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.
According to https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Truth-About-Emanuel-The#tab=summary , the domestic box office was $4,404
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.
$4404 contains 404 though, i.e.
404 Error: Profit Not Found, which makes me chuckle.
Total sales ~$125 thousand
Estimated budget ~$1.3 million
ouch
#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.
do hashtags even work on lemmy?
Oof.
Budget: $1,300,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada: $4,404
Gross worldwide: $4,404Average user rating is 6/10 so it’s not terrible, but perhaps terribly marketed.
Note the median IMDB score is around a 6.6-6.7. So 6.0 is definitely below average. Not horrible, but definitely below average.
Well, 6/10 on IMDB. Looks like more people liked it there than on the theaters.
The opening lines tell you exactly what sort of movie it's going to be, don't they?
39% critic and 35% audience score on rottentomatoes. Oof.
Who cares about rottentomatoes? Especially the "critic" number?
What's so bad about this movie that people didn't even bother to watch it to know how bad it was??
This is a bit misleading, it was only in 11 theaters before going to streaming so it can't be compared with a standard wide release film. Like Bird Box was a massive hit for Netflix but you could say it only sold a few tickets (because it only appeared in a couple theatres)
My reaction when I learned that “Blood and concrete” made 8 780$
And this apparently was a movie with both Jessica Biel and Alfred Molina, crazy
Jinkies
