Synopsis
The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
Scores
Popularity Percentile (Year)
35.9%
Box Office Percentile (Year)
28.9%
Critic Consensus
61.5% Fresh • 52 critic reviews
Critic reception is mixed, with 62% of 52 logged reviews marked Fresh. Across reviews, critics repeatedly emphasize visually striking, stylized, thin plot. Common reservations focus on thin plot, even when reviewers praise standout elements.
visually strikingstylizedthin plotemotionalhistoricalfunnysuspensefulmacabredarkthought-provoking
Cast
| Cast | Year | Reported Salary | Inflation Adjusted | Notes |
|---|
| Elmer Bäck | 2016 | $448,000 | $586,000 | (est) |
Aggregated Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes critic score62.0
RT critic review count53
Rotten Tomatoes audience score52.0
RT audience rating count250
IMDb rating6.3
IMDb votes3,223
Box Office ?
| Category | Year | Reported | Inflation Adjusted |
|---|
| Domestic | 2016 | $34,282 | $44,809 |
| International | 2016 | $37,288 | $48,739 |
| Worldwide | 2016 | $71,570 | $93,548 |
Earnings / Profitability
Estimated net revenues and net expenses for films based on reported and estimated numbers. This income statement should be considered most viable for the first 24 months after the inital movie's release (ie after most lucrative pay windows).
| Category | Year | Reported | Inflation Adjusted |
|---|
| Revenues |
| Theatrical Net Revenue | 2016 | $32,056 | $41,900 |
| Digital Rentals ? | 2016 | $929,000 | $1,214,280 |
| Digital Purchases ? | 2016 | $947,000 | $1,237,808 |
| Physical Rentals ? | 2016 | $815,000 | $1,065,273 |
| Physical Purchases ? | 2016 | $2,301,000 | $3,007,599 |
| TV & Streaming Revenue | 2016 | $840,000 | $1,097,950 |
| Total Revenues | 2016 | $5,864,056 | $7,664,810 |
| Expenses |
| Budget ? | 2016 | $2,800,000 | $3,659,833 |
| Print & Advertising (P&A) ? | 2016 | $80,000 (est) | $104,567 (est) |
| Participations | 2016 | $235,000 | $307,165 |
| Residuals ? | 2016 | $320,000 | $418,267 |
| Interest & Overhead | 2016 | $560,000 | $731,967 |
| Total Expenses | 2016 | $3,995,000 | $5,221,798 |
| Movie Net Profit or Loss | 2016 | $1,869,056 | $2,443,012 |
Similar Movies
| Poster | Movie | Year | Match | Overall | Est. Profit |
|---|
 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Shared genres: 4 | 95.4 | $78,676,441 |
 | Silver Linings Playbook | 2012 | Shared genres: 4 | 94.9 | $98,374,307 |
 | When Harry Met Sally... | 1989 | Shared genres: 4 | 94.1 | $84,958,364 |
 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | Shared genres: 4 | 94.0 | $89,663,856 |
 | Notting Hill | 1999 | Shared genres: 4 | 93.8 | $129,254,950 |
Tooltips
- Digital Rentals: PVOD, VOD, & On-Demand
- Marketing & distribution costs to release Movie in Theaters. Includes: Online & Offline Ads, Posters, Trailer Production, and physical or digital copies (formerly "prints") sent to cinemas.
- Net Digital Purchase Revenue
- Net Revenues for Physical Rentals: VHS, DVD, BluRay (when appropriate)
- Physical Purchases: VHS $0, DVD $1,535,000, BluRay $767,000
- Reported or Estimated Net Budget (after tax, product placements, & grants)
- Theatrical box office grosses split into Domestic, International, and Worldwide totals.
- Union-modeled residuals using SAG-AFTRA and WGA schedules as a simplified estimate proxy.
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Budget Tooltip
Reported or Estimated Net Budget (after tax, product placements, & grants)
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