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Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
John Carter.
A film with a $250 million production budget and God knows how much Disney fueled into prints and advertising (it's currently playing in 3,749 theaters). Yet only has an estimated opening weekend of $27 million and plays second fiddle to an animated film in its second week of release. Ouch.
Originally Posted by Nikki Finke Apparently Lost Her Ability To Count This Weekend
1. John Carter (Disney) NEW [3,749 Theaters]
Est Friday $9.9M, Est Weekend $28M 2. The Lorax (Universal) Week 2 [3,746 Theaters] Est Friday $9.6M (-41%), Est Weekend $40M 3. Project X (Warner Bros) Week 2 [] Est Friday $3.8M (-46%), Est Weekend $11.5M 4. Silent House (Open Road) NEW [1,890 Theaters] Est Friday $2.4M, Est Weekend $6M 5. Act Of Valor (Relativity) Week 3 [] Est Friday $2.1M, Est Weekend $7.5M 6. A Thousand Words (Paramount) NEW [2,124 Theaters] Est Friday $1.8M, Est Weekend $5.4M |
Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Not a surprise.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
The interesting thing is that reviews are fairly polarized
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
OUCH at Eddie Murphy's movie tanking HARD. (its A Thousand Words)
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Eddie better pray for another Shrek movie.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Rypro 525
(Post 11146865)
OUCH at Eddie Murphy's movie tanking HARD. (its A Thousand Words)
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by davidh777
(Post 11146854)
The interesting thing is that reviews are fairly polarized
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
The general consensus blows. It's a fun movie.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Pizza the Hutt
(Post 11146901)
No they're not. The general consensus is that the movie sucks.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Super X
(Post 11146917)
Rotten Tomatoes has it at 50%. The reviews are evenly split.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Sean O'Hara
(Post 11146964)
But if the positive reviews are merely lukewarm, that's not polarized. Polarized is when half the critics are proclaiming it the worst movie ever made and half are saying it's the best.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Draven
(Post 11146881)
Who didn't see that coming?
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Rypro 525
(Post 11146865)
OUCH at Eddie Murphy's movie tanking HARD. (its A Thousand Words)
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
(Post 11147009)
You mean A Thousand Dollars, because that's the gross.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
A Thousand Words has sat unreleased on the shelf for over 4 years. I can't even imagine why...
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
I'm sure Battleship will rejuvenate Mr. Kitsch's career with no problem. If that fails, there's always a Gambit movie...;)
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Poor Taylor Kitsch. He's a talented actor, and John Carter is a fun movie. It's not a great movie, though.
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Guess he'll just have to go home with his model-good looks and the millions he's already made and bang his sorrows out into one of the many girls no-doubt throwing themselves at him.
Poor Kitsch. :( |
Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
I wasn't impressed with anything I've seen with John Carter. Looks like a middle of the road adventure-type flick. All too reminiscent of that Clash of the Titans sword and dagger stuff. I take it they won't be investing in the other books in the series?
Maybe they'll shovel it off to another studio like they did with The Chronicles of Narnia but is Disney producing this film or is it another company like Walden Media? |
Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Dragon Tattoo
(Post 11147179)
Guess he'll just have to go home with his model-good looks and the millions he's already made and bang his sorrows out into one of the many girls no-doubt throwing themselves at him.
Poor Kitsch. :( LOL - the ego is such a fragile thing. ;) |
Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Someone in the marketing dept. at Disney should lose their job...granted, John Carter may not be a good film, but has to be one of the worst marketed potential "blockbusters" in a long time. They saturated the market with some VERY poor ads. All they managed to do was assure people wouldn't be seeing this film.
I can't recall the last movie that got THIS much press and had such a dismal result opening weekend. |
Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
(Post 11147198)
Someone in the marketing dept. at Disney should lose their job...granted, John Carter may not be a good film, but has to be one of the worst marketed potential "blockbusters" in a long time. They saturated the market with some VERY poor ads. All they managed to do was assure people wouldn't be seeing this film.
I can't recall the last movie that got THIS much press and had such a dismal result opening weekend. |
Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Well part of it has to be due to pushing it up from the Summer release date, although looking at the slate, that's a pretty stacked deck to compete with. Then again that extra time could have been used to overhaul the marketing strategy.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
(Post 11147200)
I agree. John Carter is going to be a bigger bomb than Mars Needs Moms.
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
(Post 11147198)
Someone in the marketing dept. at Disney should lose their job...granted, John Carter may not be a good film, but has to be one of the worst marketed potential "blockbusters" in a long time. They saturated the market with some VERY poor ads. All they managed to do was assure people wouldn't be seeing this film.
I can't recall the last movie that got THIS much press and had such a dismal result opening weekend. |
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