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Contents 1 Copyright Violation 2 The Devil's Rejects 3 Singled Out For Praise? 4 Unsourced: Rosario separated

[edit] Copyright Violation

Aticle text was copied from here. --Impaciente 04:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

No, that article is a copy of wikipedia's article. Look at the bottom. Wikipedia lease's its texts to other sites. Crumbsucker 19:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Devil's Rejects

I don't know why someone went and deleted 'Devil's Rejects' from her filmography since she did appear in it. I restored it.--CyberGhostface 01:37, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

She didn't appear in it. Her role was cut or something. Vulturell 06:37, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

She was on the DVD release.--CyberGhostface 18:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Men in Black II made a profit but was considered a disappointment based on expectations. Men in Black made a profit of $499,000,000 ($90,000,000 budget and $589,000,000 grosses, 28 weeks in theatrical release); Men in Black II made a profit of "only" $252,000,000 ($190,000,000 budget and $442,000,000 grosses). MiBII earned most of its money (approx 27.4%) in the first weekend and then dropped fast (it was in theatres only 9 weeks in comparison to the original's 28 week run). MK 23:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Interesting question: how huge is huge? $252,000,000 still seems quite a lot of money to me, but maybe I'm old-fashioned. Markalexander100 01:22, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A fair question. I'll admit a quarter billion sounds good to me as well. But movie studios deal in billions routinely.

Look at the following table on big films released in 2002:

Title	Budget	Grosses	Profit	Return
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	139,000,000	926,000,000	787,000,000	5.66
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	150,000,000	877,000,000	727,000,000	4.85
Spider-Man	189,000,000	822,000,000	633,000,000	3.35
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	140,000,000	649,000,000	509,000,000	3.64
Men in Black II	190,000,000	442,000,000	252,000,000	1.33
Signs	112,000,000	408,000,000	296,000,000	2.64
Ice Age	94,000,000	383,000,000	289,000,000	3.07
My Big Fat Greek Wedding	24,000,000	369,000,000	345,000,000	14.38
Catch Me If You Can	87,000,000	351,000,000	264,000,000	3.03
Chicago	75,000,000	307,000,000	232,000,000	3.09
Austin Powers in Goldmember	113,000,000	297,000,000	184,000,000	1.63

MiBII did good in basic terms, getting the fifth highest grosses in the group. But in terms of profit, they fell to ninth place. And the really important figure is the return on investment - how much profit was made for each dollar invested in the production. As you can see MiBII is at the bottom (and was lower than several other movies I didn't list). If you were a studio investor you'd have been a lot happier getting fourteen dollars back for each dollar you invested in My Big Fat Greek Wedding even though its grosses were lower. MK 04:51, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Singled Out For Praise?

It seems a little point of view for a comment to be made stating Dawson's performance are often praised when they are freqeuntly also panned. She has seemed to have a hit-or-miss relationship with critics, so I am altering the language to reflect that. Pacian 06:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

• Can you give an example of reviews where her performance was panned? I'll grant you she's been in a lot of bad movies, but I don't recall seeing any reviews where her performance was singled out and condemned. MK2 05:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• • I have reworded the text again, not to specifically single her out for criticism, but to make it clear that by no means has she had an entirely successful, bump-free career. I particularly didn't like the wording about her role in Rent, which was HARDLY universally praised. The film itself was a bomb, earning $10million less than it cost to make. Pacian 03:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Maybe the text about Rent is a little overzealous, but I agree with MK2's point that, even though Rosario's been in bad movies, I've never seen critics blame the badness on her. It seems a bit forced to go out of the way to mention a movie she was in was nominated for Razzie awards (Rosario Dawson wasn't nominated, mind you, but the movie was).

[edit] Unsourced: Rosario separated

The last sentence of the section 'Personal Life', it says "Recently, it was reported that they have separated," but this sentence isn't sourced? Can somebody source this comment please? If not, then it should probably be removed. Though my belief is that the entire section needs a bit of work, that last comment should have some kind of source. 69.107.46.34 08:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

IMDb says that they broke up in November 9 in 2006. (Trampton 03:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)).