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Who said this flopped????

posted 14 years ago by missionbegins2011
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107 mn worldwide at a 47 mn budget !

thats definitely more then the breakeven

[–] HumanFundRecipient 14 years ago

It was perceived that way because Jim Carrey got $20 million by the studio for the role, and it made just less than that in the first weekend. Not counting Batman Forever, the $107 million Cable Guy made was less than Ace Ventura 2 made($209), Dumb and Dumber ($246) and The Mask ($351). And a $107 box office would have at least been comperable to the first Ace Ventura movie. But the total budget for the first Ace Ventura movie was $15 million.

Look it up: boxofficemojo.com

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[–] missionbegins2011 14 years ago

Comparatively this one wasnt as successful as carrey's previous, but when judging it on an absolute scale its unfair to say that it bombed, it made more then twice its budget and also did well in the CD/DVD circuit, certainly it didnt loose money

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[–] davcar-1 9 years ago

It wasn't really a flop, but because Jim Carrey previous movies (Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber) had made so much more money it tended to be viewed as a disappointment. Particularly when Carrey was getting paid 20 million for this picture.

I think the movie made $60 million in America and $40 million overseas, and our budget was $40 million — so it did make money. But it came out at a time when Jim Carrey’s movies were making astronomical amounts of money, so people looked at it as a failure because it didn’t make even more money.

http://www.vulture.com/2011/03/cable_guy_judd_apatow.html#

[–] Just_Alex 8 years ago

Show business can be such a nasty business.

They expect to gain at least 2.5 times the budget, and they expect it FAST.

Most of us would be happy to make an investment and gain twice as that within a year or two, but these fellas want it within weeks.

Like others said, this was the time when the Carrey movies were expected to make many times the budget. We also have to consider that back in 1996, DVD sales were not a factor. It was mostly box office + video rentals, and back then, the movies were available to rent or buy many months after the theater run.

Even if this was a fairly popular catalogue title during the DVD/Home video boom in the early/mid 2000s, like I said, they want their money back, they want a BIG profit and they want it FAST.

Otherwise, you failed.

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