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[bronze_ribbons]

Well, the Cubs did their usual flameout (the first thing my friend G. said to me at church this morning was "I'm so sorry"), and the cold I've managed to elude thus far (*knocks on top of pickled garlic jar*) is tickling at my throat again. ... but, I have a bowl of orange-cinnamon yogurt next to me, I'm at 806 words on the current fic, and I'm vindictive enough to take pleasure in this report:

Failing to find an audience on opening weekend was the fantasy adventure film The Seeker: The Dark is Rising which bowed to an estimated $3.7M from a very wide 3,141 theaters for a dismal $1,186 average. The PG-rated pic from the new venture between Fox and Walden Media targeted young boys but got nowhere at the box office. Seeker's debut was even worse than the $5M launch of Dragon Wars from just two weeks ago which went after the same audience. But thanks to a sluggish marketplace, Seeker's weak opening still landed the film in the top five even though its nearly $40M budget will take much time to recoup.

- Gitesh Pandya, Weekend Box Office (October 5-7 edition - the content of the page is updated several times a week). Pandya had predicted a $9M gross.

[Why this movie raises my hackles? See here for an in-depth analysis of fuckwittery writ large, and here for a cri de coeur in response to collateral fuckwittery.]

ETA: At Box Office Mojo, readers grading the movie "F" currently edge out those giving it an "A" by 3%. (At 66 votes, it's not a huge sample, but I takes my consolation where I finds it.)

Comments

[ellid.insanejournal.com]

That is *excellent* news about the abortion they have the nerve to call an "adaptation" The Seeker. You'd think the success of faithful adaptations of classic fantasy would have taught them that no, you don't destroy alter an award-winning novel so much, but I guess not....

[chazpure.insanejournal.com]

I've been watching with ever-increasing horror since info about this movie started trickling out. I had almost convinced myself we could go see it and I would just pretend it had nothing whatsoever to do with the book (which, from recent accounts, probably isn't that much of a stretch), but...no. Just...no. I really don't think I could sit through it without throwing things and/or bursting a major blood vessel somewhere.

Why do the Hollywood Powers That Be even bother to buy the rights to a great book, when all they want to do is gut it, shove in a bunch of crap, and extrude a crappy movie out to theaters under the title of the book it no longer reflects?!!? They can't expect to please fans of the book, surely, and if they claim the book fans are such a small group, then why bother pretending they're making a movie from the book to begin with? Why not just cut out that step entirely and use a random title generator?

*fumes*