How Much Green Did ‘The Grinch’ Steal? No. 9 In Deadline’s 2018 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline is repeating our Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament for 2018, using data culled by seasoned and trusted sources.
The Grinch
Universal/Illumination Entertainment
The Film
While Illumination chief Chris Meledandri has made original creations a priority, the exceptions have been his Dr. Seuss feature adaptations, and the Grinch repped his third after Horton Hears a Who and The Lorax (both made at Fox). Unlike Ron Howard’s 2000 live-action take for Universal (that year’s highest-grossing pic at the domestic box office with $260 million), which focused on the commercialization of Christmas,...
The Grinch
Universal/Illumination Entertainment
The Film
While Illumination chief Chris Meledandri has made original creations a priority, the exceptions have been his Dr. Seuss feature adaptations, and the Grinch repped his third after Horton Hears a Who and The Lorax (both made at Fox). Unlike Ron Howard’s 2000 live-action take for Universal (that year’s highest-grossing pic at the domestic box office with $260 million), which focused on the commercialization of Christmas,...
- 3/26/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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