"Office Space" made a measly $10.8 million at the box office in 1999, but word of mouth made it a popular pick among renters.
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"Renting a movie is less a commitment than going out to a movie," Hargrove says. VHS and DVD rental and retail count for the largest percentage of a studio's revenues, according to Randy Hargrove at Blockbuster's corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Or guilty pleasures, such as "Battlefield Earth," "Driven," and "Steven Seagal's kickboxing films," says market analyst and Alexander and Associates president Bob Alexander. "Films offered in limited release and only marginally promoted, and films with dark or heady messages that studios think audiences can't handle" are other examples of rental films that can hit it big the second time around, says Jim Farrelly, director of the film minor program at the University of Dayton. Comedies "Office Space" (1999) and Ice Cube's "Friday" are examples of second-wind flicks. Films that failed to come close to the $100 million mark in theaters can sometimes catch their second wind in DVD and video sales and rentals. Regardless of the situation, weak box office returns are not necessarily a film's death sentence anymore. Or, perhaps, you just didn't want to shell out nine bucks at the time, and the film went away before it had a chance to become successful. Or maybe you heard good things about a film, but didn't have time to see it in the theater. Actually going to see it in a theater invites too many eyes - it's like a public admission that you like something everyone else says is bad." Those movies and many others can get more attention on DVD and video because of "the curiosity factor," says BET.com senior entertainment producer James Hill. Was it the big-budget, sci-fi, box office flop "Battlefield Earth" (2000) starring John Travolta? Or was it race-car action film "Driven" (2001) with Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds?
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Pre-order my new sci-fi novel Herokiller, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook.(CNN) - Have you ever waited until a movie reached DVD or video because you were embarrassed to be seen watching it in the theater? Whether that translates into lesser sales this time around remains to be seen, but with so little of the game seen so far, it’s way too early to judge it.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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So yes, another year, another battle over YouTube dislikes. I’m looking forward to seeing more of her, and to see if she’s based on any of the real-life female heroes of the war. A one-armed woman starring in the game is something I can’t seem to manage any outrage about, and I thought she was…pretty badass, frankly.
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I do want to know more about whether or not they’re going full alt-history with it, or if has more of a Bad Company type of vibe, which is why the tone seems altered so severely from Battlefield 1. But I suppose you only get one chance to make a first impression, and it’s been a bit sour for some fans. One common refrain that I’ve heard about Battlefield 5 is that those who have seen the game early say it’s much better than the trailer suggests, and that the livestream reveal did the game no favors by not showing a lot of what makes it great. If even one woman fought in World War II (and there were thousands), this would technically be accurate, though claiming that Battlefield, a game where you can dive out of a plane, snipe an enemy pilot in mid-air, and take over their plane, needs to be fully based in reality seems to be a bit of a stretch. Of course there were many women who fought in World War II, many of them some of the most accomplished soldiers in the war, so claims that this goes against historical accuracy is rather ludicrous. Sadly, a huge portion of the pushback is that DICE has decided to feature a female soldier front and center in both the trailer and the cover art for the game, and she has a missing arm to boot, which has led to a (very small but very toxic) subset of fans lambasting DICE for “catering” to the social justice crowd.ĭICE has gotten heat in the past for not including playable female characters in Battlefield, while Call of Duty has been doing it for a couple years now.