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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   
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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• Re:That's too bad Re:That's too bad (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.

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• Re:That's too bad (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.

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• Re:That's too bad (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.

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