Box office bust: TheGoldfinch could lose $40M-$50M for Warner Bros., Amazon Studios
bombed at the U.S. box office over the Sept. 13-15 weekend with a debut of $2.68 million, one of the worst starts ever for a film opening in 2,542 theaters. But the studio wasn't totally bereft - stayed atop the chart with a strong $40.7 million in its sophomore outing, pushing the cumulative box office of the two-picture adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel past the $1 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson's Color Force produced the film, based on Deborah Tartt's sweeping, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a 13-year-old boy who survives a terrorist attack in an art museum that claims the life of his mother. Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman star. The 771-page novel, published in 2013, was always a challenge in terms of adapting for the big screen, since it jumps back and forth across two decades of the lead character.
"Reviews still matter, especially for adult dramas. You can’t crossover into theaters, no matter how well received a novel is, without them. It definitely would have been better off as streaming content in a limited series fashion, as the book weighed a ton," says box office analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations. "It's a tough lesson for Warner Bros. to learn at this stage of the game. Oh well, I’m sure someone will reboot it in five years and do it justice.
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