This weekend’s box office was an all-around disappointment for several Hollywood studios as two sequels, and a “woke” comedy all found lower than expected debuts with Men in Black: International, Shaft, and Late Night coming nowhere near expected ticket sales.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multiplex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of underperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this weekend with the releases of “Men in Black: International” and “Shaft.”
Another bomb is Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, which was sold as woke-female-of-color-lecture, because we all go to the movies to get talked down to. Oh, wait — actually we don’t.
What do all these flops have in common? An insufferable air of self-importance, a suffocating sense of sanctimony and smug.
After 19 years and a lot of great movies (“X-Men,” “X-Men 2,” “Logan,” “Days of Future Past”) it is a real shame the whole thing had to implode in a toxic, SJW-influenced mess.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 topped the latest superhero flick, Dark Phoenix, at the weekend’s box office. But no one is popping any Champaign corks since both seriously underperformed.
Six years ago, “The Wolverine” opened to $53 million. That is now the second lowest. “Dark Phoenix” — even with the “First Class” cast, even with Jennifer Lawrence, came in $17 million below that.
When you’ve insulted and alienated half your customers, killed the concept of the movie star, and run out of bankable franchises, how does the movie business get out of the corner it painted itself into?
The domestic box office was not supposed to look like this going into Memorial Day of 2019, and it doesn’t look as though this Memorial weekend is going to be a barn burner.
Rogen should look into hosting the Mid-Daily Show on Comedy Central, or something — you know, something that can still be spun as a hit even if only 13 people tune in.
Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of ten years of Marvel superhero movies, has already smashed the global box office record after only two days in theaters. By Friday, the latest Marvel blockbuster had already made $644 million, making it the biggest opening of any film in history, according to CNN Business.
This is a lousy thing to do to the true pioneers, to those who actually took the risks to blaze a new path — in the vernacular of the woke, it’s a lousy thing to do to these women and people of color.
The Hispanic-themed horror flick Curse of La Llorona scared up much higher tickets sales than forecast as other studios sat out the Easter weekend ahead of next week’s release of Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame. But despite the horror movie’s success, the box office is down over all.
The reason people are no longer purchasing movies at anywhere near the numbers they once did is because movies today mostly suck.
‘Shazam!’ retained its number one spot at the weekend box office for the second weekend in a row.
Unplanned’s success is yet more proof that the fascist establishment no longer has the ability to control the flow of information or shape public opinion.
Despite disappointing reviews, director Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo flew in at number one at the weekend’s box office, while Marvel’s Captain Marvel slipped another spot to third, and pro-life film Unplanned made a surprising splash that easily beat expectations.
Director Jordan Peele’s Us was a hit for its opening weekend, dethroning Captain Marvel and pulling in an impressive $70.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
There is also no question that a whole host of titles, product that looked sure-fire on paper, have already under-performed.
The era of Michael Moore is over. No one wants to watch his dumb TV show and TBS knows it.
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” was easily the top ticket-seller in theaters over the weekend, but the film’s $35 million opening failed to stack up to its expected haul, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Only one movie, Miss Bala, opened this weekend setting up the Box Office to post it’s slowest Super Bowl weekend take in nearly 20 years.
Matthew McConaughey notched one of the worst debuts of his career, Oscar nominees saw only modest bumps, and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” easily remained No. 1 on a quiet weekend in movie theaters.
Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” with a leading 10 nominations for the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination.
Actress and “Saturday Night Live” star Leslie Jones trashed the upcoming “Ghostbusters” sequel as “something Trump would do.”
At 88-years of age, Clint Eastwood has another major box office success on his hands. As of this weekend, The Mule, which Eastwood both stars in and directs, has cleared an incredible $81 million.
Despite taking the top spot at the Pre-Christmas weekend box office, DC superhero flick Aquaman rang in as the worst debut of any DC film to date.
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ took an estimated $35.4 million for its opening weekend, the biggest ever animated movie to open in Dec.
A documentary film about the late Fox News founder and Chairman Roger Ailes earned a meager $18,833 in its opening weekend, according to ComScore data first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
NEW YORK (AP) — In the calm before the Christmas storm at the box office, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” remained No. 1 for the third straight week, while the upcoming DC Comics superhero film “Aquaman” arrived with a cannonball-sized splash in Chinese theaters.
NEW YORK (AP) — On a typically sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend in movie theaters, leftovers led the box office and Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet” repeated as No. 1 with $25.8 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Even though the film industry will close 2018 with record box office receipts, that might not necessarily mean more people went to the movies. Nevertheless, a win is a win is a win, and Hollywood will celebrate that win. But 2018 might be remembered as a perfect storm that will be difficult to repeat.
Sylvester Stallone appeared to say goodbye forever to his Rocky Balboa character in an Instagram video posted on Wednesday.
Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Creed II’ scored a record Thanksgiving Day weekend earning a whopping $55 million during its Wednesday to Sunday opening
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” crawled, slithered and flew its way to the top of the weekend box office with a $62.2 million opening in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” made off with $66 million to top the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and 20th Century Fox are — for now, at least — champions of the world.
Aquaman, the latest chapter in the DC movie universe, is expected to open on December 21 anywhere between $40 and $60 million.
Director Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” has officially flopped, and not just here at home, but all over the world.
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Meyers — or is it Jamie Lee Curtis? — can’t be stopped. “Halloween” dominated the North American box office for the second straight weekend, carving up an estimated $32 million in ticket sales.
