330 million worldwide is a flop?


Budget was nearly 200 million and say 50 million or so for PR and it was a huge campaign for 2010, but was it a flop or a HUGE flop? Were the producers hoping for too much from a film based on a video game? Were they hoping for 600-700 million worldwide? Or that Gyllenhaal could pull in a wide audience despite only having done very dramatic dark type of films that didn't pull in a large audience.

It was a pretty good film. Surprised it didn't earn more than 90 million in the US.

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Not a flop, but a disappointment.

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Agreed, Just annoying how it's written as a "flop" like everywhere. It'd be 1 thing had it only grossed 25 million in the USA or say 80 million worldwide.

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They were hoping to turn this into the next Pirates of the Caribbean type franchise, but it never took off like those films.

I agree, it wasn't bad.

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It is a flop, id made less than 100 million domestic with a budget of 200 m ! The international gross is less important when it comes to less money, because the % ftom international gross is very small for the studios.

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You don't hear much about this film. From what you can read online, it was supposed to be the next Pirates Of The Caribbean. It grossed a lot of money internationally, but domestically it only grossed $90 Million from a $200 Million Budget, so a lot of films are considered a box office flop if they did not exceed the budget domestically, even if they did internationally. Like, if you look at a film I remember as a kid, Dante's Peak it says on IMDb, it has the keyword Box Office Flop when it also didn't exceed the budget domestically, but internationally.
So, this film was again supposed to be the next Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise. If they earned a lot of money, there obviously would have been sequels, but it looks like they won't be making sequels. However, 2 weeks after this movie came out there was the new Karate Kid with Jaden Smith which had a lower budget of $40 Million and earned $176 Million Domestically. Since that movie did so well, they've been planning on making a sequel and we're just waiting for it to happen which shows the difference between a movie that does earn a lot of money, and one that doesn't.

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Great point. Have to wonder why exactly did it flop. It made a killing worldwide but why did it fail in the USA. Why did it only earn 90 million in the USA and not 150 or 500 million worldwide instead of 330 million.




Again why didn't it earn more at the box office?

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Probably cause of the word Persia in the title. 2006 was a bad year in Iraq. Bigotry n personal boycotts of anything middle eastern were high..still remains so and vice versa.

Pepsi n Coke lost a lot of their in the mid east when the war broke out. It wasn't a coordinated boycott but a lot of residents there simply stopped buying their brand.

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Its a flop $330 million is what the movie grossed. What the studio gets back is only about half of that. With a $200 million production and another $100 million for marketing you are looking at losses of over $100 million though DVD/Blu-Ray sales, TV rights may lessen that.

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Great point.

But why did it flop?

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I agree it was a good movie and I was very surprised it didn't do better. Imho it's the best movie made with only a video game as inspiration and they have done a few over the last 20 years or so.

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I remember seeing this movie with two of my friends when it came out 5 years ago. The movie was cool, but hard to understand. I mean they tried to do a good job and make it like the new Pirates Of The Carribbean, but it didn't work. I don't think either of my friends really cared for the movie when we saw it. I haven't seen the movie since, and I remember hearing a group of guys say at the movie theater a few weeks later how this movie was advertised pretty well, but it wasn't that great of a movie.

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Well everyone on IMDB message boards is a film major, a professional screenplay writer or a financial guru.. So...

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