Posted on 02/06/2016 8:29:37 PM PST by fireman15
The third new offering of the weekend, Nicholas Sparks' film adaptation 'The Choice,' is also struggling; 'Kung Fu Panda 3' will beat all three to stay at No. 1.
Ethan and Joel Coen's Hail, Caesar! grossed an underwhelming $4.3 million from 2,222 theaters Friday for a projected $11.6 million debut, the lowest nationwide start of the duo's directing career.
The news is even more grim for mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The movie may only debut to $5 million after earning $2 million on Friday from 2,931 theaters. That puts it behind the the third new movie daring to open on Super Bowl weekend, Nicholas Sparks' film adaptation The Choice, which took in $2.6 million from 2,631 theaters Friday for a projected $5.5 million debut.
Caesar — earning a withering C- CinemaScore from audiences — looks to come in No. 2 behind Kung Fu Panda 3, which is easily staying at No. 2 in its second outing. The animated film grossed $5.2 million from 3,982 locations Friday for a projected $20 million weekend.
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The Coens have produced just a handful of accessible movies, some of them have just sucked IMHO. Woody Allen’s nonlinear films (”Deconstructing Harry”, “Stardust Memories”, etc) are among his best, but his more accessible movies (we all know which ones they are) are also mostly among my favorites, whereas a great number of his movies have either just laid there, or they’ve sucked. It’s a consequence, in part, of having a huge body of work (in his case), or perhaps the disagreements between the brothers which they work out before they start shooting sometimes work to the benefit of their films, and sometimes don’t.
I can’t wait to see Hail Caesar, thanks for the good review?
I meant to acknowledge your comment in my last reply. I don't know what the Coens politics are. It seems like they try to stay out of it. But there are very few if any other movies from any time period that portray New Deal Democrats as the head of the local KKK. Very funny and probably more accurate than most of us realize.
Not everyone seems to like it, but my wife and I did.
My favorite movie of all times is Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Is that a Coen Bros film, I have forgotten?
Yes, O’ Brother Where Art Thou is a Coen Brothers film. Like I said however O’ Brother is based on a journey from point a to point b. This one is based on all these events that take place in 24 in the primary character’s day.
There is one major event and numerous other side stories and not all of the side stories have a great deal of relationship to one another. Some people find this lack of continuity irritating but my wife and I enjoyed all of the side adventures because we are old movie buffs and some of them are really good spoofs.
We greatly enjoyed that the villains in the primary story were communist screen writers who have been portrayed as victims in every other film we have ever seen. Regardless of what the Coens’ intentions were... it is satisfying to see them portrayed this way for once.
AND the world didn't end? OMG!
Thanks, they do comedies — which is hard to figure, considering how really dark and disturbed about half of their movies are. Ethan (I think it was) remarked offhand in one of the “making of” interviews on a disk (I think it was for the 2009 movie ‘A Serious Man’)
...gotta change the channel, the A-holes on CBS are interviewing the Last Couple right now...
...[much later] okay, I took a walk, what a nice day! Anyway, Ethan joked that it wasn’t like them to make fun of other people. ;’)
The destruction of the USSR was largely squandered, mainly because Clinton and Zero are both on their side.
The only thing he has going for him is his looks. He's a reincarnation of that hack Redford..........
For those who want to see George Clooney slapped and slapped again and again here is a link to that scene.
Put it in a loop! : )
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/hail-caesar-scene-breakdown-josh-brolin-165558005.html
"Is that a panty on your head?"
I am sorry, but for me the scene with Clooney getting the crap slapped out of him was worth nearly the price of admission. I think that if someone made a film with just a bunch of leftist actors and actresses getting the crap slapped out of them that it would be very satisfying and the highest grossing film of the year.
If you take that attitude you can’t watch, see or read anything.
It’s getting from flack from on the left for ‘tacitly approving’ of the blacklist.
I kind of thought that eventually it would. Unfortunately, I doubt that was actually the Coens’ intention. Personally I loved that they portrayed the commies as a bunch of buffoons.
Their comedies tend to portray everyone as a buffoon...some likable some not so much.
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