Posted on 08/31/2012 4:18:57 PM PDT by SMGFan
A new movie for toddlers, "Oogieloves in The Big Balloon Adventure," is making the wrong kind of box-office history.
The movie opened Wednesday at 1,500 theaters and brought in $60,000 total. That's a sippy-cup-sized $40 per screen for the independently distributed G-rated cartoon. It has a shot at recording one of the worst wide-opening weekends ever. Last year's "Creature" set the standard when it averaged $217 on 1,507 screens. "Oogieloves" is scheduled to be on 2,160 screens for the weekend, but theater owners who've seen Wednesday's numbers may want to reconsider. "Oogieloves" is the brainchild of first-time filmmaker and marketing whiz Kenn Viselmann, who helped bring "The Teletubbies" and "Thomas the Tank Engine" to American TV. He convened a fancy party at the Cinema-Con convention for theater owners in Las Vegas in April, promising a major roll-out and predicting a wave of word-of-mouth adoption by parents eager for movies to appeal to the kindergarten crowd.
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The wooozzzits?
Think I’ll pass - and the little ones also.
I remember taking my son to a movie when he was a toddler. The only time in my life when several young mothers threatened to rip out my lungs if my precious little boy didn’t stop running up and down the aisles throwing popcorn at people. I told ‘em to go ahead and try to throw me out of that theater. Women are stronger than they look. I didn’t mind getting tossed out by them, but I thought the bets they were making on how many times I’d bounce when my behind hit the pavement was going too far.
This movie has the worst trailer I’ve ever seen. Making kids sit through this thing would be tantamount to child abuse. Making parents sit through it would be cruel and unusual punishment. If he were forced to watch it, George C. Scott would rip out the seat in front of him. It could be used to make captured terrorists talk.
There is a balance, here folks. Yes, family friendly movies can do very, very well. Just ask Pixar how they did with every movie they have released. The trick of this market, is to make a movie that will entertain kids, and present a dialog/plot at a level that will also keep the parents attention.
After seeing the pre-views, this is a movie I wouldn’t voluntarily watch with any of my 10 Grandkids - because none of them would want to see Grandpa stab his eyes out with a knitting needle.
oogie oogie oogie!!
60 million dollar chargeoff : )
There is a balance, here folks. Yes, family friendly movies can do very, very well. Just ask Pixar how they did with every movie they have released. The trick of this market, is to make a movie that will entertain kids, and present a dialog/plot at a level that will also keep the parents attention.
After seeing the pre-views, this is a movie I wouldn’t voluntarily watch with any of my 10 Grandkids - because none of them would want to see Grandpa stab his eyes out with a knitting needle.
There is a balance, here folks. Yes, family friendly movies can do very, very well. Just ask Pixar how they did with every movie they have released. The trick of this market, is to make a movie that will entertain kids, and present a dialog/plot at a level that will also keep the parents attention.
After seeing the pre-views, this is a movie I wouldn’t voluntarily watch with any of my 10 Grandkids - because none of them would want to see Grandpa stab his eyes out with a knitting needle.
Tinky-Winky-Dinky ???
Maybe its too babyish for toddlers ???
How could you miss with a name like “Oogieloves”?
Good lord. I want those 3 minutes of my life back.
I heartily suggest that they change in mid-stream and market it to the boisterous college crowd, after giving it adult oriented voice overs and rude subtitles.
That might salvage it somewhat, if it works.
When Faye Dunaway starred in Mommie Dearest, she was so intense and hostile while chewing the scenery that audiences couldn’t help but laugh, so the studio decided to re-market it as a bizarre comedy, and it worked. Despite the offended producer threatening a lawsuit.
“A month after the film was released to bad reviews, audiences flocked to see the film armed with Ajax and wire hangers to actively “participate” with the film in a manner similar to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Paramount seized on this new found notoriety and began to bill the film as a camp classic, with ads and posters proclaiming, “Meet the biggest MOTHER of them all!”
putting a direct to video film in theaters? Not enough 2 or 3 years olds to do this.
“Turn it off.....TURN IT OFF!!!!!!”
You watched for three minutes?
I’m a masochist. haha.
this movie is meant to be “played with”...kids are encouraged to dance in the aisles and wiggle in their seats...
Funny you say that...we saw the trailer last weekend, and I thought it was just awful. We are looking for another movie to take the grandkids to, but I would NEVER subject them to this. It was cheesy.
Good. Maybe parents are waking up to trash. The commercial shows a googlywhatever dropping his pants. Real good there, huh - not.
“Wiggle in their seats”?.....so you were the one peeking in the side window when me and my girlfriend were wiggling in the seats at the drive in. Did you get any pictures? I looked pretty good back then. My girlfriend looked really good. She would’ve made Sharapova hang her head and cry.
The Ishtar of children’s movies.
From the description, it sounds like “TeleTubbies: The Motion Picture”.
We took our young niece and nephew to the movies this summer. They showed a preview for this not once, but twice. All of us were terrified. It was torture. We all were wishing for brain bleach.
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