User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Official "The Sea of Monsters (movie)" Discussion/@comment-3146930-20130806041549/@comment-4531192-20130806233112

I'm going to have to burst your dreams and tell you that it won't do well in the box-office. If you think about it, there are a lot of variables against this movie's success. First, they cut the budget of the film by like 50%. That's crazy, and means there will be less promotion. Also, the first movie was marketed more for the regular Joe who has not read the books, and still failed to do well in the box-office. I mean, the budget was about $100 million and the revenue was about $200 million. That's only a profit of $2 for every dollar they spent making the movie, which is not good. If I were to get more in-depth, I'd probably say that the profits were even smaller than that.