alice through the looking glass film versus book

#ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS FILM VERSUS BOOK MOVIE#

It was greenlit in the first place because Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland made over a billion dollars worldwide, and is still one of the top twenty-five highest grossing films of all-time. It cost $170 Million to make and brought back in just $35 Million over Memorial Day Weekend.

#ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS FILM VERSUS BOOK MOVIE#

This movie didn’t flop because it was a bad movie. The week after it opened saw many news outlets performing autopsies for why an installment in a beloved franchise with A-list stars tanked as hard as it did. Disney also owns Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar. They just don’t make flops like they used to! Although Rolling Stone pronounced Alice Through the Looking Glass “floppier than the average flop,” there’s very few people who will lose their heads as a result of this failure. Ishtar ’s budget ballooned to $50 Million dollars and it took in only $14 Million, killing a the director’s career. Seven years later, director Elaine May thought that Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty would be funny as a hapless songwriting duo who get involved in a Middle Eastern guerrilla war.

The fiasco caused the studio United Artists to collapse.

The critical backlash to Cimino’s hubris led to the film making only $3.5 million at the box office. Heaven’s Gate, an even grander Western epic, went spectacularly over budget, costing $44 million dollars.

In 1978, Michael Cimino took home the Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for his epic, The Deer Hunter, and was thus given a free pass to make whatever he wanted next.

Alice through the looking glass film versus book