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And yes, 65% of A 2.5x multiplier from a $14 million opening day would be $35 million for the weekend, which would be around $21 million back in 2000 (on par with The other factor, which I've been warning about for years, is the choice to redo a comic book arc that had already been done in movie form. It was Fox, in the end, that orphaned the finale of this once prized franchise to the Disney merger.

Hardcore fans may have wanted a second go at the Phoenix Saga, but general audiences already saw that play out in It didn't help that everyone knew that the franchise was going to be rebooted into the MCU after Disney's purchase of Fox. There have been reports out there that the ending was changed-up because it was too similar to A note about reshoots: They’re completely normal on a superhero film of this size, and are routinely budgeted. Materials were already up at CinemaCon at the beginning of April days after the merger. X-Men: Dark Phoenix has been crowned the biggest box office bomb of 2019, as it proved even more costly than the likes of Cats and Terminator: Dark Fate. My outlets for film criticism, box office commentary, and film-skewing scholarship have included The Huffington Post, Salon, and Film Threat. Dark Phoenix took a 71.5% plunge to $9,354,868 in its second frame and the domestic run closed with $65,845,974.

Diminishing returns and huge weekly audience drop off has also hit Dark Phoenix during its offshore rollout, which stalled at $186.5M. And reshoots allegedly sent the budget soaring over/under $200 million, so this isn't like I've studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an emphasis in box office analysis, for nearly 30 years. “Dark Phoenix” had a slightly stronger start overseas, but even so, it would take a miracle for it to turn a profit. But when you're dealing with a poorly-reviewed franchise title whose initial installment opened with $20 million 19 years ago sans any 3-D or IMAX boost, yeah, that's a loss. With the I understand in meetings, some marketing execs didn’t even realize the release date changes on Once the merger happened, there was little for Disney to do. All Rights reserved.Director Simon Kinberg and Michael Fassbender on the set of ‘Dark Phoenix’ Dark Phoenix was the biggest box office bomb of 2019, with Terminator: Dark Fate, Cats, Gemini Man, and Missing Link not doing so hot either. Now, for quite some time, the last two Bryan Singer We heard that in one cut, Jean Grey dies, which wasn’t received well. Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner in 'Dark Phoenix'Generally speaking, a movie scoring $14 million on a single day wouldn't exactly be a disaster in the making. It's rare to hear a filmmaker speak publicly in the days after a movie bombs at the box office. The movie did worse than Cats ! First off, the movie was never intended to be a summer film. “Dark Phoenix” was a giant bomb.

Box Office: 'X-Men: Dark Phoenix' Bombs With Catastrophic $14 Million Friday.

As it stands, box office watchers think that the film could lose $100 million. Dark Phoenix was not the X-Men movie that moviegoers were looking forward to: Critics showed that with a 22% Rotten Tomatoes score, while audiences demonstrated that both in exits (B- … We hear that Fox Studios CEO Stacey Snider was insistent on the change, and gave James Cameron the better pre-merger release date of Feb. 14 for This leads us to the mishap of Fox marketing.
Dark Phoenix Worldwide Box Office Gross: $233 million Budget: $200 million. DARK PHOENIX is likely taking its final hit as it was announced that in the same year that gave us the movie CATS, DARK PHOENIX earns the distinction of biggest box office bomb of 2019.