Mandalore76 said:
That's even more to my point though. A statement was made that Tom Cruise appearing in a movie makes that movie popular. That may have been the case in the late 80's-early 90's, but that simply isn't true any more. Look at "The Mummy" franchise for example. Every single one of the Brendan Fraser films out-grossed the Tom Cruise led reboot from last year at the domestic box office (without even adjusting for inflation). Granted, there were a lot of things wrong with last years reboot. But, the Brendan Fraser trilogy took a severe drop in quality after the first one. So the fact that "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor", the 3rd Brendan Fraser Mummy film, outgrossed a reboot launching with "Tom Cruise star power" really says something about whether or not that "star power" is actually adding anything to a movie's gross at this point in time. |
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