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[Hero1]

I wouldn't call it a flop but I wouldn't call it a success either.. Sony would be disappointed.. Prod budget of 55 mil but 40 million in marketing and they see less than half of the money made from overseas.. Also will does a deal where he gets 20-30% of profits.. So I doubt they'll make much money on this.. I think will is the biggest movie star in the world but his last few movies are Hutton the brand.. It's gonna make it a lot harder for wills next movie to be a big box office hit

[Jin]

WWW was a flop although it made above 200 mill. I think Seven Pounds is the second best performance of Will as an actor after POH. Dramas usually perform less than blockbusters! But it made less money than most people thought!

Edited by Jin, 22 January 2009 - 09:15 AM.

[Da Brakes]

If Will carries on like this its gonna be hard for him to demand that $20M pay cheque!

[Jin]

Domestic Total as of Jan. 25, 2009: $69,951,824
Distributor: Sony / Columbia Release Date: December 19, 2008
Genre: Drama Running Time: 1 hrs. 58 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $55 million



Domestic: $69,951,824 53.8%
+ Foreign: $60,082,648 46.2%
= Worldwide: $130,034,472

Not bad at all! :wickedwisdom:

http://www.boxoffice...sevenpounds.htm

[Hero1]

The production budget doesn't include marketing costs etc which would be close to 40 million.. I doubt Sony would have made any money from this

[Jin]

Do you got confirmed numbers of the marketing costs for 7 pounds?

[VIsqo]

they probably did get some money out of it, and the dvd sells I bet are gonna be good enough too

[Sandy]

Well they'll get some money of course. In Spain the movie is working very very good 5.763.773€( $8,093,773)so far. I guess 7P will lose the num 1 at the spanish box-office this weekend because of Tom Cruise new movie.

Edited by Sandy, 30 January 2009 - 11:16 AM.

[Radewart]

Hero1, on Jan 28 2009, 03:18 AM, said:

The production budget doesn't include marketing costs etc which would be close to 40 million.. I doubt Sony would have made any money from this

I doubt this movie had a marketing cost of 40 million.

[DefCEM]

i think that a lot of people went to this movie, because of the name "Will Smith" and not the movie plot/marketing itself.
and people are getting more dissapointed with every Will Smith movie, he just needs to stick back to his Willism and do some funny stuff again, if he wants to break records in the box-office again.

and lets face it, oscar nominated and awarded movies made more than 130 million. those movies are damn good with brilliant performance at the same time. for me Wills performance was a lil bit above average and the movie itself wasnt that extraordinary either.

[Turntable]

hancock and i am lgened got a lot of love from the people.. everybodys favorite movies last year pretty much as i am legend over here

[Jin]

Hancock was whack, but I am Legend except the ending was great! He should make Bad Boys 3, he is already 40 years old...this might be the last chance to realise it!

[Turntable]

nah its cool now to be too old to make sequels but do anyway, like rocky and stuff

Edited by Turntable, 02 February 2009 - 09:57 AM.

[VIsqo]

lol like indiana jones?

[Jin]

Turntable, on Feb 2 2009, 09:57 AM, said:

nah its cool now to be too old to make sequels but do anyway, like rocky and stuff

Cool or not...I don't want to see Will in BB3 when is 50 years old ...thats kinda weird..now or never! :stickpoke:

[Ale]

Domestic: $69,951,824 49.4%
+ Foreign: $71,681,902 50.6%
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= Worldwide: $141,633,726

[Bernardo]

I haven't seen it, maybe I'll see it when it comes out on DVD

[Ale]

Domestic: $69,951,824 46.8%
+ Foreign: $79,414,830 53.2%
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= Worldwide: $149,366,654

[VIsqo]

Well it matched bad boys worldwide numbers...

[Hero1]

Bad Boys was released in 1995. Ticket prices have increased substantially since then. Also its budget was only 11 million, and Will Smith was relatively unknown to movie audiences at the time. Althought it may have made more money Bad Boys=success Seven Pounds=moderate failure