Ben Hur

[Olinser]

Well, it's official, Ben-Hur is a disaster. $11 million on opening weekend and on Monday it dropped BELOW $1 million.

[Kitten Champion]

Well, it's official, Ben-Hur is a disaster. $11 million on opening weekend and on Monday it dropped BELOW $1 million.

I love Redlettermedia's reaction to this. Where they act with aghast surprise that a remake no one really wanted of a seminal classic, directed by the man who did Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, populated mostly with C-list actors, and pushed to August, somehow bombed.

[Ruslan]

Still a better box office than Hardcore Henry.

[The Glyphstone]

Still a better box office than Hardcore Henry.

Hardcore Henry also had 1/50th of the budget, and made back between four and seven times its cost.

[Kitten Champion]

Still a better box office than Hardcore Henry.

Hardcore Henry only cost 5 million and made 9. Had the studio used that money to finance 20 Hardcore Henry sequels I think it might've worked out better for them.

Edit: That's what he said.

[Ruslan]

I was being sarcastic.