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According to several sources, Paramount Vantage spent too much money to market this film (especially on Oscar campaign)

Posted by: Peterlee (a.k.a Peterlee (from past)) on Dec 18, 13:14 in response to whoa_its_mike's post twbb had a 25 million dollar budget and made 40 mil, plus...

So the film loss money.

Here are some of the sources:

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/beyond_the_multiplex/feature/2009/11/04/miramax/print.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/06/the-sky-is-fall.html

http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2009/10/the_devolution_1.html

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986990.html?categoryid=2508&cs=1





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