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Fox just told me that Black Swan just debuted in Japan and earned $6.1M including previews for the biggest Fox Searchlight film opening ever there. The $12M-budgeted film is now on the verge of crossing $200M internationally, but its worldwide cume has now passed $305M. Darren Aronofsky’s drama helped Fox International cross $1 billion box office at the start of this month for calendar 2011 for the eight year in a row and the third straight year it reached that mark first. Fox’s Blue Sky Studios toon Rio also passed $300M international cume this week and $413M global.
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So excited about The Wolverine now!
Sorry Bullet Dodge, I’m guessing you didn’t hear the news. He’s not directing it anymore.
Only one reason why: Lesbian Ballerinas
Can’t believe no one thought of this idea before.
So the reason that Brokeback Mountain made 250 mil world wide was because of gay cowboys?
May be people just like indiewood movies that they consider to be well made?
You mean the movie aronofosky bailed on?
That’s a lot of money, not to mention incredible profit margin. I was impressed with the film but the results are quite impressive.
Fox Searchlight seems to grasp that when there are films with textured characters, stories with substance, believable drama, a treatment that doesn’t insult the audience, and made by filmmakers with personalities, people will pay to see them. (Don’t let this get around).
Good for Black Swan and I personally thought it was the best film of 2010. Glad that Darren Aronofsky finally has a big hit on his resume so studios can finally give him a shot at making whatever he wants to make. I cant wait for whatever Mr. Aronofsky does next.
Goes to show that you don’t have to pay an actor 20M paychecks. Why? How much money do you need! And when it bombs the studios wonder why they lost so much money.
Further illustration of the fact that execs know nothing, yet will continue to throw obscene amounts of money at hack crap while enforcing their hollow rules about what is viable and what isn’t, thereby blocking genuine creative initiative at every pass and still batting the same lousy average.
Great movies are always made in spite of the conventional wisdom that they then go on to define.
How much $$ has this made for Aronofsky now?
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Would be interesting to see how they break down profits and who they allocate them to. It’s going to be hard to hide/deny all of them on a return of 2500%.
Being told 800%-900% return for the equity investors.
Incredible marketing. Wonder how much they spent…
And Fox Searchlight is probably telling profit participants it is still in the red. Gotta love creative accounting!
Have not been paid yet & was told not to expect any money until August, November & Feb. Small check in August to boot.
Seems like a terrific business model with high profit margins. Maybe I’ll buy a studio and have them release 30 films a year that cost 12M instead 8 that cost 150-200M.
Oh wait, then all those chubby (nah, let’s just call them fat and get it over with) 30 year olds at the comic book stores, whacking off to porn in their parents basements would have nothing to watch.
OK, I guess we’ll just stick to the Kool Aid, AICN has us drinkin’
Duh! Winning!
Great script, great directing, great story, great acting. Hello, Hollywood, this is the type of film people want to see. Keep makin’ ‘em Fox Searchlight!
Believable drama? I know this is going to go against the grain of many, but when Director Darren had the blood pour out of the dressing room doorway, for me it went from believable to cartoon, and he lost me (and by the chuckles in the theatre, I think many others) at that point. Just sayin’.
That is great news for Fox, should help the bottom line for all the bombs they have made recently.
And yet, they will still claim it did not turn a profit.
Well deserved. Maybe the studios will take more chances on edgy films with visionary directors and strong female leads. Or keep making Thors. And Fast and Furiously Lames.
Believable drama? Really? You meant melodrama.
that’s amazing profit they have got
I’m sure the profit statements will show Fox losing 30 million dollars on it, lol.
I luv it when things work!
I think Rio already passed 300 worldwide.
Brian Oliver the man behind the curtain. Congrats!
Ironic, given that the Japanese movie Swan remade, Perfect Blue, only made a fraction of the same money when Darren paid for the rights.