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Huge Flops Hit the Box Office
www.wsj.com ^ | Oct. 25, 2015 6:46 p.m. ET | By Erich Schwartzel

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: entertainment; flops; haha; hollywood; lol; movies
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To: Red Badger

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.


41 posted on 10/26/2015 2:06:00 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Red Badger

We would go to the movies all the time. Just make something that entertains us, not sickens us.


42 posted on 10/26/2015 2:06:01 PM PDT by Randy From Concrete
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To: Steely Tom

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


43 posted on 10/26/2015 2:06:28 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: smokingfrog
I think the Steve Jobs movie was just about him giving demonstrations at three different trade shows. Sort of a like a 3-act play. It doesn't seem too appealing to me and I'm waiting to hear what others have to say out it.

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.

44 posted on 10/26/2015 2:06:46 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Businessmen use their own money to succeed. Politicians take other people's money and fail.)
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To: Cementjungle

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.


45 posted on 10/26/2015 2:06:49 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: fatnotlazy

i opened the thread to ask the same exact question.


46 posted on 10/26/2015 2:07:05 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Red Badger
I was outraged at the opening sequence,”A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....................’’

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".

47 posted on 10/26/2015 2:07:14 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: grania
Steve Jobs movie . . . It was okay.

It really seems like a subject more fit for a television movie.

48 posted on 10/26/2015 2:07:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (No more Bushes. W killed the brand.)
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To: Fresh Wind
Downloading bootleg torrents for free?

Are you sure Apple users know how to do that?

49 posted on 10/26/2015 2:08:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (No more Bushes. W killed the brand.)
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To: yuleeyahoo

Vin Diesel isn’t it? Want to see that but haven’t been
to a big screen in years,


50 posted on 10/26/2015 2:08:17 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

Well, it is...


51 posted on 10/26/2015 2:08:23 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Even the ones making money —like The Martian — are horrible.

Really? There's quite a buzz around it.

52 posted on 10/26/2015 2:08:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (No more Bushes. W killed the brand.)
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To: ColdOne

Don’t Know. Probably not, given the odds....................


53 posted on 10/26/2015 2:09:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

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.


54 posted on 10/26/2015 2:09:58 PM PDT by gallandro1
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To: Red Badger

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.


55 posted on 10/26/2015 2:10:08 PM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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To: smokingfrog
I’m surprised the Steve Jobs movie is a flop. Where are all the Apple fanboys?

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.

56 posted on 10/26/2015 2:10:27 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Sirius Lee
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".

I heard somewhere he originally wanted to remake Flash Gordon but was unable to obtain the rights.

57 posted on 10/26/2015 2:10:49 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (No more Bushes. W killed the brand.)
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To: fatnotlazy

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 ; )


58 posted on 10/26/2015 2:11:07 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: BBB333
I believe the movie shows that Steve Jobes is a pri¢k. A REAL big pri¢k.

So was Henry Ford. Plus he was an anti-Semite. So was Thomas Edison.

59 posted on 10/26/2015 2:11:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger; Sybeck1; Sirius Lee

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.


60 posted on 10/26/2015 2:11:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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