Forum - View topicNEWS: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Film Earns US$4,600,000 on Opening Weekend in U
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GATSU
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Could be worse, could be Kraven. But as I said in my unpublished letter to Answerman, I hope the American comics book movie bubble popping doesn't hurt manga and anime.
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MagicPolly
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I cant believe that mess of a remaster still made over 2 million
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GATSU
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Polly: People probably missed it on the big screen the first time.
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Jabootu
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Yikes! Even with a paltry $30 million production budget, that's terrible. That's only about $5 million back to the studio so far. In fact, at Sunday's box office (according to Box Office Mojo), Rohirrim came in 8th place. For instance, the rerelease of Interstellar (the number five movie) made $1,279,579 in 321 theaters, as opposed to Rohimrrim (the number eight movie) which made $1,061,878--a pretty major difference--in 2600 theaters. Also, Interstellar's been out 10 days, Rohirrim three. Again, yikes.
The only good news is that their exposure is probably in the $50 million range, including advertising, so yes, it can't possibly lose as much money as Kraven. And once it goes to streaming it will possibly get a lot of views, since people are essentially getting it for free. (Or it will be utterly ignored there, too.) Still and all, I'll bet they were at least hoping to break even on the theatrical showings. Gatsu worried:
I'd say the opposite, frankly. The fact that western companies seem so inept now at entertaining western audiences is the very thing driving so many to look to Asia (K-Pop, K-dramas, anime, mange, etc.). |
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Firefly251
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seems like reason the movie was even made was due to a deal where they are required to use the IP else they lose the rights to use it.
Makes sense its not quality if the main reason was just to retain IP usage and a "low" budget of 30M isn't a lot for films anymore and likely less than having to renegotiate for using it in future |
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Beatdigga
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Essentially. While this should have ramifications, the truth is this was a low-budget license grab, even if most people agree that Middle Earth without The Silmarillion isn't really something that should be a cinematic universe. The Lord of the Rings trilogy still holds up as a cinematic triumph, probably one of the biggest successes of an epic film alongside Titanic, Lawrence of Arabia, and Ben-Hur, The Hobbit was...fine, and if anything overexplained the book, and no one was going to fund animating a two-cour adaptation of the books with Tom Bombadill, the Scouring of the Shire, and all the stuff Peter Jackson cut. So here we are. |
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