And that is with $65 million in tax credits because they filmed it in the UK; without those tax credits, the movie would have lost $235M, writes Stephen Green at PJ Media. He also notes that "out of the 139 biggest box office bombs listed on Wikipedia (for losing about $100 million or more in today's dollars), 123 of them were made since 2000." This is what happens when you rely on tent-pole productions that need the widest possible audience in order to recoup the insane budgets, and then write and cast them in such a way as to alienate half or more of your potential audience.
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