Insidious – Patrick Wilson’s Red Door and with it, the fifth chapter of the saga, is the highest-grossing horror of 2023: the genre continues to show the best ratio between costs and income, even if the absolute numbers are very far from those of blockbusters. .
Insidious – Red doordirectorial debut Patrick Wilson also a historical interpreter sagawas absent for several weeks and already became highest grossing horror film of 2023winning the competition M3GAN. But what number are we talking about and why does the horror genre remain a huge box office treasure?
Insidious – Red Door Beats M3gan at the Box Office of 2023, It’s the Most Viewed Horror Movie
Insidious – Red door currently compiled $182,400,000 worldwide: this may seem like a ridiculous number compared to a billion Barbie or even up to the 560s Oppenheimerbut it just became highest grossing horror genre in 2023ahead of 179,900,000 M3GAN. Not only that: it fifth chapter of the saga was made on a limited budget of $16 million which meant it broke tickets ten times more expensivea ratio that perhaps Barbie (budget 150) can hope to approach, and which Oppenheimer (budget 100) will never reach.
The economic result of the fifth “Astral” undoubtedly confirms commercial real estate seriestotal cost of just over $42 million (James Wang made the first insidious with 1,500,000, think about it!) and a box office harbinger of 737,400,000. This confirms, more generally, thathorror remains the strong point, which can be bet on with the maximum cost-benefit ratio.invincible, especially when such a smart and cunning producer as Jason Bloom increases several resources with maximum skill. Paul even works better than comedywhich on paper should be another type of relatively cheap production: in reality it requires important actors and actresses, and, for example, hiring Jennifer Lawrence For girlfriend for rent brought its budget to 45 million with a box office gross of 85, just under par. This type of horror, on the other hand, is based more on atmosphere than big attraction stars.
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