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Budget: $120 million [source]
Opening weekend gross: $4 million
Factoring in marketing costs and the theaters taking their cut of the profits, Megalopolis would need to make at least $300 million to break even. I think it's safe to say that's not happening.
It would have been THE worst opening for a $100 million movie ever, had it not been for Pluto Nash's horriffic opening 22 years ago.
Even The New York Times is reporting near-empty screenings of Megalopolis!
Arrr matey, you need to look in different places
Pluto Nash deserved better tbh
Coppola made like two and half good movies and then he kept going and none of them have been good since. He's kinda like George Lucas, only not as good at merchandising.
I was honestly surprised it was out already. I’ve seen a few memes about it the past few months, but my theater hasn’t even run the trailer. It’s also not even in their coming soon listing, which it should be considering it’s supposedly releasing in december here in the Netherlands.
I doubt they’re bothering to run it at all with the reception this got so far. Not unless it manages to capture a ‘so bad you gotta see this train wreck’ cult status between now and december…
This is the first time I'm hearing about this movie, likely terrible advertising plan
Really? I've been hearing about it for months. It was having trouble finding a distributor for theaters, despite the budget and the star power, which was seen as a bad sign. It's being marketed as Francis Ford Coppola's last big budget movie.
So far.
Are these Studios just getting ripped off by marketing? I literally never saw an ad for this. The first time I saw a trailer for this film was in an article about how bad it was bombing. Where was all the marketing money going?
Every second or third post on Lemmy is about privacy or ad-blocking or piracy or pi-holes or bitching about ad injection.
Not that any of that is a bad thing. (The bitching isn't bad, the things are.)
But you can't be surprised when you don't hear about shit. When you reclaim your eye-holes from Madison avenue you need to seek things out.
yeah but this is a movie, not a product. we usually hear about them from people, not necessarily ads. we might not see many ads but other people we talk to and hear from do, and practically no one in my life and media consumption talks about it. compare that to Barbie.
Talking to other people is part of what I mean by seeking things out. If you do all you can to avoid ads, along with the 99% that are useless you also block the 1% that you might actually find useful.
For example; I recently heard about this show from a friend that is right up my alley. When I looked up a trailer it's the kind of thing that seeing a commercial once would have caught my eye and ensured I watch it. She was surprised I hadn't heard of it because it's on a network with a few shows she knows I like and they've been pimping it pretty hard for a while. Because I block the bullshit I either have to hope cool stuff comes up in conversation or seek out new stuff elsewhere.
I'm not sure where on Earth you got the impression that I only consume media through Lemmy.
I'm not sure where on earth you got the impression that I thought that.
On Lemmy.
Where on lemmy did I suggest that?
I don't know, lemmy is where he got that impression. It may or may not be an accurate one.
"... so you see, Borderlands is actually doing just fine in its theatrical release." -Randy Pitchford
Literally never heard this movie was being made except for 2 posts here, both of which happened after the movie opened in theaters. Marketing team obviously wasn't doing shit.
Even adjusting for inflation, Pluto Nash still wins. It opened to $3.5M in today's money.
I feel like there hasn't been much marketing for Megalopolis. Could be a factor. I'd say the long run time doesn't help, but Oppenheimer counters that point.
You need to adjust the Pluto Nash budget for iflation as well. It was a ~$100 million budget in 2002.
Makes me wonder how many other movies did worse when we consider adjusting their budget to inflation.
Oppenheimer had the advantage of people knowing basically what the story was about. The poster for Megalopolis doesn't really tell me what it's about beyond Adam Driver apparently being an architect.
It's the same reason everything is a reboot or remake: A lot of the marketing cost has already been taken care of with the first movie.
The trailer made it seem like the kind of pretentiously boring mess that the director seemed to think had some profound message that I tend to really dislike.
Or put more simply, "Looks like the director set $120 million on fire to win Oscars, not make something entertaining."
From what I'm hearing, one of the antagonists is a thinly veiled Rupert Murdoch. Sounds like $120 million to pretentiously explain that Fox News is bad to an audience who figured that out two decades ago.
Thinly veiled Rupert Murdoch?
Bah, 007 did it 27 years ago.
I really wanted Megalopolis to be good, but I never had high hopes for it. I'll probably still watch it eventually because it has a bunch of actors in it that I love + I'm a sucker for future megacities in movies and games (I'm still not over the fact that they cancelled the Star Wars game that was supposed to take place on the lower levels of Coruscant)
I still don't know if it was overly pretentious garbage or an enlightening allegory of the current state of the world. But watching it was definitely an experience. The cast is great, and I found it visually beautiful and interesting.
I liked it. It was kind of a mess, but it was interesting, thought provoking, and visually very good. As much as there are improvements that could be made or changes to make it more palatable to a wider audience, I’d prefer the weird way it is, and especially movies like this over the next Disney/Corporate Movie Product TM
Maybe if the trailer didn’t tell you how great and misunderstood Coppola and his works have been and how stupid people were for panning them when they came out, more people would have been compelled to see it. Not that it was pretentious, just arrogant to say hey come watch this this sure fire masterpiece. Also it looks like politics mixed with Inception so maybe too much for people to bother right now? Having said all that I would like to see it, just don’t need to go to the theater for this one.
Having said all that I would like to see it, just don’t need to go to the theater for this one.
From what little I've heard, there's a 4th-wall-breaking scene that involves one of the characters interacting with an audience member (the theater apparently has someone come in and participate). So if nothing else, I guess you could see it in theaters for the novelty?
If you want masterclass 4th Wall, Watch Fleabag. Great series
Ah, so from what I'm reading it's confusing now, but will be more confusing at home with a broken 4th wall break segment.
Promotional campaign brought to you by the same team that worked on Concord.
And Dredd with Karl Urban (which is a shame, the movie didn't get the attention it deserved).
Pretty sad, this was apparently Coppola's drram movie he always wanted to make
From what I can tell that's part of the reason why it turned out bad. Movies really need to be made within a window of a few years from when the idea starts rolling, if the script hangs around for too long the creators start poking and prodding at it and almost always end up making it worse.
I wonder if it's any good, all I hear is how little money it made like that means anything to anyone but the producers.
its annoyingly complex with little payoff. i know watching it a few times will bring it into focus, but thats a weird requirement.
Not with Coppola, Apocalypse Now requires several watches, including the re-releases, directors cut, etc
This had such a stilted release this is hardly indicitive of quality. Everywhere got this movie at different times and also saw it pop culture for a few months in the run like it was already out.
It got a lot of controversial press before its release and I can't really recall hearing what the movie is about or it being any good.
