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Box office now stands at $315 million worldwide, meaning it has pretty much broken even and will be into profit already after 10 days on release (and it has yet to open in China and Japan).
Let's all celebrate while Solium cries in the corner 
You obviously have little understanding of box office. Roughly half of the gross goes back to the studio. Plus you have P&A, which on a nearly $200 million dollar budget, is an additional $60 to $100 million. Meaning ALL IN the film most likely cost $275 million. It has a little ways to go before its a smashing success. I mean hell ASM2 has grossed more than $650 million worldwide and its now just breaking even.
A domestic drop of 67% in its second weekend -- on a holiday weekend to boot -- is not that promising for the films longevity. You can love the film all you want, but numbers don't lie. Its like you work for Legendary or something. Lol
MV
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The budget was $160 million and the general rule is twice the production budget = break even.
You can hate the movie all you want, but the figures don't lie.
What are you -- 18...19 years old? Aspiring writer/director? Would love to go to film school, but can't afford it?
I understand where you are. I really do. You just need to chill, buddy. The film is making money but it's not a phenomenon you and some others are making it out to be. A 67% drop is not promising.
When it crosses $500 worldwide, then you can say it broke even. It most likely will, but it will have to rely on China for that. It's got a long way to go to be called a game changer.
MV
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May 25, 2014 - 1:00 PM
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Dyfrynt
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As to those who professed enjoying the film, I'd be interested in your thoughts on some of the things that bothered me.
1. Godzilla, that's the name of the movie. Yet the Big G gets less screen time than just about any other character in the film. And please give me something better than a comparison to Jaws or Alien. In those movies the build up to the monster was all drama and suspense. With Godzilla we move away from him to watch boring scenes of nothing much happening.
2. The first four or five times we are about to see Godzilla battle the Muta's, we suddenly cut to the aftermath of those battles. If the actual final battle was so incredibly epic that one could say the earlier fights were purposefully ignored - that's one thing. Unfortunately the final battle is pretty damn underwhelming. Not to mention predictable. Therefor, boooorrrrring.
Godzilla goes down under the combined attack of the Muta's. Oh No! Is this the end? No, not quite.
Godzilla goes down after a building falls on top of him. Oh No! Is this time the end? Nope.
Godzilla goes down after defeating the Mutas. Oh no! Is this time really fur surely the end? Uh, nope. He got betta.
Anybody, anybody at all believe any of these 'death scenes' were going to be true? If the answer is no, there is no emotional payoff for those scenes. It's just another by-the-numbers boring Hollywood movie going thru the play book.
3. The Previews. Made this look like this was going to be a remake of the original Godzilla film. Awesome scenes, one after the other, of the devastation, and the attempts to stop it.
Only we end up with almost none of those scenes are about what Godzilla is doing. It's mostly the Muta's. That deception is undefendible.
For those of you who say you enjoyed the film. Apparently none of these criticisms bothered you? And believe me, I barely touched the surface of everything that is bad about this film.
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In point of fact CA2 dropped 56% its second weekend. That is a far cry from 77%.
It's 67% for the weekend. The 77% drop was comparing Friday to Friday. Plus, this was a holiday weekend when films generally make more money than on regular weekends or have better holds than they would if it were a regular weekend.
The fact is, Godzilla, much like ASM2, will make a lot of money, but because they cost so damn much to make and market their profit margins will be minor at best. A film like Chef will be more profitable in the long run than Godzilla or Spidey.
MV
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In point of fact CA2 dropped 56% its second weekend. That is a far cry from 77%.
It's 67% for the weekend. The 77% drop was comparing Friday to Friday. Plus, this was a holiday weekend when films generally make more money than on regular weekends or have better holds than they would if it were a regular weekend.
The fact is, Godzilla, much like ASM2, will make a lot of money, but because they cost so damn much to make and market their profit margins will be minor at best. A film like Chef will be more profitable in the long run than Godzilla or Spidey.
MV
Chef actually looks like a good film, too. Keep forgetting about that one since I never see it advertised, but I should check it out.
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May 25, 2014 - 2:50 PM
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I don't have a dog in this fight, since either Godzilla or Desplat don't really ring my bell. No ill will towards them, but no real huge interest, either.
But Godzilla is in no way, shape or form a game changer. It'd have to be a movie phenomenon that everyone HAS to see , and the score would have to stand out and also be almost universally praised and catch the general public's eye /ear.
Good or bad, none of the above are true for Godzilla. As someone said, Titanic, Avatar, both enjoyed tremendous success, yet neither one was a game changer as far as film scores are concerned.
That Star Wars game changing lighting in a bottle doesn't happen often. Almost never. When was the last time, 1977 ? 
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I don't have a dog in this fight, since either Godzilla or Desplat don't really ring my bell. No ill will towards them, but no real huge interest, either.
But Godzilla is in no way, shape or form a game changer. It'd have to be a movie phenomenon that everyone HAS to see , and the score would have to stand out and also be almost universally praised and catch the general public's eye /ear.
Good or bad, none of the above are true for Godzilla. As someone said, Titanic, Avatar, both enjoyed tremendous success, yet neither one was a game changer as far as film scores are concerned.
That Star Wars game changing lighting in a bottle doesn't happen often. Almost never. When was the last time, 1977 ?
For better or for worse Zimmer's score to LION KING was a game changer, followed by Gladiator. They kinda killed that Star Wars sound most of us all love.
MV
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