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How ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Fell From Grace At The Box Office With An $8M+ Opening
Deadline ^ | November 16, 2019 | Anthony D'Alessandro

Posted on 11/16/2019 9:18:49 AM PST by EdnaMode

In the wake of Terminator: Dark Fate’s failure at the B.O., and Paramount’s recent decision to make Beverly Cops 4 for Netflix, we have the further breakdown of cinema IP in Sony’s Charlie’s Angels reboot, which is tanking with a God-awful $8.2M opening, 3 Stars on Screen Engine-Comscore’s PostTrak, and a B+ Cinemascore.

The Elizabeth Banks-directed-written and produced pic is also opening in 27 offshore markets, China being one where it’s also bombing, with a $6M two-day take in second place behind local title Somewhere Winter ($8.8M). All of this is primed to further spur a WTF reaction and anxiety among film development executives in town in regards to what the hell exactly works in this have-and-have-not era of the theatrical marketplace. Many will make the hasty generalization that old, dusty IP doesn’t work, or is now deemed too risky when it’s not a superhero project. However, moviemaking is an art, not a science, and annoying as it might sound, good movies float to the top, and this Charlie’s Angels reboot didn’t have the goods going back to its script.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; boxofficepoison; brielarson; captainmarvel; charliesangels; china; elizabethbanks; ellabalinska; hollywood; homosexualagenda; hungergames; insulttheaudience; kristenstewart; marvel; metoo; movies; naomiscot; uglycast; waronmen; wonderwoman
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To: setter

“At the end of the movie it turns out “Charlie” is really a woman all along using a male voice.”

Are you kidding?


21 posted on 11/16/2019 9:38:32 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: RedMonqey

zero, none at all... or any other kind either


22 posted on 11/16/2019 9:39:15 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: EdnaMode

The previews are awful.


23 posted on 11/16/2019 9:41:51 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: ifinnegan
Are we supposed to know who Elizabeth Banks is?

She produced the Pitch Perfect series of girl group a capella movies, directed two of them, and played the female commentator in all of them.

-P

24 posted on 11/16/2019 9:44:52 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: RedMonqey
The originals...


25 posted on 11/16/2019 9:49:02 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: EdnaMode

Elizabeth Banks is a babe. Maybe that’s all you can say.


26 posted on 11/16/2019 9:50:54 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: EdnaMode

Hollywood writers write from the vantage point of creepy burned-out ‘elites’... No matter what they put on paper or how they dress down the characters they’re still creepy burned-out phony elites.

Until the writers can figure out the vantage points of
the rest of us their films will be crap.

Their films will only appeal to their fellow creepy ‘elites’. (translation: the films won’t make any money - and since most of these guys can’t do ‘art’ - - the films become ‘crap that doesn’t sell)


27 posted on 11/16/2019 9:51:52 AM PST by GOPJ (Term limit the bureaucracy... NOT elected officials.)
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To: EdnaMode

HOLLYWOOD: Hey, wanna see ANOTHER remake of Charlie’s Angels? EXCITING, RIGHT?!

AUDIENCES: Again? Didn’t you JUST remake it in 2011? No thanks.

HOLLYWOOD: But it’s gonna be a BIG BUDGET MOVIE this time!!!! GREENLIT!!!!

AUDIENCES: Ummmm... yeah you already did that too, with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu. And that in the 2000s as well. Please stop.

HOLLYWOOD: But this time we got SIR PATRICK STEWART as BOSLEY!!! NOW you’re psyched for the movie, YESSSSSS???

AUDIENCES: Look, the ONLY reason people even watched the original 70s version was Farrah Fawcett. Got it? The concept wasn’t even that interesting to begin with. Stop wasting Patrick Stewart’s talent on trash like this.

HOLLYWOOD: But THIS version is gonna be all modern and hip and feminist enpowering and inspire young girls to—

AUDIENCES: SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!


28 posted on 11/16/2019 9:52:17 AM PST by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: EdnaMode

Since gender-swapped remakes are the big-budget rage, maybe it would have done better with 3 men as “angels”.


29 posted on 11/16/2019 9:53:24 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: EdnaMode
CA was great in the 70's. It was as close to porn as it got back then.

A lot of much better porn is available currently. It doesn't even rate today.

30 posted on 11/16/2019 9:54:11 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You mean guys that identify as female or just your run of the mill tranny?

I remember watching the original TV series. .....just for the articles though :-D


31 posted on 11/16/2019 9:57:35 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE)
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To: EdnaMode
Considering that 99% of the movies out of Hollywood are sequels of sequels, it is not an overstatement that Hollywood is soooo yesterday.
32 posted on 11/16/2019 9:58:00 AM PST by Chgogal (Never underestimate the stupidity of a DummycRAT voter! Proof: California, New York, Illinois....)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’m sure they could have found plenty of guys who would love to play a Charlie’s Angel.


33 posted on 11/16/2019 9:59:36 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: EdnaMode

My guess is that Hollywood has lost any sense of creativity. Enough with the remakes, in most cases you shouldn’t fool with the originals.


34 posted on 11/16/2019 9:59:38 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: EdnaMode

As BO openings dwindle, I wonder when the influencers will consent to simultaneous cinema & streaming openings. Of late there have been many movies I’d have bought full-price outright on release day - but they weren’t available, and I’ll not enter a cinema any more. Thanks to delay between cinema vs streaming release, I may as well wait a bit longer and get it cheaper (while watching what I likewise waited for, cheaper).

3D is the only remaining reason for paying for a cinema showing, and the only really compelling (considering >$30 one viewing vs <$20 owning) 3D titles were Avatar, Beowulf, and Christmas Carol.


35 posted on 11/16/2019 10:00:13 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: redshawk
No actual guys.

They have decided to remake a bunch of movies with women in the men's roles. I see no reason why they should not remake Charlie's Angels with hunky straight guys.

36 posted on 11/16/2019 10:01:00 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: gogeo
I don’t know. Her looks are boring, especially compared to the actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Years.
37 posted on 11/16/2019 10:03:57 AM PST by Chgogal (Never underestimate the stupidity of a DummycRAT voter! Proof: California, New York, Illinois....)
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To: caww
I can't disagree with your comments about creativity.

But I think it's more than that.

First, there is very little I'm interested in seeing in a theater. It's not even my disgust at Hollywood's politics. Every big new release seems to be derived from a comic book, or, as you point out, a retread. I know this isn't exactly a fresh take on a new movie, but it's relevant to the discussion... was there really any need to remake True Grit?

Second, it's the expense. Not just the ticket price. Popcorn and a drink? Junior Mints? It's worse than theme park pricing.

Finally, it's the behavior of the movie-going public. Cell phones, people carrying on conversations at full voice, that sort of thing. Somewhere we as a society lost a sense of plain old common courtesy, the virtue of respecting others.

I'm trying to think of the last time I ventured to a movie theater, and I think it was to watch Zero Dark Thirty. It's been that long, and I don't miss it.

Of course, maybe things have changed since my last visit to a movie theater. Someone will have to advise me of that.

38 posted on 11/16/2019 10:06:44 AM PST by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: GOPJ

Hollywood will continue to produce flops as long as the place is controlled by gays and bitter feminists, because neither has any idea of what would connect with mainstream audiences.

They coasted on momentum as long as they could recycle old stuff that worked, and superhero movies, but even that well has gone dry.


39 posted on 11/16/2019 10:08:13 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others.)
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To: neverevergiveup

“Are you kidding?”

No, spoiler alert.


40 posted on 11/16/2019 10:09:27 AM PST by setter
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