In Hollywood the motto is "Nobody knows anything." The wisdom of that motto was confirmed over last weekend when the new film, 300 was shown.
The film was razzed by critics as a comic book movie drowning in catsup-blood. But 300 (which cost about $7 million to make) took in an astounding $70 million over the weekend.
The movie is about 300 Spartans who held off 27,000 Persians (Iranians) in the historic battle of Thermopylae in 480BC. Poorly made pirated versions of 300 are being shown in Iran, but Iranian leaders are calling for a ban on the film. They claim that 300 shows Iranians as decadent, sexually flamboyant and basically evil.
Hollywood may "not know anything," but it knows box office statistics — 300 could even start a new trend in Hollywood, digital movies made inexpensively on a Hollywood lot.
-Richard Russell,
Dow Theory Letters
This spells success for movie studios! Lets see if this trend continues
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