Tomorrowland was reported to be $190M. It needed a solid $400-500M worldwide, but will struggle to get half of that.
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Wkd Box Office 0529-3115 - The fault (line) in our box office, adiós Aloha
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Tomorrowland was reported to be $190M. It needed a solid $400-500M worldwide, but will struggle to get half of that.
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BronsonLee
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Obviously, I should have starred in Aloha.
I'm actually half Hawaiian and half Chinese so it works out, dammit
Aloha had 2 Hawaiian characters. one was Emma Stone. Also, the movie was gonna be called Big Tiki, they gave no fucks.
I doubt they'll announce anything for a while. George Miller said he doesn't even want to think about doing another right now:
"Being asked that questions feels to me like being a woman whos just given birth to a really big baby. And then someone asks you, When are you having your next baby? We only finished 12 days ago. Im just not recovered enough to get into it."
BronsonLee
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...wait what? White as shit Emma Stone? Clearly haole Emma Stone?
LOL THAT ALTERNATE TITLE
teruterubozu
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Actually it was gonna be called Deep Tiki, which would have been hilarious.
What the fuck does Deep Tiki mean even mean? And no, I'm not watching the movie to find out.
BronsonLee
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As a true blooded Hawaiian*, what the fuck is Deep Tiki
*lol
*lol
Bobby Roberts
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AgentChris
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Jeffolation
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I was hoping Aloha would do even worse, having to suffer through that and the Entourage trailers multiple times in the last couple months really steamed my beans.
Too ethnic for hollywood, they want something real.
djplaeskool
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Paul Blart Stays Winning
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $67,682,000 67.2%
+ Foreign: $33,100,000 32.8%
= Worldwide: $100,782,000
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $67,682,000 67.2%
+ Foreign: $33,100,000 32.8%
= Worldwide: $100,782,000
At least Aloha inspired someone to make a pretty good joke:
No AHOLES?
BronsonLee
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I'm the realest guy in the room! HOW U DOIN
FUCK, I'm dead. Save this shit forever
teruterubozu
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At least Aloha inspired someone to make a pretty good joke:
lol. Basically every Hollywood movie in Hawaii since Elvis.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
San Andreas did much more than I expected.
Tomorrowland continues to disappoint. We can thank that one for Tron's recent demise.
Disney is going to play it safe moving forward with their Disney Classics, Pixar, Marvel, Princess line, and Lucasfilm slate.
And the occasional high-risk property will be developed through their Touchstone banner (Dreamworks deal).
Nothing but AAA, good but predictable.
Edit: Also Pirates.
Tomorrowland continues to disappoint. We can thank that one for Tron's recent demise.
Disney is going to play it safe moving forward with their Disney Classics, Pixar, Marvel, Princess line, and Lucasfilm slate.
And the occasional high-risk property will be developed through their Touchstone banner (Dreamworks deal).
Nothing but AAA, good but predictable.
Edit: Also Pirates.
BronsonLee
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Hmmmm? Disney's done smaller movies for decades. Tuck Everlasting? Miracle? Saving Mr. Banks? McFarland, USA?
Those don't go away anytime soon, IMO. The big budget risks, though? Sure.
Christopher
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Tomorowland was such a bad movie...
Because they don't think it looks interesting? The only reason I saw it was because it was something new and I had been bored all week and I didn't end up liking it all that much. The marketing didn't make me excited at all.why don't people want to see mad max?
BertramCooper
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Cameron Crowe has had such a bizarre career.
alfredofroylan
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Well I can talk about how diffucult was for me to drag people to see MM:why don't people want to see mad max
Friend 1: "Oh, I'm tired of remakes, wish Hollywood could leave the classics alone" (explain him that was a sequel, still not interested enough)
Friend 2: "Oh no, that's look to violent" (explain her about the fun-over the top action scenes, not interested)
Mom: No, those actors look so ugly. (-_-)
Hope it does this or better. Making back more than production budget domestically, the foreign total should be more than enough to make up for the marketing budget even with the reduced cut and it should be considered a success enough to greenlight a sequel.
Word of mouth + home release/netflix viewing etc will result in sequel doing better at the box office.
I took my sister to see a movie on her birthday. She doesn't want an action movie. I don't want a singing movie. That basically leaves Aloha this week.
The good news is when I die and my memory cells stop existing, I will have forgotten seeing Aloha. So now I have something to look forward to.
Aloha is worse than you could have imagined. I thought at the very least you would see pretty Hawaii scenery but it all takes place indoors.
Bobby Roberts
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why don't people want to see mad max
1) A glut of loud explosion-filled *bad* action movies has people wary when trailers seem to advertise loud, explosion-filled action.
2) It's a sequel to a 30 year old film series that previously starred a guy most people recognize as being a misogynist racist anti-semite who beat his wife.
3) It's aesthetics aren't universal. It's beautifully ugly, but some people are just going to see the ugly part.
4) It's Rated R, and it seems to be unapologetically violent.
So basically, there's going to be a lot of people who expect a crappy, wink-nod-nudge-nudge sequel to a movie they might never have watched, filled with a bunch of ugly nastiness that never stops being ugly and nasty.
Not that I agree with any of that, but I gotta imagine any combination of those four factors could have contributed to people wanting to stay away from the film, despite the almost unanimous word of mouth from people who actually did go see it.
BronsonLee
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Cameron Crowe giving the people what they want!
RE: Mad Max, it had an uphill climb. The sequel won't.
I don't think he's ever recovered after Elizabethtown.
Emma Stone is Polynesian y'all
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I really do wonder at what point marketing becomes responsible for a film's lack of success. Obviously the success of a film does not depend on its quality. One could argue that marketing has more of an effect on a film's success, especially given the fact that marketing plays a large part of a film's total final expenses.
I could definitely argue that John Carter had no reason to fail at the box office based on the merit of the film itself but rather that the marketing was so godawful, that it was largely responsible for the films final losses.
I could definitely argue that John Carter had no reason to fail at the box office based on the merit of the film itself but rather that the marketing was so godawful, that it was largely responsible for the films final losses.
completely true I suppose.
Omega Kirby
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Mad Max deserves way higher, why is it so low?
BronsonLee
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Hmmm? I say it's actually doing better than I thought it would. Big budget rated R action movie off a 30 year old franchise?
Kswiston would know better than I, but even without China, it looks like it's doing ok. Against all odds!
BertramCooper
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Disney is basically setting itself up for failure by giving these high-risk films ridiculously high-budgets.
San Andreas had a $113M weekend worldwide. It opened in the majority of international markets this weekend, but still has a few significant openings in the future including China and South Korea. $300M will be cleared with ease, so this is going to go down as another win for Dwayne Johnson.
Just repost this from last weeks box office thread.
Mad Max: Fury Road spoiler:
Other than
what was there to keep this from being PG13? Even language wasn't always too severe, and I'm sure they're even allowed a few good ones. Maybe it's a rare case where the R-rating actually helps it with hype build up.
Mad Max: Fury Road spoiler:
Other than
Immortan Joe losing his face and some distant vague nudity
What were you expecting? Every prediction I saw before release was in the $100-$120M range. At this rate it could push $160M.
Not likely, unless it has a huge run in Japan.
Ninja Scooter
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He's a big star but he doesn't have the kind of draw with the audiences that go see summer tent pole movies. He should doing movies that my mom wants to see. My mom doesn't want to go see Tomorrowland.
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