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Post by VenomFang on Dec 30, 2011 8:14:07 GMT -5
Cowboys & Aliens - Domestic Total Gross: $100,240,551 - Production Budget: $163 million Dream House - Domestic Total Gross: $21,302,340 - Production Budget: $50 million
The Adventures of Tintin - Domestic Total as of Dec. 28, 2011: $31,772,000 (Estimate) - Production Budget: N/A
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Domestic Total as of Dec. 27, 2011: $32,476,000 (Estimate) - Production Budget: $90 million
The last 2 are still in theaters and will make more money but none of these will be "huge hits."
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 30, 2011 8:21:05 GMT -5
I don't think he's really the type to sell a movie. The Bond movies sell on being Bond movies. A lot of his work is in smaller arthouse movies, where the gross doesn't really matter. His 3 other biggest movies were Road to Perdition, Munich and The Golden Compass. Compass and Munich were flops as well and Road to Perdition was sold by Tom Hanks and Paul Newman.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 8:24:46 GMT -5
The failure of Tintin to gross that highly has nothing to do with Daniel Craig. It's because it's a movie based on a comic strip that almost nobody in the US, the big market it was directed at, has ever heard of.
I don't know how many people I had to explain the original to, just so they had a clue what the source material was. And most of them still didn't understand it. And when people don't have even the slightest understanding of something like that, it's just plain not going to be successful most of the time, no matter how good it is.
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Post by Square on Dec 30, 2011 8:37:03 GMT -5
The failure of Tintin to gross that highly has nothing to do with Daniel Craig. It's because it's a movie based on a comic strip that almost nobody in the US, the big market it was directed at, has ever heard of. I don't know how many people I had to explain the original to, just so they had a clue what the source material was. And most of them still didn't understand it. And when people don't have even the slightest understanding of something like that, it's just plain not going to be successful most of the time, no matter how good it is. It was a movie targeted towards the European market though.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 30, 2011 8:52:07 GMT -5
I remember that one year Jude Law was in every other movie and they all bombed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 9:09:52 GMT -5
The failure of Tintin to gross that highly has nothing to do with Daniel Craig. It's because it's a movie based on a comic strip that almost nobody in the US, the big market it was directed at, has ever heard of. I don't know how many people I had to explain the original to, just so they had a clue what the source material was. And most of them still didn't understand it. And when people don't have even the slightest understanding of something like that, it's just plain not going to be successful most of the time, no matter how good it is. It was a movie targeted towards the European market though. Was it? Well, that'd definitely explain why its foreign gross more than compensates for the production budget. I figured it was being brought here to try to be some kind of crossover hit. And given how over here it hasn't exactly done well, it's really quite weird why a big deal hasn't been made over its overseas success. Big surprise then that it's grossed almost twice as much in France as it has here, huh?
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Dec 30, 2011 9:29:25 GMT -5
Box office receipts are the easiest numbers to find, but they're not where movies make their money. Besides, you're looking at domestic box office. I would venture a guess that Craig is a pretty decent star in England.
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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Dec 30, 2011 9:44:51 GMT -5
I remember that one year Jude Law was in every other movie and they all bombed. "You want Tom Cruise and all you can get is Jude Law? WAIT!"
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 30, 2011 10:55:49 GMT -5
I wouldn't count Tintin. I didn't even know he was in it, wouldn't have made a difference, and the barely there US ad campaign made no focus on who was in it. It was a hit overseas though.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 30, 2011 10:56:49 GMT -5
I remember that one year Jude Law was in every other movie and they all bombed. "You want Tom Cruise and all you can get is Jude Law? WAIT!" Somewhat ironically, wasn't that pretty much the end of Chris Rock's movie career?
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 30, 2011 11:12:13 GMT -5
I'm not at all surprised that all of his movies failed to set the box office on fire in 2011. I can only speak for myself, but IMO, the guy is just really bland, and there's nothing about him that says "MOVIE STAR." Character actor, yes. Major headlining star? No. Not by a long shot. And, as already mentioned, the draw in the Bond films (and don't even get me started on the ones he's in) is the name itself, not Craig.
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 30, 2011 11:19:24 GMT -5
I wouldn't count Tintin. I didn't even know he was in it, wouldn't have made a difference, and the barely there US ad campaign made no focus on who was in it. It was a hit overseas though. Barely there? Odd, I could have sworn there was a pretty extensive ad campaign for the past month or so. Maybe it's just the channels I watch. And yeah, I think they tried to make Tintin a crossover hit in the US, which hasn't panned out. But they definitely had the European market in mind when they made it.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 30, 2011 11:23:59 GMT -5
I only seen a few commercial here and there. When a big flop like Mars Needs Moms came out, I couldn't get away from it.
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Post by Cela on Dec 30, 2011 14:00:53 GMT -5
Any chance we could see some international numbers on those?
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Post by andrew8798 on Dec 30, 2011 14:06:48 GMT -5
Tintin has made 239 million overseas
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Dec 30, 2011 14:10:50 GMT -5
Tintin's budget is $135 million. It has already made more than $266,782,000 worldwide.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Dec 30, 2011 14:25:16 GMT -5
I remember that one year Jude Law was in every other movie and they all bombed. "You want Tom Cruise and all you can get is Jude Law? WAIT!" JUDE LAW IS ONE OF OUR FINEST YOUNG ACTORS!
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Post by The Enforcer on Dec 30, 2011 14:31:49 GMT -5
So let's look at that list again with the overseas receipts included: Cowboys & Aliens - Domestic Total Gross: $174,822,325 - Production Budget: $163 million Dream House - Domestic Total Gross: $38,502,340 - Production Budget: $50 million The Adventures of Tintin - Domestic Total as of 29 Dec: $274,941,000 - Production Budget: $135 million The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Domestic Total as of 27 Dec: 2011: $32,476,000 - Production Budget: $90 million So from looking at these revised totals, he's 2 for 3. Cowboys & Aliens made enough money to cover the budget and TinTin has made a killing in overseas receipts. Dream House would be the only strike on his record. I'm not going to count Dragon Tattoo yet since it was only released 11 days ago, and I'm not sure of the release overseas. It still has plenty of time to make more money. So yeah, Craig is doing fine.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 14:32:23 GMT -5
"You want Tom Cruise and all you can get is Jude Law? WAIT!" Somewhat ironically, wasn't that pretty much the end of Chris Rock's movie career? Considering how bad his acting is, I don't think even he minds haha. But he did Broadway this year and got good reviews for it, so I guess he's doing alright.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 30, 2011 16:33:28 GMT -5
Tintin's budget is $135 million. It has already made more than $266,782,000 worldwide. So at least 1-3, then. Anyway, while theater gross is good, the real prize is DVD/Blu-Ray sales, because the theaters don't take their cut. The profit margin is much nicer.
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