Scientifically Accurate Movies and Profits

Contact didn't do badly. It earned $171 million worldwide, nearly doubling the ^90-million production budget. But it was also competing with two o considerably more brainless alien-related sci-fi movies, 1997's Men h in Black and 1996's Independence Day, both of which made a great at deal more money ($589 million and $817 million, respectively). And that unfavorable U financial comparison, more than 1 anything else, dramatizes the incredible challenge science faces in Hollywood. If films that...