Posted on 02/04/2017 9:00:55 AM PST by EdnaMode
Sony Pictures Classics’ The Comedian, which critics have thrown apples at with a 24% RT rating, is suffering with $950K at 848 sites. Sean Penn was originally set to direct Robert De Niro with Kristen Wiig back in October 2011 from Art Linson and Comedy Central roastmaster Jeffrey Ross’ script. Mike Newell stepped in when the movie secured its financing, but then stepped out due to scheduling. By July 2015, Taylor Hackford was aboard to steer the ship. SPC tried to give this movie a push during awards season, premiering at November’s AFI fest, but the pic didn’t catch on in the clever way that Martin Scorsese’s previous De Niro stand-up feature The King of Comedy did in 1982. Also, it’s hard to make movies about stand-ups in an era when Louis C.K. authentically owns the sub-genre and elevates it to cinematic class with FX’s Emmy-winning Louie. You can’t compete with that, and any film critic with any innate knowledge and fandom for Louie is going to juxtapose Comedian to that high-bar. Like Gold and The Founder, The Comedian wasn’t in the awards conversation, and the fact that reviewers loathe it spells bad business for this older adult comedy.
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GO FISHING, WALK IN THE PARK...MOST OF ALL, READ. DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING CONNECTED WITH THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY OR PRODUCED BY A KNOWN LEFTIST INSTITUTION ONE MINUTE OR YOUR TIME OR MONEY. NO EXCEPTIONS AND DO NOT WATCH THE OSCARS! BRING THESE PEOPLE DOWN!
Split was pretty good.
Watched it on the Chinese pirated movie site though.
I’m not paying these a—holes for anything ever again.
Maybe De Niro wants to smack his own face now.
Hollywood is nothing more than an industry that enables pedophiles. And their little actor talking head script readers are complicit in shutting up. Their money and widdle egos are much more important than children.
Liberals thinking they have a sense of humor... now that’s funny!
AT first I read the headline had something to do with Ring Dings, which I have a craving for. What a disappointment that is was about a movie.
Sadly, Robert De Niro has destroyed what was left of his career!!! Mr. De Niro....has anyone told you....that elections have consequences!!!
De Niro already cashed his Check.
Seems like he will take any Job to make a buck nowadays.
Watched the first 10 minutes of Dirty Grampa. I couldn’t watch after a scene where he was masturbating. What on earth would possess De Niro to take such a role?
De Niro is gone for my family.
He’s a punk.
LOL, he probably will when the final box office totals are released. :D
Yeah, I saw the interview with Corey Feldman. Hollywood is a sick industry, and yet they all claim to be the most open minded, tolerant, and caring. Most of them are narcissists and hypocrites.
BHO’s “economic” stewardship of America had a negative impact on his restaurant?
When the Big One hits CA, don’t be surprised if the epicenter is right under Follywood. What a moral cesspool.
(So maybe a little out of date But when I read “Split’ Dings ‘Rings’; No Oxygen For ‘Space’” it brought the song “Variety Speak to mind)
In Hollywood they have a different language that they speak
It’s spoken by those folks who went to school for just one week
It’s found inside Variety, a magazine they use
And no one understands it when they read the movie news
Like, Hix makes pix but the flick needs fix
Means someone made a movie that bombed
The veeps in charge are now at large
Means everyone involved is gone
The plot conflix, no beautiful chix
So it’s coming out on video soon
They’re taking their lix
‘Cause the critics say nix
And the editors are gonna try to fix it in the mix
But the stock sees green on page thirteen
Means Disney’s up a nickel a share
Stallone cuts deal for a major reel
Means Rocky number six, so beware
If you want the poop or you need the scoop
On Hollywood town this week
You’re gonna have to learn to talk that Variety Speak
Bob a doo bop, a bob a doo bah
Bob a doo bop, a bob a doo bah
A boffo smash makes Warner cash
Means there’s gonna be a sequel next year
But Paramount hurts and they’re losing their shirts
Means Schwarzenegger’s doing King Lear
Oliver Stone does next Home Alone
Means he’s getting paid an arm and a leg
The budget goes crunch but his name packs punch
So they called up the accountants and they’re gonna do lunch
Well, the ratings smile on the O.J. trial
Means a movie of the week to premiere
Universal cuts deal with Mister Spiel
To do a hundred thousand movies a year
You gotta play it smart if you wanna be part
Of the crowd that’s hip and chic
You’re gonna have to learn to talk that Variety Speak
Bob a doo bop, a bob a doo bah
Bob a doo bop, a bob a doo bah
Normal talk makes producers walk
You might as well speak Greek
You’re gonna have to learn
Or the meeting will adjourn
Unless, my friend, you learn that variety speak
Bob a doo bop, a bob a doo bah
Bob a doo bop, a bob a doo bah
Bah doop bah doop bah doop bahhh dah
Insult Trump—earns only my disgust—and not the price of a ticket—Let Hollywood rot and earn their money off the Chinese Market—where their anti-Americanism is welcome.
Two of my favorite people. /s
IMO, the only way Hollywood will truly collapse is if audiences tire of Blockbuster franchises: Star Wars, Marvel, DC, etc. If audiences (global and domestic) become tired of the same old super hero and block buster films, the industry is going to go out of business. All they’ll have left is indie films (which don’t appeal to global audiences).
English translation requested.
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