600mil doesn't sound so bad does it? Maybe compared to previous instalments, but as a movie its still viable, right?

 

It depends, there are many fingers in the pie when it comes to a movie: I'm not sure if what BoxOfficeMojo (where we get most of our BO info) shows is how much money the movie has made in total or if that's what has gone back to the company that made it. If it's the total money from ticket sales then a certain percentage of that has not gone back to Paramount/Hasbro and there's always marketing to consider. That and Hollywood accounting is basically fucking black magic so its always hard to tell.

But for my opinion, here's what I think: it is financially disastrous for a film in a series that as has seen steady escalation in profits and broad popularity to have made over $100million LESS than the first movie in '07, while costing $67million MORE.

 

I think it shows the brand is still viable. But the downward trend sets a bleak outlook, especially for current incarnation.

 

Yesterday was officially the last showing of The Last Knight in my area (insert crying emoticon)  

 

It really depends on the type of film.

For a low budget movie it would be almost beyond anyone's imagination. The sort of box office story the entertainment news would label one of the biggest hits of all time.

For a mid budget film the studio would be acting like they just won the Super Bowl.

For the studio's big budget tent pole event those numbers are just horrible. The Amazing Spider Man 2 made $708 million world wide and that was enough for Sony to scrap their planned Spider Man Universe and reboot the series. Batman vs Superman made $873 million world wide and Warner Brothers went into panic mode of how could they save the DCEU.

Paramount was looking at going over $1 billion with the Last Knight. $600 million will be hard to spin as anything good for a studio in bad need of a massive box office hit.

 

Considering it's $100m less than the first movie in the franchise and makes TLK barely profitable, I'd say that Paramount is probably very disappointed in that $600m.

 

Gross is only relevant when costs are factored in. If paramount is spending $400 million to only gross $600 million it isn't viable.

The likely impact is to reduce the costs, but would a lower budget Transformers movie with less spectacle also gross $600 million, or would it generate less interest? Who knows.

But based on its current state it doesn't reflect viability at all for this current series.

 

How does this film only make $12.4 million in the UK? The movie takes place mostly in the UK! Wouldn't the people want to see that??

 

I was wrong. After checking again today, the movie has one showing today at 3:45 (probably, because it's Friday).

I'm tempted to go, but don't know if I want to endure the eye-roll of my wife. It will have been my 7th time seeing it.

 

Where is this? I've got nothing on the east coast of the US.

 

Because it sucked complete ass.

 

I was looking for more of a logical answer and not an opinionated answer

 

Given the low box office take of this film across the world, "because it sucks ass" can be considered a logical answer.

 

It's on the West Coast, Washington State.
They are playing it in a "cheaper" theatre, which always gets movies, after their main run in the multiplexes, so a film, that is no longer in most cinemas, stay another month or two in this cheaper venue. It's not super duper nice, but it's not terrible either.

 

Still needs a cool $100million+ to equal TF07. This is a disappointing performance.

 

Yeah, I think if it ends up making less than the first one worldwide, Paramount will 'not be so kind.'

And yeah, given the last two outings brought in at least a billion worldwide, to end with the numbers this low, probably is making some people squirm.

I do feel there may have been some in Paramount who felt the franchise was bulletproof, much in the same way some at Warner Brothers felt about the Batman series in the 90's. Of course, just because something has a 'big name' on it, doesn't mean it's going to just rake in the cash...some people have their limits.

 

Eyy it crossed 600M!

 

Yeah, but the studio gets a far smaller cut of the foreign box office than domestic so the fact that only 21% of that 600 mil is domestic take has to be killing Paramount execs, especially since they really needed it to be a home run since they already flopped with ALL their next biggest grossing movies - Baywatch, XXX, and Ghost in the Shell.

Man, it was almost beaten yesterday by a movie that was only in 20 theaters...TF5 is in more than 10 times that many screens still (224)...scratch that, it was almost beaten MONDAY...it WAS beaten yesterday...

 

Add to that The Last Knight was supposed to the start of some sort of cinematic universe so they could be just like Marvel/Disney. It's going to be really hard to spin any sort of expanded universe off if so many people skipped over the launch of the expanded universe. Spinning a big budget universe off when you are at the top of the box office isn't easy. When your movies isn't going to be in the top 20 domestically and will not be in the top 10 world wide it seems like their dreams for the Transformers universe are now impossible.