Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | July 21, 2017 | FLOP OF THE YEAR

[Valonqar]

Those magazine covers are  talk about way too early. 

[Morieris]

7 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

John Carter, Battleship and Savages. None of which did particularly well, to say the least.

 

http://people.com/archive/is-taylor-kitsch-the-next-brad-pitt-vol-77-no-12/

 

lmao WHOOPS.

[Napoleon]

Shyamalan is actually the new Hitchcock and Zack Snyder the new Kubrick. Taylor Kitsch though...

[Plain Old Tele]

6 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Shyamalan is actually the new Hitchcock and Zack Snyder the new Kubrick. Taylor Kitsch though...

 

Tip the waitress, try the veal, you'll be here all week?

[Captain Craig]

The only unknown left about this film is how large will the write off be by the studio?

[The Futurist]

1 minute ago, Captain Craig said:

The only unknown left about this film is how large will the write off be by the studio?

 

Have you read the topic ?

No write off needed.

The movie will not make money nor it will loose money, whatever the level of box office receipts.

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, Captain Craig said:

The only unknown left about this film is how large will the write off be by the studio?

As was reported a page ago, Europacorp will lose next to nothing on this because of distributor sales. 

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, Captain Craig said:

The only unknown left about this film is how large will the write off be by the studio?

 

Besson said Europa is only on the hook for 4% of the budget - so they're probably going to make a profit and personally as director and producer he's already made $. 

 

It's all the other distributors who pre bought it who will be on the hook - and depending on the territory/market some might do well while others might get slaughtered.

[Captain Craig]

I've only been spot reading this thread. Clearly I missed a "spot" a few pages back.

Seems future dealings could be in jeopardy though. Fool me once....

A trade off in some regard is coming cause the film is Jupiter Ascending 2.0

[The Futurist]

Watch this do 200-300m in The Empire of the Sun.

[Fancyarcher]

At the very least this should be huge in France and Europe.

Edited June 27, 2017 by Fancyarcher

[Barnack]

The official devis (production budget) is out:

 

http://www.profession-spectacle.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/La-production-cinématographique-en-2016.pdf

 

That is nice for French movie, pretty much all of them have known budget if they use French state help.

 

197,47 million Euros or about 221m US in today exchange rate.

 

The document is in french but they mention some of the pre-financing Besson talked about, it is not just intl market, but also in french TV channel pre-paid some of their future buying cost (I would imagine will adjust for the real movie performance in the future) .

 

I imagine that 209m US was maybe an expectation of the net cost after tax credit, seem a bit high to me, when it was planned for a 180m euro movie it could have got as much as 30million euro rebate because of a law change to make the movie eligible for the Animated movie credit (could not get regular credit because it is in English).

 

Real net cost is maybe closer to 185m

Edited June 27, 2017 by Barnack

[4815162342]

4 hours ago, Telemachos said:

 

Tip the waitress, try the veal, you'll be here all week?

 

Try the veal, best in the city.

 

Bathroom has a tendency to contain guns strapped to the back of toilets though.

[Ozymandias]

8 hours ago, filmlover said:

 

[Mr Impossible]

Lol it's funny when they advertise "from the director of Lucy". 

 

I'm always like:

 

 

When I see it. They should just leave The Fifth Element and The Professional there.  

Edited June 27, 2017 by Mr Impossible

[Zakiyyah6]

Lucy made a lot of money.

[cookie]

5 hours ago, The Futurist said:

Watch this do 200-300m in The Empire of the Sun.

 

...Japan?

[Harley]

Europacorp being off the hook financially with this movie has been exaggerated.

 

http://deadline.com/2017/06/luc-besson-europacorp-earnings-record-loss-valerian-action-focus-1202121232/

 

" The costly passion project has some of Europa’s risk mitigated with over 70% of the budget covered by offshore deals. Besson in May told Deadline that if the film gets up into Lucy territory ($460M+) “then we’re fine."

 

[That One Girl]

16 minutes ago, Harley said:

Europacorp being off the hook financially with this movie has been exaggerated.

 

http://deadline.com/2017/06/luc-besson-europacorp-earnings-record-loss-valerian-action-focus-1202121232/

 

" The costly passion project has some of Europa’s risk mitigated with over 70% of the budget covered by offshore deals. Besson in May told Deadline that if the film gets up into Lucy territory ($460M+) “then we’re fine."

 

 

That was in May though.

[Harley]

A month or less ago.  Since his business partner died I don't know who is running the corp but clearly something is seriously wrong.

Edited June 28, 2017 by Harley