AROUND this time last year the Walt Disney Company released a very expensive, very bad film: "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", which went on to make over $1 billion worldwide. This year the company released a similarly expensive film—one that is not just a great deal better than the misconceived flotsam of Pirates, but also, as such things go, is not a bad film at all. But "John Carter" has not gone on to make $1 billion. Indeed, Disney says it has left the company $200m out of pocket, giving it a claim to be the biggest flop of all time—bigger even than Kevin Costner’s 1995 fiasco "Waterworld" (which actually did reasonably well outside America).
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Walt Disney has said it expects to lose $200m (£126m) on its movie John Carter, making it one of the biggest flops in cinema history. Disney shares were down almost 1% in early trading in New York.It is estimated that John Carter cost $250m to make and it is likely that Disney spent another $100m on marketing.
Too shay, it is actually decent enough. A 200 million black hole?
Oh come on it wasn't THAT big a flop.
Remember Mars Needs Moms? Well THAT was Disney's biggest flop - it had a budget of $150 million and only made $39 million worldwide. No-one made a huge deal about that film bombing because no one cared about it.
Clearly people DO care about John Carter, so that is why everyone is going on about why it under performed. It is on the way to surpass its production budget by the way so I don't think it bombed too bad.
It has made well over $200 million ...
Oh come on it wasn't THAT big a flop.
Remember Mars Needs Moms? Well THAT was Disney's biggest flop - it had a budget of $150 million and only made $39 million worldwide. No-one made a huge deal about that film bombing because no one cared about it.
Clearly people DO care about John Carter, so that is why everyone is going on about why it under performed. It is on the way to surpass its production budget by the way so I don't think it bombed too bad.
It has made well over $200 million ...
Do you realize that Disney said it them-self that the aggregated deficit from 'John Carter' is going to be over 200 million...... even revenue included? You ignore the fact that there are worldwide distributing fees and marketing expenses(Disney spent over $100m on marketing).
Oh come on it wasn't THAT big a flop.
Remember Mars Needs Moms? Well THAT was Disney's biggest flop - it had a budget of $150 million and only made $39 million worldwide. No-one made a huge deal about that film bombing because no one cared about it.
Clearly people DO care about John Carter, so that is why everyone is going on about why it under performed. It is on the way to surpass its production budget by the way so I don't think it bombed too bad.
It has made well over $200 million ...
Do you realize that Disney said it them-self that the aggregated deficit from 'John Carter' is going to be over 200 million...... even revenue included? You ignore the fact that there are worldwide distributing fees and marketing expenses(Disney spent over $100m on marketing).
Yeah well I'm not saying it is successful...it was a flop, granted. But compared to Mars Needs Moms, which no one said a word about flopping...
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