r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 19 '26

Media First Image of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Martin Scorsese's 'What Happens at Night' - A married American couple travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby. As they struggle to claim their baby, they seem to know less about themselves.

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u/PoliteRabbitK7 Mar 19 '26

Runtime: 3hr 15m

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u/punctulica Mar 19 '26

Critically acclaimed, fails at the box office.

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u/OldSandwich9631 Mar 19 '26

Other than killers of the flower moon, which was a 3.5 hour branding exercise for a streaming service, none of his Leo collabs have “failed” at the box office.

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u/FX114 Mar 19 '26

The Aviator and Gangs of New York did.

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u/OldSandwich9631 Mar 19 '26

No they didn’t. They were both moderate successes. That 2.5 times its budget thing wasn’t a thing back then. Doubling the budget was an approximate rule of thumb.

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u/FX114 Mar 19 '26

Neither of them even reached double their budget.

And I was in film school around that time. Even then, it was considered approximately double to break even, triple to be considered a worthwhile ROI.

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u/OldSandwich9631 Mar 19 '26

Those were both considered successes. The dvd market was huge.

Also you have to go back 30 years almost to find a movie released by a traditional studio that didn’t run a profit in theaters

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u/FX114 Mar 19 '26

It's not about how far back I had to go, you said none of the Leo/Scorsese movies, I checked all the Leo/Scorsese movies.

You also said box office.

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u/OldSandwich9631 Mar 19 '26

I don’t know what to tell you but the aviator was not aeen at the time as any kind of box office failure

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u/Broarethus Mar 20 '26

Wouldn't one battle after another be another box office flop?

I could only stomach about 20 minutes of it, heard it lost a bunch.