zackzack Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Well, studios spent 570M (official production budgets) on Oblivion, After Earth, RIPD and Pacific Rim and those movies won't even cross 300M together in North America. If Elysium would only make 100M I think it would be fair to say studios spent a lot of money on 'original' sci-fi movies and it didn't work. And yes I know RIPD is based on some comic book but I don't think it had a lot of fans. You want your movie to sell, don't make it complicated. 300 is not a very popular comic book but Warner stuck to the central idea : Spartans vs Persians. And it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitik Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Olympus Has Fallen, Now You See Me, This is The End, The Heat and now The Conjuring - it's always nice when smaller films are doing so well. OHF was budgeted at $70M and is probably still in the red. NYSM was the most expensive of these "smaller films" as it cost $75M and is probably just about breaking even. TITE only cost $32M, so it will make money. The Heat cost $43M, so it'll make a bunch of money. And with a $20M budget, The Conjuring will be rolling in the dough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 It seems like in todays world 70 mill is a smallish budget. Sad but true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bapi Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 OHF was budgeted at $70M and is probably still in the red. NYSM was the most expensive of these "smaller films" as it cost $75M and is probably just about breaking even. TITE only cost $32M, so it will make money. The Heat cost $43M, so it'll make a bunch of money. And with a $20M budget, The Conjuring will be rolling in the dough. Lionsgate sold foreign rights for 50M so NYSM budget is basically 25M + marketing against 115M + DVD/blu-ray/TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop54 Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Sandler is a con man, he deserves nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derpity Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 James Wan is the king of the copy&paste. Haters gonna hate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishstick Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Well, all those movies were very bad. Yes, I didn't like Pacififc Rim. It's a sad world we're living in when PR is singled out as an original movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#ED Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Interstellar is reportedly budgeted at 235M. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishstick Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Interstellar is reportedly budgeted at 235M. Bad idea with that cast. MM is a solid opener in a romcom. Interstellar is not a romcom to my knowledge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder / Operator Shawn Robbins Posted July 27, 2013 Founder / Operator Share Posted July 27, 2013 Interstellar is reportedly budgeted at 235M. Were it not for Nolan's history, my first response would have been "that's insane for an original sci-fi film that won't be shown in 3D". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Monsters Univesity DECREASED from Thursday. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bapi Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 It seems like in todays world 70 mill is a smallish budget. Sad but true. We already had 27 movies with 71M+ production budget this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitik Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 BOM Friday numbers are up: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2013-07-26&p=.htm Conjuring had the biggest increase in the top 9. PR had the smallest. LR and MU actually joined MOS in dropping from Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Conjuring wasn't low-budget. 20m budget.Thats a miniscule budget in todays Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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#ED Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Were it not for Nolan's history, my first response would have been "that's insane for an original sci-fi film that won't be shown in 3D".I'm assuming WB is looking at huge OS numbers.Domestically it may or may not hit 200M.It's opening against an original Marvel movie followed by MockingJay1 2 weeks later.WB has extreme confidence in Nolan at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishstick Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Were it not for Nolan's history, my first response would have been "that's insane for an original sci-fi film that won't be shown in 3D". Inception had a huge appeal to women thanks to sexy male cast. This doesn't. No offense to MM who is fine for 50 years old but Casey and Topher are two thumbs way down. This budget requires interest and repeat viewing by many non-geek demographics and women are some of the most dedicated repeat viewers if not the most decidated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder / Operator Shawn Robbins Posted July 27, 2013 Founder / Operator Share Posted July 27, 2013 (edited) I'm assuming WB is looking at huge OS numbers.Domestically it may or may not hit 200M.It's opening against an original Marvel movie followed by MockingJay1 2 weeks later.WB has extreme confidence in Nolan at this point. Marvel has no movies in November '14. EDIT: Never mind, forgot about Big Hero 6. Meh. It should be far more concerned about a new Nolan film than vice versa. General audiences are more likely to burnt out on comic movies at that point unless its a major character. Edited July 27, 2013 by ShawnMR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Marvel has no movies in November '14. The animated Marvel movie, Big Hero Six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 LOL I knew it! mid fifties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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