“Gladiator 2” had a budget of $165 million- Ridley Scott ended up spending $310 million instead

Absolutely insane. How the hell do studios make money if they’re spending $500 million+ on each big movie? And then not even getting it back?

The strikes caused the budget to explode, according to the story. The film should do fine at the box office, though. Unless it's a total mess.

Good movies flop all the time and shitty movies do well all the time. This weird idea that “a film will do fine if it’s good” is false. We’ve seen quite the contrary

Is the film going to show lots of "Gladiator Homo sex", Roman orgies& fountains of wine and cum?

You can throw in "gurl tits and pussy too"& some lez action for the str8's.

R4 Gotta make money so have gay sex? You live in a world of delusion, huh? That would automatically kill its box office, especially in the foreign market.

Are you not entertained?

This is the second time I have read of Paramount pissing away a lot of money on projects.

Is it going under?

Probably why they’re considering merging with Sony.

I hope it’s better than his horrible Napoleon . .

Ridley Scott needs to retire, he hasn't made a good movie in a very long time.

Ya think "fixing" this in post production comes cheap?

He isn’t in the movie r11.

Wow, Russell! WTF! Lay off the potato chips, already.

We are soon gonna see a 1970s type studio collapse again.

Good grief it'll need to gross $900 million or close to that to make any kind of profit. Of course if it bombs, they'll still allow Ridley to direct more large-budget films.

Not exactly wise throwing such an obscene amount of cash at a movie given how many such wannabe-blockbusters are desperately struggling to pull in the punters.

Also, what has “our dear Paul” done to suggest he’s a box office draw?

R15 is here to make up fake numbers.

R16 again, BOX OFFICE DRAWS ARE NOT EVEN A THING IN 2024. Even big stars are flopping right now.

He isn't that far off R17.

$310M budget

Throw in $90M for advertising

Movie theaters keep 50% of every ticket sold, so yes, this movie will need to gross roughly $800M to even break even.

R19 no.

If it fails Ridley should just jump off a bridge.

Glaaaaaaaaadiator!

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I quite like the original, I'll give this one a chance.

[quote] I quite like the original

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Then explain the math to us R20

Shut it down.

[quote] He isn’t in the movie [R11].

But somehow Crowe’s belly appears in every shot.

[quote] Also, what has “our dear Paul” done to suggest he’s a box office draw?

$300 million on a movie where Mescal is the marquee star?! He is the next Taylor Kitsch.

Is Mescal (not Pascal) a fag?

It’s likely been said, but to get asses in seats, there better be a lot of ass and cock on display.

NAPOLEON cost $200 million (not including marketing) and grossed $220 million worldwide, so it still lost money.

If this film isn't a hit, I imagine Mescal will be back in indie films full time for a while.

R31 bud, every film he has lined up is an indie and he stated that Indie’s are where he wants to stay. Him accepting the offer to this movie was because he wanted to work with legendary Director Ridley Scott, not because he wants to be some mainstream movie star. If that was the case he would have accepted the Johnny Storm offer. He said he has zero plans of working in superhero films or anything like that. His biggest fear is ever losing any anonymity.

He’s also made it clear theatre comes before films, and television (which is where he got his big breakout) is the bottom of the barrel for him.

R31. Holy shit, he’s been everywhere lately and has four upcoming films.

His sister, Paul Pescal also has been busy as fuck.

[quote] His biggest fear is ever losing any anonymity.

He has no cause for fear.

In r11, that woman had the good fortune to catch the phone

Say what you will about Crowe but he was extraordinarily good in LA Confidential and Master and Commander. No current leading man could touch him in either of those performances

[quote] r19 : so yes, this movie will need to gross roughly $800M to even break even.

Yes, the numbers are very preliminary, but your number could be right for the approximate break even. Here's Screen Rant on their own break even point calculation:

[quote] Based on the typical notion of a marketing cost doubling the budget, plus the cut for theaters the movie plays in, Gladiator 2 could need to make upwards of $700 million in order to break even.

In 2023, only 5 movies made over $700 million worldwide according to Boxoffice mojo.

Here's the reference for the 2023 Worldwide box office for the top 200 movies, listed from highest to lowest.

The film isn’t gonna do very well because it’s a sequel no one asked for. There is no excitement or anticipation for this. Since it was announced people have been negative about it all over the internet, and still are.

Add the strikes delaying things, the stories that extras were treated terribly on set and animal cruelty, and numerous on set injuries and this film is set to be a disaster. Not the fault of any of the actors though.

Are you trying to wake up the Mescal troll OP?