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.
“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?