In its opening week, [Fables & Legends] amassed $50 million domestically and roughly $95 million internationally, cumulating to a $145 million net profit in total.
That, was a crap ton of money for a movie's opening week.
Contrary to expectations, despite being the unfortunate collateral victim of what was probably the biggest scandal of the year leading up to its release, the dark-fantasy epic of Martin O. Ronan's work, at least to the general audience, was building up to be a box office success.
However, as Atlas's executives received the report of the net profit, most soon felt themselves breaking out in a cold sweat.
They figured it was coming.
Yet…
"This… this can't be right, right?" one of them, dressed from head to toe in sleek black suit, scratched the back of his head with a dangerous chuckle.