Reply #30: Even better, they paid extra for it to bomb worse.

[sofa king]

When a movie sucks as bad as this, the only way for the producers to get the film shown at all is to rent out the theater at a rate that compensates the owner for the loss of sales.

Thus, they're losing money at a rate probably equivalent to the average ticket sales of the theater, defrayed almost not at all by the abysmal actual ticket sales.

That rate may be even higher on these particular weekends exactly because the Harry Potter film also drags in attendance to most of the other films. So Sarah's backers may be getting double-dipped.

So sweet.