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Bucky

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4. Movie studios are big businesses. They're there to yield a profit.

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:40 PM

Apr 2013

They want a proven product and have to be convinced a given risk on a new product line is worth the investment. I won't be watching this version of Carrie, just as I didn't see the new Total Recall. I did enjoy Peter Jackson's updated King Kong, however.

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