Posted on 11/26/2018 1:12:44 PM PST by Red Badger
Lionsgate’s “Robin Hood” is turning out to be this year’s biggest blockbuster bomb, with a $14 million five-day opening against a budget of just under $100 million.
This year’s Thanksgiving weekend has provided the most lucrative box office ever. But even with all the record-breaking success, there have been some failures in 2018. Most of those bombs, like Paramount’s “Annihilation” and Fox’s “The Darkest Minds,” have had low-to-mid-level budgets that have reduced how much of a financial hit their studios have taken.
With a global launch of just $22.8 million, “Robin Hood” has had the worst start for any film this year with a budget of $90 million or higher. It’s another flop on top of several for Lionsgate, including the sci-fi film “Kin” ($9.9 million grossed against a $30 million budget), and the Kate McKinnon/Mila Kunis spy comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me” ($75 million/$40 million budget). So far this year, the studio has only grossed $358 million domestically, down 54 percent from this point last year.
Until now, there hasn’t been a bomb as big as ones seen in 2017, like “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” which failed to make back its $175 million budget.
This year’s flops were at least able to post global grosses that exceeded their budgets. Fox’s “The Predator,” made for a pricey $88 million, made $160 million worldwide. Disney’s “Solo,” while being the first “Star Wars” film to gross less than $400 million and raise questions about the future of the classic franchise, was at least able to make back all its production and marketing costs through ancillary revenue.
Even the most recent flop, the $120 million “Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” didn’t do as poorly as “Robin Hood” with a $20 million domestic opening. But this critically panned take on the hero of Sherwood Forest needed the extended holiday weekend just to post a start above $10 million, having just made an estimated $9.1 million from Friday through Sunday. Overseas, it has done even worse with $8.7 million from 33 countries. The U.K., home of Robin Hood, was the top country with a mere $1.7 million grossed.
Lionsgate will try to right the course next year with a 2019 lineup headlined by the final installment in Tyler Perry’s “Madea” series, “A Madea Family Funeral,” a reboot of “Hellboy” starring David Harbour, and the third chapter of Keanu Reeves’ “John Wick” saga.
I’ve never heard of this film, for good reason.
SJW reboots are not what people want to see. Most people,dont want to see repeatdly recycled stories just because the actors change.
Who needs yet another remake of Robin Hood when you can get the Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone version on Amazon?
It’s like Robin Hood with a black guy thrown in to get black people to go see it.......................
Yeah, I doubt there were very many black people running around 13th Century England......................
That was the Kevin Costner Robin Hood, right??
I am surprised that the Four Realms did so poorly. I saw it and liked it. A very good movie.
I am surprised that the Four Realms did so poorly. I saw it and liked it. A very good movie.
Did you know Alan Hale played Little John in both Errol Flynn’s REMAKE and the Fairbanks “original”?
And BTW, Flynn’s was the best.
He also played Little John in the 1950 film “Rogues of Sherwood Forest.”
I dunno...Saw Kevin Costner as RH with a black (and Muslim to boot) sidekick, so musta happened, eh?
Honestly, Holywood just refuses to “get it”...People don’t want the endless trash they turn out and are staying away in droves...Me, too, also...
“SJW reboots are not what people want to see. Most people,dont want to see repeatdly recycled stories just because the actors change.”
If they didn’t learn from the remake of Ghostbusters, they will never learn.
Thanks, had not realized that! He and Flynn were great co-stars.
Loved his pea-shooting in Desperate Journey.
Also BTW, I thought Sean Connery’s Robin and Marion sucked, although I recognize that the action was more realistic.
Actually Ghostbusters was the highest grossing comedy of the year. Problem is they spent WAY too much making it, wanting it to be the corner stone of some half baked shared universe. Had it had an appropriate budget it would have been a smash hit and they’d be making sequels right now.
Already posted jut 14 threads down the page.
Deadpool made about three times as much as Ghostbusters, with less than half the budget.
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