Disney verliest $140 miljoen op Tommorowland aka Project T

RDJ134 11 juni 2015 om 02:32 uur

Hoewel de trailers van Tommorowland (die hier in Nederland Project T heet) er prima uit zagen, en ook een goede cast leek te hebben, is deze film wereldwijd een grote flop geworden. Sterker Disney draait op $140 miljoen dollar verlies met deze film. Maar goed, misschien kunnen ze nog wat terug pakken met DVD, Blu-ray en Video on Demand dadelijk.


Tomorrowland, cost $180 million to produce plus a marketing spend of $150 million or more. [...] it debuted to weak reviews (was it for kids or adults?) and a soft $42.7 million during the long Memorial Day weekend. As of June 8, the film had earned $76.4 million domestically and $93.5 million overseas for a global total of $169.9 million. It might not gross much more than $200 million, far from enough to cover Disney's costs.

China, ravenous for American event movies, has been a particularly harsh blow. Tomorrowland bowed to $13.8 million there in early June, getting trounced by the $38.3 million opening of the Japanese animated title Stand by Me Doraemon.

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