Talk:A Most Violent Year

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Proposal to remove “box office bomb” from article
Proposal to remove “box office bomb” from article.

My apologies in advance for formatting, etc. I’m on mobile.

Does “A Most Violent Year” really qualify as a box office bomb according to the definitions in the *sources* for the box office bomb (BOB) article? I say that it does not.

Yes, under the terms of the BOB *article*, it’s a bomb:

“Although any film for which the production, marketing, and distribution costs combined exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed and expensive to produce that ultimately failed commercially.”

But it’s not a bomb according to the BOB article’s *sources*.

“A Most Violent Year” had little marketing spent on it and it cost only $20 million to produce:

“‘A Most Violent Year’ cost about $20 million to make. And, like Mr. Chandor’s earlier films, “Margin Call” and “All Is Lost,” its promotion will depend more heavily on publicity than on advertising. By contrast, “Interstellar” cost about $165 million and will be backed by a large ad budget.”

An $8 million loss is a small amount in the film business and the amount of loss matters:

“What makes a movie a box office “bomb ”? Just losing money doesn’t make it qualify. It’s the amount of loss from the production costs to ticket receipts that makes the difference.”

“A Most Violent Year” does not meet the standards for a BOB according to the standards in the sources cited for the BOB article because it’s small numbers:

“For example, 2006’s Zyzzyx Road took in a shocking thirty (30) dollars at the box office, but since it cost only $1 million to make, it d didn’t lose enough money to make the list. And the 2000 John Travolta vehicle Battlefield Earth made back less than half of its $73 million budget, but losing a mere $43 million makes it only a modest disaster.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-office_bomb#

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/business/media/jessica-chastain-in-a-publicity-tug-of-war.html

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3110438401/weekend/

https://www.filmsite.org/greatestflops.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2012/03/20/The-15-Biggest-Box-Office-Bombs.html

Thank you editors and fellow Wikipedians for your consideration.

Bdat2020 (talk) 06:13, 10 April 2022 (UTC)