The MSM focuses on the budget of a movie too much. By their logic, you could have the #1 movie of the year be a bomb if it made a billion dollars but cost 2 billion to produce. The understood definition of a “bomb” is a movie no one goes to see, not one that just cost too much to make.
Last year, Mars Needs Moms was a bomb. It made $7 million opening weekend and $21 million total.
John Carter made $30 million in its opening weekend. That’s not a bomb, but it does mean the budget should have been half of what it was to be profitable. Prince of Persia opened with the exact same and ended up with $90 million, but made an unusually high amount overseas. These are B movies that were given A budgets. Anyone should have known this material shouldn’t justify this kind of budget, but it appears this was a vanity project as the first live-action movie for one of their top Pixar creators. Now that it’s out of his system, Disney will surely be happy to have him return to animation.
Exactly. This movie may do quite well overseas...