It’s the Christmas present that nobody wanted. Disney’s Nutcracker revamp, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, stars Keira Knightley and cost about $130m, making it one of the most expensive Christmas-themed movies ever made. Now, with paltry earnings of only $20m on its first US weekend, it has been declared a flop. As Forbes magazine noted in a doom-laden appraisal, “$130 million is way too much to spend on a Christmas movie”.
The film suffered production troubles, with the original director replaced during shooting, but perhaps something more than behind-the-scenes woes and an over-inflated budget is to blame. Reviewing the film in the Guardian, Cath Clarke missed “the melancholy darkness” of the original ETA Hoffmann story. And if there’s one ingredient Christmas stories need, it’s that. Nothing says festive cinema quite like the prospect of despair and disaster.
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