The Transformers One flop
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Thursday, March 20, 2025 19:44
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I haven't been paying attention to movies for a while. Didn't even realize this one's been out for 2 weekends already.
Bruce has not put a production budget up for it yet, which is EXTREMELY odd for a blockbuster type movie. Paramount is in its death throes though, so it's not surprising.
Supposedly Screen Rant "confirmed" that the budget was $75 Million, but I'm calling pure bullshit on that figure. Not a chance it was that cheap. Wikipedia lists the budget as anywhere from $75 Million to $147 Million. Pretty sure Bruce is making the smart play here and not putting anything up until there's a serious number admitted to.
That being said...
10 days in the theater already and it's only made $62 Million worldwide.
Whatever the budget is in that range, it's a 100% loser no matter what. 2 weekends and it hasn't even made the production budget back. It made $24 Million in the states on opening weekend and only made $9.3 Million on the second weekend for a 3rd place finish. Even if the $75 Million figure were true, which it's not, it still needs $125.5 Million to break even.
One more nail in Paramount's coffin.
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How could this cartoon cost $75 M? It is poor level animation, like Saturday morning TV level. Almost as bad as Fly Me To The Moon.
Clearly, cartoons need to stop pretending they are film.
Maybe Roger Rabbit or Enchanted, but that is about it.
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Is it really a cartoon, or are you just making fun of CGI?
I care so little that I wouldn't have even known it was a cartoon.
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Quote:Are there supposed to be people in it? like actors?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Is it really a cartoon, or are you just making fun of CGI?
I care so little that I wouldn't have even known it was a cartoon.
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Look at the posters or trailer - the whole film is like that. If the cartoon is made by computer, what difference does it make?
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Are there supposed to be people in it? like actors?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Is it really a cartoon, or are you just making fun of CGI?
I care so little that I wouldn't have even known it was a cartoon.
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Look at the posters or trailer - the whole film is like that. If the cartoon is made by computer, what difference does it make?
CGI isn't AI. It would still be people making it.
I haven't watched anything about it at all.
To my knowledge, every Transformers flick up to this point did have actors in it. The last Transformers movie I watched was the 2nd one. Maybe this one was just a cartoon.
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Quote:Every prior transformers film had actors in it. And the transformers were made to look like actual solid objects, a folded up car, truck, helicopter, jet, etc.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:CGI isn't AI. It would still be people making it.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Are there supposed to be people in it? like actors?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Is it really a cartoon, or are you just making fun of CGI?
I care so little that I wouldn't have even known it was a cartoon.
Look at the posters or trailer - the whole film is like that. If the cartoon is made by computer, what difference does it make?
I haven't watched anything about it at all.
To my knowledge, every Transformers flick up to this point did have actors in it. The last Transformers movie I watched was the 2nd one. Maybe this one was just a cartoon.
This is just cartoon.
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DVD sales are gone that would have saved it in the past...maybe they want childrens toy sales to save it
Can overseas cash save it
in China, only $8.0M so far but will gain more
'crossed $72M globally'
https://x.com/HollywoodHandle/status/1840426992346267846
It finishing second behind holdover Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which ate its chances for profit, a horror film Never Let Go 2024 is also released at this time
news reports say as Low as 75 but as high as 150 Million or $75-147 million
https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/transformers-one-box-office-o
pening-weekend-projections-1236146501/
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240920185201/https://deadline.com/2024/0
9/transformers-one-box-office-opening-1236091707/
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https://archive.ph/oPzzq
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Goes officially digital streaming in the next few days maybe week or so which tells us its run is basically over.
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Goes officially digital streaming in the next few days maybe week or so which tells us its run is basically over.
Terrible.
It's still $328k short of making the production budget back after 14 days and now it's already on streaming. Huge loss here.
They might as well just throw it on streaming now though. Its already sputtered out and died. The fact that it's streaming isn't going to hurt it at all at this point.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Huge loss here.
There is one factor you did not consider
not box office not DVD sales but 'Toys'
Disney Reportedly Made Over $1 Billion in Star Wars Merchandise Sales Last Year
https://watchinamerica.com/news/star-wars-merchandise-value/
they are probably already stocking up in Transformers Toys...if they sell big, maybe the Doomed film will have done something help a toy company make money
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