Posted on 10/22/2017 12:48:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Its a bizarre season in Hollywood. Almost nothing is working, and the studios cant afford to waste any more money hoping things will turn around. Theyre pulling flops from theaters earlier than usual.
This weekend, for example, Warner Bros. is putting out a white flag on Blade Runner after three tough weeks. Theyve cut the number of theaters showing Denis Villeneuves beautiful film by 855. So far, Blade Runner has made just $66 million. Audiences have not clamored to it. And now, week by week, Warners will quietly take it away.
Warners isnt alone. Universal is pulling Tom Cruises American Made from 539 locations after a month in release. The Doug Liman directed thriller has made just $43 million. Good reviews havent helped push Cruise fans to theaters. One problem was lack of promotion since Cruise wasnt available. Also, audiences may have just soured on him after The Mummy and other flops. With both studios, it wasnt for lack of trying.
The biggest decease (de-crease, but pun intended here) is for the revived Flatliners. With just $16 million in the till, Sony would be better off paying people to see this turkey. Theyre retreating from 1,433 theaters this weekend, leaving Flatliners to breathe on its own. It will be completely dead by Sunday.
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First of all, Cruise is past his “use by” date. Millenials sure as hell aren’t fans.
Harrison Ford is just an old creepy dude. The last fans he had were conservatives who THOUGHT he was conservative. Then he came out and slammed conservatism hoping he’d get another job. He did and the investors fell for it.
Bottom line is the movies suck. The actors are arrogant pricks. And the tickets, like the rent, are too damned high.
“dnc going out of business sale”
Trademark!
also Vancouver
Then there was Orson Welles' wine commercials, Bruce Willis wine cooler commercial, Sammy Davis, Jr. whiskey commercial, Leo Dicaprio's whiskey commercial, Jennifer Aniston's beer commercial...
I like movies, but I won’t go see movies that mock religious people, excessive blood and guts, monster movies, or movies pushing perverts. After those, there’s hardly any left.
Reminds me of a few years ago of a large Chevy model that had very poor sales, can’t remember the name. GM executives said they didn’t know why since they had focus-group testing, etc. I could tell them why in three seconds:
It was ugly.
It was UGLY.
IT WAS UGGGGGGGGGGLY!!!!
It’s kind of sad. First you think about all those leading ladies defiled and humiliated by Harvey Dollbanger and then you think about all the ones who probably went along with his crass come-ons, and you just really don’t want to go to the movies anymore.
I’m ready for Hollywood to go through the pain of a recession like a lot of us went through starting in 2009.
I saw American Made. It was fun.
We know Hollywood Lefties like to screw and now they have screwed themselves.
You realize that Midway was a box office disappointment, right? TV saved that one. VCRs helped it Mae money.
It cost too much, and it was too long.
The wife and I rarely go to the movies...
The idiot actors who constantly tell me how to think aren’t going to get a single dime out of me...
That was before Hollywood was exposed as one big cesspool of perversion.
It’s not that I didn’t know that, it has exposed the abject cowardice of the players who preach how backward and moronic I am all the while excusing the sickness they have...
I guess I’d rather be considered a backwards pumpkin than a rapist...
Heh. You sound like Ricky Ricardo.
Lucy, who do you think you married, some country pumpkin?
Mel Gibson’s movie about Christ made over 600 million dollars.
Still the Hollyweirdos didn’t “catch on” to what people want to see.
On the other hand, movies like “God Isn’t Dead,” “Firewall,” and “War Room” made nice, tidy profits.
Maybe the Christian studios will rise triumphant, and the capital of the industry will move out of Hollywood.
You sure you’re not talking about the Pontiac Aztek?
Oh, Lord. I'd forgotten about that UGLY thing, but the one I meant was a large Chevy 4-door sedan.
Citation. It works.
(Not settin' the bar too high there, are we? Heckuva job, Brownie!)
I get sick of watching some skinny little woman that benches 110 lbs beating up some white guy that would destroy her with one punch—it’s stupidly unbelievable. Also, every movie has some African good guy, who is also a genius, leading the victors over some half-witted white guy, or an astonishingly brilliant queer who turns out to be the tough guy that triumphs over some homophobic Nazi.
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