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

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, @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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