For a so-called flop, DS is hanging on nicely!
Yeah, well - we can pretty much suspect that the main reason most of these places are calling DS that is because it's a Burton/Depp film and apparently in their minds Burton/Depp aren't allowed to have a film that doesn't gross hundreds of millions of dollars domestically. That despite the fact that supernatural genre films and vampire films in particular very rarely gross anything like that. As it is, DS currently places 9th on Box Office Mojo's Vampire Genre chart (which goes back to 1978) and 7th on their Horror Comedy chart (which goes back to 1980). But apparently none of that means anything. And truthfully it's getting to the point where getting upset about the film being called a flop is pretty useless because the people doing so aren't ever going to change their perception. All we can really do is live with it, just like we live with everything else that's ever been said about DS that's derogatory though not really true.
Although, before I close the book on that, something I discovered today thanks to Box Office Mojo providing a link to their ALL TIME: R-Rated Openings chart (because
Ted opened so well this past weekend),
The Wolfman (a film which I'm sure many got tired of me mentioning featured a good deal of the same behind the scenes personnel as DS did) being featured on it, and my then checking out its main page, is that
The Wolfman only managed to bring in a domestic gross of $61,979,680 and a foreign gross of $77,810,085, for a worldwide gross of $139,789,765, which is well under what DS is already at on all three of those fronts. But does anyone remember that film being described as a flop? I don't. Yet its budget was supposedly equal to or even higher than what some Web sites are citing DS' budget at.
(But then, even though a great deal of the same people worked on it as worked on DS, neither Burton nor Depp worked on it. Hmmm...)
52 days 18 hours 18 minutes 25 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!