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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“Jem and the Holograms”???
LOL! What?
Someone made a movie of this?!
“Where are all the Apple fanboys?”
Watching it on iTunes.
You don’t think we’re going to the cinema to see it, do you?
And AFAIK those ticket sales numbers are from cinema tickets sold, not streaming viewings.
you could not pay me to go see any movie with Seth Rogin in it
Hilarious in “The Neighbors”. That one you should have made an exception for.
You are on a roll today good sir! Kudos
I plan on seeing it in March as well.
“Even the ones making money —like The Martian — are horrible. Hollywood is really running out of gas.”
All you have to do is look at who is financing these films.
The liberal ones like “Truth” and “Jobs” get $30 Million dollars each thrown at them by rich libs who want to be with the “in” crowd.
The real Hollywood financiers now won’t finance anything that doesn’t have a bunch of big name stars, or is a remake that made tons of money in a previous life.
How many Spiderman” and “Batman” reboots have their been?
I still remember waiting far to long to see the first Star Wars and being disgusted it was such a cartoon. I wanted more 2001.
Exactly.
I haven’t been to a movie in a theater since “Gods and Generals”, about 10 years ago.
i went to see the martian with wife. great movie.
we went to the reserved seating 3D, in recliners.
all in with popcorn was around $40.
i guess it was worth it, but not something you can do all the time, even if there were movies you wanted to see which there usually aren’t.
i might go see the vin diesel witch movie though, i like vin and always up for a good witch hunt movie
Went to see “The Walk” a couple weeks ago. Very very good.
Interesting stats.
Seems like Hollywood is in its death throes.
There is a dearth of any good movies to see.
I have Zero interest in the latest slew of flops.
Only Vin Diesel’s movie which I can wait for on VUDU.
There is no imagination, no originality, and the endless number of reboots they do, like last summer’s “The Man From Uncle”, was totally wrong and deviated so badly from the original story line, why did they bother to make it if they were not going to be at least somewhat faithful to the TV show?
I don’t see much on the horizon, other than James Bond and Star Wars to even think about going to see.
This weekend we have a Bradley Cooper movie about being a chef, sorry not interested. Lord I might even break down and go see the Goosebumps movie, it looked like a hoot.
It’s not just that, although that’s valid, I look at the list of movies out there and cough up a lung based on subject matter. I wouldn’t pay a $1.00 to see that trash. Cable or better yet, never...
I wrote a script about World War 2 that has a good story and is patriotic. I have been a finalist in 3 script contest and can’t get a producer to even read it. Here is the slide show I made to present to producers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJvqsUaU8W8
Nah, folks go... but if you are going to do something that harkens back to a TV series in the 80s or 90s or whenever it was, if you want the fans to show up, even just for curiosities sake you have to at least TRY to stick with the source material no matter how crazy that source material may be... not just stick the name on some movie to try to draw them in, and then make a movie that has nothing to do with it. (JEM)
As to “Steve Jobs” seriously what was the studio thinking? A movie about him was done about him a few years ago... what reason is there to go see another one a few years later?
Paranormal Activity... what movie is this in that series? Not my genre to begin with, but for the most part these are some of the most BORING films I have ever tried to watch... amazed they keep making them.
Rock the Kasbah??? Seriously, trying to ride Bill Murray to box office cash? Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy, but his fan base isn’t going to show up at a movie... when is the last time he’s lead in a movie that made any money?
“Last Witch Hunter” another live forever between living and undead/evil... nothing unique here... but these movies usually at least get the teen kids to show up.
Basically a week of weak crap.... got weak results.
Took the family to see the “Martian”. Was a good flick.
Looking forward to “Bone Tomahawk”.
Hollywood is going to have let loose some creativity and stop worrying about being PC. They’re so afraid of offending someone of some group (they’ll offend Christians and American values) that the free flow of new ideas has all but stopped.
LOL....this is near the record for a flop : )
There’s already been several Steve Jobs movies. Not sure why anyone thinks another one would be a hit, especially this many years after he expired. He’s an interesting subject, yes, but not someone to spend many hours re-hashing his life story (which we already know).
Its Hollywood, make the story about those first African American Troops, and you’ll have them knocking the door down. I don’t doubt the strength of your script, but that’s the take I would go if I was trying to get a deal.
“A movie about him was done about him a few years ago... “
From IMDB.com:
Steve Jobs (2015)
Jobs (2013) aka “Steve Jobs”
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
Steve Jobs: iGenius (2012)
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (2011) (TV Movie)
The guy died in late 2011, and in just 4 years we’ve had 5 movies about him plus a half-dozen major TV episodes.
Who thought this particular one would be a hit? and why?
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