Anthony Mackie’s $150 Million, Saudi-Funded Action Movie Desert Warrior Looks Like One of the Biggest Box Office Flops in History
by nimobo
Anthony Mackie’s $150 Million, Saudi-Funded Action Movie Desert Warrior Looks Like One of the Biggest Box Office Flops in History
by nimobo
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Is this the marketing campaign? It’s got me interested
Ben Kingsley is in his for the paycheck phase.
I can’t wait for next months headline:
“Anthony Mackie’s Desert Warrior is a sleeper hit according to streaming numbers…”
In this day, using movie theater ticket sales as a metric for success/failure is akin to if Apple used how many Amish folks are buying the new iPhone.
Old blood money Mackie.
Critics are calling it everything from Shit to Fucking Shit.
The woke right refused to runs ads so no one knew about this movie
It looks like something my dad would get from Redbox and say was pretty good.
It’s easy to say Anthony Mackie doesn’t have leading man charisma or that this failed because everyone hates Saudi funded stuff. But the reality is that they literally never marketed it. People have to know about things before spending money on things.
It’s gotten trashed by critics, but it’s got a 61 on RT. So I feel like it would have been mildly accepted on streaming with a little advertising if it were there.