Posted on 10/28/2017 9:10:10 AM PDT by EdnaMode
DreamWorks and Universal/Comcast Corp.’s Thank You for Your Service is struggling this weekend, despite solid reviews and an alleged hunger for serious adult dramas about worthwhile subject matter. The film made $1.505 million yesterday for a likely $4.1m debut weekend. The Miles Teller drama, about a group of marines returning home from Iraq, is suffering the same fate that greeted the likes of The Lucky Ones, Lambs for Lions, Valley of Elah and Rendition a decade ago. Hollywood made a go at confronting the post-9/11 realities a decade ago, but nobody showed up.
Sure, it’s easier to get audiences of all political stripes to see something like The Kingdom, Black Hawk Down, Act of Valor, Lone Survivor or American Sniper. But, come what may, you can’t complain that Hollywood doesn’t make adult dramas and/or movies about/for audiences in so-called flyover country and then ignore the likes of Only the Brave (which was quite good) and Thank You for Your Service. Or maybe moviegoers got acclimated to viewing such films as VOD-worthy as Hollywood spent 15 years pushing global blockbusters while the adult stuff went to TV.
Paramount/Black Bears’ Suburbicon is performing terribly as well. The poorly-reviewed George Clooney-directed comedy, based on an old Coen brothers’ screenplay and starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore as 1950’s suburbanites up to no good, earned just $1.1 million yesterday for what will likely be a $3m weekend. This will be the worst wide-release opening ever for Matt Damon and Paramount’s worst opening weekend ever for a film on more than 2,000 screens. Even if the movie were better, it didn’t help that most of the conversation revolved around everything but whether the movie was any good.
We got plenty of chat, in many of the film’s many negative reviews, about the appropriateness of using a real-life tale of racial discrimination as a backdrop for a tawdry “naughty white nuclear family” caper. And the media circuit was dominated by the likes of Clooney and Damon dealing with the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations. The whole “no publicity is bad publicity” thing is being put to the test this month. Paramount is stuck in it, as its next two movies are Daddy’s Home 2 co-starring Mel Gibson and Alexander Payne’s Downsizing with Matt Damon. And that D- CinemaScore won't help.
In smaller-scale news, Atlas released the faith-based drama Let There Be Light into 373 theaters this weekend. The Kevin Sorbo-directed picture, which is produced by Sean Hannity among others, concerns an atheist who finds his faith after a near-death experience. Alas, the picture was stumbled out of the gate, earning around $587,000 on Friday for a likely $1.65 million weekend. That's a mere $4.4k per-location average.
Open Road absolutely buried the delayed Blake Lively/Jason Clarke drama All I See Is You. Marc Forester's grim tale about a blind woman who reexamines her marriage after her sight is restored, received mixed-negative reviews and ended up on just 283 screens. So, with no publicity and little buzz, it's no shock that the film earned around $47,410 yesterday for a likely $144k weekend. That's a miserable $509 per-location average. So if you want to see this one in theaters, you have until Thursday night to do so.
Solidly bad reviews.
Does Harvey Weinstein have a cameo?
Para 2 is about Suburbicon.
Para 1 is about Thank You for Your Service.
Suburbicon good reviews.
TYFYS bad reviews.
But, come what may, you can’t complain that Hollywood doesn’t make adult dramas and/or movies about/for audiences in so-called flyover country and then ignore the likes of Only the Brave (which was quite good) and Thank You for Your Service.”
The author doesn’t understand that at this point the word Hollywood equals enemy just as the letters NFL do. We don’t give a damn what either one does because they are both dead to us.
I also noticed it’s playing about 30 miles away - I can do that if it doesn’t come to town.
NFL is crashing, Hollywood is crashing, Clooney is crashing...we’re living in good times!
Sounds like a re-make of `89s `The `Burbs’ with Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern and Corey Feldman, which was a stinker too.
They are so bereft of ideas they’re going back to drek.
Failure couldn’t happen to a nicer pair of queers.
Oh, and Damon, what a guy, what an actor!
Bwahahahaha,
Choke on it as wholes.
Does better? It did three times as much per screen as Suburbicon!
Hannity's film buried the competition on Friday.
I was referring to the dreary remarks in the article.
I certainly hope it expands and remains strong.
If it doesn’t come to my town, at least it’s playing 30 miles away, perhaps in a more conservative venue.
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