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EVERYTHING IS BOMBING NOW
| cowgod | 07/12/26 |
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Date: July 12th, 2026 10:54 AM Author: cowgod Failure used to be news. Now it is the release calendar.
FILM Waterworld (1995): Budget $175 million. Worldwide box office $264 million. This was once the universal symbol of Hollywood excess. Today those numbers would lookresponsible.
-The Marvels (2023): Budget about $270 million. Worldwide box office $206 million. -Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023): Budget about $300 million. Worldwide box office $384 million. -Wish (2023): Budget about $200 million. Worldwide box office $255 million. -The Flash (2023): Budget about $200 million. Worldwide box office $271 million. -Haunted Mansion (2023): Budget about $150 million. Worldwide box office $118 million. -Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024): Budget $168 million. Worldwide box office $174 million. -Joker: Folie à Deux (2024): Budget about $190 million. Worldwide box office $208 million. -Borderlands (2024): Budget about $110 million. Worldwide box office $33 million. -Argylle (2024): Budget about $200 million. Worldwide box office $96 million. -Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (2024): Budget about $100 million. Worldwide box office $38 million. -Kraven the Hunter (2024): Budget about $110 million. Worldwide box office $62 million. -Snow White (2025): Budget about $240 million. Worldwide box office about $205 million. -Supergirl (2026): Budget about $170 million. Box office still in release.
Waterworld built an ocean, survived the press campaign against it, sold tickets for months and grossed more than its production budget. They called it an apocalypse. The modern Film studio does this several times a year.
GAMES -Concord (2024): Reported budget at least $200 million. Estimated sales under 25,000k copies. -Redfall (2023): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Bleeding Edge (2020): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Battletoads (2020): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -As Dusk Falls (2022): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Pentiment (2022): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Hi-Fi Rush (2023): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (2024): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Ara: History Untold (2024): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -Towerborne (2024): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -South of Midnight (2025): Reported budget about $100 million. Sales undisclosed. -Avowed (2025): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed. -The Outer Worlds 2 (2025): Reported budget about $100 million. Estimated sales under 1 million in its first several months. -Highguard (2026): Budget undisclosed. More than 2 million players tried it. Servers closed after about 45 days. -Marathon (2026): Reported budget above $200 million. Estimated first-month sales about 1.2 million copies. Currently had 7,000k players. -Perfect Dark: Years of development. Budget undisclosed. Cancelled before release. -Everwild: Announced in 2019. Budget undisclosed. Cancelled before release. -Contraband: Budget undisclosed. Cancelled before release. -Project Blackbird: Budget undisclosed. Cancelled before release. -Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025): Budget undisclosed. Sales not separately disclosed above 1 million for either platform in Nintendo’s initial reporting. -Star Fox (2026): Budget undisclosed. Sales undisclosed.
The undisclosed number is now the dominant unit of measurement in gaming.
Losses have been unfathomable in the 2020s imho, and consequences will never be the same.
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