THE RIGHTEOUS PATH
Budget: $20,000,000
Total Box Office: $20,740,272
Total Profit: -$16,297,513
The modestly budgeted drama failed to find enough of an audience to cover its costs, extending a difficult commercial stretch for writer Andrew Doster. While the loss was relatively contained compared with some of the season’s larger failures, the broader trend is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
BOX OFFICE FACT
Make it four consecutive box office flops for writer Andrew Doster, with The Righteous Path joining The Letter Never Sent, Rise Again, and The Eye of History. Together, the four films have now lost $80 million for LRF.
GENRE RANKINGS
Drama: #371
SPACE SHERIFF HELIOS
Budget: $70,000,000
Total Box Office: $69,587,380
Total Profit: -$65,290,017
Space Sheriff Helios became the clear financial low point of Round 5, losing more than $65 million despite a production budget of only $70 million. The result places the ambitious sci-fi action film among the largest losses of Season 37 — though remarkably, not even among the very worst of writer Meirad Tako’s long LRF career.
BOX OFFICE FACT
As bad as the numbers are for Space Sheriff Helios, it is only the fourth-largest loss attached to a Meirad Tako screenplay. His biggest financial failure remains Season 9’s Alternative, which lost $124 million for the studio.
GENRE RANKINGS
Action: #293
Sci-Fi: #142
MORTAL KOMBAT III
Budget: $90,000,000
Total Box Office: $322,069,713
Total Profit: $99,912,824
The third Mortal Kombat film became the franchise’s strongest financial performer yet, pushing past $320 million worldwide and delivering nearly $100 million in profit. The result continues to validate the series as one of LRF’s more dependable video game properties.
BOX OFFICE FACT
Across three films, LRF’s Mortal Kombat franchise has now generated over $820 million worldwide and a combined $250 million in profit.
GENRE RANKINGS
Action: #160
Fantasy: #50
Season 37 Round 5 Total Box Office:
$412,397,365
Season 37 Round 5 Total Profit:
$18,325,294
Round 5 stayed in the black almost entirely because of Mortal Kombat III. Its nearly $100 million profit was forced to offset more than $81 million in combined losses from The Righteous Path and Space Sheriff Helios, leaving very little of the round’s upside intact.
Season 37 Total Box Office:
$2,880,583,117
Season 37 Total Profit:
$505,730,495
At the halfway point, Season 37 has generated nearly $2.9 billion worldwide and just over $505 million in profit. That puts the season on pace to finish at only around $1 billion in total profit, which would represent a fairly mediocre financial year by modern LRF standards. Pokémon has provided an enormous foundation, but too many bombs and disasters elsewhere on the slate have prevented the season from building much momentum around it.
SEASON 37 BOX OFFICE STANDINGS
1. Pokémon — $776,788,299 👑
2. Metroid Prime — $338,796,929 💰
3. Nightwing: Bloodhunt — $336,402,669 🔥
4. Mortal Kombat III — $322,069,713 🔥
5. X-Force — $310,807,346 🔥
6. Grand Theft Auto IV — $202,571,839 💰
7. Astro Bot — $200,216,109 💰
8. Deadline — $112,721,449 ⚖️
9. Space Sheriff Helios — $69,587,380 ☠️
10. Hay Day — $59,532,823 💣
11. The Passageway — $47,062,055 💣
12. Bloodsong — $37,158,143 💣
13. The Silver Swan — $28,002,086 💣
14. The Righteous Path — $20,740,272 💣
15. Below the Surface — $18,126,005 💣
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