Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Pop Culture Beats the Street

You know a studio's marketing department has done a good job when a fictional movie tricks the Wall Street men. This morning I was watching CNBC when their morning anchor, Joe Kernen, reported on how Pirates of the Caribbean broke the opening weekend record, recording 132 million in ticket sales. Kernen said that Pirates broke the record held by last year's Aquaman.
What? You haven't heard of the Aquaman movie that held the all-time three-day box office record? Here's a link to a video recording where Kernen made the claim (although I'm sure he was just reading a Teleprompter).

It kind of makes you wonder what other facts they've gotten wrong on CNBC. I guess it's not a big deal, though, since people are only using information from that network to invest their money.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Someone's been watching (and believing) HBO's "Entourage". Wach wahhhhh!

Hug it out guys!

But really, that's a huge goof.

I won't get into the Ebert review with you right now, I'll save that for another time. Now you have lots to look forward to!