The Crow is a box office flop and makes the director of the first film laugh

Box Office Hits and Misses This Summer

This summer, box office numbers have been pretty good for some productions. Deadpool and Wolverine It’s a success that continues to grow, with over $1.2 billion in revenue worldwide. Alien: Romulus also gets a good score. But for others it is much more complicated. HOW Borderlandswhich despite a budget of 115 million dollars only grossed 16.5 million dollars in its first weekend. However, this video game adaptation is not the only flop of the summer The crow Rupert Sanders’s is also in turmoil.

Released on August 21st in France and August 23rd in North America, this new adaptation of James O’Barr’s comics has so far only amassed $9.6 million worldwide. Even though its budget is much lower than that of Borderlands, The crow It still costs 50 million (excluding promotion costs). The presence of Bill Skarsgård obviously the casting wasn’t enough to attract people. The actor in turn plays Eric Draven, murdered along with his girlfriend. Resurrected by a crow and now possessing exceptional abilities, he will take revenge on these murderers.

Alex Provas is happy with the flop The crow

As mentioned above, The crow It’s not the first film based on James O’Barr’s comics. 30 years ago, Alex Proyas popularized the character The crow (1994)marked by the death of actor Brandon Lee during filming. The feature film has acquired cult status and several sequels have subsequently been made, including The Crow: City of Angels with Vincent Perez.

Faced with this failure The crow version 2024, Alex Proyas, who had already criticized this reboot, did not hide his satisfaction. For his part Facebook, the director commented on this box office flop with barely hidden irony.

I thought the remake was a cynical attempt to make money. Apparently there isn’t much money to be made.

The director also shared, always on his Facebook page, several very negative reviews of the film. Which shouldn’t have been very difficult to find, since The crow currently only has 20% positive reviews from the press on Rotten Tomatoes. On the public side the score is higher with 65% of positive opinions.

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