05-23-2018, 04:53 PM
In France, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote sold 40212 tickets in 2 days + one night. Apparently it won't be enough to reach the break-even point of 400 000 tickets determined by the distributor : https://twitter.com/boxofficefr/status/9...4523741184
People aren't flocking to see the film. All reports I see is that the screening rooms are half empty. Mine was, and it was the first screening ! I guess it's a mix of late marketing (imposed in a way by paulo branco), a general lack of interest for this kind of film by the general audience (who's going to avengers or star wars, which are trusting screens at the same time) and a lukewarm to poor reception from the press.
The film won't be a good deal for the distributor but it shouldn't be a total disaster, surely the final numbers will be closer to "fear and loathing" (300 000 tickets sold) than to "zero theorem" or "tideland" (which didn't even reach 100 000 tickets sold). Yet I don't know what it will mean for Gilliam bankability or for the international release strategy.
People aren't flocking to see the film. All reports I see is that the screening rooms are half empty. Mine was, and it was the first screening ! I guess it's a mix of late marketing (imposed in a way by paulo branco), a general lack of interest for this kind of film by the general audience (who's going to avengers or star wars, which are trusting screens at the same time) and a lukewarm to poor reception from the press.
The film won't be a good deal for the distributor but it shouldn't be a total disaster, surely the final numbers will be closer to "fear and loathing" (300 000 tickets sold) than to "zero theorem" or "tideland" (which didn't even reach 100 000 tickets sold). Yet I don't know what it will mean for Gilliam bankability or for the international release strategy.