Posted on 10/26/2015 1:51:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
A frightening showing at the box office this weekend featured five disappointments—including two of the biggest flops in history.
“ Steve Jobs,” “The Last Witch Hunter,” “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension,” “Rock the Kasbah” and “Jem and the Holograms” all fell short, with only “Witch Hunter” cracking $10 million. “Kasbah” and “Jem” now rank among the worst openings of all time, and “Paranormal” missed expectations after weeks of anticipation over its divisive distribution strategy.
Instead, holdovers “The Martian” and “Goosebumps” came in first and second place, respectively. “The Martian” grossed an estimated $15.9 million in the U.S. and Canada, bringing the space drama’s total to $166 million.
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Even the ones making money —like The Martian — are horrible. Hollywood is really running out of gas. If you want innovation, look to cable TV.
We would go to the movies all the time. Just make something that entertains us, not sickens us.
it figured that Lib a-hole , Robert Redford , would star in
an audaciously titled flick like ‘Truth’
is he the director - producer too ?
Another person I will NEVER see on film ever again .
Piss on these arrogant leftist HollyLibs and their sick anti-American BS
Speaking of flops, I was on YouTube over the weekend watching clips from Supertrain - that NBC disaster from 1979. Really cheesy stuff. If MS3TK was still active, would love to hear them riff on Supertrain.
My husband and I laughed all the way through The Intern. Very funny for those of us of a certain age. When we go to the movies, we always go to the first showing on Saturday morning......$7.00/adult and $6.50/senior. And after the events of Thursday and Friday, I REALLY needed a laugh.
i opened the thread to ask the same exact question.
It was ripped off from old Flash Gordon serials. Lucas has as much as admitted that he was trying to capture the spirit of the old Flash/Buch Rogers movies, and not trying to make a "2001" or a "Fantastic Voyage".
It really seems like a subject more fit for a television movie.
Are you sure Apple users know how to do that?
Vin Diesel isn’t it? Want to see that but haven’t been
to a big screen in years,
Well, it is...
Really? There's quite a buzz around it.
Don’t Know. Probably not, given the odds....................
Movie attendance has flatlined since the mid-60’s. Hollywood sells about 1.2 billion movie tickets a year, compared to some 4.1 billion tickets a year during the height of the Great Depression.
In 1935 some 80 million people a week would go to the movies when the population was barely 120 million. So nearly 65% of the population was going to the movies. Contrast that with today when only 23 million people got to the movies every week compared to a population of some 320 million people.
The ONLY reason Hollywood still makes money is jacked up ticket prices by push premiere formats like 3D and IMAX.
People are affording movies fine. Problem with this crop is October is another dump zone. I want to see Kasbah but lacked time, it looks way to weird to be a hit, which is really the type of movie I like.
Mebbe waiting to watch it on all those expensive gizmos they buy up? Great fun watching it on a wristwatch? That crap has to be good for something after all.
I heard somewhere he originally wanted to remake Flash Gordon but was unable to obtain the rights.
Try the early showings.....no teeagers and few young kids. Although the elderly with hearing problems can be quite loud if they talk during the movie ; )
So was Henry Ford. Plus he was an anti-Semite. So was Thomas Edison.
Princess Vespa: [looking up at the night sky] Which one’s yours?
Lone Starr: Who knows?
Princess Vespa: You don’t know where you’re from?
Lone Starr: Not really. I was found on the doorstep of a monastery.
Princess Vespa: A monastery? Where?
Lone Starr: Somewhere in the Ford Galaxy.
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