georgec said:

Mike O said:

Let's not forget that the 2008 Clone Wars movie was a complete bomb, critically and commercially (35mil domestic). And that was a brand new piece of work meant to segue into the tv series.

The Clone Wars movie bombed?? I don't think so. Wikipedia puts the budget at $8.5 million and Box Office Mojo puts the domestic numbers at $35 million. By any standard, that's a success. In any case, the theatrical release was meant to launch the TV show and, this is my personal conspiracy theory, permit George to recupe all or most of his expenses earlier along in the process. In relation to both of those things, I'd say the movie was very successful. Any amount of money the movie made was going to be gravy because profitability had already been built into other layers of the TV show's distribution models.

And, for whatever it's worth, this is coming from someone who couldn't care less about Clone Wars and has only seen the movie.

EDIT- As for how profitable TPM 3D is going to be, I never bet against Star Wars in a theatrical setting.