Hits and Flops of the Summer So Far

A lot of these guys have no interest in the box office and actively argue based on feelings as opposed to the facts. Many of them were arguing that The Little Mermaid wasn't a flop when it's opening was very poor, truth be told the degree of flopping hasn't turned out to be as bad as it looked from the opening weekend but it's flopping nonetheless.


When discussing box office you can have celebration and mourning. As stated Spider-Man is doing very well, Mario is a huge hit, GOTG is another marvel hit (much needed after their last few films have been struggling to break even). Your thread isn't overly negative like these guys are claiming, they're just very sensitive to any perceived negativity.


The truth is a lot of these movies are grossing big figures... the issue is the production costs. Films like the upcoming Indiana Jones need to make at least $700 million to break even. That's ridiculous. That film could make $600 million worldwide, a respectable figure, but with how much it cost it would actually lose money at that gross. Hollywood really needs to keep these production costs in check.




That's what's happening to Fast X.

It's made $676,943,305 thus far. That's a lot of money, the problem is it needs to make a good $800+ to be a hit (studios recieve less from international markets than domestic, so for an international heavy film like this, especially a China reliant release, the break even point increases even further).

Of that gross $133 million is from China, they hog a huge chunk of the gross for themselves. Domestic split is 50-50, China split is often 20-80 (the 80% going to Chinese theatre chains). $133 million domestically (USA) >>>>>> $133 million from China. So on paper it's an impressive figure over all but given the production & marketing costs plus the current markets it's doing well in it's actually struggling hard.