The Last Witch Hunter
[Total: 17 Average: 3.1]
- Directed By: Breck Eisner
- Written By: Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
- Release Date: October 23, 2015
- Domestic Distributor: Lionsgate
- Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood
Box Office Info:
| Budget: $80 million (estimated) | Financed by: Lionsgate |
|---|---|
| Domestic Gross: $27,367,660 | Overseas Gross: $119,569,250 |
The Last Witch Hunter is another failed attempt by Lionsgate to spawn a series after Mortdecai, American Ultra and Child 44 were all groomed to be their next big franchise in 2015. Lionsgate mitigates their risk on expensive projects by pre-selling the film to overseas distributors and their financial model usually leaves them on the line for around $13 million of the production costs — plus the ever growing expense of domestic marketing, which usually runs north of $30 million. The box office failure of the $80 million budgeted The Last Witch Hunter, left the mini-major with a write-down of $7.2 million.
Lionsgate dated the pic for October 23, against a glut of low budget wide openers — Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Rock The Kasbah, Jem and The Holograms and the wide expansion of Steve Jobs. Reviews were poor. The Last Witch Hunter was tracking for an opening between $15 – $19 million, but came in far below expectations with $10,812,861 — placing #4 for the weekend led by The Martian in its fourth frame. It fell 52.3% to $5,162,398 in its second weekend and saw a 49.7% third frame decline to $2,598,464. The domestic run ended with just $27,367,660. Lionsgate would see returned about $15 million after theaters take their percentage of the gross.
The Last Witch Hunter fared better in a few overseas markets, pulling in $119.5 million across many distributors, with China posting the highest numbers at $27.4 million.
Family, friends, and myself have all watched the movie. We loved it, they are baking off from theater sales when many people just wait til it comes to DVD.
US citizens are well known for doing this, so you can’t just count on those figures alone.
I want more!!!!
I actually kinda liked The Last Witch Hunter. It’s too bad it won’t be getting a sequel .
Oh come on, just one more witch hunter!
If anything create it for the overseas market and drop it in the USA on DVD
I would love to see that the movie the witch hunter 2 comes out soon!