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Movie Disasters!: Vocabulary

The document discusses movie disasters in terms of expensive films that lose money rather than about natural disasters. It provides examples of expensive films like 47 Ronin and Mars Needs Moms that cost studios a lot to make but did not earn enough at the box office to make a profit. While blockbuster films like Pirates of the Caribbean films often earn back their large budgets and then some, making big budget films is a gamble as success is not guaranteed no matter the production costs.

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Movie Disasters!: Vocabulary

The document discusses movie disasters in terms of expensive films that lose money rather than about natural disasters. It provides examples of expensive films like 47 Ronin and Mars Needs Moms that cost studios a lot to make but did not earn enough at the box office to make a profit. While blockbuster films like Pirates of the Caribbean films often earn back their large budgets and then some, making big budget films is a gamble as success is not guaranteed no matter the production costs.

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Movie disasters!

Disaster movie are about typhoons or tsunamis, but movie disaster are not about disaster.
They’re about losing money.

Making blockbuster movies is an expense business. Movie like Avatar and Titanic cost a
fortune, but they also make a lot of money for the studios. One of the most expensive movies
in Hollywood history was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth film in the
series starring Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. It cost almost $400 million! Fortunately. It made
more than a billón dollars worldwide, so the producers were really happy.

Viewers said:

“On Stranger Tides is fast moving and exciting, and Penelope Cruz is really
astonishing.”

“The first Pirates movie was innovative and surprising. The fourth one is’nt so much.”

However, some movies are costly but not successful, and the studios lose a lot of money. One
of these movies was 47 Ronin. It’s a fictional story of a group of samural warriors in
eighteenth-century Japan. It stars experienced epic scenes of samural battles. According to
estimates, it cost $225 millon to make, but it only made $151 millon.

Viewers said:

“This is a colorful and exciting story. The sword-fighting scenes are incredible.”

“Great atmosphere, but the acting is a Little disappointing”

Another disaster was Mars Needs Moms, a 3-D animated science fiction comedy. A nine-years-
old boy maned Milo has to rescue his mom after Martians abduct her. The producers wanted
to make the perfect family movie, but some people think it wasn’t funny enough for adults or
exciting enough for kids. According to estimates, it cost more than $150 million. Unfortunately,
it made less than $40million

Viewers said:

“The visuals are absolutely spectacular, and the Martians are a lot of fun.”

“The movie starts very well, but in the end, Iwas disappointed. The story wasn’t very
imaginative.”

The message seems clear: spending a lot of money on a movie doesn’t guarantee its success.

Vocabulary:

1.Disaster 7.surprising

2.typhoons 8.epic

3.blockbuster 9.rescue

4.starring 10.adduck

5.woldwide 11.enough

6.astonishing 12.absolutely
2. Read the text and answer the questions.
1. What’s the difference between disaster movie and disasters?

2. Why were thw producers happy with the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean?

3. Is 47 Ronin a true story?

4. What did the two viewers like about 47 Ronin?

5. What is Mars Needs Moms about?

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