Posted on 02/19/2017 1:53:04 PM PST by EdnaMode
'A Cure for Wellness' is also bombing over the long Presidents Day weekend, leaving 'The Lego Batman Movie' and 'Fifty Shades Darker' firmly in charge
Acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon, bombed in its U.S. debut over the long Presidents Day weekend with an estimated $21 million from 3,325 theaters, including a three-day tally of $18.1 million.
That's a poor start considering the movie's $150 million production budget. Revised estimates for the holiday weekend will be released Monday morning, while final numbers won't be ready until Tuesday. In any case, the first Presidents Day weekend of Donald Trump's tenure in the White House turned out to be a something of a bust at the box office.
None of the new offerings Great Wall, New Line's comedy Fist Fight and New Regency/Fox's psychological thriller A Cure for Wellness were be able to topple holdovers The Lego Batman Movie and Fifty Shades Darker.
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The last movie I saw on "the big screen" was 300...
the infowarrior
The Great Wall looked like it had some promise but frankly it turned out to be a mess.
I think it’s great. American audiences turning away. Let them sell their trash to China. It’s gonna be real funny when they run up against Chinese censorship. They mock their fellow countrymen, but they’ll bow and scrape to not offend their new masters.
Maybe Soros should implement a reverse boycott. Pay this minions to go watch a lousy movie every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Peaceful way to build up revenues, get more money into the hands of Hollywood stars (?
) and then contribute to wacky democratic candidates like Hillary.
A. Zhang Yimou is one of the world’s best directors, best known here, probably, for “Hero,” “The Flowers Of War” and the breath-taking ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
B. People are right. The trailer makes “The Great Wall” seem hopelessly bad.
Oh, and...
C. Did these liberal !$%!)(’s REALLY have to work in a dig at Donald Trump into a report of the weekend’s movie receipts? Seriously?
Why? Because the vast majority of movies and TV shows "greenlighted" for production and pre-production within the last 18-20 months assume Hillary Clinton would be elected President. But since that failed to materialize, Hollywood now has way too many movies and TV shows "in the can" or almost completed that are essentially "out of sync" with American voter sentiment, and that could result in some very expensive box office revenue losses and much lower TV ratings. (Indeed, look at how fast the movie Miss Sloane failed.)
In fact, look at the upcoming Warner Brothers Wonder Woman movie, now in late post-production and due June 2017. Is it possible that Warner Brothers may have to re-shoot several critical scenes in the movie, and that could result in a delay of movie from June 2017 to late 2017?
Of course, we already have an example of Hillary Clinton's losses affecting the entertainment industry. U2 had planned to release its latest album, Songs of Experience, some time in late winter 2017. But with HIllary's loss, U2 was forced to rethink its release of an album that was essentially finished; will U2 end up releasing a longer version of this album with new anti-Trump protest songs by late summer 2017?
Bono may be changing his tune yet again
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Interesting. Thanks, Ray Chuang.
Wall? Crumbling? I get it!
I laugh at Libs in general whenever I see The Great Wall ads and think how much they oppose to a Great wall on our borders.
Such hypocrites.
It’s hard to beat Lego/Batman.
I tried to watch that last Godzilla movie on my home TV (widescreen LCD). The move was so dark I wouldn’t make out anything on the screen.
I finally ended trying and switched to something watchable.
I have noticed that with many TV shows and movies — they are film in dark places. That makes them difficult to view at home. Even if I brighten the TV control, it does not help, as it washing out the contract.
Got ya by 21 years.
Last time in a theater was taking my daughter and her friend to see the The Lion King in 1994
“Acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon...”
Zhang should’ve conferred with Sum Ting Wong before casting Matt “Damaged Goods” Damon in this movie.
Box office mojo predicted $76 million last weekend and it grossed $53 million.
Saw John Wick 2 last week. Very enjoyable. Beats the other movies named here hands-down.
Precisely. I have a list and matty is on it-wont pay one penny to see anything he is in-not one thing
I particularly like "House of Flying Daggers", one of the most romantic movies of recent years.
Cue the “ha-ha” guy
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