Posted on 10/21/2017 7:28:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
It’s a bizarre season in Hollywood. Almost nothing is “working,” and the studios can’t afford to waste any more money hoping things will turn around. They’re pulling flops from theaters earlier than usual.
This weekend, for example, Warner Bros. is putting out a white flag on “Blade Runner” after three tough weeks. They’ve cut the number of theaters showing Denis Villeneuve’s beautiful film by 855. So far, “Blade Runner” has made just $66 million. Audiences have not clamored to it. And now, week by week, Warners will quietly take it away.
Warner’s isn’t alone. Universal is pulling Tom Cruise’s “American Made” from 539 locations after a month in release. The Doug Liman directed thriller has made just $43 million. Good reviews haven’t helped push Cruise fans to theaters. One problem was lack of promotion since Cruise wasn’t available. Also, audiences may have just soured on him after “The Mummy” and other flops. With both studios, it wasn’t for lack of trying.
The biggest decease (de-crease, but pun intended here) is for the revived “Flatliners.” With just $16 million in the till, Sony would be better off paying people to see this turkey. They’re retreating from 1,433 theaters this weekend, leaving “Flatliners” to breathe on its own. It will be completely dead by Sunday.
Also just about dead is the much praised “Battle of the Sexes,” Fox Searchlight couldn’t get anyone to go see it despite great reviews and excellent marketing. I’m actually dumbfounded that it’s made just $11 million. FS is killing off 849 screens. Ouch! And “Battle” was supposed to yield some awards action.
Warner’s, meantime, is facing more trouble than the other studios. Their “Geostorm” is going to be a disaster this weekend. And their “Lego Ninja” movie is leaving 951 theaters after $52 million and five weeks.
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Shame about Bladerunner. It is indeed a beautiful film.
They’re pulling flops from theaters? Looks like the theater industry will be dead soon.
Here’s one problem: they just showed an ad for the new Murder on the Orient Express and the trailer was edited like an action film with that stupid bass drop that is everywhere now. That’s not at all what a movie like that should be.
Just watched the old one in anticipation.
Didn’t draw viewers?
I’ve read some pretty good reviews.
I been to exactly one movie in about 3 yrs.
My sister and her kids dragged me to the recent Spiderman movie.
It was dumber than hell, but I did drive 300 miles to spend time with them. So, I don’t regret it.
‘Battle’ deserves crib death. It’s faulty history posing as Grrrl Power (make that Lesbian Grrrrl Power). Billie Jean King may have been a hell of a tennis player but she has shamelessly joined in the revisionism about what was typical 70s sideshow excess as she and various writers attempt to convert it into legitimate competition.
It’s funny that feminism must rely on myths instead of actual achievement. Like the rest of Marxism it relies on emotional appeals and lies.
I've heard it moves veeeerrrrrryyyyyy slowly... Not sure if I'll pay to see it in a theater.
Didn’t really enjoy the first flat-liners, and with today’s kids, dumb as a brick (too many of them), this ‘how to’ movie didn’t seem all that wise to me.
friend of mine told me to see blade runner
In the genre of “Mummy Movies”, the Mummy with Cruz wasn’t that bad a movie. I liked it.
Seems to me the movie fans have become somewhat jaded.
Perhaps they’re just sick of funding guys like Weinstein.
Die, Hollywood, Die!
People are sick of paying crazy money to be lectured to. Add that to the fact that everyone has a home theater with a pause button, fridge, and no cell phone using jerks nearby and you make the death of the movie theater inevitable.
Fixed for reality in most instances.
Pity about Blade Runner, because it was really good.
I guess that millenial audiences raised on Star Wars and superhero films won’t sit still for a 2 hour 45 min SF film that requires you to think.
Blacklist and Longmire are just TWO of the many we've binged on in the last year.
Tired of funding pervs like Weinstein.
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