Don’t rely on the “public” budget. The director has acknowledged there were reshoots, re-edits, and a new marketing campaign. The real budget was 170 million.
This film needs to do $350 million to get into the black. Since a lot of its receipts are coming from overseas, where (in some territories) the studio realizes only a 15% percent return per ticket sold, that’s hard to achieve.
Unless there’s some wild upturn in the film’s returns this coming week (unlikely), Noah goes into the red ink column.
Yes if you want to make a mega bucks movie now-days it has to be a from a cartoon series. Makes Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” all that much more impressive. A billion dollars and counting worldwide, inspite of the perception that it was anti-semetic.