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The 2003 film Scorched cost US$7 million to make but only earned US$8,000 at the box office, approximately 0.1% of its initial cost?

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Waaagh_Gonads wrote:The 2003 film Scorched cost US$7 million to make but only earned US$8,000 at the box office, approximately 0.1% of its initial cost?

The film Zyzzyx Road had the lowest box office gross of anything making it to a cinema, US$30. They made this whole movie, and six people went to go see it.

Read the Wiki on that...interesting stuff, and finally made around $368,000.

Thats similar to "Boondock Saints" now something of a cult classic/cultural icon movie... didnt do very well in the movies, but phenomenal as DVDs and other merchandise went out.

best part about it: the guy who "created" the whole thing, only made money off of the theater sales... and he burned his bridges, thereby ruining basically all chances of making money in hollywood from another movie like it.

The starship troopers movie series is loosley based on the actual novel. Number 2 had completely nothing to do with the book so when 3 came out many fans decided to retcon starship troopers 2

JohnHwangDD wrote:At the start of the WW2, German military doctrine emphasized asymmetrical warfare. Tanks were primarily infantry support vehicles, so the 37mm guns were fine.

However, you neglect to note that the PzKw III was designed for future usage with a larger turret ring accomodating a 50mm gun. That is why the PzKw III stayed in production throughout the war.

Also, the Germans used quite a bit of factory / mass production as time went on - just compare a MG34 with a mass-production stamped-steel MG42.

Mass production = assembly line production and workshop production... the difference between the two is this: you make the same thing from scratch by yourself (workshop production) vs. You do one part of the step, then another person does the next step, the process repeats until a finished product is created (assembly line production). what ends up happening is that assembly line production is simply, much faster than workshop production, though both are technically mass production (since many MANY units are being produced). Stamped sheet production simply reserves materials, makes the design more efficient, and means that less moving parts are required to produce them.

37mm weapons were given to the Panzer 3 tanks in order to combat other tanks, but this was inadequate due to allied armour being far thicker. (this was rectified, although not in large numbers, by the polish campaign... it took until just after operation barbarossa and the eastern front war to begin before they were nearly all replaced... This did, however, mean that the panzer 3 was used as the mainstay of the german panzer divisions before the middle of the war, and even just after the middle.) The panzer IV was the infantry support tank, through and through, given a 75mm cannon and designed to support infantry against bunkers etc.

I know I neglected it, but it was late at night... about 3 am. I did know about it

Sure, but pretty much by definition, stamped steel means you have a stamping machine replacing a bunch of crafts activities on a repeatable basis in a semi-assembly fashion. I mean, it's not like you'd have each craftsman pulling one stamp off the machine, one by one...

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Waaagh_Gonads wrote:In 2008, "Umbrella" earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

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JohnHwangDD wrote:At the start of the WW2, German military doctrine emphasized asymmetrical warfare. Tanks were primarily infantry support vehicles, so the 37mm guns were fine.

Really what's your source for this, Guderian's ideas were well suported by 1939, Achtung-Panzer! was written in 1937.

JohnHwangDD wrote:However, you neglect to note that the PzKw III was designed for future usage with a larger turret ring accomodating a 50mm gun. That is why the PzKw III stayed in production throughout the war.

Panzer III production ceased in 1943. The Panzer IV was produced throuout the war. Towards the end of their use (as tanks) Panzer III's were often equipped with 7.5cm guns for infantry support as they were genarally no longer of use against enemy tanks.

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