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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
by Dementia at 10:30 pm EDT, May 18, 2003 |
] LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. Pictures'
] "The Matrix: Reloaded" made box office history this
] weekend as the highly anticipated sequel chambered an
] estimated $93.3 million during the three-day session and
] a staggering $135.8 million since its release late
] Wednesday night.
]
] Numerous records were shattered at the box office in
] North America, but a select few remained intact as the
] record books had to be downloaded and adjusted to
] accommodate the massive assault by "Reloaded,"
] co-produced with Village Roadshow.
]
] As expected, the opening weekend gross vaporized the
] record for the biggest opening by an R-rated film,
] effortlessly besting MGM's "Hannibal" ($58 million). The
] Keanu Reeves starrer, helmed and written by brothers
] Larry and Andy Wachowski, racked up the second-biggest
] three-day weekend ever, behind Sony's "Spider-Man"
] ($114.8 million), which was released on a Friday without
] previews. The first four days of "Reloaded" is likely to
] be bigger than the same time frame for the webbed one
] ($125.9 million) even without the grosses from Wednesday
] night previews -- marking the biggest first four days in
] history. I foresee the hacker culture suddenly becoming very mainstream... |
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RE: Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
by Dolemite at 9:05 am EDT, May 19, 2003 |
Dementia wrote:
] ] LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. Pictures'
] ] "The Matrix: Reloaded" made box office history this
] ] weekend as the highly anticipated sequel chambered an
] ] estimated $93.3 million during the three-day session and
] ] a staggering $135.8 million since its release late
] ] Wednesday night.
]
] I foresee the hacker culture suddenly becoming very
] mainstream... I don't see it as the hacker culture so much as the gamer culture. One of the news magazine shows, I can't remember which, interviewed a guy coming out of the movie and his quote was, "This is porn for hackers." That's bullshit. Porn is porn for hackers. This is porn for gamers, because it works just like a game - your physical motions are isolated from your mental desires, allowing a 400 pound guy drinking a Big Gulp of Mountain Dew to perform acrobatic kung fu faster than he can down a Twinkie. The Matrix saga is a damn good story, but I don't see it being a catalyst for bringing more than just the gaming side of the hacker subculture into mainstream. Just my $0.02 out of $136M. |
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