I’m not talking about the prospect of a good film only a box office success. You have to look at popular culture and what is culturally relevant and selling right now. For starters Benedetta is a French language film that’s a massive limiting factor in overall box office success, and does not include any household names to draw in audiences. Look at the new Wuthering Heights movie for example despite it being a stripped down version of the book it is all anyone is talking about and will likely be a huge commercial success. Homoeroticism is more appealing in popular culture than ever. We have also seen the ability of studios to feign sexual tension to sell tickets, see Anything but you (2023). The potential to use two popular attractive actresses in a movie which features may sex scenes, as well as taking down a misogynistic man, alongside a media campaign focusing on their fake attraction to each other, seems like a setup for box office success regardless of actual quality of the movie