Despite that critical acclaim and winning Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Cinematography, the film underperformed to say the least. It made around $90 million in the U.S., and while that sounds like a lot, against a budget of $80 million, that’s not a healthy number.
Luckily, it made way more around the world, raking in an additional $167 million, and while that doesn’t exactly put it in the financial juggernaut category, it keeps it from being a total disaster (which is important to me because the guy who directed this is making one of my favorite books of all time, Dune, into a couple of movies, and I want this guy to stay in business).