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Except something very interesting seems to have happened in the last six months or so. None of the three big, would-be blockbusters aimed by studios at the young male demographic so far this year, “Battle: Los Angeles,” “The Green Hornet” and “Sucker Punch,” have made more than $100 million at the domestic box office—indeed, “Sucker Punch” will be very lucky to make back half of its reported $85 million production budget, let alone the P&A fees. Adam Sandler‘s “Just Go With It” did make it to the magic number, but made significantly less than 10 of the other comedy star’s movies, while Disney’s animation “Mars Needs Moms” will go down as one of the great money-losers of all time, and even the quirky animation “Rango” hasn’t been the box-office behemoth you might expect for a CGI family film starring the biggest star on the planet.

And yet there have been some minor box-office success stories, and they’ve all been in within the confines of the kind of film that’s supposedly not being made any more—those mid-budget, adult-aimed movies. “The Adjustment Bureau,” a tricky grown-up concoction of sci-fi and romance, marketed mostly on the back of star Matt Damon, who outside of the ‘Bourne’ movies rarely toplines blockbusters on his own, is now closing on $100 million worldwide, nearly doubling its production budget. “The Lincoln Lawyer” turned out, against expectations, to be a solid, old-fashioned programmer, and has shown real box office legs, dropping less than any other film in the top 10 for two consecutive weeks, while “Limitless” is doing even better, bringing in close to $60 million in three weeks, on a budget of slightly over $25 million.

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From the Hollywood Reporter

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“It’s all on a case-by-case basis, and it depends on the material and on the size,” says Gersh lit agent Greg Pedicin, who repped the recent sale of Chris Bullett’s The Nameless to Valhalla Motion Pictures. “But I haven’t seen this in more than four years, since before the writers strike.”