Netflix Number One Action Movie Cost Just $170 Million To Make
The post Netflix Number One Action Movie Cost Just $170 Million To Make appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. ‘The Union’ was a hit on Netflix despite poor review scores Netflix It’s tough to find a chart-topping movie that cost less than $250 million to make and even tougher to find one which came in under budget. Netflix revealed yesterday that it managed to pull off both feats with the same movie. Netflix has made a name for itself with its buzzy originals. So much so that even movies which aren’t highly rated can quickly climb its charts, especially if they have an A List cast. That perfectly describes The Union, a 2024 action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry. Wahlberg plays a construction worker from Jersey who is recruited into a secret spy organization by Berry, his high school sweetheart. Its cookie cutter plot came straight out of the 1990s so it’s little surprise that many critics thought it was outdated. They scored it just 36% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes whilst audiences were even harsher rating it 24%. Remarkably, that didn’t stop it from becoming a blockbuster. The Union ranked in the top 10 in 93 countries and topped the Netflix charts for two consecutive weeks. In its first week it attracted a massive 33.1 million views and, against all the odds, got another 40 million the week after. Surprisingly it didn’t cost Netflix dearly. The cost of making movies in the United States is usually a closely-guarded secret as studios combine the cost of separate pictures in their overall expenses and don’t itemize the cost of each one. It is a different story for movies made in the United Kingdom like The Union. The movie was partly shot on the H Stage of Shepperton Studios in Surrey, around an hour south west of London. It was made there as a result of a deal struck…
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‘The Union’ was a hit on Netflix despite poor review scores Netflix It’s tough to find a chart-topping movie that cost less than $250 million to make and even tougher to find one which came in under budget. Netflix revealed yesterday that it managed to pull off both feats with the same movie. Netflix has made a name for itself with its buzzy originals. So much so that even movies which aren’t highly rated can quickly climb its charts, especially if they have an A List cast. That perfectly describes The Union, a 2024 action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry. Wahlberg plays a construction worker from Jersey who is recruited into a secret spy organization by Berry, his high school sweetheart. Its cookie cutter plot came straight out of the 1990s so it’s little surprise that many critics thought it was outdated. They scored it just 36% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes whilst audiences were even harsher rating it 24%. Remarkably, that didn’t stop it from becoming a blockbuster. The Union ranked in the top 10 in 93 countries and topped the Netflix charts for two consecutive weeks. In its first week it attracted a massive 33.1 million views and, against all the odds, got another 40 million the week after. Surprisingly it didn’t cost Netflix dearly. The cost of making movies in the United States is usually a closely-guarded secret as studios combine the cost of separate pictures in their overall expenses and don’t itemize the cost of each one. It is a different story for movies made in the United Kingdom like The Union. The movie was partly shot on the H Stage of Shepperton Studios in Surrey, around an hour south west of London. It was made there as a result of a deal struck…
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