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For example, Cleopatra is blamed for a decline in big-budget epic films in the 1960s. [10] The COVID-19 pandemic, starting around March 2020, caused temporary closure of movie theatres, and distributors moved several films to premier to streaming services such as HBO Max, Disney+, and Peacock with little to no box-office takes. While these ...
“The Flash” director Andy Muschietti has his own thoughts as to why the $200 million tentpole was a box office dud. Released in 2023, “The Flash” grossed $271 million by the end of its run.
Jacob Stolworthy runs through the films that didn’t get the attention they deserved
The first film that is confirmed to have had a $1 million budget is Foolish Wives (1922), with the studio advertising it as "The First Real Million Dollar Picture". [ 112 ] The most expensive film of the silent era was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), [ 139 ] costing about $4 million—twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM ...
As the impact of the pandemic starts to dissipate, studios and film financiers are winding down some of the costly COVID protocols that added millions of dollars to their bottom lines. They are ...
A box-office bomb [a] is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed, and expensive to ...
Margot Robbie has expressed surprise that her 2022 film Babylon flopped, saying she “still can’t figure out why people hated it.”. The debauched Hollywood epic, directed by Oscar-winning La ...
For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars. [24] Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses. [22]