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Why'd it Bomb? Entourage (2015)

posted 8 years ago by TMC-4
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Posted by kevthewriter

At one point in time, Entourage was a popular TV show with critical acclaim and Emmy nods. As time went on, however, the show got less and less popular. It got to the point where it seems like no one really cared when it got a movie, as it barely made any money at the box office. In fact, if it wasn’t for worldwide numbers, it basically bombed. In America, it made $32 million on a $30 million budget and, even when you put in worldwide numbers, it made $49 million on a $30 million budget. If we’re being generous, Entourage was a disappointment at the box office in not an outright bomb. Why did it fail to duplicate the success of another long-running HBO show adapted to the big screen, Sex and the City??

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

First of all, they waited much too long to make the movie.

Second, if you look at the numbers of who watched the season finales, Sex in the City had huge numbers while Entourage basically was no better than it had been before. The audience was just no longer there. Which leads us to...

Third, the writing really suffered as time went on. If they had made the movie at the end of the 3rd or 4th season it could have done so much better, IMHO. The season of Ashley, for example, was pretty bad, and having Sasha Grey on as a season regular just proved that Ellin cared more about T&A than story and acting.

Fourth, the series finale was just silly and a lot of people didn't care where it went after that, again IMHO.

[–] The_Devil_Himself 8 years ago

^ This

Brandon
I witnessed tribes of Judah reduced to ruin

[–] Takeshi-K 8 years ago

Movies based on tv shows always make a truckload of green on home video because thats where their fan base is, home.

[–] vnse 8 years ago

$19M return on a $30M investment is a bomb? That's a 63% return, hardly a bomb by any measure.

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

$19M return on a $30M investment is a bomb? That's a 63% return, hardly a bomb by any measure.

Making $49MM on a budget of $30MM is the definition of a bomb.

It means the film lost at least $6MM dollars.

Would you invest in something that made back less than 80% of what you put in?