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Paramount expected to lose $30-35M on this after initial $31M investment + ads/release costs come into play
Already talk they will scrap most foreign releases and go straight to VOD/DVD-Blu Ray release
Perhaps a better title would've helped. It sounds more like a musical drama than a revenge thriller. Then again, the-numbers.com reports a $50M production budget (i.e. even higher than you gave) and it's hard to imagine it recouping that, anyways. It really makes you wonder why studios green light movies like this and Underwater with relatively high budgets and relatively low star power, i.e. movies with very little chance to actually turn a profit.
Well actually nowadays I think quite a few big movies have made money without stars. You don't think Stewart is big enough anyhow?
If it's an IP that moviegoers are already familiar with, yes, those can make money without star power (ex. Godzilla: King of the Monsters). Also, new IPs with lesser stars can make money if their budgets are low (ex. Crawl). I'm talking about new IPs with lesser stars that have decent budgets (around $50M), like this one. It's hard to make money on those because they have to gross over $100M to do so. It happens, but that's usually when the movies are really good and word of mouth gets around and not something that studio execs should count on.
Horror movies like Crawl usually have low budgets though.
You did not answer if you thought Stewart was a big enough star?
this was predicted
There is an old english expression
Keep to your onions
or keep to what you know
Blake Lively has a very limited acting range and what she can and can not do. IF you want a new generation Meg Ryan--that would and could be in her wheel house but this movie here? Any actress would need real acting chops to pull it off and not many could.
She's actually done this kind of thing before.
Please do not say you mean the Oliver stone movie
I can proudly report I saw a special Thursday evening showing of this, lol.
I sure hope not, haha.We count on kihei to always be the first to see and review the best movies of the year. Can we expect the same from you when it comes to the worst movies?