9 days left.

Titus

Spiderman 2 made $372,871,182 in the box office. Not really much of a profit-to-budget ratio there.

That's a profit of about $80 million at the domestic box, plus you have the foreign gross which is still being calculated, video retail, and ancilliaries. They'll probably make 1-2 hundred million dollars, all things considered, and the budget number I quoted includes every cost imaginable, including the advertising budget which for a movie like Spiderman was probably $50-60 million.

8 days until Halo 2.

The Gamestop I recently paid off the game at said they would be releasing it Monday afternoon. If you have a copy reserved Zark, might check to see if they will be releasing it on Monday afternoon.

Halo 2: 7 days - "Omnae time"

Lies!

So, for those of us who pre-ordered it, would they ship it to arrive on the official day of release, or ship it on the day of release, to arrive whenever?

The store would get it early to release to the public on the official date (supposedly).

Don't you wish you worked in at EB? :P

Kraken: It depends. If you pre-ordered it for an in-store pick up, it'll be at the store on the day of the release (I think, or at least close to it). If you pre-ordered it for it to be delivered to your home, it'll probably be shipped on the date of release, so as to prevent people from getting it days before its supposed to come out. You never can predict 100% accurately how long the mail system will take.

They could send it FedEx, with instructions not to deliver until X date.