Trivia / Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

• Screwed by the Network: Paramount Pictures released this niche production during the crowded Christmas season — on the same day as another Paramount effort, Jack Reacher, in fact — and didn't give it a big ad push. Given the film's no-star cast, they may not have known how to promote it beyond a trailer, poster, and a TV spot or two. To make matters worse, it only managed two showings per day on the 800-or-so screens it reached in North America, as it was forced to share space with other films. Paramount may have sacrificed exposure for Worlds Away in an effort to keep Rise of the Guardians — a far more expensive family film that they were distributing for Dreamworks Animation and had surprised the industry with its box-office underperformance — on screens through the holiday season. And to their credit, they did manage wide exposure for Worlds Away's DVD release the following spring.