Word: godzilla
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...Armageddon," $180 million "Deep Impact," $139 million "Dr. Dolittle," $135 million "Godzilla," $133 million "Saving Private Ryan," $126 million "The Truman Show," $123 million "Lethal Weapon 4," $121 million "Mulan," $115 million "There's Something About Mary," $92 million "The X-Files," $82 million "The Mask of Zorro," $79 million "The Horse Whisperer,"$74 million
Seem like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened...
Even old rogues like Zorro and Godzilla have been reinvented as family men this summer, the former with a long-lost daughter, the latter with a brood of babyzillas left unattended in Madison Square Garden. Lost in Space, which was released last spring, was already about a family back when it was a crummy TV show. As a crummy movie, it turns itself into a cautionary tale about bad parenting, complete with an It's a Wonderful Life-like parallel universe in which we see what becomes of latchkey kids on other planets (nothing good...
With a take of $34.8 million this weekend, "Armageddon" fell far short of the $51.1 million that "Men in Black" grossed last year on the Fourth of July. Add to this the fact that "Godzilla" earned $35 million less than last year's Memorial Day winner, "The Lost World," and you might think the major studios are ready to plead poverty. But in fact, box office receipts are up 9 percent from last summer. Though the much-hyped blockbusters aren't quite blockbusting, other surprise successes such as "Mulan" and "Dr. Dolittle" have been attracting audiences quietly and reliably...
...holiday weekend were "Mulan," "Out of Sight" and "The X-Files Movie." "Armageddon"'s ticket sales were considered less than Earth-shattering, considering its $160 million budget. In its first five days the film brought in $52.9 million, putting it right behind this summer's other top action flick, "Godzilla," which opened with $55.5 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend yet proved to be a disappointment in the long haul...