I never said I was a fan of the franchise. Are you a box office expert? I was just stating the information that I have and the reasonable conclusions from the numbers.
The term box office bomb or flop generally refers to a film that is viewed as highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, sometimes preceding hype regarding its production, cost or marketing efforts.[1][2] To earn this distinction, the film must also fail to earn more than the reported cost of its production, distribution and marketing by a wide margin.[3]
Gauging the financial success of a film is difficult, and because there is no definitive definition, what makes a box-office bomb can be very subjective. Not all films that fail to earn back their estimated costs during their theatrical runs are bombs,[2] and the label is generally applied to films that miss earnings projections by a wide margin, particularly when they are very expensive to produce, and sometimes in conjunction with middling or poor reviews (though critical reception has an imperfect connection to box office performance).[4]
The margins are not big enough for it to be a bomb. Mediocre yes, bomb no. Especially since it is still in theaters and still making money.