Anonymous
| Budget: $30 million | Financed by: Sony; Medienboard |
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| Domestic Gross: $4,463,292 | Domestic Distributor: Sony |
| Overseas Gross: $11,352,217 | Directed by: Roland Emmerich |
Starring: Rhys Ifans |
Produced by: Larry J. Franco |
Sony backed this $30 million Roland Emmerich pet project and received some financial assistance from German grants. Anonymous received the largest grant in 2010 from Medienboard with $1.25 million. Two weeks before Anonymous’ US release, the film was tracking poorly and was heading for a sub $5 million opening and Sony cut the marketing down and changed the the wide release to a platform release. They opened the film in 265 theaters to $1,021,768 with a not very promising $3,856 per screen average and expanded it to 513 theaters the following weekend where it showed practically no growth with $1,233,006. Anonymous never expanded beyond the 513 theaters and closed with just $4,463,292 at the US box office, which wouldn’t even come close to covering the partially aborted ad spend or any of the budget. Sony released the film overseas to a poor $11,352,217 and a weak $2.2 million from Emmerich’s home country and partial investor, Germany.
Now here’s a movie that deserves to rot in Hell.