Weekend Box Office: 'First Man' Losing Badly to 'Star Is Born,' 'Venom'

Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 13, 2018 | Pamela McClintock

[EdnaMode]

Many predicted First Man to earn $20-$30 million on opening weekend, so it is definitely underperforming expectations.

[originalbuckeye]

Maybe they will create an American flag scene and insert it into the movie. That would save their ratings.

[dfwgator]

Die, Hollywood, Die!

[cdcdawg]

I guess the only way to revive Hollywood will be the much-anticipated Marvel Comics/Star Wars crossover quadruple trilogy. I’m sure the idea is making its way up the chain.

[al baby]

I find Lady Gaga strangely attractive

[DesertRhino]

Honestly, flag scene or not, I have no confidence that any Ivy League 33 year old, working for Hollywood, is capable of producing anything but another angst filled dramatic snark-fest.

[KavMan]

How is Gosnell doing?

[wodehousian]

Such a missed opportunity. If they hadn’t so blatantly pandered to foreign audiences, I would definitely have gone to see this in theaters.

[Mears]

His “Whiplash” was a GREAT movie.

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[Paradox]

Have any freepers seen the film? I am considering checking it out, I was a Space Nut when I was a kid, and remember watching the landing with my dad.

[CaptainK]

She looks good in this movie. Bradley Cooper framed her nicely.

[real saxophonist]

You’re not the only one. But only when she’s Stefani, not all bizarrely made up.

[cnsmom]

I have 2 friends ready to go see Gosnell but it isn’t showing near me.

[ontap]

Heard the critic on Fox say there were plenty of flags in the movie just did not show the planting. That would have been fine...it was the exclamation of why they did not show is why I will not go see it!!!

[cport]

I find it kind of funny that both major versions of Star is Born have leading ladies with, shall we say, non traditional noses.

[real saxophonist]

Amy Shira Teitel's take:

One Apollo Historian's Thoughts on First Man

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The hope is that the adult-skewing film will be buoyed by a long run throughout awards season.

It probably would have.

But then you decided to give the finger to your target audience.

A major case of stupid.

[bluejean]

Saw a commercial for “First Man” the other night, with a very brief flash of the classic pic showing the lander on the moon’s surface and lo, they had not edited out the flag. A little tiny “apologies and please come see our movie” ploy? Jack@sses.

I saw “A Star is Born” last weekend and really liked it. Well done. Cooper and Gaga are great in those roles. No politics outside of a few gay bar scenes, but they are amusing in the vein of that hilarious movie “The Birdcage”.

[NohSpinZone]

Have not seen it though all this space talk has me wanting to watch The Right Stuff again. That was a great movie that was unabashedly pro-American.

[Mears]

I’m going to see “A Star is Born” tomorrow——looking forward to it.

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