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$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 24 2017, @04:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the ouch dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @05:16PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @05:16PM (#543775)

    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)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday July 24 2017, @05:34PM (#543785) Journal

    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)

      by microtodd (1866) on Monday July 24 2017, @06:37PM (#543820) Homepage Journal

      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.

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:57AM (#543977)

        Seriously though, it really does.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:27AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:27AM (#544058)

        Repetitive and self-referential are pretty much the best ways to describe Episode VII.