Django unchained

There are few directors quite like Quentin Tarantino. Particularly in the modern era of Hollywood where intellectual property and pre-existing franchises are ...

"Django" never once topped the charts and yet, it still had a path to becoming a huge hit, even with a huge budget that wouldn't typically be a smart bet for a western in modern times. Unfortunately, until audiences start showing up for the bottom five movies in the top 10 in a given week at the box office again, the likelihood of a movie being able to make this kind of money, in this way, is very much a thing of the past. All told, the film earned a very impressive $162.8 million domestically, both in the lead-up to and in the aftermath of the Oscars that year. In the lead-up to his first western, he had made his distinctive versions of a gangster flick ("Pulp Fiction"), a heist film ("Reservoir Dogs"), a World War II thriller ("Inglourious Basterds"), and even a slasher movie of sorts ("Death Proof"). In the case of this movie it was the first scene that dictated the whole thing. That put it at a grand total of $425.3 million worldwide, not to mention a couple of Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Waltz. That movie hit theaters in Christmas of 2012 in the form of "Django Unchained," a film that represented the filmmaker's first attempt at a western in his illustrious career, which was around two decades old. [...] I was like, 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!'" And so, Smith missed out on a huge hit but rest assured, it became a hit without him. The movie never topped the charts, again losing a narrow race to [Jordan Peele](https://www.slashfilm.com/935061/jordan-peeles-movie-budgets-keep-getting-bigger/) at this point, audiences have proven time and time again that they will turn up in droves just because his name is attached to the movie in question. Speaking with [the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/movies/how-quentin-tarantino-concocted-a-genre-of-his-own.html?pagewanted=all) around the time of its initial release, the auteur had this to say about it: Particularly in the modern era of Hollywood where intellectual property and pre-existing franchises are king, the director of hits like "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" has essentially become a franchise of sorts unto himself.