It’s one of the worst starts of all time: this movie, released 16 years ago, was released in theaters after just 6 days.

To say that the last few decades have thoroughly changed the face of film exhibition in theaters goes without saying. How long does the movie stay in theaters? The question is complex. Because the answer depends on several factors. As a rule, the film stays in theaters for 4 to 6 weeks (although this happens less and less in practice), but for popular blockbusters, this duration can be up to 3 months.

An absolute triumph in cinemas, it will obviously remain at the top of the bill for a long time, especially since if it does very well at the box office, it will most likely be shown in even more theaters and therefore more copies than originally.

It is also related to the decisions of cinema operators who manage the programming of their cinemas, but also to the limitations of exhibition windows imposed by the chronology of the media. In short, it’s a good puzzle.

In the United States, logic has become absolutely ruthless; Studios no longer have to worry. Like Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, which was released in June here and in the US. Considering its sluggish start, its local distributor decided to make it available on the streaming platform barely ten days after its theatrical release.

The latest example is even newer: Borderlands. Already considered one of the biggest box office flops of the year, its distributor Lionsgate has decided to release it for streaming at the end of August in the US…

Delgo, a $40 million indie animated film

Among the empowering, if utterly mind-boggling, examples is an animated film released in 2008 out of sheer general indifference: Delgo. A CGI animated film created and produced outside of Disney or DreamWorks. So the indie production signed to Fathom Studios, but wasn’t financed with a string of pieces: $40 million anyway.

story? It can fit in the corner of the table. Or the (un)adventure of Delgo, a naive but adventurous teenager who must rally his friends to protect his world, which is threatened by the conflict between the Lokni and the Nohrins.

what does it look like Trailer, below…

The first film of the tandem, Mark F. Adler and Jason Maurer, he still had big ambitions. Like his very sumptuous vocal casting, real who is who Hollywood, which we mostly see in Disney or DreamWorks productions: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Eric Idle, Val Kilmer, Lou Gossett Jr., Malcolm McDowell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Burt Reynolds.. .

Born in great pain (it took the authors almost ten years to make the film), Delgo There was powder at the box office doors. It began its career in 2,160 theaters in the United States and earned only $237 per screen in its first weekend in December 2008.

In the United States, it earned only $511,920. One of the worst openings at the American box office for a film released in more than 2,000 theaters. If we add international revenues, it will not even exceed 695,000 dollars. This shows the violence of the blow. In fact, it was such an abject failure that it was pulled from theaters after six days.

“Boring and unpleasant animated film, Delgo Steals elements from at least a dozen iconic films and tales for its elaborate saga of a young boy who saves his good people from vengeful villains.” turned around DiversityHe explained that the disaster on the screen was also the result of a particularly chaotic production in a studio that lacked experience.

Before hammering the last nail in the coffin: “For some reason it took six writers, including directors Mark F. Adler and Jason F. Maurer to come up with one original thought, one story idea or one gadget.. violent. Between the non-existent marketing surrounding the film and the outdated CGI, plans nearly a decade behind schedule, Delgo was condemned to an abyss from which he never emerged.