The numbers are much worse than they appear, since usually a studio only gets 30-50% of the total (after theatres, etc.). I do believe Disney officially made use of the losses for tax purposes.
The numbers are much worse than they appear, since usually a studio only gets 30-50% of the total (after theatres, etc.). I do believe Disney officially made use of the losses for tax purposes.
Well, no: but if it fails, as John Carter did, it can be written off.No movie had ever made a profit for tax purposes. Star Wars is still in the red...
Why are you quibbling?Production Budget: $250 million
Worldwide Ticket Sales:$284 million
So, not an amazing success, but it was also not a total bomb and far from "biggest box-office bomb in recent history". 47 Ronin, Ben-Hur (2016), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Finest Hours, Live by Night, Monster Trucks, Aloha, Blackhat, and Pan are all movies since 2015 that did substantially worse than John Carter overall.
Most people think the reason it didn't do better had to do with the name (which was a last minute change) and the marketing (which didn't have much relationship to what was actually in the movie) and the last minute loss of faith in the movie prior to release from the studio resulting in a much smaller marketing budget than had been planned.
Why are you quibbling?
I made a point, adress it!
Derailing this thread into finance speculation doesn't interest me in the slightest.
Well, there were two claims, one being the exaggeration which you point out, the other being that the film's financial failure is due to being PG-13. The latter claim is fairly absurd, given the history of box office performance in R vs. PG-13 movies.Why are you exaggerating when there is no need to exaggerate?
I did. You were wrong. Address that!
Then perhaps you should not have derailed the thread into finance speculation by making a claim (which was inaccurate) about how this was the biggest bomb in recent history?
You know, you COULD just admit you goofed up for once. Nothing bad will happen to you if you do that. Nobody will think less of you or pay less attention to your views if you admit to messing up something. It will just make you look more human, not less.
Of course.For what it is worth, according to everything I can find, John Carter is one of the ten biggest flops of all time (8th biggest financial flop, specifically), with $125 million in losses for Disney:
http://www.filmsite.org/greatestflops.html