It's making $40M in the opening weekend, worldwide. That's less than Birds of Prey.
The movie will be lucky if it reachs $200M. Probably it won't. With a $135M budget + marketing, it would need about $400M to $500M to break even.
You know the saying: get woke, go broke.
It made $33m Dom but only $16m Int in the first week. Impossible to tell if Int is up to date now. I'd guess $150m WW.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt7504726/?ref_=bo_rl_ti
I'm interested in the Yukon gold rush, but not dog stories. Might be the reverse for others.
Is this movie “woke”? In what way? The people I know who saw it liked it.
shareWhy shouldn't they?
It's like saying a movie is Christian. I usually find them extremely boring or annoying, as most non-Christians, but Christians like them.
That does not answer the question. If you ask why a movie is Christian, a person can give specific answers regarding the plot or theme. Some people think the Harry Potter movies have a Christina theme, with Harry dying and coming back to save others. ( I don’t buy it). But they can cite a specific point.
This is a movie about a man and a dog in the wilderness of the Yukon. What is “woke” about it?
I think it made exactly as much money as it should have. The budget was just absurd. A guy running around in the wilderness with a dog is a pretty simple premise.
sharehttps://bombreport.com/the-call-of-the-wild-box-office-breakdown/
Where Things Went Wrongshare
Whereas The Jungle Book was overloaded with stylized CGI environments and talking CGI animals, The Call of the Wild was designed to push realism — but also relied on expensive digital environments and inexplicably a dog made of pixels. This creative decision resulted in a movie that cost at least $75 million more than it should have and the bulk of the critical complaints directed toward the picture was the animated dog itself which looked stuck in the uncanny valley.
Why they didn’t use a flesh and blood canine and occasionally a CGI double for dangerous scenes or sequences more logistically complicated to pull off — is ultimately this movie’s creative and financial undoing. There is no spectacle on display showcasing an almost photo-realistic dog, it just comes across as an overpriced gimmick.
After production had long been completed, in March 2019, Disney finalized its acquisition of FOX. In early May, Disney pushed The Call of the Wild out of the Christmas frame, which the mouse house would be readying for their in-house film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The Call of the Wild was moved back to February 21, 2020.