Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
03-10-12, 12:47 AM
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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.
Wah-wah.
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
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
03-10-12, 03:29 AM
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
03-10-12, 09:52 AM
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Re: Weekend Box Office (3/9 - 3/11): Taylor Kitsch's Career Is Over Before It Started
And my impression is that we're getting a lot more "it blows" or "it's fun" rather than middle-of-the-roaders.
03-10-12, 11:10 AM
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A Thousand Words has sat unreleased on the shelf for over 4 years. I can't even imagine why...
03-10-12, 11:15 AM
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I'm sure Battleship will rejuvenate Mr. Kitsch's career with no problem. If that fails, there's always a Gambit movie...
03-10-12, 12:42 PM
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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.
03-10-12, 02:02 PM
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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.
Poor Kitsch.
03-10-12, 02:05 PM
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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?
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?
03-10-12, 02:15 PM
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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.
I can't recall the last movie that got THIS much press and had such a dismal result opening weekend.
03-10-12, 02:17 PM
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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.
I can't recall the last movie that got THIS much press and had such a dismal result opening weekend.
03-10-12, 02:33 PM
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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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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.
I can't recall the last movie that got THIS much press and had such a dismal result opening weekend.
