Harrison Ford’s ‘Call of the Wild’ to Lose $50 Million at Box Office
Harrison Ford's "The Call of the Wild" is another box office dud from Fox.
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CGI my dog if old.
Variety: Harrison Ford’s ‘Call of the Wild’ to Lose $50 Million at the box office
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Greenlight a movie with adorable doggo.
Remove doggo.
Pay Harrison Ford his quote.
Profit! You made a movie!
Remove doggo.
Pay Harrison Ford his quote.
No matter how you spell 20th Century Fox Studios, it will keep losing $$$. 20th Century just can't catch a break!
I didn't even know this existed until it bombed. Which is pretty crazy for a Harrison Ford movie.
In a world where Disney literally put Togo out this past holiday with Dafoe's performance playing off of a REAL dog (and it's an excellent film btw), this film's existence is utterly baffling
Money.
But yeah, the dog was too uncanny valley for me. I could tell in trailers it was going to be juuuuust beyond the pale. I'm a big proponent of CGI, just... maybe less of it? Or in a different way?
This project existed before Disney got control of Fox iirc. There was no stopping it.
Alternatively, they've made FAR too many man/boy and his dog adventure movies recently. Every time I see another one I wonder how they could possibly make it any different than the last five. Intro - bonding scene - life or death struggle - dog mini adventure - bear/large animal boss fight - dog saves human - fin.
With all respect to Harrison Ford, if it doesn't involve Star Wars or Indiana Jones he's just not a draw these days.
To spend $125m+ on a family movie about a dog without a current A-list star (in terms of box office draw) is ridiculously risky. It's a mid-tier film that might have done ok at $60-70m but at $125m, excluding marketing, it was always highly unlikely to be a financial success.
To spend $125m+ on a family movie about a dog without a current A-list star (in terms of box office draw) is ridiculously risky. It's a mid-tier film that might have done ok at $60-70m but at $125m, excluding marketing, it was always highly unlikely to be a financial success.
I would watch the movie if it just had this dude in the mo-cap suit pretending to be a dog for the entire movie.
Please tell me the dog at the end of the gif is not the finished version. Shit looks like a PS3 cutscene.If only they released without the cg dog...
Considering some of the events that happen with Buck in the film. I think people might have gotten upset if that happened with a real dog.
At the end, film was overbudgeted really. Alright reviews and a decent box office showing if this had a smaller budget, problem was it didn't have a smaller budget. You don't give $150 Million to Call of the Wild in this day and age.
Shame because this was Chris Sanders live action debut (Lilo and Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon). Hopefully he's not held in Hollywood Jail like Brad Bird was after Tomorrowland. He left Disney after American Dog changed to Bolt, now he got wrangled back into Disney due to the Fox Buyout.
Didn't know dog movie audience had standards and avoided this one. Usually they and Christian movie audience flock in droves to see these despite bad reviews.
Not possible. Even Weta can't pull that off and they made millions fall in love with blue cat people.
At least they made a movie that will probably be seen by HS English students for the next decade or more.