how bad will this bomb?
Opening wend - 18m
Domestic total - 50m
Overseas total - 80m
Total ww - 130m
It will probably make enough to let them try again with similar nonsense.
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Enough for it to disappear until home video or its availability for streaming. Then it will find a small audience who are into stuff like this.
shareI saw it and i liked it. But yeah, it will probably bomb. Thats the kind of movie that people will decide to hate before seeing it.
shareIt will be in the theaters for a few weeks, and then on dvd in 3 months, and then everyone will forget about it as fast as they did "District 9." 'Nuff said.
shareHey, I like District 9. And because of its small budget, it was a commercial success.
But I worry that you & StarWarsRey are right. What is it about this movie that turns people off? I don't get it.
Bad writing, an illogical plot, cliches, and a lead that nobody can relate to.
shareRidiculous non-interesting title that makes no sense. Mortal Engines. Is that like Mortal Kombat but with, um, engines? What engines? Cars? So it's Death Race?
Make titles that makes sense, moviemakers! Spider-Man. It's a man but spider. Or a spider but man. It's clear and it's interesting. If Spider-Man was titled Web Shoot it would also bombed.
Interesting that both of you hate the title. In the movie's defense, that was the book's name. Point still taken, it is confusing.
I always end up seeing a big budget movie in theaters the week before Christmas. Leaning toward this or Bumblebee.
OMG - BOMojo was predicting an 11m opening wkend!! now they saying 7m!! I was WAY off!!
this isn't even going to hit 100m ww!
OW is $7.5m. Foreign is $35m. Strange that Russia OW was $4.5m.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mortalengines.htm
130? ouch.
I am going at least 300m, the Chinese might like it.
It won't make $130m, but it might lose $125m!
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni62314781
With a budget of just over $100 million and tens of millions in global marketing costs, executives at rival studios estimate that the movie will lose upwards of $100 million. Some even project that number could float to more than $125 million. “Mortal Engines” has so far made a paltry $42 million globally. The sci-fi epic came into a crowded marketplace at a competitive time of year, opening against the well-reviewed “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “The Mule,” a Clint Eastwood thriller that had a better start than expected. “Mortal Engines,” on the other hand, launched below estimates, generating just $7.5 million when it debuted in North America.
“This is a true Christmas disaster and a lump of coal for Universal,” said Jeff Bock, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “They took a big swing, and they struck out.”
I never really got any sense of what this movie was about. It looked nice visually, but that's not enough to make a movie stand out these days.
Maybe it's a hard movie to sum up in a 90 second trailer, and it's not the marketing departments fault, but in that case they should have kept the budget lower.