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The Lone Ranger, a 2013 American western action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and directed by Gore Verbinski with Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, was the summer’s top bomb. Disney expects a write-down of $160 million to $190 million on the film.Filming was plagued with production problems and budgetary concerns, which at one point led to the film's premature cancellation.The Lone Ranger was released theatrically in the United States on July 3, 2013. The film received mixed to negative reviews and was a commercial failure, grossing $244 million worldwide against an estimated $225 million budget.
“Turbo” the animated snail was squished, taking in $80 million at North American theaters — one of the smallest totals in DreamWorks Animation history. (Only the unfortunately titled “Flushed Away” from 2006 did worse).
Still, appearances can be deceiving. “Pacific Rim,” for instance, has taken in more than $400 million worldwide. The picture’s price tag, however, made it an everyone-or-nothing enterprise. Legendary Entertainment and Warner Brothers spent about $330 million to make and market the film, which could end its run in the red since theater owners take roughly 50 percent of ticket revenue.
Higher-priced 3-D tickets took another tumble, at least in the United States and Canada, as more consumers decided the visual gimmick was not worth paying a $2 to $5 premium per ticket. Family films fared the worst — those glasses don’t fit little faces very well — with “Turbo” setting a new industry low for the format, according to analysts: 3-D screenings accounted for only 25 percent of its opening-weekend results.
Over the weekend, the 3-D concert documentary “One Direction: This Is Us” took in $17 million at domestic theaters, enough for first place, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box office data. Sony, which has had a particularly rough summer, spent $10 million to make the film. A Sony spokesman on Saturday wrote in an e-mail, “We are off to a fantastic start!”
Six Bollywood films available to watch at Odeon and 'Besharam' coming soon.Bollywood is now the largest film industry in the world, producing over 1,000 films each year.
Nine British films currently out in Odeon cinema.The films released this week are Diana ,Runner Runner,Prisoners,rush ,about time and Insidious 2.Diana , released in the UK on 20 September 2013 ,is a 2013 biographical drama film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, about the last two years of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. This movies received overwhelmingly negative reviews from the British press with an approval rating of just 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. Writing for The Mirror, David Edwards said it was a "cheap and cheerless effort that looks like a Channel 5 mid-week matinee" and awarded the film one star out of five.Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian also awarded it one star out of five and called the film "car crash cinema".
