Flying Car Fizzles: Why ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Is Hitting Turbulence With $36M+ Opening

Deadline ^ | October 7, 2017 | Anthony D'Alessandro

[EdnaMode]

Blade Runner is likely to finish far below the $50 million projections. Maybe the long running time and lack of interest with younger audiences is hurting it.

[a fool in paradise]

Cyberplonk

[a fool in paradise]

On par with lifetime domestic gross boxoffice receipts for the original released 35 years ago

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bladerunner.htm

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Should have been adapted as a TV series.

[karnage]

I never understood the need for a sequel to this particular story. I enjoyed Blade Runner, but was not a slavering fanatic. Oh well.

[BipolarBob]

#1 It's a sequel and sequels are notoriously inferior to the original
#2 We don't have flying cars as pictured and we're disappointed about that.
#3 Sequels show lack of originality and we're getting burnt out on remakes.

[littleharbour]

I hope Hollywood temple of doom meets the same fate as those of the NBA and NFL. Out of touch millionaire leftists who mock the people who provide them with their lavish lifestyles. I want to see Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and the rest bumming for quarters at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, while wearing Hillary for President t-shirts or Kaepernick jerseys.

[rstrahan]

People are not interested in a dystopian view of the future, given the propaganda spouted by the media on a daily basis. That simple.

[trisham]

They’re desperate.

[KC_Lion]

It's too bad it won't live.

Then again what does?

[HonkyTonkMan]

Movie studios are remaking prior films b/c they are banking on name recognition, existing fan base, etc. Like karnage, I enjoyed the first, but fail to see the need to remake it.

[freedumb2003]

>>#3 Sequels show lack of originality and we’re getting burnt out on remakes.<<

I think 2017 will go down as the year made up of 90% remakes, sequels and reboots. That will probably go to 100% in 2018.

Hollywood has run out of creative gas.

[Flick Lives]

;-)

[Mr. Jeeves]

Hollywood has run out of creative gas.

More precisely, they fired it all because it wouldn't conform its writing to the International Socialist agenda.

[doosee]

Harrison “Obama Lover” Ford was the star of the original. I understand he is back in a cameo role so I wont watch it. Let it fail

[Daniel Ramsey]

Surprisingly it looks like with just a key actor supporting Obama, or opposing Trump a mega film suddenly loses an audience. Looks like America is growing back after being raped by the Islamobama regime.

[moovova]

Time for another Rocky movie.

Better yet, another Terminator flick.

[Bubba_Leroy]

According to Boxofficemojo.com, Jennifer “I hate Trump” Lawrence’s latest bomb “Mother” is currently grossing less than $60 per screen. That means that no more than 5 or 6 people are paying to see it in each theater all day long.

Maybe insulting half of the US population is not a good marketing move for an entertainer after all.

[TomGuy]

By the time the writers modify the new scripts with the obligatories, the overall narrative becomes uninteresting and predictable.

Obligatories such as the lesbian kiss, the gay (male-male) kiss, the interracial couple, soon the transgendered character, etc. Then, fill the script with anti-Right, anti-conservative, anti-Christian, anti-American jabs and jokes.

And they wonder why it isn’t a box-office hit.

[Mr. K]

Maybe major film stars will learn to keep their mouths shut about their politics and not piss-off half their audience.