Darkbeer
12-01-2002, 10:09 PM
Disney Studios Deliver Turkey "Planet" For Holiday (http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/021202/72/35aun.html) - Dow Jones, 12/2/02
QuikQuote: WALT DISNEY CO.'S expensive new animated film "Treasure Planet" stumbled badly during the Thanksgiving holiday, and may be headed for a dubious distinction: the biggest financial turkey delivered by the company's fabled animation studio in modern times.
The film, which cost nearly $140 million to produce, sold an estimated $16.5 million in tickets for the five-day holiday period, including $11.9 million for the usual Friday-through-Sunday weekend. That placed it in fourth place on a holiday weekend in which holdover films blocked the way for new releases. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s James Bond movie "Die Another Day" led the way with $46.3 million for the five-day period; "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" from AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. at $45.8 million; and Walt Disney's own "The Santa Clause 2," which took in $17.2 million in tickets in its fifth weekend.
QuikQuote: WALT DISNEY CO.'S expensive new animated film "Treasure Planet" stumbled badly during the Thanksgiving holiday, and may be headed for a dubious distinction: the biggest financial turkey delivered by the company's fabled animation studio in modern times.
The film, which cost nearly $140 million to produce, sold an estimated $16.5 million in tickets for the five-day holiday period, including $11.9 million for the usual Friday-through-Sunday weekend. That placed it in fourth place on a holiday weekend in which holdover films blocked the way for new releases. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s James Bond movie "Die Another Day" led the way with $46.3 million for the five-day period; "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" from AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. at $45.8 million; and Walt Disney's own "The Santa Clause 2," which took in $17.2 million in tickets in its fifth weekend.