# 'One For The Money' will probably not have any sequels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981 "2012-01-28T12:55:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/21 "2012-01-30T03:17:27Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > For a popcorn flick, it was nice. I hope they make a sequel or two, if only to see more of Grandma Mazur and Lula… Say no more. I’ll see the movie just for these two. I’m a guy, who prefers his detectives more hard-boiled and his fiction more philosophical (currently listening to some Chesterton), but I’ll admit that I do love these books, as fluffy and trashy as they are. And I’m disappointed. I was so excited when I saw that Heigl was doing this, but I agree that a sitcom would be better (and hey, networks, it’d beat out most of the Mike-and-Molly-type stuff that’s on now). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/22 "2012-01-30T14:48:59Z")
Actually, the first book (maybe the first three, even) is genuinely good - the boxer character is legitimately terrifying, the mystery is a real mystery, the sexy guys are still interesting. I couldn’t even finish the last few. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/23 "2012-01-30T14:55:56Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > I think that was supposed to be 1.3 **b** illion (with a “b”) and that’s domestic US only. I would definitely doubt 1.3 billion people (with a b) though 1.3 billion dollars (with a b) is a possible box office total, I suppose. > [@digs](#): > > And I’m disappointed. I was so excited when I saw that Heigl was doing this, but I agree that a sitcom would be better (and hey, networks, it’d beat out most of the Mike-and-Molly-type stuff that’s on now). I imagine it’d be a bit of a risk to do a bounty hunter sitcom on television - possible, but it’d need to be produced in a different way than ‘Mike and Molly’, and would require more budget for effects and sets and other categories beyond the cast. (I put that in because considering the substantial actor salaries mentioned for some sitcoms, if you could save on those costs the overall budget might not suffer.) I think it might fit better into the mold of a full hour action-drama-comedy than what I think of as a ‘sitcom’ - but I’m not sure if the people suggesting a sitcom were thinking of your typical half-hour sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/24 "2012-01-30T15:19:20Z")
I only have a passing familiarity with the books and I was a bit tuned up when we saw it but I thought it was okay. I don’t understand the vitriol being directed at a comedy drawn from lighthearted source material, it’s not like it was going to be Oscar material. To me it seems like a critical pile-on borne out of a dislike of Heigl. If Julia Roberts would have done this movie in the early 90’s people would have freaking loved it and she’s just as big a twit as Heigl. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/25 "2012-01-30T16:22:16Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > I would definitely doubt 1.3 billion people (with a b) though 1.3 billion dollars (with a b) is a possible box office total, I suppose. The last Harry Potter movie took in $1 billion in box office all by itself. That’s globally, but even just domestically it took in over $380 million. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/26 "2012-01-30T16:35:08Z")
> **[Domestic Box Office For 2011 - Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2011/)** The 598 domestically released films in 2011 had a total (domestic) box office take of about $9.95 billion with a B. So 1.1 billion tickets sold sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/27 "2012-01-30T17:07:53Z")
Yes, 1.3 billion (with a B) tickets were sold last year. I read it wrong. > [@chrisk](#): > > I imagine it’d be a bit of a risk to do a bounty hunter sitcom on television - possible, but it’d need to be produced in a different way than ‘Mike and Molly’, and would require more budget for effects and sets and other categories beyond the cast. (I put that in because considering the substantial actor salaries mentioned for some sitcoms, if you could save on those costs the overall budget might not suffer.) The Huntress ran for two seasons on USA in the early 2000s. > **[The Huntress (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huntress_%28TV_series%29)** > > The Huntress is an American crime drama television series that aired for one season of 28 episodes on the USA Network, from July 26, 2000, to September 9, 2001. It was developed by Pamela Norris, and based on the 1996 biography of the same name by Christopher Keane about bounty hunter Dottie Thorson, played by Annette O'Toole. Dottie was the widow of bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, the subject of the 1980 Steve McQueen film The Hunter. After Ralph's murder, Dottie and their daughter Brandi ... ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/28 "2012-01-30T17:13:50Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Yes, 1.3 billion (with a B) tickets were sold last year. I read it wrong. > > The Huntress ran for two seasons on USA in the early 2000s. > > [The Huntress (TV series) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huntress_%28TV_series%29) Me too on the billion with a b. ☹ In our defense, they don’t spell out the units for any columns other than the gross, though you can work it out from context with a little effort. Wow - Mama Kent as a bounty hunter, huh? The link doesn’t make it clear how much of a comedy the show was, but IMDB says that it was in the full-hour format. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/29 "2012-01-30T17:29:17Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Wow - Mama Kent as a bounty hunter, huh? The link doesn’t make it clear how much of a comedy the show was, but IMDB says that it was in the full-hour format. I watched it a few times. It never went for a serious bounty hunter vibe. The whole was very tongue-in-cheek. I’m not sure it could be classified as a “comedy,” but The Shield it ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981/30 "2012-01-30T18:39:32Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Me too on the billion with a b. ☹ In our defense, they don’t spell out the units for any columns other than the gross, though you can work it out from context with a little effort. 😕 Yeah, I really had to scratch my head for a bit trying to figure out whether $8 or $8000 was a reasonable number for an average movie ticket price. Everyone knows it’s the _snacks_ that run in the four-figure range at movie theaters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-for-the-money-will-probably-not-have-any-sequels/610981.md?page=1)