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It bombed with opening of 5 millions. There goes her "star power"

posted a month ago by emori (3096)
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Box-office numbers. It came at #4.

https://www.the-numbers.com/weekend-box-office-chart

Surprising since lots of horror movies actually do well. Some may even open to 30 millions. But this one didn't. Nobody cared. And it was actually her first solo movie where she had to rely on her own popularity. There wasn't Glen Powell as co-lead. No Dakota and other 3 girls. She was the only star.

So despite all those millions of views of some Youtube and tick-tock videos - she doesn't have a real star power to get those "fans" to movie theater. She is insta-famous. Not box-office draw.

This movie had a budget of under 10 millions. So they won't lose that much. But if they will cast her in a movie with budget of some 80 millions - they will lose a lot.

[–] redban (5226) 15 days ago

Budget of $9 million. $21 million box office per Wikipedia (as of now). It’s not a blockbuster hit, but I don’t think the movie bombed

[–] emori (3096) 15 days ago

It's domestic box-office is 15 millions.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Immaculate-(2024)#tab=summary

All those "overseas" numbers are irrelevant. Because half of them stay there overseas. And American studio don't see them. China takes 2/3 of the grosses and gives 1/3 back to American studio.
It may count when movie gets like 500 overseas. Then studio will see at least 200 of them.

It had a budget of 9 million. Few more millions spent on promotion. Those tv spots are not free. At best case it broke even. Not making any money. But getting back what was spend. And studios don't shoot movie to not make anything of it. They shoot it to make money. And when they hired her for this they expected this to be moderate horror flick.

Why hire her for next movie with 50 millions budget when her "star power" will bring only 15 millions back? She is insta-famous.

[–] BrandNewPoster (6464) 15 days ago

There aren't many stars left with box office power. This film likely wasn't going to be a big hit, regardless of who starred in it. She did a good job and the film might have made even less, if someone else was in it.