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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 krishnoid on Monday July 24 2017, @10:28PM (1 child)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Monday July 24 2017, @10:28PM (#543909)

    Sounds a lot like Jupiter Ascending [uproxx.com]:

    And Jupiter Ascending is an extremely pretty movie (someday it will be projected on a brick wall with no sound during a hip party that you attend).

    I have to wonder if it wouldn't be fun to take these one-shot visually amazing movies, cut them up, rewrite the entire script, and subtitle them over the edited (and possibly reordered) silent visual clips to make it into something watchable.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:18PM (#544190)

    Way better than Jupiter Ascending. JS was just a typical so-so Hollywood popcorn flick. Valerian is just different frim what NA critics and audiences are used to. The weakest part is actually the scene in Mega Market, the second sequence in the movie, something added by the director. Valerian is cocky to a point where it endangers the mission. It claahes with the character's more stolid persona ftom the comic. You don't get 7 Medals of Honor by being an overconfident jackass who gets most of your support team killed.