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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.