But
if box office figures are anything to go by, it looks like all that pain and suffering was worth it - «The Grandmaster» has grossed about S$ 2.3 million in Hong Kong and S$ 60 million in China so far.
Not exact matches
Disney
figured it'd land somewhere in the $ 220 - 240M mark, just behind JJ Abrams» 2015 film, but Disney also has a habit of being very conservative when it comes to
box office estimates; giving a film that wiggle room comes in handy
if something happens to underperform.
If I were to pick the single most impressive
box -
office story of the summer, it wouldn't be Iron Man 3 hitting a
figure that is, however large, not that big a deal for a movie with its kind of budget, especially one serving as de facto sequel to a film that destroyed very nearly every record that exists.
Maybe
if the director, producer and cast weren't so busy telling anyone critical of the movie that they were women - hating misogynists, maybe Sony wouldn't have taken an ~ $ 80 loss on the movie (and before you quote
box office sales, that
figure is BEFORE the theaters take their cuts).