Box Office: ‘King Arthur’ Looks Like an Epic Flop

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Box office: #KingArthur looks like an epic flop https://t.co/jqWXQiTwis pic.twitter.com/j0HsB97zUD
- Variety (@Variety) 10. Mai 2017

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- 24% on Rotten Tomatoes

- a $175 million budget (sans promo)

- only opened with $25 $20 million

Comments

[forestofthedead]

Oh damn I really wanted to see this.

[hjalmartazar]

I saw a commercial for it yesterday or monday, it looks okay. I didn't know it was already out tho.

[notoriousreign]

Whaaaaaat but it looks so... well epic lol. I need it to make more than Snatched noooo

[marywebgirl]

They're setting up for the premiere of Snatched by my office, and when I walked by on my way to lunch I overheard a few people saying things like "That looks terrible" or dragging Amy Shumer.

[saemcrh]

So two back-to-back flops for Charlie?

Though Lost City of Z didn't get critically panned, quite the opposite.

[sea_thoughts]

Lost City of Z was great but released at a weird time, should have been in the winter to get serious attention.

[saemcrh]

idk if it's because I don't watch actual TV with ads/interact with enough people, but I just felt like the promo/hype was non-existent for it.

[sea_thoughts]

You're not wrong, there wasn't much promo for it, again I think because they released it at a weird time. I would recommend it for anyone who likes a good historical story/mystery. The book is even more fascinating.

[snippy_carrot]

Even if it wasn't to be a critical mess, I have no idea what would possess anyone to greenlight 175M+ for a film like this.

It's like studios want to lose ridiculous sums of cash.

[itsme_eloise]

this is why the death of the mid-range movie makes me so sad. Either it's high-stakes super expensive risks like this or an indie movie that someone filmed on their iphone. There's nothing in the middle anymore.

[snippy_carrot]

It's frustrating because there's still definitely audiences for films of that size.

Just in the last calendar year, La La Land made $150M DOM/440M WW and cost $30M to make, Hidden Figures did $169M/$228M on $26M, Split went $138M/$275M on $14M (depending on the source), Arrival made on $100M/$199M on $47M... even Money Monster did $94M WW on a $27M budget.

[maidenhell]

Do romantic comedies exist anymore? I was just thinking about how Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson built their careers on them, but I can't recall a recent one (or an actress now known for them).