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Thursday, February 5th, was the premiere of “Valkyrie” in Santa Fe, Mexico. Tom Cruise walked the red carpet alone this time, so we have no pictures of Katie Holmes. Bummer!
Maybe Katie is headed back to New York to start filming on “The Extra Man”. IMDB now has the movie listed and Katie Holmes is among the cast. The movie is set to be released sometime in 2010. Basically, we do not have a lot of information about this movie yet. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for as much info as possible!
Tom continues to look as handsome as ever as he walks the red carpet at all of these premieres. Rumor has it that Tom’s promotional tour has been a little longer than most because of bad box office numbers in the U.S.
More pictures coming soon…
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I thought Valkyrie done quite well in the US, 83MILLION I believe, and has done well in Europe as well, I think its done heaps better than a lot of people thought it would, I think it’s a movie that might not appeal to a younger generation ,like teenagers, so really that makes it all the more successful, a war movie is a bit hard to sell, I think a lot of males wanted to see this movie, I know my husband did and I know a lot of our friends and relatives went to see it as well, and liked it, I believe its done well for him they still have Japan and he has a big following there.
Tom Cruise eu nunca tiv vc tao perto de mim como nestes dias em que vc veio ao Brasil. vivia e vivo de fotos suas em revistas e televisao. Vc foi um sonho lindo que tive em um cavalo alado branco. Podem falar de tudo irei morrer solteira pq nao acho homem igual a vc I love you I love seus filmes Sua vida brilha e exala luz vc vale ouro.
It was an expensive movie to make and market – over $150 million.
I saw Bryan Singer in an interview, and he said, it was more in the 70 million range, and not what was reported by the media.
Yes it was 70+ mil not 150. Given that some pundits labelled it, ‘the movie no one wants to watch’ and was long said it would fail, Valkyrie has done very very well especially internationally where it was number one at most box offices including Germany where it got a lot of bad press during the filming.
I would have been content that no one called it a flop like critics had said it would. But it has achieved so much more success especially internationally that I can see naysayers eating their hearts out. I wonder what will happen to all those ‘flop’ and ‘Cruise’ is over articles which I can bet my last coin were already penned.
Sorry, but that’s wrong, Lauren. Your number represents only how much it cost to make the movie – it doesn’t include marketing. The production was reported at 90M, although Singer said it was closer to 75M, but the marketing added on another 70 million, or so, to the production figure. Whoever headed their marketing program did a good job though. The movie’s doing well overseas, although not yet at breakeven.
I’ve heard 95 million in production costs and an addition 60 for marketing. That was according to Daily Variety and they’re usually right on target. I also heard the same figures thru others in the industry. At a total of 155 million in prod and marketing costs, Valkyrie would need to earn a total of 300 million to break even. One needs to remember that the studio loses half their profit to the exhibitors (theater owners) as a general rule. Even with DVD and TV rights, I think that’s going to be tough. Personally, I think the expectations for Valkyrie were so low (based on all the prior negative press) that the studio is pleased it did what it did. Don’t get me wrong, it did well, I just don’t think it did as well as it needs to do. We’ll have to wait to see how it does internationally.
It was a good film. Not great, but definiately good. It should have done bigger box office IMO.
By the way, Benjamin Button is in the same position. It earned a ton of money, but their production costs were huge (higher than Valkyrie). I think the difference is BB will remain in theaters longer thanks to the Oscar noms it received. That goes a long way in extending box office on a film. Valkyrie is essentially out of theaters in the domestic market and has dropped in the International market.
Either way, I sincerely wish the very best for Valkyrie in terms of breaking even. Making a film involves alot of people, not just the star and the director. I’d like to see UA make their money back and continue making quality films. The more quality films out there, the more opportunites there are for people like myself.