Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Emma Watson: Box Office DRAW!

With the Circle coming out this weekend, I've decided to do another Box Office review. This time with social justice darling, Emma Watson. This review will be divided up into two factors which why the title at the top says "Draw" with Emma and not "Dud" with Meryl Streep. The division will be on the Harry Potter films as we will do a factor with them and a factor without them. Because it certainly wouldn't be fair to just ignore them as Harry Potter does have a fan base and I honestly feel that just because you're in something that has a fan base does not mean that they support you and I think that certainly reflects in the data.

Like the previous Box Office review, data will be pulled from Box Office Mojo with links and links to other sources (IMDB, Wikipedia, etc) when BOM doesn't have full data. Again, 50% will be deducted because theaters get their cuts of money from the screenings. I usually do annotations at the end of each data input; this will be skipped for the eight HP films because we all know that they made money. Pie charts is at the end if you want to scroll past the data. Let us begin.


Budget: $125 million
U.S: $317,575,550
Worldwide Total: $974,755,371
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $158,787,775
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $487,377,686
RESULT: Success

Budget: $100 million
U.S: $261,988,482
Worldwide Total: $878,979,634
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $130,994,241
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $439,489,817
RESULT: Success

Budget: $130 million
U.S: $249,541,069
Worldwide Total: $796,688,549
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $124,770,535
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $398,344,275
RESULT: Success

Budget: $150 million
U.S: $290,013,036
Worldwide Total: $896,911,078
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $145,006,518
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $448,455,539
RESULT: Success

Budget: $150 million
U.S: $292,004,738
Worldwide Total: $939,885,929
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $146,002,369
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $469,942,965
RESULT: Success

Budget: $60 million
U.S: $50,877,145
Worldwide Total: $86,947,965
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $25,438,573
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $43,473,787
RESULT: FLOP!

Budget: $250 million
U.S: $301,959,197
Worldwide Total: $934,416,487
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $150,979,599
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $467,208,244
RESULT: Success

Budget: $250 million
U.S: $295,983,305
Worldwide Total: $960,283,305
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $147,991,653
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $480,141,653
RESULT: Success

Budget: $250 million
[Wikipedia - see above for Part I]
U.S: $381,011,219
Worldwide Total: $1,341,511,219
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $190,505,610
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $670,755,610
RESULT: Success

Budget: $8+ million [Wiki - Budget in GBP]
U.S: $14,600,347
Worldwide Total: $35,057,696
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $7,300,174
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $17,528,848
RESULT: DEBATABLE!
This film was an awards season push. Even though it made it's speculated budget back, who knows how much was spent on the advertising for the film.

Budget: $13 million [Wiki]
U.S: $17,742,948
Worldwide Total: $33,384,127
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $8,871,474
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $16,692,064
RESULT: FLOP!
Factoring in advertisements for the film, I'm leaning towards flop. If it made a few million more in the States, I'd consider it debatable.
Budget: $32 million
U.S: $101,470,202
Worldwide Total: $126,041,322
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $50,735,101
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $63,020,661
RESULT: Success
Even though Ms. Watson was only in the film for a good five minutes, I'll throw her a bone and factor it in.

Budget: $8 million [Wiki]
U.S: $5,845,732
Worldwide Total: $19,145,732
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $2,922,866
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $9,572,866
RESULT: FLOP!
With advertising factored in, no way did this movie make any money for anyone.

Noah (2014)
Budget: $125 million
U.S: $101,200,044
Worldwide Total: $362,637,473
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $50,600,022
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $181,318,737
RESULT: Success
I should note that the American box office take was not well and only made half of it's money back.

Regression (2016)
Budget: $20 million [Wiki]
U.S: $55,039
Worldwide Total: $17,616,062
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $27,516
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $8,808,031
RESULT: FLOP!
Movie only made it to 100 screens in the U.S. and U.S. gross makes only .03% of the films total gross.

Colonia (2016)
Budget: $14 million [IMDB]
U.S: $15,709
Worldwide Total: $3,621,046
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $7,855
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $1,810,523
RESULT: FLOP!
BOM says it was at 27 theaters and lasted only a week. Breaking that down, that's $581.82 on average from each 27 theaters and that means it made on average approx. $83.12 a day.

Budget: $160 million
U.S: $471,421,288
Worldwide Total: $1,101,396,411
Actual U.S. minus 50%: $235,710,644
Actual Worldwide minus 50%: $550,698,206
RESULT: Success
Even if it's still playing, we know this isn't a flop.


Calculating the eight Harry Potter films, the success rate Ms. Watson has on the chart is 64.7% of her filmography. With flops accounting for 29.4% and with one debatable film making it 5.9%. Sans Harry Potter is a different tale as old as time. See what I did there? With only three successful films accounting to only 33.3% of her bank ability. The sole "debatable" film upping the rank to 11.1%. And flops accounting for 55.6%. And with the Circle coming out this weekend, I don't see another success story like Beauty and the Beast.

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