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"Bombshell" - Box Office Data - Film About Fox News Struggling to Survive
Box Office Mojo ^ | 19 January 2020

Posted on 01/19/2020 8:37:03 AM PST by zeestephen

Worldwide Ticket Sales - $31.3 million - According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film cost $32 million - Rule of thumb, studios get 50% of ticket sales - In other words, after 5 weeks in theaters, the movie is still $15 million away from breaking even - The film has four major stars (Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow), plus Malcolm McDowell and Allison Janney - It has received three Academy Award nominations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bombshell; chat; chatforum; foxnews; movies
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See also this link at Box Office Mojo for more detailed data. "Bombshell" data is on Line #16:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/date/2020-01-17/?ref_=bo_hm_rd

1 posted on 01/19/2020 8:37:03 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

So...no roller derby in this movie.


2 posted on 01/19/2020 8:38:52 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: zeestephen

The entertainment market is supersaturated with hatred of all things deemed conservative. To be profitable, you have to figure out a way to stand out.


3 posted on 01/19/2020 8:42:47 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: zeestephen

Ha. I noticed “a beautiful day in the neighborhood” ain’t doin’ so hot either.


4 posted on 01/19/2020 8:43:38 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: zeestephen

Wow what a disaster.

First Catsastrophe and now this.

Feel good news :)


5 posted on 01/19/2020 8:44:43 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: zeestephen

You’ll never see a similar film about the antics of Matt Lauer at NBC.


6 posted on 01/19/2020 8:45:27 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: zeestephen

No film has ever made a ‘profit’, even blockbusters. IRS esoteric rules allow for the effective write-off of all profit. That is why actors now want a share of the gross as opposed to a piece of the profits.


7 posted on 01/19/2020 8:47:47 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: zeestephen

never heard of the movie


8 posted on 01/19/2020 8:47:55 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: zeestephen

I totally misread the headline. My first reading was Film About (Fox News Struggling to Survive) and I imagined someone had made an indie film where Fox was falling apart and having to beg for money. The actual is (Film About Fox News) Struggling to Survive. Good. It looked like a political hatchet job that Hollywood would never do about CNN or MSNBC.


9 posted on 01/19/2020 8:49:19 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I thought the same thing. It made it look like FoxNews itself was struggling which would have boggled my mind.


10 posted on 01/19/2020 8:54:23 AM PST by RocketMan1
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To: rstrahan

Most of a film’s money goes to renting equipment (from the studio), paying for catering (from the studio), advertising (by the studio) and a thousand other things that make sure the studio turns a huge profit while the film itself loses money. The only way for a film to make money is for it to be a complete low budget surprise like Blair Witch Project where the gross is far above what the accountants planned for and were able to skim.


11 posted on 01/19/2020 8:55:37 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
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To: cuban leaf

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Without Tom Hanks, that film would have gone straight to DVD and streaming.

It has made almost $0 in the international market.

It is making money domestically, though, about $7 million above its $25 million budget.

Plus, there is no way tell how long it might run on cable.


12 posted on 01/19/2020 8:58:35 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

I didn’t even care enough to download the Oscar screener for free on Usenet.


13 posted on 01/19/2020 9:04:08 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: cuban leaf

It surprised me how good it was though. I really enjoyed it.


14 posted on 01/19/2020 9:05:00 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: RocketMan1; KarlInOhio

Re: Confusing Headline

Yeah - sorry - I see what you mean.

I tend to imagine that everybody follows movies and the movie business as closely as I do.

Wrong!

I originally had “Sexual Harassment” in the title, but it made the headline too clunky, so I cut it out.


15 posted on 01/19/2020 9:06:40 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Did Charlize bleed from her..?


16 posted on 01/19/2020 9:15:24 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: rstrahan

And yet the studios always announce sequels to films they claimed never turned a profit.


17 posted on 01/19/2020 9:18:59 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: KarlInOhio

Studios will also write off protected stars’ losses (on bad projects) on your album or movie. They may bury it in the “promotions” costs.

Been that way for decades.


18 posted on 01/19/2020 9:20:50 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: zeestephen
The only way the movie would be profitable.




19 posted on 01/19/2020 9:24:11 AM PST by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: zeestephen

No one wants to see this. People cannot get too worked up about Megan Kelly’s travails that resulted in a multimillion dollar reward for her. Now a flick about Harvey Weinstein, I might be interested in.


20 posted on 01/19/2020 9:40:30 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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