I didn’t even know this movie existed until I started seeing articles about how badly it bombed.
That’s too bad. I respect how Tom Cruise swung for the fence on this character.
That said. This movie should have had a budget of about $50MM, max
EDIT: (for context)
Warner Bros. greenlit the film for $125 million, but the budget soared to $160 million to $180 million after production went over schedule.
Impressive accounting to spend $180 mil, make some amount of profit, and still claim it costed you $245 mil.
That’s common. The $180MM is the production cost to which you need to add marketing etc… I watched Matt Damon and Bem Affleck talk about this when explaining why big studios are so risk averse when making movies. Basically the rule of thumb is that a movie needs to gross double it’s production cost just to break even, and that’s still considered a relative failure.
What is MM
Million Moneys
Oh, roman numeral bullshit. They can’t even do it correct MM is 2000
Tech uses greek.
K = thousands
M = millions
G = billions. So KB, MB, GB.Financials use Roman.
M = thousand
MM = a thousand thousand (million)
MMM = a thousand thousand thousand (billion)Mmm Mmm = crash test dummies
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I saw this tonight. Ten people in the theater. This is the best film I’ve seen all year. The story just kept unfolding and Cruise gives an outstanding performance.
I saw Odyssey last weekend and the theatre was like 60 or 70% full. Digger was also playimg, and in hindsight, i would’ve rather watched that one. Although, i don’t want to spend money on the Scientology weirdo and just pirate it.
Oh no! What will scientology do now?
Tom Cruise is Digger…
I love it when a major studio gives an auteur director way too much money to make an arthouse flop and hope this does not get replaced by AI Slop everything when the Ellisons own all of Hollywood.
The movie may have bombed at the box office, but it’s supposed to be a good movie.
That movie is a 10/10 people are just but hurt the twist puts them into a place of guilt.
But is there any money actually lost by the people producing films? I’m pretty sure movie studios create a separate business for each film so they can declare bankruptcy if it doesn’t make money. I’m sure someone is getting fucked, but it ain’t Tom or anyone at the studios.
