'One Battle After Another' to Lose $100 Million in Theaters
variety.com
Why "The Smashing Machine," "One Battle After Another" and other buzzy films are failing to make a profit at the box office.
  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 days ago

    I’ve heard very good things too but movie budgets are just ridiculous nowadays.

    “One Battle” requires roughly $300 million to break even.

    • golli@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      17 days ago

      Count me in on those who found it great, but it really isn’t unexpected. The article puts it quite well:

      Though the global haul of $140 million is impressive for a film that’s original, R rated and nearly three hours long, “One Battle” requires roughly $300 million to break even. That’s because Warner Bros. spent more than $130 million on production and $70 million on promotional efforts, and ticket sales are typically split 50-50 between studios and theater operators. Meanwhile DiCaprio typically gets first-dollar gross on his movies, meaning he gets a percentage of box office revenues before the studio recoups any costs.

      From a boxoffice perspective this battle was lost based on the production cost alone for this type of movie. I guess they were hoping for “The Reveant” numbers, but that was a long shot in todays market.

      That said i am glad that it got made and with the success WB had this year they can certainly take the hit and still look back on a great year.

      Lets hope it wins some awards, gets a small additional boost from that, and WB sees value in the artistic/prestige side, so movies like this continue to get made. Personally i think movies like this might have a longterm value for the overall content library of a service that is hard to put into numbers.