Many hoped and expected Tom Hiddleston to dominate the fall and winter. It’s not happening though. I Saw the Light got pushed back all of a sudden (following terrible reviews on the film festival circuit), and it will be released in one of the deadest movie-dumping grounds next year. High Rise isn’t even being distributed in America. And Crimson Peak has officially sh-t the bed. Poor Tom.
Crimson Peak was never going to be a huge awards-bait film, but people really expected all of Guillermo del Toro’s fanboys to come out and make the film a huge success. Not so much. Crimson Peak is being called a “bomb” and a “flop.” Variety said it “fell flat” at the box office when it debuted, last weekend, with $12.6 million, then it made $5.6 million this past weekend (and came it in #8, which is pretty bad). CP cost $55 million to make, and I would assume that the figure does not include the promotional campaign, which featured some very expensive ad buys and commercials.
Will Crimson Peak at least break even? There’s hope that it will make money internationally, and that it will have some decent word-of-mouth with adult audiences. But for now, Universal’s distribution guy Nick Carpou explains: “This is a challenging play time for adult-oriented films. The film is definitely a throwback to an old-fashioned way of creating atmosphere and layering tension. It’s visually stunning and genuinely creepy.” It also got some bad reviews and most critics, even the generous ones, believe it’s an uneven film. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 68% – not flat-out awful, but disappointing.
There is one piece of good news for Hiddleston and Hiddles’ fans. AMC has picked up the international broadcast rights for The Night Manager. AMC will air TNM in America, of course, and the BBC will air it in the UK. But now AMC is going to take The Night Manager global, which should be interesting. I haven’t heard much about what the miniseries/event is like, but I hope it’s good and I hope Tom can at least prove that he can find success at something other than “being Loki.”
Oh, and Tom is likely in Australia now. That’s where they’re going to film Kong: Skull Island.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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