Posted on 11/26/2010 1:27:31 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
A movie that cost 22 million to produce has grossed a 9.3 million world wide after 4 weeks in theater.
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It doesn't have to bomb, in the long run.(see post #3) These people have been doing this for a long time and know how to profit handsomely from their work. Don't be too surprised when this dreck someday appears as course material in the syllabus of a social studies class at a high school near you.
They do not really win unless they protect their dough, and collect some of ours as well. Any propaganda points are gravy, in my unworthy opinion. Ceement ponds and fancy eatin' tables cost money.
Small release indie and arthouse financially are the same thing. It’s got a name cast, but it’s not going to the big theaters. If you hang out at the arthouses enough you’ll see big name people in a lot of little movies that never get near the big theaters, they do those movies to convince themselves they’re not just in it for the money.
True, but I would disagree about the DVD and HBO is all. Movies like that often see substantial business there.
I suppose within their own financial strata they do pretty solid in that realm. Like the rest of their revenue stream it’s all relative.
“8 million with less than 400 theaters is pretty good.”
No, it isn’t. It’s true that art houses don’t rely on a big opening weekend, but they do rely on a steady build — and this movie isn’t building.
It needs to make fifty-four million to go into profit. They might eke it out eventually on Pay Per View, cable, and DVD... but it will be several years.
...Let me add, this movie is a flop. There is no calculus whereby it is a financial success.
Now, in terms of propaganda... that you can even get this sort of thing MADE... that so many people are willing to lose so much money for a purpose other than making money (obviously)... well, that’s a different discussion.
I think you need to look closer at the charts especially the daily, so far it looks like it’s building pretty solid. Each weekend in more theaters and making more money. We’ll know more Sunday when this weekend’s numbers are in, but even for the early parts (Wednesday and yesterday) it’s added more theaters AND the revenue per theater is up.
True. I’m just a fan of truth, even when it’s less than convenient for my politics, and the truth is within the scale of the type of movie it is and the type of release those movies get it’s actually doing VERY well. It’s not going to change the world of course, it’s just a movie, and just a movie that will at most be seen by 2 or 3 million people. But it ain’t a bomb.
Precisely why it will get an Academy Award nomination.
“Fair Game” made $217,000 on Thanksgiving. Say it holds up like that all weekend — that’s still less than $900,000 over the biggest movie-going four-day weekend till Christmas.
It cost $22 million to produce. Using the standard Hollywood matrix of one and a half times the budget back to earn a profit, it must hit $54 million to ever get in the black.
If 3 or even 4 million people see this movie around the world at ten bucks per, it still does not earn its money back. That is the definition of a bomb.
How do you see it ever earning out?
Every time I see the trailer I just laugh. I can’t believe they tried to “sexy” it up like it was some life and death thriller of a story.
Honestly, the hubris and BS from the left is mind numbing.
Of course it did. It’s Bull Sh..!
Glad to hear you say that. I was thinking of seeing it tomorrow.
I meant flop in the technical sense - i.e., can be written off against studio overhead. Of course, as a production chief once explained to me, all movies make money. Just some make more than others, some make less. Creative accounting assures that most show up as a loss, so phony profit participants of various kinds get stiffed. All I meant was that the original point of this exercise for the liberal development execs who got the ball rolling was to pay off the Plames. I know this for a fact, actually. It happens all the time.
What? PennLaden ain’t packing ‘em in? Maybe he should load some of his fans on that boat he sunk during in New Orleans during the Katrina aftermath and sail off into the sunset....and...
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