{"id":1697,"date":"2010-07-21T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/inception-proves-good-sci-fi-movies-can-make-money-more-please\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:56:10","slug":"inception-proves-good-sci-fi-movies-can-make-money-more-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/inception-proves-good-sci-fi-movies-can-make-money-more-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Inception proves good sci-fi movies can make money. More please!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past weekend was an interesting study in box-office expectations and Hollywood conventional wisdom. A fantasy called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice-an empty, brain-shutting-down, CGI-heavy spectacle based on an existing title, more or less aimed at kids but sort of advertised to attract older viewers as well (and ultimately appealing to neither)-bombed loudly and badly at the box office, earning only around $24 million since opening last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

By contrast, director Christopher Nolan’s Inception-a daring, challenging, cerebral science fiction thriller with an original premise, ties to no previously existing brands and a solidly adult approach-earned just over $60 million over the weekend, hitting the high end of nearly every industry estimate for the film…<\/p>\n

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This past weekend was an interesting study in box-office expectations and Hollywood conventional wisdom. A fantasy called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice-an empty, brain-shutting-down, CGI-heavy spectacle based on an existing title, more or less aimed at kids but sort of advertised to attract older viewers as well (and ultimately appealing to neither)-bombed loudly and badly at the … Continue reading “Inception proves good sci-fi movies can make money. More please!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}