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The Truth About Emanuel didn't do so well at the box office (i.imgflip.com)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 weeks ago

Man, people sure like a dogpile.

The movie was on in 11 theatres in the US. It was never a wide release. Small indie films are often financed on pre-sold distribution rights anyway. The movie did the festival rounds and is on Amazon Prime Video and other streaming services, it was probably fine for them, if clearly not a career booster for most involved.

I get that people don't realize how many movies are made worldwide that pretty much nobody watches outside festivals, but I promise you it's a lot more than you think.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

According to https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Truth-About-Emanuel-The#tab=summary , the domestic box office was $4,404

[–] ilovededyoupiggy 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw that, but I was going off what got quoted in the articles that keep getting posted today. Maybe the article is only considering opening weekend? Don't know that, but I do know $235 is funnier than $4404.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

$4404 contains 404 though, i.e. 404 Error: Profit Not Found, which makes me chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Total sales ~$125 thousand

Estimated budget ~$1.3 million

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

ouch

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

#Box office receipts are not an indication of the movie quality.

Box office is a combination of how many theaters it was played in and how much marketing is behind it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

do hashtags even work on lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oof.

Budget: $1,300,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada: $4,404
Gross worldwide: $4,404

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1838520/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Average user rating is 6/10 so it’s not terrible, but perhaps terribly marketed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Note the median IMDB score is around a 6.6-6.7. So 6.0 is definitely below average. Not horrible, but definitely below average.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well, 6/10 on IMDB. Looks like more people liked it there than on the theaters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The opening lines tell you exactly what sort of movie it's going to be, don't they?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

39% critic and 35% audience score on rottentomatoes. Oof.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Who cares about rottentomatoes? Especially the "critic" number?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's so bad about this movie that people didn't even bother to watch it to know how bad it was??

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a bit misleading, it was only in 11 theaters before going to streaming so it can't be compared with a standard wide release film. Like Bird Box was a massive hit for Netflix but you could say it only sold a few tickets (because it only appeared in a couple theatres)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even for 11 theaters, that's a dismal amount of ticket sales, surely?

One sold out screening alone would pull that much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Most smaller movies don't sell out a screening. With 11 screens probably only running for a week it wouldn't have any marketing. $4044 according to box office mojo so that seems about right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just wondering, what is the typical ticket price in the states?

Even if each cinema only had one screening a day, that's 77 screenings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Empty screenings are not unusual. I've been to a lot of movies where I'm the only one in there.

In 2013 it was around $8. So for a $4044 take your looking at about 505 tickets sold. It's likely they probably got about 80-90% of this on the Friday and Saturday which is about 18-20 seats per theater per night for the opening.

All that said, yea the numbers are low but it's not entirely on the movie itself, this is the effect of marketing and availability. We contrast this with something like 50 Shades of Grey which is lower rotten tomatoes and lower IMDB but pulled in about a half billion because they marketed the hell out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I suggest you look at the bestsellers list on any online bookstore, it's 50% smut.

50 shades did well because horny women are an underappreciated demographic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My reaction when I learned that “Blood and concrete” made 8 780$

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

And this apparently was a movie with both Jessica Biel and Alfred Molina, crazy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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