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      • Despite placing third in the Oscars Fan Favorite contest, the biographical drama Minamata failed to recover its cost. In addition to his lead role, Johnny Depp was also a producer. Minamata was reportedly made on a budget of $11-13 million but earned only $755K at the worldwide box office.
  1. Sep 15, 2022 · In fact, now the studio says the movie didn’t open at all. Early this week, reports started rolling around that Johnny Depp’s Minamata only made $15,000 dollars at the box office this weekend.

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  3. Feb 11, 2022 · Leading man Johnny Depp is up to the challenge, and he gives a finely tuned performance here that kind of feels like his first "old man" turn, and he’s matched by a charming piece of work from Minami, but “Minamata” is weighed down by self-important direction that loses the human beings in this story by prioritizing the headlines.

  4. Originally slated to be paid $6 million for the role, Depp renegotiated down to $3 million in order to keep the film under-budget. [4] Filming began in January 2019, with Bill Nighy, Minami Hinase, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Ryo Kase and Jun Kunimura added to the cast.

  5. Feb 7, 2022 · Now the story of the Smiths and Minamata has been brought to the big screen by filmmaker Andrew Levitas, starring Johnny Depp as Smith, Minami as Aileen and Bill Nighy as Smith’s editor Robert...

  6. Apr 8, 2021 · Minamata: Directed by Andrew Levitas. With Akiko Iwase, Kogarashi Wakasugi, Johnny Depp, Katherine Jenkins. War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

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    • Drama
    • Andrew Levitas
    • 2021-04-08
  7. Feb 10, 2022 · In Andrew Levitas’s newest film, Johnny Depp portrays a real-life photojournalist who helped expose an ecological disaster in 1970s Japan.

  8. Feb 7, 2021 · UPDATE: The studio has informed us that despite the release date being listed as February 5th on IMDb, Box Office Mojo, Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing, Minamata did...