Box office failure

It didn't open wide until this weekend.

Fail.

Not that a cretin like you deserves a response, but since 2005 Woody's films have collectively cost around $200 million to make, and have made around $710 million at the worldwide box office.

So, yes, they've been quite profitable.

the modern box office accounting method it really useless and pointless for determining how good or bad a film is.

but as others have said, this film always made back more than what it cost to make and market it, so woody is making a profit.

Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again.

Woody has making his films down to a science. He'll make money in the long run. Anyway he made a blue fortune back in his hayday. He only needs to make money back to start his next project.

You can't ever trust the numbers due to something called "Hollywood Accounting" - you can look it up if you are curious, but basically the film makers use all manner of techniques to inflate production costs on paper for various reasons. That being said, you can't only look at initial box office receipts - this movie will go on the make money for decades in various ways and I have no doubt it will generate profit for its investors.

Even without looking up actual numbers, you should be able to instinctively and logically sense that since Woody Allen has been constantly making movie after movie after movie since the early 1970s, he just wouldn't be able to keep this up if his movies consistently lost money.

Ergo, in the long run - meaning after the opening weekend - they must be profitable enough.

Why are Millennials so fixated on box office numbers? Is it because they are the hellspawn of the Baby Boomers, a generation so self absorbed and greedy that any child of a Boomer is bound to be just as materially obsessed? Is it too much to like or dislike a film based on one's opinion of its content? Must a film's moneymaking be a "win/lose" proposition, like some kind of sports team one must cheer for?

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PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that by next year, film streaming and downloads will overtake box office as the largest contributor of total film revenue. Being that Cafe Society is being distributed by Amazon Studios, I wouldn't be surprised if this film will earn more revenue through streaming than from box office revenue. This film currently has a worldwide box office gross of $20.5 million--so total revenue could easily exceed $40 million-plus if strong demand to stream this film is there.