Stallone, Schwarzenegger All Star “Expendables 3” Has Been A Box Office Bust
Checking back in with “Expendables 3,” the box office reality is worse than thought. Domestic take is just $29.2 million. Foreign is terrible, at just $21.5 million. Even reliable territories where Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger might still sell tickets didn’t want to see another installment of this former A list adventure.
Adding Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson didn’t do anything, either. No one knows the budget, but it’s got to be minimum $75 million. Salaries and perks for this group–those four stars plus the second level, etc– would guarantee that. “Expendables 3” should have been a payday movie. But many things went wrong.
Bruce Willis was the smart one here. He smelled a turkey and declined to join in. Stallone’s been talking a new female “Expendables” but at this point maybe he should move on to a new project.
I won’t go to see another Stallone or Ahnold movie since they both came out with anti-gun statements/sentiments. Maybe a backlash has something to do with E3 crashing? Even people who don’t really care about the Second Amendment can still be offended by the hypocrisy of these two making a mint off violence and shoot-em-ups, yet coming out against gun ownership by law-abiding Americans.
The movie leaked to the internet before release and was illegally downloaded over 2 million times. I think that had more to do with the box office performance than anything else. It was actually the best movie of the series, in my opinion.
Isn’t the international gross $50,400,000? That’s more than double what you write. Domestic it’s $33,139,000. You write it’s 29.2. You missed about 30 million worth of gross in your article. Still not great, but a slightly different story.
Willis didnt decline out of some kind of artistic purity. He did it because they didnt want to pay him 1m a day for 4 days.
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