Oct 16, 2007

Film executives are blaming Halo 3 for lower than expected October box office numbers, which on the weekend of the 5th were down a ✅whopping💎 27 percent from the same time last year.

Many f♎ilm executives, reports Advertising Age, are convinced thatthe kidsstayed indoors to play Master Chief's latest, which let's not forget broke all box office records by making $170 million on its first day. It's now gone 𓃲on to sell well over $300 million.

Ben Stiller's new offering, The Heartbreak Kid (which cost $60 million to make) was expected to clear $20 million in its opening weekend; instead, it mad෴e only $14 million. Execs blame the Chief.

"The audience on this game is the 18-to-34 demog💃raphic, similar to what you'd see in cinemas," said Mike Hickey, an analyst at Janco Partners, adding that "thisﷺ could last for several weeks."

In its first♎ week of release more than 2.7 million Xbox 360 owners played Halo 3 online - that's more than a third of all Xbox Live subscribers worldwide.

So you can see why a good portion of 18-34s were busy shooting people in the face rather than watching ☂Ben Stiller.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft is a✨pparently not surprised either: "We marketed it like a film," saidꦑ Josh Goldberg, a product manager at Microsoft, adding, "and now, we're just as big or bigger than film."

We're starting to think it's time to pack this journalist l�👍�ark in, and sell bootleg Master Chief shirts out the back of a VW. Who's with us?