The Gerard Butler star vehicle The Day After Tomorrow scared up more than $544 million globally in 2004.
Emmerich's longtime producer Dean Devlin is the latest filmmaker to take on the subgenre, but his fictional take on the disastrous effects of global warming has, on the flip side, met a stone cold reception at the box office. Geostorm – which stars Butler as an engineer racing to fix a satellite system designed to control climate change but attacks Earth instead – had $15 million for reshoots.
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According to The Wrap, Geostorm, despite an additional $52.1 million overseas take for a running global cume of $66.8 million after Monday's receipts, stands to lose $100 million overall when the film ends its theatrical run both Stateside and abroad. Box office analysts told The Wrap that even with lower-than-usual marketing spend, the break-even point for Geostorm will need to be in the $300 million to $350 million range. And while the film has yet to open in the normally-lucrative Chinese film market, the trade publication says the film will likely will gain little ground since only 25 percent of the box office take goes to studios. In the end, analysts tell The Wrap will likely end up making $200 million.
The bad news about the Geostorm's box office prospects comes as a painful end for film, which reportedly had its box office release pushed back three times from it's original March 2016 release date before it finally landed in theaters last weekend and was met with a scathing reviews and a 13 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
While Geostorm is the second big-budget box office bomb for Warner Bros. in the past five months following the tracking to open in the $150 million range.
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Source: The Wrap