Are you serious? This film won't recoup it's production costs until 2055.
"I'm proud of it by all accounts..."
Quite possibly the biggest flop in the history of movies...
"My nose was chiseled by the gods themselves..."
-Dennis, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Utter insanity - Studios deserve financial disasters like this for green-lighting such incredibly insane budgets. Until actor/director fees come back to Earth this situation will be repeated. This sort of film should not cost more than $30m. Don't forget only about 40% of a film's reported box office (at most) goes back to the producers (the rest goes to the theatres and distribution/promotion costs). So this disaster (although it is a better than average Romcom)needs to gross something like $200m to break even.
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"You want to investigate my courage? Do you? Find out! Find out!" (Robert Ford)
120M to make a COMEDY? That is just absolutely ridiculous. When has any comedy costed that much to make? Plus the fact that the film is doing poorly both financially and critically...
Biggest box-office flop of 2011, for now.
My jaw dropped when I saw that this cost 120m... like holy *beep* How in blue blazes did ANYONE, especially professional film industry execs, believe that a long, wordy romance movie would recoup that kind of budget? Even for an action movie, 120m is a lot.
And also, how does Brooks get a 10m directing salary? Most people have never even heard of him, and again, for a movie like this, it's unreal.
I thought it was an enjoyable movie, but 120 million? Holy *beep*
I just saw this this afternoon. Not a bad movie, but I am glad I saw it at the discount $3 theater, lol.
I think a good accounting firm needs to review the books for this film. There's no WAY they could have spent the $70M more than the purported $50M cost of the cast on the rest of the film.