Posted on: September third, 2024
It wasn’t anticipated to soar to nice heights, however Rupert Sanders’ The Crow remake stunned even its harshest critics, with how poorly it carried out this previous weekend.
We knew hassle was afoot with the venture when the primary trailer debuted again in March, and earned a 60% dislike ratio from viewers. On the time, this was probably the most disliked trailer on Lionsgate’s YouTube channel. Nonetheless, The Crow has since been dethroned by 2024’s Borderlands.
Very quickly after the trailer’s poor reception, the discharge date of June seventh was swiftly postponed to August twenty third. In accordance with star Invoice Skarsgard, this was to facilitate a spherical of reshoots that modified the film’s ending, a lot to his chagrin.
Nonetheless, it seems any evasive motion has failed, as The Crow debuted to a paltry $5.1 million domestically. This fell far wanting the $9 million Lionsgate initially hoped to soak up from the opening weekend.
Internationally, The Crow fared even worse, bringing in simply $4.5 million from a number of markets, for a complete weekend gross of $9.6 million. Budgeted at a painful $50 million, it’s estimated The Crow will lose Lionsgate $25 million when all is claimed and executed. This isn’t the most effective information for the studio, who’re presently attempting to recuperate from the extreme underperformance of Borderlands earlier this month.
Critically, The Crow has been mercilessly lashed, most calling the movie “pointless,” and a few labelling it’s execution “disastrous for all concerned.” Nonetheless, maybe probably the most damning summation comes from Alex Proyas, director of the cult-classic 1994 unique. Though Proyas has refused to see the reboot, citing his respect for the late Brandon Lee, the filmmaker was contacted for remark following The Crow’s box-office failure. In an announcement, Proyas mentioned the next:
“I all the time thought it was a cynical cash-grab. However there’s not a lot money to seize, it appears.”
Effectively… what else is there to say? Besides we’re assuming these sequel hopes Skarsgard disagreed with had been nixed.
