@ XYZ

Someone told me that movies need to make at lease double their production budget to truly be profitable. The thing is, I dont see them putting this "formula" on other movies.

Also, you may have posted this already, but here's the AMerican opening on Wed updated confession.
• Clooney's The American ($13.1 million Friday-Sunday; $16.4 million Friday-Monday) needed the grown-up vote to win—and it got it. Nearly 90 percent of the opening-weekend audience was age 25 or older. Since opening last Wednesday, the thriller is at $19.5 million overall—a good great bit of business for a $20 million movie.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b198993_george_clooneys_no_1_american_lindsay.html

HOW IS THIS OK?