Successful and reputed director of the film industry Steven Spielberg’s latest release, ‘The Fabelmans’, has received mostly positive reviews from the critics and audience, especially for its direction, screenplay, and cast performance, and according to critics, it’s the best released of November. Despite all the good publicity and reviews, ‘The Fabelmans’ has underperformed at the box office, which is surprising for the director to producers.
Is The Fabelmans Hit Or Flop?
As per reports, Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age drama ‘The Fabelmans’, released in the overall USA on November 23, 2022, in more than 638 theaters, collected $400k on its opening day and $3.46 million on its opening weekend at the domestic box office. Overall, ‘The Fabelmans’ has so far collected $17.34 million domestically and $28.29 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $45.64 million[1].
Despite being a binge-worthy film and being the direction by well-reputed Steven Spielberg, ‘The Fabelmans‘ has rejected by the audience at the ticket window, and sorry to say but compared to its $40 million production cost, ‘The Fabelmans’ is a total box office bomb. As per reports, the makers spent around $8.5 million on the film’s P&A apart from the production cost of $40 million, but for now, it is impossible to cover the cost, leaving aside the break-even point. Though the film is expected to recover its cost from digital and home media, that too is under a question mark.
Talking about the critical response, ‘The Fabelmans’ has received an 7.5/10* IMDb rating based on 114k votes, and on Rotten Tomatoes, it scored 92/100% based on 390 critical reviews.
Coming-of-age drama ‘The Fabelmans’ is directed and co-written by Steven Spielberg with Tony Kushner and stars Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, and Judd Hirsch.‘The Fabelmans’ was produced by Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, and Tony Kushner under the production banners of Amblin Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures.
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It won’t make its money back on home media. Lol you can’t even buy DVDs in the shops anymore. Most of the major supermarkets got rid of them early this year. However, as this movie has on;y been out for a week and a half, and still has to go round the globe, there’s still a chance of it making $80 million at the box office and becoming a small hit.
This is surprising for a Spielberg movie, albeit a small one. It’s in a limited number of theaters but is ranked third this past weekend (12/11) in the $ average per theater. Don’t know if they’re going for a wider release
Why is it a surprise that The Fabelmans is a flop because it’s a Spielberg film? West Side Story, TinTin, The Terminal, Lincoln, Hook, Always, 1941 – all Spielberg films, and all box office disasters, and that’s not all. Remember those?
What disaster ? Are you serious ?
Terminal 219M€ for 60M$ budget
Tintin 373M$
1941 : 92M$ for 35 M$ budget
Always : 74M$ (x2 of the budget)
Hook : 300M$ for 70M$ budget
Lincoln : 275M$ for 65m$ budget
(Check imdb)
Why have chews been expelled from 111 countries, 1030+ times? 🤔
I think people are beginning to understand why.