Why did 'Tron: Legacy' do so well at the box office?:The 1982 'Tron' movie didn't make much money when it opened. But 'Tron: Legacy' topped the weekend box office with more than $43 million.The computer fantasy film, “Tron: Legacy,” topped the weekend box office with more than $43 million – not quite the $50 million that Disney reportedly hoped for. But the domestic total is a far cry from the $8 million that the original “Tron” made back in 1982 when it opened, points out Sean Phillips, executive producer of Yahoo! Movies.
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The first film, he adds, “was pretty much a bomb.” This faltering performance leads to the obvious question: Why bring back a story that didn’t resonate the first time around?
Partly because Disney can, says Hezekiah Lewis, a filmmaker and professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. The initial movie was produced long before the heady world of today’s computer-enhanced special-effects wizardry, he points out. And the story of a man who gets trapped inside a digital universe could barely be realized onscreen in those days.
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