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submitted 1 year ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/movies@lemm.ee

Earlier this month, Borderlands arrived in theaters to horrendous reviews and bad box office numbers. At the time, many assumed it might be the biggest cinematic dud of 2024. But, that title is now held by the newly released Crow reboot.

The idea of rebooting The Crow was already a strange and controversial one. Sure, the original 1994 film was a small but profitable hit, but it is more widely known for the tragedy surrounding the death of Brandon Lee during its production. The following sequels to the OG Crow failed to find success. Most people believed it was wrong to even reboot the series. Yet, Hollywood went ahead and made a reboot anyway. And what do you know, it’s flopping hard!

The Crow reboot released on August 23 to negative reviews from critics and moviegoers. After its opening weekend, it only earned $4.6 million domestically at the box office. Yikes! In comparison, Borderlands made over $8.5 million during its first weekend.

After about five days in theaters, The Crow has made less than $10 million. Meanwhile, Borderlands—which is reportedly already getting a home release in late August—is sitting at a cool $25 million worldwide at the box office.

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[-] Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago
[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Day, me say day, me say day, me say day Me say day, me say day-o.

Daylight come and me wan' go home

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Entertainmeonly 6 points 1 year ago

The Crowening.

[-] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago

Based on a ratio of box office to production budget, Borderlands is still the biggest bomb hands down.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Do we have the budget for the Crow? It definitely seems cheaper with that lame ending, but they didn't spend no money on advertising either.

[-] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

the-numbers.com has it at $50m

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago

OK well dang, really proving that movie costs explode from digital effects.

It will be fun to see if any movie manages to beat the flop that is Borderlands then by end of the year. Doubtful.

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[-] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is why for the past years I download my movies.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

We've been covering both films here for a while. Hit "subscribe" for all your movie news that's fit to e-print.

[-] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 year ago

I feel like hardly anybody except hardcore movie fans knew this movie was coming out until the eve of its release. This is surely still a massive flop, but it ain't surprising.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

The trailers have been running for a while and it has been talked about on social media quite a bit (rarely in a good light). I also assume it would be on the radar of fans of the games but I suspect most announcements would have annoyed them (quite who the target audience was is a mystery).

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

Is this the lowest rated year of movies ever? Does rotten tomatoes do average ratings by year?

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think they do.

More interesting would be crunching the numbers at Box Office Mojo, who have an annual overview but it would be worth taking, for example, the ten or twenty films of the year with the largest budgets and look at the returns. I smell a spreadsheet coming on!

[-] blackfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There are 3 other Crow films that people just forget about. For some weird reason. I don't know why this one gets so much hate. They should totally build out the Crow universe

[-] szynaptic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Is The Crow this year's Morbius?

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago
[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Ooooh Eric from The Regulation Podcast will be feeling this. He spent double the points on The Crow that Andrew spent on Twisters 😂

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