2006jun12. So I’m looking at the box office receipts for Mission Impossible 3 on IMDB. I went there because I was looking up another movie which didn’t have any cashflow datapoints and I was wondering how long it took for the numbers to roll in. Then I saw this:
$116,170,705 (USA) (28 May 2006)
$103,535,579 (USA) (21 May 2006)
$85,100,142 (USA) (14 May 2006)
$47,743,273 (USA) (7 May 2006)
£116,170,705 (UK) (28 May 2006)
Wow, I thought, the UK is nuts about this thing, then I noticed that the number was the same as the US figure for the same day. Oops. So I thought I’d tell them about it, but they wanted me to register to “report errors and omissions.” Yeah, let me just do that. Here I am, registering (in actuality, I’m eating a big pretzel, all sloppy with mustard and there are various close-ups of the mustard dripping down my chin, then the camera slowly moves back up to my open, willing mouth), now I’m telling them all about the error (at this point I’m resting on a hammock and reading “Highlights for Adults” magazine).