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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: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Monday July 24 2017, @06:12PM (5 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday July 24 2017, @06:12PM (#543801) Journal

    Who can afford to go to the movies (moneywise/timewise)?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @06:35PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @06:35PM (#543816)

    $7 dollars a piece to see it and war for planet of the apes at the drive in.
    $14 for me and the GF, $5 for the giant bag of popcorn, and $5 dollars for our own smuggled in soda and candy.

    $24 dollars and we got to see two movies.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @10:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @10:20PM (#543908)

      Opportunity cost: you could have been working/studying to make $400/hr so you effectively paid $1576 to watch that movie. If you ate dinner, shit or slept it also cost you many thousands of dollars. You're wasting your life away, just end it. END IT NOW!

    • (Score: 2) by fnj on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:56AM (1 child)

      by fnj (1654) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:56AM (#544021)

      $7 dollars

      Illiterate boob.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:44PM

        by Bot (3902) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:44PM (#544309) Journal

        $7 dollars

        Illiterate boob.

        That's gangsta

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:52PM (#544301)

    And if the total revenue doesn't come all in the first week, that is the "biggest loss"?

    Considering that the copyright owners keep milking the cow even after it's bones are well past the third ‎broth, with this most probably won't be a loss at all. Just not as quick bucks as they expected.