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, its 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 cant complain that Hollywood doesnt 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 1950s 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 Paramounts worst opening weekend ever for a film on more than 2,000 screens. Even if the movie were better, it didnt 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 films 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 Daddys Home 2 co-starring Mel Gibson and Alexander Paynes 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.
They’ll blame the poor box office on “Racist Trump voters.”
If you want to see a Suburban Comedy about White People dealing with Racial issues, just watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-X4X9uZ_0
darn.. your was better ;p
I’ve never seen any of her films or shows.
pompous and horrible writing by a bloviating author who doesn’t care to make his article a minimum intelligible.
Who on earth will read till the end such lengthy gibberish for what anyone with a modicum of intelligence already knows, that leftist George Clooney sucks ?
None of those films dealt with reality, post-9/11 or otherwise.
As for Suburbicon, what did they expect? American bashing agit-prop lecturing us about diversity etc. A George Clooney - Matt Damon vanity project. Who keeps giving these guys money to make these duds?
oh you don’t have to. Just google images and you’ll see why I’m a fan
American Sniper was great and did very well box-office wise too. But Clint Eastwood directed it. As for Thank You for Your Service, the director/writer did the screenplay for American Sniper, so it does have a good pedigree.
LMAO!!!
I am talking about Matt Damon, George Clooney, etc.
Roger that.
She has a small part in The Town which was a good flick.
It’s opened 30 miles away.....I intend to see it!
AOV wasnt the best acted movie, but it was pretty real and good.
AS was just plain awesome... but then Clint did it.
the other 9/11 film, about the plane that went down, that was very very well done, though not sure how good it did. Even though you KNOW whats going to happen the way its directed you are still cheering for them to win... amazing.
maybe they should try making movies that you know, are like, good!
If Hollywood never produced another movie again, I wouldnt shed a tear.
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Me, either. South Korea and Japan make some amazing films - more than enough there to watch. Screw Hollywood, their relentless propaganda and retarded super hero movies.
More likely she read the title and arrogantly thought she knew what she was talking about. Quite a fool.
Exactly, currently watching “While You Were Sleeping” a great KDrama (nothing to do with the Hollywood movie of the same name)
Boycott the whole lot: Matt Damon; Jennifer Lawrence; Sean Penn; Streisand; Clooney; Laurence Fisbourne; et al
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