h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A87977164 - 'Mission: Impossible' - the Film Series
Updated to include Dead Reckoning Part One

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Would you like to add the definition of 'flop' as a footnote? - I see it did recoup its production budget so it wasn't a 'bomb' even though it was expensive

"cinemas chose not to show it" - can you say a bit more about what that means? $500k worldwide at the box office is more than some films get... Not in the same league as Barbenheimer, though, indeed.

I see Part One has been renamed as well http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-title-change-audience-tastes

Thanks for the read-through, I added the flip flop
I don't want to go on too much of a tangent in the entry, but I know that cinemas both near where I live and where I work didn't show the film. (It also wasn't released in China and Russia, which also impacted on the box office).
When a film is released in cinemas, new contracts between the filmmakers/distributors and cinema chain are drawn up so no two films will have the exact same conditions, but the following show a standard pattern (if the numbers themselves are incorrect). So it is standard for the contract to say that in the first week the film is shown, say 80% of profit will go to the filmmakers and only 20% to the cinema company, in the second week the split might be 70%/30%, third week 60%/40% - you get the idea, the longer the film is being shown in cinemas, the higher a percentage a cinema will get. So when a film does well for extended periods of time, such as 'Barbie', it is in the cinema's interest to keep a film that's already been out for some time on show as they will get more of the money made than if they show a new release.

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