Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by Ozzy View Post
53 million if I do my maths correctly, only 8 million dollar difference who's counting!!.( small mistake Mamat)
I know you are trying to razz me which is fine.
These posted numbers are not the exact numbers.
If you investigate into it you will find articles that differ.
Here is a direct quote from an Indie Wire Article that surfaced 21 years after the movie release.

Martin Brest’s 1998 drama “Meet Joe Black” was a box office bomb in the U.S. with a $44 million gross on a $90 million production budget, but 21 years later it’s officially become a viral sensation.

I guess the problem was I was talking about the domestic numbers which only garnered 44/45 million on a 90 million dollar budget.
The worldwide numbers helped Meet Joe Black not be a complete disaster but this movie Bombed in America on release.

BUDGET: $90 MILLION
FINANCED BY: UNIVERSAL

Domestic Box Office: $44,619,100
Overseas Box Office: $98,321,000


Funny, when I posted this topic and movie I figured it would just get dismissed.
I didn't realize that Meet Joe Black or the profit margin of Meet Joe Black would garner so much interest.
I'm surprised nobody has come in here all upset about how Harvey Weinstein ruined the career of Claire Forlani who starred in the movie.

I get that you or MC or others are looking to bust my balls which is fine.
I deserve it.
However, this seems like an odd place to do it.
The main point of my post was to say that Meet Joe Black is a pretty decent flick if MC or others wanted to watch it.
Far better than those movies he has been watching like Rocket Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, Milk... what the F is with the Gay Theme?
I never watched any of them but from the previews I could tell they weren't worth it for me.
I don't enjoy going to Cover Bands in Vegas either... I'm totally against the idea, so Cover Band Movies aren't going to be on my watch list.
(I did enjoy Val Kilmer in the Doors though)
Mix in the SJW, Homosexual Liberal Agenda of today's movies is only going to make me not want to watch even more.
The other point was to say that Meet Joe Black was a flop... which it was but we could get into semantics on if the movie made money or lost money and how much.
Those figures are never accurate with all the backdoor dealing anyway.
So yes, according to the hard numbers I posted you could say that I don't know what I am talking about but I think your missing the point

Whatever, you all are free to watch what you want.
I just find the movie selection odd for the image that MC has created over the years of posting.
Monet, I get your point. After you made your post about Meet Joe Black, I did my own internet search on it and watched serveral clips, since I always kind of liked that movie, but didn’t know why. Probably because it was different.

I caught that it made $145 million worldwide, but decided against posting that number because I get what your point was, and you are correct. For a movie to break even it has to do double its budget, since half the proceeds go to the movie theater and marketing. So Meet Joe Black would have had to make about $180 to break even, and it didn’t do that. So based on that metric it’d be called a flop.

Anyway thanks for posting something about Meet Joe Black. Almost makes me want to go back and watch it. Problem is it’s too long so I’ll probably fall sleep. But it had some good parts, and it wasn’t your standard formula Hollywood movie.