thank you both, (bearded wonder and Smurf)
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Btw, it's entire international release thus far has roused up only $188,000 total!
how is that *DEBBIE*? Care to do an "LOL" now?
you might find this funny...here are the grosses for its "biggest" international releases so far
France and all French territories (Monaco, Algeria, Morroco and Tunisia)
it opened in 10 theaters on its opening weekend, which cost $20,000 for prints, probably another $50,000 at least for advertising...
Know how much it made? $17,700 for its whole opening weekend...it was so bad, the international distributor pulled it from 8 theaters right after the 1st weekend in France. It's second weekend, it played in 2 theaters in all of France...you know how much it made? *328 dollars*
Hysterical.
Roughly 42 people in all of France came out to see it in its second weekend.
Belgium Opening weekend - 3 screens $2,700 *TOTAL* in box office. It cost $6,000 to make the prints, and a couple grand in advertising...yet only 337 Belgians in the entire country came out to see it.
Norway total Box office? $2,225...a whopping 285 Norwegians, in a country of over 4 million went to see it.
Spain - Opening weekend, it placed 34th. it opened on 30 screens, for a cost of $60,000 (plus advertising). To date, it has grossed $60,400...that is 7,743 Spaniards who have seen it...out of a country of roughly 40 million
UK - the only real hope, as it is an english speaking country...it opened on 108 screens (cost of $215,000 plus double that in advertising...) its total box office gross now in the UK? roughly $75,000. 9600 people in an english speaking country of roughly 60 million.
so, ultimately it made 20.2 million in the US.
So now that it is coming on DVD & any other minor overseas openings, which are unlikely to add much at all.
it grossed 20.4 million worldwide in its theatrical run.
its worldwide (USA Included) prints cost over 3.5 million
its worldwide advertising/marketing (USA Included) was at least 12-15 million.
its production budget was 15 million.
that is a total negative cost of $30 million to $33.5 million roughly
- Total gross so far? 20.4 million dollars.
Studio share? approximately 11-12 million, before taxes, fees, and other associated costs both domestic and overseas.
so, now that its theatrical run has ended, the studio is in the red anywhere from 18 to 22 million dollars, before factoring in those taxes, fees, and additional distribution costs, if any.
now comes what will be a very small DVD/PPV/HBO release, that likely will not do anything more than put $6-7 million dollars more at most into its total.
in other words the final studio share, after DVD/PPV, will amount to 17-19 million *TOTAL* for the entire theatrical and ancillary market run.
so you do the math =
Negative cost to Studio = $30 - 35 million (likely closer to 30)
Studio Income for Film = $17-19 million
that equals a *LOSS* of anywhere from 11 million to 18 million dollars.
*BEFORE* these *EXTRA* pesky little items that you have to deduct, that of course you have never heard of, such as =
-Taxes (domestic & foreign)
-Duties (foreign)
-Customs (foreign)
-Extraneous Fees (domestic & foreign)
-Trade Associations fees (1% of the defined, post distribution fee, studio gross usually)
-Interest owed on the costs of the money borrowed to produce and market the films, which is :(typically between 4% all the way up to 15%) based on size of the production...
- Freight, Cartage, Handling and all post production insurance costs
- Small miscellaneous expenses
- Guild, Union, and residual payments (typically about 2% of the studio gross)
So you see, Debbie the [email protected] were totally wrong, unsurprisingly.
No way it even comes close to being in the black on those numbers.
It got atrocious reviews
It is a flop.
Chew on that, ignoramus.
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