Don Del Grande <del_grande_news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Doug Jacobs wrote:
> >I just have to wonder how Williams Street managed to successfully
pitch,
> >and then continue to convince the execs, that making this movie was a
good
> >idea.
> "We can make it on the cheap, and the show's cult fans will make it
> profitable." Even though it took in only about $5.5 million, IMDB
> says its budget was only $750,000. (Yes, there's also the DVD
> profits, but they would have had those anyway even without a
> theatrical release.)
Yeah, but then the viral marketing campaign caused Boston to think they
were planting bombs around the city, and ended up prying $2mil out of the
studio because the mayor of Boston is a stupid cowardly idiot.
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