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Kim Hollis: Disaster Movie made $7 million in four days for Lionsgate. Have they squeezed all of the juice out of the parody genre that they can?

Reagen Sulewski: Don't I hope. I don't know how they get around plagiarism suits. Sadly, these things are ultra cheap to make, so it really only takes a few dullards who found the plot to The Love Guru too hard to follow to make these profitable.

Tim Briody: Worst. Timing. Ever. I mean, come on, you put out a movie called Disaster Movie right as a real disaster is about to hit? Yikes.

Pete Kilmer: This movie will make a ton on DVD, so anything it makes in the theaters is gravy I think.

Max Braden: They may be done as far as theatrical release goes, but Pete's right, the DVD market is still there. It's shocking to see how many National Lampoon titles keep coming out.

David Mumpower: I agree with what Tim said and would add that the ancillary revenues on these is plummeting as well. Superhero Movie has earned about $9 million in sales. Saturation has become an issue for this pathetic little sub-genre.





Sean Collier: $7,000,000 divided by nine bucks a ticket is 777,777 people who can no longer be allowed to make decisions for themselves. That being said, however, at least these things are trending downward over time. A question, though - since the recent Movie Movies haven't really had anything to do with the title (Disaster, Epic, etc,) why didn't they just call the first one Parody Movie and then make sequels? It worked for the Scary Movie series. And this has been the only serious question asked about Disaster Movie ever.

Daron Aldrige: Now that would be the true audacity of hope.

Brandon Scott: We can only hope so...and this is my baby's, baby's foot kicking the genre to the curb.

Scott Lumley: They've squeezed out all the juice, sucked on the pulp, crushed the rind to a fine powder and sexually violated the corpse. Move along folks, there's nothing to see here.

Jason Lee: Sean is on to something. I think their next film should be called Parody Movie and it should be about movie execs that unnecessarily inflict parody movie after parody movie on an unsuspecting American public. Then, they should all get eaten by the Cloverfield monster.

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