Crimson Peak

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  • Directed By: Guillermo del Toro
  • Written By: Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins
  • Release Date: October 16, 2015
  • Domestic Distributor: Legendary (through Universal)
  • Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam

Box Office Info:
Budget: $50 million Financed by: Legendary
Domestic Box Office: $31,090,320 Overseas Box Office: $44,217,327

“If I’d done Crimson Peak for $25 million, the movie would have been a success because it made $75 million. But because I made it for $50 million, it wasn’t a success because it needed to do $150 million.”
–Guillermo del Toro

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Crimson Peak was first being developed at Universal in 2008, but the project never materialized and in December 2012 Legendary landed the film with Universal given the option to co-finance.  The budget for Crimson Peak was $50 million and Legendary fully financed the picture.   Universal was set to invest under the condition that director Guillermo del Toro shoot a PG-13 movie, but he delivered a R rated edit and Universal pulled out of the project.  Universal did distribute Crimson Peak, with marketing costs paid for by Legendary and the studio received a fee for use of their distribution resources.

The gothic-horror tale was heavily promoted by Legendary, which spent $18.66M on TV ads (as per iSpotTV), plus millions more on other traditional P&A expenses — for a domestic spend far north of $30M.  Crimson Peak was tracking for a high teens opening and bowed against Goosebumps, Bridge Of Spies and Woodlawn.  Despite positive reviews, audience response was muted and the pic declined in attendance 6.1% from Friday to Saturday and ended the opening weekend below expectations at $13,143,310.  $2.3 million of the weekend gross come from IMAX screens.  Crimson Peak placed #4 for the frame, led by Goosebumps.  Even with the disappointing opening, it was front loaded and sank 56.9% to $5,666,525 in its second frame and lasted only 6 weeks in release with a final gross of $31,090,320.

The overseas market wasn’t much friendlier to Crimson Peak, where it pulled in $44.2M and Mexico posted the highest gross at $5.7M.  The worldwide total was $75.2M, which would leave roughly $41.3M after theaters take their percentage of the gross, which would not come close to even covering the worldwide P&A costs.  In January 2016, the Chinese company Wanda acquired Legendary for $3.5 billion and in their financial statements, which were attained by the hollywoodreporter, Legendary lost $555.6 million in 2015.  Crimson Peak, Blackhat, Seventh Son and Steve Jobs contributed to the loss.

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