It is becoming more and more common for films that go more or less unnoticed in cinemas to gain much greater popularity when they are released on streaming. Then almost all of them end up forgotten, but there are a few titles that re-emerge from time to time, which is exactly what has just happened with a science fiction film that sank at the box office in 2019 and is now among the most watched in the world. Netflix worldwide: ‘Gemini’.
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Starring Will Smith and with the use of the HFR technology at 120 frames per second and in 3D As additional claims, ‘Gemini Man’ was a big bet by Paramount, as its budget went up to 138 million dollars. A priori it seemed like a safe bet, since it also had the presence behind the cameras of The Leebut the crash was historic.
Released in the United States on October 11, 2019, ‘Gemini Man’ was totally overshadowed by the huge phenomenon of ‘Joker’, which had hit theaters just a week earlier. Of course, to be fair, The failure of this cross between science fiction, thriller and action cinema was probably inevitable.as it debuted directly at number 3 on the list of highest grossing films and quickly collapsed.
It was of little use that it performed better in the rest of the world, as it grossed 48.5 million at the North American box office and 124.9 million in the other markets. The disaster resulted in estimated losses of $111.1 million.It is true that it will have recovered part of it later through streaming rights and so on, but in no case will it have come close to the figure needed to leave the red behind.
The funny thing is not so much that it is now sweeping Netflix as that The same thing happened on that same platform last year.. ‘Gemini Man’ left Netflix in April, but it’s back now and it’s working like a charm once again. For my part, I wouldn’t even be surprised if some viewers who already saw it then had to stop watching it and started watching it again until they took it off after remembering that it had already been seen…
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