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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Sucker Punch Box Office Disappointment

Sucker Punch is a metaphysical movie about institutionalized girls who escape the mental institute through astral projecting into a fantasy world to defeat their demons. Sucker Punch cost an estimated $82 million to make.


Sucker Punch is a metaphysical movie about institutionalized girls who psychologically escape the mental institute through astral projecting into a fantasy world to defeat their demons. Sucker Punch cost an estimated $82 million to make. The girl-powered movie scored an estimated $36.4 million in the domestic box office.

Sucker Punch was released in the box office on March 25, 2011, making an estimated $19.1 million in its first weekend. The fantasy movie fell short of making back the production budget in the U.S. box office. The estimated box office results totaled $36.4 million. The movie lasted nearly two months in the domestic box office.

The metaphysical movie exhausted millions on special effects. Hence, the fantasy sequences relied on visually stunning imaginary to advance the movie to the next level. Most mainstream moviegoers probably lost track of the plot during Baby Doll's dance sequences.

Sucker Punch incorporated an emotional structure in the plot to entertain the movie audience. A movie about mentally incapacitated girls would be rather boring, so dividing the plot points into missions added another dimension to the theme. In essence, the girl-powered Sucker Punch movie's excessive production budget of $82 million fell short of the projected box office earnings, instead generating an estimated $36.4 million.      

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