Download The Lone Ranger Movie : Directed by Gore Verbinski Lone Ranger based on the 1930s radio show and 1950s television series posted a five-day opening of $48.9 million domestically an abysmal number considering the film's $250 million production budget and a worldwide marketing spend in the neighborhood of $175 million the norm these days for many summer event pics.Given its poor opening and stiff July competition box office experts now calculate that Lone Ranger will reach only $125 million domestically if that. Overseas it may earn $150 million for a worldwide total of $275 million. In 2011 Disney was forced to take a $200 million write-down when the ill-fated John Carter costing more than $250 million to produce topped out at $282 million worldwide. (Disney should fare a bit better on Lone Ranger because it will do better domestically than John Carter's $73 million and the studio receives a higher percentage of revenue from domestic theaters than it does from international theaters.
Download The Lone Ranger : It is very disappointing said Disney executive vp worldwide distribution Dave Hollis. Everything was perfect on paper so today was incredibly frustrating.Despite Depp's international star status Lone Ranger hasn't fared well overseas where Westerns are an especially challenged genre. The film grossed a tepid $24.3 million from 24 markets for a lackluster worldwide opening of $73.2 million trounced by Universal's Despicable Me 2. Lone Ranger took in $6.6 million in Russia well behind the $16.5 million opening of Disney's ill-fated 2012 tentpole John Carter and only $3.2 million in Australia on par with John Carter.
Watch The Lone Ranger Movie : Depp's big budget films have done huge business overseas even those that have under performed domestically. The Tourist grossed just $67 million in North America in 2010 but took in $211 million internationally. Last May's Dark Shadows sputtered with $79 million domestic but doubled that total overseas. Lone Ranger could break that winning streak and raise big questions about Depp's star status.Lone Ranger fared even worse in South Korea opening to a dismal $1.6 million in a likely harbinger of how the movie will perform in the rest of Asia .
Watch The Lone Ranger Online : Reuniting the same team behind the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise Bruckheimer one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history Verbinski and Depp Lone Ranger was intended to launch a new live-action franchise for Disney even though Westerns are a tricky genre particularly overseas.In the film Depp applies his penchant for playing quirky characters to the role of Tonto while Hammer plays the Lone Ranger both characters first made famous in the radio show.Disney insiders aren't trying to sugarcoat their disappointment or gloss over the movie's problems including a lengthy running time of 149 minutes and withering reviews. It has a 24 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes compared to 79 percent for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl the first title in that series.
Download The Lone Ranger : It is very disappointing said Disney executive vp worldwide distribution Dave Hollis. Everything was perfect on paper so today was incredibly frustrating.Despite Depp's international star status Lone Ranger hasn't fared well overseas where Westerns are an especially challenged genre. The film grossed a tepid $24.3 million from 24 markets for a lackluster worldwide opening of $73.2 million trounced by Universal's Despicable Me 2. Lone Ranger took in $6.6 million in Russia well behind the $16.5 million opening of Disney's ill-fated 2012 tentpole John Carter and only $3.2 million in Australia on par with John Carter.
Watch The Lone Ranger Movie : Depp's big budget films have done huge business overseas even those that have under performed domestically. The Tourist grossed just $67 million in North America in 2010 but took in $211 million internationally. Last May's Dark Shadows sputtered with $79 million domestic but doubled that total overseas. Lone Ranger could break that winning streak and raise big questions about Depp's star status.Lone Ranger fared even worse in South Korea opening to a dismal $1.6 million in a likely harbinger of how the movie will perform in the rest of Asia .
Watch The Lone Ranger Online : Reuniting the same team behind the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise Bruckheimer one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history Verbinski and Depp Lone Ranger was intended to launch a new live-action franchise for Disney even though Westerns are a tricky genre particularly overseas.In the film Depp applies his penchant for playing quirky characters to the role of Tonto while Hammer plays the Lone Ranger both characters first made famous in the radio show.Disney insiders aren't trying to sugarcoat their disappointment or gloss over the movie's problems including a lengthy running time of 149 minutes and withering reviews. It has a 24 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes compared to 79 percent for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl the first title in that series.
