Wang, whose group controls U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc and U.S. studio Legendary Entertainment, promised generous subsidies for film makers but indicated a focus on China's
domestic film market.
Not exact matches
Entertainment Weekly posed this very question to Marc Weinstock, head of
domestic marketing at 20th Century Fox, the primary production company behind the
film.
The US exporters operate from a very large
domestic market that provides the economic resources for a level of investment that facilitates the production of feature
films and series that easily have a competitive edge in the world
market.
Relativity raised its average Metascore, reduced its number of poorly reviewed
films from five to three, and managed to hold onto its 9th - place ranking in
domestic market share (though its grosses fell by over $ 50 million).
Below are the
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The Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan starrer wrested the crown for the highest earning
film in
domestic markets from 2012's The Avengers.
Foreign
markets have not compensated for the
domestic flopping, in which the
film grossed just $ 105 thousand from a few dozen theaters last spring.
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In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a
domestic gross close to the first
film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the
marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.
The movie's box office performance was somewhat mediocre as well, considering the production and
marketing costs, which the $ 85 million
domestic gross failed to recoup, while still placing the
film above all but three movies released in the easygoing two months comprising cinema's «fall» season.
A projected ten - day
domestic total of approximately $ 425 million and an overseas total of $ 325 million by Feb. 25 («Black Panther» has already made $ 184 million internationally) would put the total for the Ryan Coogler - directed move at roughly $ 750 million after 13 days in theaters, starting on Feb. 13, when the
film opened in several overseas
markets.
Similar to the first movie, Universal
domestic distribution boss Jim Orr pointed out the threequel is «overindexing in a lot of Midwestern
markets you wouldn't associate with an R - rated
film.»
When adjusted for inflation, the
film's $ 80 million
domestic gross puts it at the shallow end of Burton's filmography and certainly beneath Warner's hopes for a $ 150 M - budgeted summer season release (foreign
markets responded much more strongly with a gross of $ 159 M and very much still counting).
The delay wasn't enough to earn the
film notice at the box office, where it grossed a dismal $ 4.4 million, barely one - fourth of the production budget, in under 300 - theater
domestic release and adding almost nothing to it in a few foreign
markets this spring.
Those
films didn't make money, A24 knows this, so they carefully
marketed this
film to a crowd that would take the bait, and it paid off with six million dollars (the
film probably cost less than nine) and landed number eight on the weekends
domestic box office.
A journo friend sent a note tonight asking my thoughts on the Miramax trailer sell of Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky,» given that I've had a chance to see the
film over in the UK before the
domestic marketing machine took hold.
What I didn't anticipate was that this
film, which never received any sort of
domestic theatrical distribution before being summarily dropped, supplement - free, onto the home video
market, would be one of the best of its year — indeed, of its kind.
The strategy didn't really work; the
film's $ 15.8 M
domestic gross on a $ 7 M production budget means it has yet to turn a profit, when
marketing costs and theater profits are deducted.
Deadpool 2 is expected to open at an impressive 125 million dollars in its
domestic market thus falling short of its predecessor for the record for biggest opening for an R - Rated
film by 7.40 million dollars.
Transformers: Age of Extinction had a reported budget of $ 210 million and while it managed to cover the bills with a
domestic take of $ 245,439,076, this
film really made its money on the worldwide
market bringing in $ 1,087,404,500 thanks in part to its amazing success in China.
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