ENDLESS LOVE

Endless Love

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  Genre(s): Drama | Romance

• Directed By: Shana Feste
• Written By: Shana Feste, Joshua Safran
• Release Date: February 14, 2014
• Domestic Distributor: Universal
• Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood
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Box Office Info:

Budget: $20 million	Financed by: Universal
Domestic Gross: $23,438,250	Overseas Gross: $11,279,923

The budget for Endless Love was $20 million and Universal financed this critically trashed remake of the critically trashed 1981 film, based on the book whose author trashed both versions.  Novelist Scott Spencer told the hollywoodreporter: “Endless Love was botched — misquoted, as it were — once in 1981, when Franco Zeffirelli tried to make a movie out of it, and it seems as if it has been even more egregiously and ridiculously misunderstood in the movie Universal Pictures is releasing.”  After a strong domestic marketing spend that targeted young females, Endless Love opened over a crowded Valentine’s Day frame and was expected to pull in over $20 million.

Endless Love opened against two other 80’s remakes — RoboCop and About Last Night and saw direct competition from the disaster Winter’s Tale.  It came in below expectations with $13,307,125 — placing #5 for the frame led by The LEGO Movie in its second weekend.  Endless Love was incredibly front loaded and sank 70.2% in its second weekend to $3,967,520 and plummeted 61.5% in its third frame to $1,526,780 and promptly lost most of its theater count.  The domestic run closed after only five weeks with $23,438,250 (below the 1981 movie’s $31.1 million gross).

Universal saw the picture post terrible numbers in every offshore market to a total of just $11,279,923.  The worldwide cume was $34.7M and the studio would see returned about $19M after theaters take their percentage of the gross — far below global P&A expenses and the theatrical receipts would leave the budget in the red.