$80 million dollar budget. Made $230 million. Sorry son.

[–] Link-Master 9 years ago

Re: Hope Investors Lost Boatloads of Money
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by animal900
» Mon Aug 17 2015 16:01:42
IMDb member since December 2002
$80 million dollar budget. Made $230 million. Sorry son.

OK, that is disappointing in itself. But that is a gross receipts number. Gross - production budget = $150 million. Then distribution, administrative, advertising, taxes, etc. come out of that. So it may still have made a profit. Too bad.