Gods Of Egypt: A Hero's Failure

While some thrive, like The Jungle Book and Cinderella, others films, such as The Huntsman: Winter’s War and Alice Through the Looking Glass, have drastically failed to find their target audience. Why, though? Why is it a select few defy box office gravity, while others struggle?

Other disappointing reboots and remakes include The Italian Job, Clash of the Titans, Godzilla, The Invasion, Rollerball, Psycho, Terminator Genisys... The list goes

Video game films have bad luck taking off. To date, the only successful video game film was Prince of Persia, with only $90,759,676 in domestic revenue. However, Ubisoft decided to take a more hands-on approach to their film this time, and this also marks the first time a theatrical film is set in the same universe as its corresponding video game franchise. So there's

Due to F/X companies industry growing studios are producing lesser movies. “The result is an Economics 101 lesson in the unforgiving laws of supply and demand, with F/X houses forced to lower their bids to unsustainable levels simply to stay in the game”(Rottenberg). Since they are so many F/X houses competition has increased, causing them to lower their prices to compete leading to smaller profit because it’s not enough work for all of them. The problem is really due to directors asking too much from F/X houses to make different visual effects shots, but ultimately only picking one and paying them just for that one shot and not the others, leaving them in a bind with money, especially if a company cancels entirely (Rottenberg). Some directors

Chapter four addresses the gods and the gods of Egypt. It also gives a list and synopsis of each god, what they represented, and who and why they worshipped them. Walton discussed the mythology of both Mesopotamia and Egypt. In this chapter, Walton also discussed the origins of the gods such as, how “Heaven (An) joined in cosmic matrimony with Earth (Ki) and the great gods were born”, and how the union was the focus of the Nippur tradition. He also discusses the ontology and theogony differences within the Old Testament and the Ancient Near Eastern thought (ANET); however, there’s much to say about procreative Theogony, nevertheless not much about ontology. Walton does a comparative exploration of ontology and theogony in Israel and states

Historically famous movies have a few things in common, the most important of which is that they set up a plot and follow it. Movies such as the godfather and 12 angry men keep the plot interesting and constantly turning but never lose the audience, this allows for clear storytelling to happen. In the case of Hail, Caesar! The directors and story tellers do not keep the audience reeled in, but they leave the audience with no closure. They give no closure without a cliffhanger, the Coen Brothers cut one branch of the story off and go off into a completely different area of the story, never returning to characters in previous scenes. Although the storytelling and pacing was off, the movie did have some positive aspects. Hail, Caesar! boasted

I think it’s safe to say everyone has a favorite movie, besides the few who claim to hate movies, most people can appreciate a good movie. Although people support movies by simply watching them, not enough people stop to appreciate what went into making them. A lot of people only give credits to the main actors, but there are so many other things, and people, that contribute to a film. A lot of time, effort, and money go into making these films, usually, A LOT of money. Most big Hollywood movies cost millions to produce, and there's a lot of pressure riding on these movies. If they don't earn more money money than what it cost to produce it then it was basically a failure. Usually this isn't the case, but it's almost an unpredictable game,

With a series that already has a big following and audience, making the film to all of their expectations is literally impossible. Everyone reads a book, has a different interpretation of the world, the characters and the storyline. People imagine what the character look like, what they sound like. A big part of audience expectations are the cast. There will always be people who don’t see certain people as the characters. No one will be perfect for the role, as they are fictional. No one will have everything the character is, but mostly they do try to cast as closely to the character as they can.

My first reason is that the the setting and plot is bad. The setting was in Roman Britain which was strange to me because King Arthur lived after the fall of Rome. I also thought that there was too much fighting that kind of makes it seem like the people who made this movie just put in a lot of fighting to make the movie longer. The people were also hard to hear. This is why I think the movie just didn’t go smoothly.

It is a pretty safe assumption to say that a vast majority of people love to watch movies whether it is the latest blockbuster or that favorite original from 32 years ago. (Looking at you Back to The Future.) One thing that everyone can agree on is that there is an increase of movies that are reboots of franchises, remakes of originals, sequels, and spinoffs. Hollywood creating remakes and reboots is not new, only is happening more and more frequently. There are several reasons as to why there are so many more remakes and reboots. This is due mainly in part to the fact that, Studios know that it is easy to reboot an old franchise, people like something that has worked in the past, and there is a loss of creativity,

After the surprise success of Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel tried another gamble that paid off with another lesser known comic book character this time it was Ant Man which all the critics expected to fail but to everyone’s surprise it was a big hit. These two examples are the unusual exception to the rule. Most times when studios try to take a risk it doesn’t work. The most recent example of this is this year’s ‘’American Ultra’’ which bombed terribly despite the good advertisements and promotion. ‘’American Ultra’’ was actually the reason I decided to write this editorial in the first place. Once the movie came out the critics loved it but finically it was a failure earning only a total of 10,488,000 domestically and $1,000,000 Foreign earing only $11,488,000 worldwide. When I found this out it got me thinking about the current state of films and if my prediction are right we are in for bad films. I have already explained why film studios are not taking risk anymore. Steven Spielberg has once said that ‘’the movie industry is about to imploded on itself’’ and in my opinion he was

Action Adventure movies are one of the most common genre of movies that we see in the theatres. This genre of movie makes the biggest headlines and is also paired with the biggest ticket sales. So with such huge success that the Action Adventure genre within movies has, something has to be working to garner such an audience. In this year there have been quit a few Action Adventure movie hits, such the widely anticipated movie “Dead pool.” Dead pool is a movie about a dark humored mercenary who is subjected to an experiment that mutates his genes, giving him powers and a thirst for revenge. Dead pool ended up setting records for the biggest opening for a movie in February, as well as the biggest opening for an R-rated movie, ever. As one can tell, it was a rather successful movie. It begs the question, why did such a movie work for the audience? Deadpool had a couple of things going for it to make it work. Things such as it’s R-rating, it’s marvel and comic book origins, it’s humor, and as well as it’s fan base. These things combined produced the perfect cocktail for audiences. Deadpool was a first of it’s kind. Not only that but it showed Hollywood that such a movie, where nothing was off limits, could prevail in the industry.

The production/success of remakes has declined over the past decade (Follows, "The Scale of Hollywood Remakes and Reboots"), but it appears that remakes are set to make a

The superhero film genre has been around a long time with several reboots of staple characters such as Batman, Spiderman, and Superman over the years. However, they had limited box office success and their appeal did not appear to translate readily to the mass market. However, through the success of both Marvel Studios and its rivals, this trend appears to be changing. In fact, Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy had a combined worldwide box office of $2.46 Billion and “The Avengers” $1.51 Billion. (Marvel is Defining 2013) The two new Spider Man movies, The Amazing Spider Man and Amazing Spider Man 2 had a combined worldwide box office of $1.47 Billion. (Source: http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Spider-Man )

The motion picture industry is just like any other industry and to be successful it must turn a profit on the movies it creates and produces. Everyone loves movies and the motion picture industry does everything in its power to produce movies that will bring in millions of dollars in profits. The motion picture industry has created high grossing movies such as Spider-Man 3 with a total gross of $336,530,303 as well as flops such as Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, which only brought in $23,746,066. Diving into descriptive statistics we are able to compare the 5-number summary, mean, mode, range, and standard deviation for the opening gross, total gross, theaters, and number of weeks for the