Just saw this in the theaters - it only came out two weeks ago here. I liked it a lot. I didn't have very high expectations, thanks to the trailer, but ended up enjoying it a lot. I double-billed it with Knocked Up, and I think this was actually the better of the two.

My question is: who stole Claire Danes eyebrows?

The movie continues to do well overseas. Despite not being a huge success in the US, it has made 112 million worldwide so far, and isn't slowing down at the time being.

this movie was very okay.

I noticed the same thing. It's doing really well in the U.K. It should have done at LEAST 100 million in the U.S. What the hell happened??

Word of mouth.

I really wanted to like this movie and it was pretty lame. I wanted to shoot myself the entire time that De Niro was prancing around.

I never saw the movie, but word of mouth on it was pretty good.

That can't be true, considering how poorly it opened. Furthermore, it never dropped drastically enough to indicate that the few people who saw it were telling other people to avoid it.

simply no interest.

Lack of advertising. 75% positive at Rotten Tomatoes and 8.1 on imdb seems indicate that most people that did see the movie enjoyed it. I mentioned it to a number of people, and none of them ever heard of it.

that's what happens when you make your movie with way too much money.

What? Make a good movie?

I can understand that it might not resonate with everyone but it definately hit the mark for me.

It went way over budget, close to $200m. There was no way this movie was ever going to make that back. And sorry, it wasn't that entertaining. It was very bland fantasy.

All your posts lead me to believe that you loved it.

I really doubt this went over budget that much...
It probably needs to make around $150 million to cover all production and marketing costs and be in the green which it should have no trouble doing during its international theatrical run.
Also i can easily see this being a big seller and renter. Both during the holidays here in the US and in the long run.

All sources say this was a moderately budgeted flick and it stayed in that realm, where did you get $200m from?

Everything I read says 70 million. I honestly just don't believe the 200 million figure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/news

"Three other films that opened over the weekend were outright flops. Paramount's Stardust, which reportedly soared way over budget to close to $200 million, earned just $9.2 million."

IMDB news is basically tabloid stuff, i've seen them make mistakes before.. I haven't heard the 200 million figure anywhere else.

The movie's IMDB page lists 65 million as the budget and at Box Office Mojo they list it at 70 million.

I searched other sites, they all say what you're saying.

Regardless, $70m was too much.

Not if it turns a profit. According to Box Office Mojo it has pulled in $113,189,864 worldwide, throw in DVD sales I'm sure the studio is going to make a profit, so the Studio probably would disagree with you.

Hey, profit's fine. Just think of what they could've made if it was a better movie.

Being a good film has little to do with boxoffice success. It's all about marketing.