Their major problem is the international box office, which favors the theaters when it comes to splitting the revenue, which is performing miserably. This film will be lucky to break even.
American entertainment has always been hugely popular overseas, with many movies making more outside the U.S. than inside. But the world takes a very dim view of the West’s new insistence on wokeness. Some nations insist that sex scenes — perversity in particular — be cut. And foreign audiences, esp. in Asia, simply won’t go to movies featuring non-white heroes or subjects. Egypt is currently in an uproar over Netflix casting a black actress as Cleopatra. They point out that, if anything, Cleopatra was fairer-skinned than ordinary Egyptians. At least one Egyptian attorney has sued Netflix. It seems the entire world prefers light skin to dark. You might even say they’re white supremacists.