With an overall loss of around $152 million, it is the biggest box office bomb of all time, a record previously held by the film Mars Needs Mom. That's too bad, I kinda root for Keanu.
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I'd like to know where you're getting this. BoxOfficeMojo reports that 47 Ronin has made $150M worldwide with a reported production budget of $175M. Mars Needs Moms only made $40M worldwide with a production budget of $150M. Going by those numbers alone Mars Needs Moms clearly lost more money.
That is just the costs or producing the movie. Most times advertising, promotion and distribution expenses are not counted into it's reported budget. On average, a film has to almost double it's initial budget to break even.
List of biggest Hollywood bombs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_box_office_bombs
Ok let's double the budgets:
47 Ronin
175x2=350-150= 200 loss
Mars Needs Moms
150x2=300-40= 260 loss
You're still wrong.
Dummy, I said on average. It's not written in stone that every movie puts the same percentage into distribution and advertising. I gave you the link, you can believe what you want.
Wikipedia (yeah yeah I know) does state 47 Ronin being #1 on the list of biggest b.o. bombs of all time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_box_office_bombs#Biggest_box_offi ce_bombs
There's also an article citing such here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-universals-47-ronin-6 67771
I'd like to know where you're getting this. BoxOfficeMojo reports that 47 Ronin has made $150M worldwide with a reported production budget of $175M. Mars Needs Moms only made $40M worldwide with a production budget of $150M. Going by those numbers alone Mars Needs Moms clearly lost more money
Except Disney announced a $200m loss on John Carter:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/disney-expects-200m-loss-for-john-cart er/
- though the actual loss was probably higher since it failed to generate the theatrical revenue hey based their calculation on.
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i just watched the film, there's no way this movie costs more than $100 million to make. unless the actors got a huge paycheck.
Yeah I too was really dissapointed at the effects. I at least thought they would look good with this budget but it seems most of it went into reshoots.
I don't know about the marketing loss thought, it seems that universal was from the beginning ready to admit this as a failiure and didn't spend much on it. It wasn't released in that many territories, I barely heard of this film until a week before it came out. And it was never released theatrically where I live.
So I guess Universal tried to dodge the bullet as much as they could on that one, and because they had a good year otherwise there was not that much talk about this movie being a box office bomb.