Good luck making a profit!
There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known. - Spike
That's insane. It's totally going to flop then. It will probably only do around $50-60 million in the U.S.
shareikr? The budget is insanely high.
shareI bet half of that money went into building a replica of the oil rig before filming. The other half probably went to the cast.
shareThe oil industry wishes THEY could build such a rig for $78,000,000, or even $156,000,000.
I Know, I know, you said "replica." 😃
I wonder if they rented an unused one (of which there are several at the moment) at a shore base somewhere.
No wonder they spent so much money on this movie. Who the hell wants to sit 1.5hrs watching a movie of an oil rig out in the middle of the ocean? All that money going into advertising and marketing for a crappy ass movie.
shareIt's actually around 25-30% lower due to Louisiana rebates.
shareIt didn't look like $156 Million Dollar Film. Where were the Transformers, Strip Clubs and Muscle cars???? Oh that's right Michael Bay didn't make this I'm thinking of the oil crew in Armageddon.
Having said that DWH was a thrilling film but could have been a little longer.
I agree the film didn't see very expensive but I think the visuals was probably the reason for high cost not such on cast salaries.
shareI was actually somewhat surprised to find out the budget was that much.
The replica oil rig looked good with the above-water shots. The below-water shots were some pretty shoddy-looking cgi: definitely subpar considering the movie cost upwards of $160 million.
Once the rig exploded, though, the camera shots and editing were that typical action movie 1 frame per second / ADD-style editing that whatever they spent replicating the rig didn't amount to much.
It wasn't a terrible movie, though. Not great, but not a turkey. I am a bit surprised it only made $20 million in the opening weekend. I would have thought upwards of $50 million wouldn't be an unreasonable expectation. Now it's starting to look like it might not even make much more than $50 million for the entire US theatrical run, and it would be hard for me to imagine the international market for this is going to be bigger than the US one.
I'd be surprised if it makes back production costs on the worldwide theatrical run, much less makes a profit. My guess is it'll lose at least $50 million when all is said and done, maybe upwards of $100 million.