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BOOM! That's the sound of Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." US Weekend total is $17 million, not even a multiple of Friday's $6 million. Costing at least $225 million, "Valerian" is a domestic dud.
The only hope for STX Films on the most expensive indie film ever made is people in non English speaking countries not caring about the story or dialogue. This often the case, and dud films– see "The Mummy" — can find audiences who just want the visual flash.
"Valerian" will have to count on China, Russia, South Korea, and other out of the way locales to bail them out.
The previews looked visually amazing. Was the movie really that bad?
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$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday July 24 2017, @04:50PM (7 children)
I'm looking forward to seeing this in a theater, it looks awesome. I've heard the plot is sketchy, used mainly to string the SFX together, but it looks like a great spectacle.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 24 2017, @05:06PM (1 child)
It got good coverage at Comic con, and is just now starting to see TV ads.
I think its just too soon, because not everyone was aware it was even coming out, nobody was waiting for the appearance of their favorite heart-throb, (lost in all the characters and makeup). This will be a sleeper, I predict, and depends on word of mouth.
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(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday July 24 2017, @07:10PM
I was going to see it last weekend, but the theatre was doing the usual bullshit of only showing it in avx & 3d, so you have to pay $20 to see it. I'll pay the regular fee, but they are doing this for a lot of films now, to artificially boost revenue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @05:16PM (4 children)
So basically, it's a porn movie, only without any sex scenes and with special effects?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Monday July 24 2017, @05:34PM (3 children)
No its basicallyFace Off (the SiFy tv show) [syfy.com] having pumped up the availability of wanna-be special effects makeup artists, to the point where the movie producers were able to get hundreds of them to work for next to nothing in the hopes of jump-starting their careers.
The problem is there are only so many ways you can disguise a human form, and sooner or later it gets repetitive and self referential.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by microtodd on Monday July 24 2017, @06:37PM (2 children)
Honest question.....so how does Star Wars do it? Doesn't seem repetitive there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:57AM
Seriously though, it really does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:27AM
Repetitive and self-referential are pretty much the best ways to describe Episode VII.