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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, Interesting) by CoolHand on Monday July 24 2017, @07:00PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Monday July 24 2017, @07:00PM (#543834) Journal

    Has anyone seen it?

    Luc Besson also directed the 5th Element. That did poorly in theaters and got pretty bad reviews at the time. It ended up being one of my favorite movies...

    I saw it Saturday night... It was kind of what I expected from a summer sci-fi space opera movie.. Not too heavy of plot, a lot of action, special effects, and fun.. My son I saw it with and I both gave it about a 4/5 rating after we left the theater. It probably would have been great 20 years ago, but there just wasn't much we hadn't seen before. That is unfortunate, since I guess that the French comic that this was based upon actually influenced a lot of those early Sci-Fi films that make this seem old hat. Still, I went in expecting all that, and I came out entertained, which was all I was hoping.

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