Comments on: Weekend Box Office – Fall Begins With A Whimper

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:07:02 +0000

Disappointed in Extract's numbers, though not surprised. I'm starting to feel like a live-action HBO series might be the way for Judge to go. His movies have a sitcomy feel, but not necessarily in a bad way.

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:31:28 +0000

And Pitt and QT get something like 25% of the gross upfront.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:22:10 +0000

Yeah, Kill Bill did well, but calling basterds a bonafide hit is a bit premature. It cost $75 to make, let's say $30 million to market. It's basically made $150 million dollars worldwide, but i doubt thats $50 million dollars of pure profit when all is said and done.

You never know what P&A costs overseas are, plus shipping prints, etc, etc. Brad Pitt doesn't pay to fly to Germany to promote the film, the studio does. All those Tarantino appearances on TV? They paid for those two, his hotel etc., plus every other single star that did over-time promotion all over the world on top of the regular marketing.

And it was a bit of a blitzkrieg. That stuff adds up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:15:42 +0000

Kill Bill vol.1
$30 budget, $70 mil in US ($180 mil overall)

Kill Bill vol.2
$30 budget, $66 mil in US ($152 mil overall)

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:06:18 +0000

I guess no matter what anyone thinks about Basterds, it's a bonafide hit. Kinda proves all the naysayers wrong who think QT can't do what he wants and still make moola. I know Grindhouse went over like a lead zeppelin, but I can't remember how the Kill Bills did financially.

By: Univarn

Univarn — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:17:47 +0000

The phrase shouldn't be you can't release a big movie in august, but rather you can release good movies in august… The sad thing is H2 and TFD basically needed to make a penny in order to turn a profit so expect more installments to come :(.