Quote Originally Posted by Lowell View Post
grossed only $7 mil in its first full week; It's budget was $34 mil. So unless it catches some buzz it is looking like a bottom line bust.
Not at all. That's a really low budget for a movie of this scale. Opening week sales typically only account for 25% of a movie's domestic sales. On top of that, it is incredibly uncommon that a movie's international box office makes up less than 50% of the total gross sales [[Usually closer to 60%-70%). So the movie should go well above and beyond to turn a profit easily.

Not to mention that this film has potential for critical claim around award season and another round of theatrical releases. Consider another similar movie by Bigelow, The Hurt Locker. That movie premiered to an opening week of less than $200,000 - which was less than 1% of its overall sales.