On Page 4, Tim directly addresses the DS box office: "Even the fact that it was deemed a failure — financially, it wasn’t really. It may not have set the world on fire, but it made its money back plus some
If that is true - and I don't really have reason to doubt Burton because he would certainly be in a position to know - then all the people who are insistent that the film was a bomb should STFU! Though we know they won't, just as we know many of them will continue to say Depp's
The Tourist was a bomb.
It also goes to show that all the Web sites/entertainment outlets that have guesstimated that DS cost $150 million or more were way off base if the film has already made a profit. We still haven't tallied all the foreign box office that has been reported on Box Office Mojo but never officially reported, but DS has surely surpassed the $250 million worldwide mark because it was already over $240 million back in July soon after it opened in the Latin American countries. So, going by the 2.5 rule that everyone seems to use to judge a film's financial success, if DS is already profitable, then it can't have cost more than around $100 million, which is the figure Variety reported and everyone who insists the film was a flop is ignoring.
Thanks so much for the link, madscntst!
133 days 11 hours 21 minutes 10 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!
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