Margot Robbie’s Fourth Movie Bombs At the Box Office

She's just millennial Sydney Sweeney. All smoke and mirrors, but no ticket sales

I thought she was remarkable in I, Tonya and think she deserved the Oscar.

Love her!

Sydney Sweeney is only 6 years younger, r1. I don't know why people have to drag generations into everything. I agree that they're both unimpressive.

Barbie was IP and a $100M marketing campaign.

That's a shame. One would think a romantic movie with Robbie and Colin Farrell (whom I find adorable) would do well. But this time of year isn't the timeframe for romances and rom coms.

And I like Kogonada's past films. A rare misstep here.

The original release date was Mother's Day. Clearly they realized they had a massive turd on their hands and dumped it on a slow weekend in September.

Barbie's 1.4 billion does make her average still well above 200 million per picture. Plus, she produces her own stuff. She's with us for at least a couple of decades..

She doesn’t have the it factor

The hugeness of Barbie negates the other bombs.

At least for now.

She got at least $40M from Barbie. If she retired tomorrow, I'm sure she'd probably be all set for the rest of her life. Still her box office history doesn't lie and I have a hard time picturing any studio offering her a $20M paycheck.

She still has her looks. She probably has about another decade on the A list.

Looks like it is time for "Barbie 2: Return to Barbieland"

Maybe they need to stop naming her movies after places.

She's a white, blue-eyed blonde. She'll always get cast in things.

The rom/com or whatever it is that she did with Colin Farrell had a terrible title, a gimmicky premise, got terrible reviews and virtually no promotion.

So why the surprise that it flopped? It was obviously a mistake for all concerned. No star can salvage that kind of unsatisfying bomb.

Barbie also came out during the writer’s strike. There were two movies to choose from: Barbie and that Christopher Nolan crapfest.

She produces these films.

Her looks are a dime a dozen in Australia. She’s a terrible actress and is over-the-hill now. There comes a point where you have to prove your worth in the industry and can no longer count on employment based on looks.

[quote]Barbie's 1.4 billion does make her average still well above 200 million per picture. Plus, she produces her own stuff. She's with us for at least a couple of decades..

Just the opposite, actually. 1 film doesn’t cut it. She has bomb after bomb and it’s her money.

She’s in Asteroid City, a modestly budgeted arthouse title, for one scene; I really wouldn’t count that one.

I think it’s funny that she and Emma Stone are all about producing movies to ensure their longevity yet they both got the same facelift in their early 30s.

So much ignorance and misinformation on here.

She does produce films but she doesn't produce EVERY film she's in and she's not listed as a producer on Big Bold Beautiful Journey. However, her production compnay is one of the producers of her NEXT movie, Wuthering Heights directed by Emerald Fennell.

Producers, particularly star-producers, do not, as a rule, put in any of their own money. They have production deals with studios.

She's not going anywhere. She's a gorgeous 35 year old movie star with an Oscar nomination and a production company. As long as she can dangle the possibility she'll do a Barbie sequel, she'll get leading roles. Well, as long as she's considered fuckable...so, she has about 5 to 8 years left.

[quote] There comes a point where you have to prove your worth in the industry and can no longer count on employment based on looks.

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You forgot the Harley Quinn movie and the second Suicide Squad. Meanwhile she probably gets a huge salary and they scream women are underpaid lol

Asteroid City made more then twice its budget. How is that a bomb? Cause of the bad reviews by critics and fans?

She’s already had more hits than Sharon Stone did and Sharon Stone’s still around.

1) Generally speaking, a movie should make 3 times its budget to be considered profitable.

2) But, box office is only one part of the profit; there's also streaming now. Wes Anderson is a art house god so his movies do make money.

3) Margot Robbie has a tiny cameo in Asteroid City. It isn't a "Margot Robbie" movie.

4) I think the reveiws were mixed.

Robbie’s been in several well regarded films

Wild of Wall Street I Tonya Once Upon a Time in America Barbie Suicide Squad Bombshell

And so far the blame for any flops she’s been in has not been laid at her feet. She’s managed to avoid the backlash that Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence got after they pushed their personalities too hard in the press. She stays private and doesn’t hog the spotlight. Nobody’s avoiding these films because of her. She’s not going anywhere

The double standard couldn’t be more obvious. Colin Farrell has never opened a movie in his life and yet there’s no thread on him.

R30 Wild of Wall Street? Once Upon a Time in America? Are you drunk? And Suicide Squad was a gigantic box-office bomb. You are definitely drunk

They could have cast Joyce DeWitt as Barbie and the movie wouldn't have made one dollar less. Barbie was iconic IP and it was guaranteed to smash.

Jesus, there are some stupid fucking assholes on here.

Poor Margot...does she really deserve this much hatred from our lurking incels?

THE WOLF of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time in HOLLYWOOD, and Suicide Squad were all huge hits. The Suicide Squad sequel, stupidly titled THE Suicide Squad was a bomb.

No. Joyce DeWitt wouldn't have made Barbie a hit. Fine if you don't like Margot (I'm actually ambivalent about her; she's ok) but she WAS Barbie. Perfect casting.

r34 LOL NO. Mattel made Barbies in the likeness of Margot Robbie for the movie and they sold a shit ton. Two years later, Mattel is still pumping the Margot dolls out. This is a pretty clear indicator not only of the success of the movie, but of how essential Margot's involvement is to it.

I meant to address R33 not R34

I don't get why Hollywood is so desperate to have stars. IP and content is what drives revenues.

Which explains why studio movies now all suck.

[quote]The double standard couldn’t be more obvious. Colin Farrell has never opened a movie in his life and yet there’s no thread on him.

Colin has been around for two decades now, he's not the hot-young-actress-of-the-moment, one who also made a huge $40 mil payout for successfully producing/starring in a huge blockbuster just a few years ago. He long ago settled into character roles, with the occasional leading role in smaller independent movies. His biggest recent role was television (The Penguin). He's not going to be the focus of much attention.

Not that Margo has to worry, I agree that her current BO record is fine. She's got a strong production reputation to fall back on (Barbie, Saltburn, upcoming Wuthering Heights).