Box office: Dogman is the biggest flop of Luc Besson’s career

Leave the session Dogman, we were surprised that such a mediocre and problematic film could find its way into many French cinemas. But a week later, the box office numbers spoke.

A catastrophic start

From its first day of activity, Dogman his splash at the box office and it didn’t raise the bar during its first week in theaters. That’s how it became the worst commercial failure ever for a Luc Besson film.

On Wednesday 27 September the spectators did not recover Dogman, and he didn’t do it in the following days either. A week later, the film shows the catastrophic results of 139,939 spectatorseven if the film was expensive 20.4 million euros (the CNC estimates around 4.4 million euros the average budget of a French film.)

Although many of his films have received cold reception from critics and audiencesLuc Besson maintains a relative box office milestone until Dogman. As disappointing as they are, Lucia (2014) had attracted more than 5 million of spectators AND Valerian (2017), 4 millionlike our colleagues at Pure media. To get an idea, Lucia had gathered 1.9 million viewers in the first week AND Valerian 1.7 million. These data already demonstrated in the early days a certain tendency on the part of Luc Besson’s films to arouse the curiosity of the public (undoubtedly thanks to the protagonists, such as Scarlett Johansson or Cara Delevingne), but and then collapse.

With his 139,939 insertions, Dogman is far from the mark – and is undoubtedly better this way, as the film wallows in rancid incel ideology and transphobia.