Aaron Sorkin's 'Steve Jobs' flops at the box office

Apple Insider ^ | Sunday, October 25, 2015, 06:51 pm PT | By Daniel Eran Dilger

[Resolute Conservative]

I never planned on seeing it.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww that’s just too darn bad isnt it..could also have flopped because that bigot Seth Rogan is in the film and he told Ben Carson to go “F himself” recently..looks like Seth is the one that got the big F U right back at himself

[Opinionated Blowhard]

There have been what? About a half dozen films or TV miniseries about Steve Jobs (or Steve and Bill Gates) over the past 10 years. The topic has been beat to death.

[sparklite2]

Sorkin's Sportsnight was a well-written and directed TV series that didn't last long enough. But his The Newsroom let his blatant leftism dine at the grownup table, in the manner of SNL's Monkey Boy.

[dforest]

It flopped and so did the Dan Rather flick.

Really, who wants to watch that crap?

[Swordmaker]

The Aaron Sorkin Faux bio-Pic "Steve Jobs" flopped at the box office in it's opening weekend, pulling in just $7.3 million in 2,000 screens. That means with an average of $8 per ticket and each screen only pulling in only $3650 for the entire three day weekend, with approximately 20 showings per theater for this three days, an average of only 20-26 people saw the movie at each showing. That is a real bomb folks. Even the popcorn sales won't make a profit. OOPS! — PING!

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

Did the Dan Rather movie come and go already?? I didn’t realize that. I thought we were still in the pre-release hype stage. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[tcrlaf]

Next to flop will be the Robert Redford\Dan Rather lovefest, “Truth.”

[escapefromboston]

Sorkin is terrible and no one cares about steve jobs. Makes me wonder how these movies get a green light

[Swordmaker]

There have been what? About a half dozen films or TV miniseries about Steve Jobs (or Steve and Bill Gates) over the past 10 years. The topic has been beat to death.

Sounds about the number for the past four years since Steve's death. . .

[pepsi_junkie]

I can't figure out who this movie was for? Who cares about Steve Jobs? The Apple fanboys, that's who. Yet they portrayed him, by all accounts as a real jerk. Which, by all accounts, he really was. But his worshipers wouldn't want to see that. And nobody else cares that much.

So why do they keep making Steve Jobs movies?

[Regulator]

Since they made Jobs look like Eldon Tyrell, not surprising it went down the toilet.

Back in the day, Jobs at least looked hip.

[allendale]

The average American knows nothing of Edison, Henry Ford or even Albert Einstein. They have no concept how the products the use, the food they eat or the wealth they consume came to exist. There would be no mass interest in the life of Steve Jobs or Bill Gates other than to resent and envy their wealth.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Of course, having Roy give Steve the old “thumb lasik” would have been worth seeing.

[SpaceBar]

So why do they keep making Steve Jobs movies?

My guess is that Hollywood got marching orders from the whitehut to villify anything Apple so they can justify repatriating their offshore (hundreds of) billions by force with a hefty tax lien.

[Autonomous User]

Hollyweird... They just don’t get it. No one cares about these phony baloney tech pimps and their ricky ticky life.

[Swordmaker]

Since they made Jobs look like Eldon Tyrell, not surprising it went down the toilet.

Funny thing. . . I re-watched "Blade Runner" on HBO On Demand just last night. Great movie. Did you realize the time frame of Blade runner is just five-six years from now? Roy's incept date was 2017 and his death was four years from that. . . which would make it 2021. So, according to the story line, we've had star travel by now, our cities have been invaded by Japanese immigrants, not Chinese or Muslims, we've lost the climate change battle, and we've built huge truncated pyramid warrens for us all to live in, and, like Back to the Future 2, we've invented flying cars. Not to mention, all natural animals are completely protected, except wasps, while artificial animals expensive but commonplace playthings of the rich and powerful, and nearly human beings are being created as disposable slaves with not much thought as to the consequences. How very human. . . er, Liberal. . .

Damn, we seem to have missed all that.

[Regulator]

Think a lotta people in the Sillycon Slum still wanna do that...