Charlie's Angels Box Office Numbers In Comparison to Ford V Ferrari (Opening Weekend)
The good news for Charlie's Angels was that it had more bang for the production budget buck overseas in comparison to Ford V Ferrari. The bad news for CA is that it did not meet expectations domestically:
Charlie's Angels box office opening weekend:
Domestic: $8.6 million
International: $19.3 million
Worldwide: $27.9 million
Production budget: $48 million
Ford V Ferrari box office opening weekend:
Domestic: $31 million
International: $21.4 million
Worldwide: $52.4 million
Production budget: $97.6 million
Ford V Ferrari's production cost is about twice that of Charlie's Angels, and yet CA grossed just a couple million less than FVF internationally. FVF grossed over half of its production budget if you consider worldwide gross on opening weekend. So did CA, which has a worldwide gross of $27.9 million. Of course, it should be stated that it's more profitable for a studio when a film grosses more domestically. But that being said, I still find it interesting that a whopping 69.2% of CA's worldwide gross on opening weekend came from overseas box office. Similar thing happened with "Terminator: Dark Fate" which had 75.7% of its worldwide gross come from overseas. So even though TDF bombed domestically, it currently has a worldwide gross of over $233 million in just two weeks.
So thus begs the question: Did CA fail to meet box office expectations because US moviegoers don't embrace the "woke" subculture that many on the CA board here on MovieChat are claiming is the reason--or is it more because US moviegoers are becoming increasing more fickle? Sure, the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to churn out one billion dollar franchise after the other--yet for most other films, earning back a film's production budget at the box office is becoming increasingly more daunting--well at least here in the U.S. Thus, this could partly explain the demise of medium budget films such as CA--for in order for a film to be profitable, a studio usually has to aim big, as in big-budget blockbuster or small, as in micro-budget, independently produced films. Hopefully CA develops some legs, and will have a decent showing over the next two weeks. share