“The sky will no doubt be falling among the fanboy community this morning over the Scott Pilgrim news, but things will be fine. This isn’t that surprising. The truth is, it didn’t look like something I would enjoy (and again, I loved it). If it doesn’t earn out, it’ll be okay. You’ll still be free to love it. Everyone involved will work again. And the business implications? I wouldn’t worry. It’s too unique a movie to torpedo future projects. What’s an exec going to say? No more graphic novel projects? No more video gamey projects? No more campy romance projects? No more chicks with stupid hair? OH PLEASE, HOLLYWOOD, DON’T STOP OPTIONING COMIC BOOKS AND VIDEO GAMES! Whoa, sorry, I almost choked on my sarcasm there. Look, if Scott Pilgrim had made as much money as Inception, you wouldn’t even want to imagine the kind of horrible, ham-fisted Hollywood rip-offs that’d be getting greenlit right now. Trust me, this is a win-win.”

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/08/scott-pilgrim-kinda-flops-but-dont-freak-out-nerds-its-better-this-way

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-scott-pilgrim-20100817,0,4541645.story

The last line is great ‘Who cares how much it made – I’m just glad it exists.”

I am too – but when films this groundbreakingly awesome tank, it really is the most distasterous thing that can happen to filmmaking.

I consider SPvsTW ten times more of a “game changer” than anything Cameron did.

“…I mourn the fact it didn’t do better than it did. I was at the infamous Scott Pilgrim panel at Comic-Con wherein Wright invited a small percentage of the audience to come see the film with he and his cast.
They did everything right to market this picture to its proper demographic. Sadly, that demo embraced this film in every way except at the box office.
Now Hollywood will be loathe to take similar risks, and we are all the poorer for this.”
Comment by Vesper — Saturday August 14, 2010 @ 5:07pm PDT

http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/first-box-office-the-expendables-13m34m-eat-pray-love-8m23m-scott-pilgrim-5m12m/