#Box Office Flop

[silveragelovechild]

I saw the trailer for “Fly Me to the Moon” a while back. It’s a comedy about faking the Apollo moon landing starring Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson. They are popular and good looking. I thought it would be a hit.

I was wrong. It opened very nearly on the 55th anniversary of the actual moon landing and… failed spectacularly at the box office. It earned only $31 million against its $100 million budget. It probably needed to make $200 to break even.

Aftering being away on vacation, it’s the first movie I decided to see - purely based on my reaction to the trailer. I didn’t read and reviews in advance. I had hoped it would be an old fashioned screwball comedy. But I don’t think director Greg Berlanti knew what kind of movie he wanted to make. He has directed 3 other movies (two gay comedies) but most of his experience is with superhero shows (aka The ArrowVerse).

The movie starts off okay… Johansson plays a super successful New York ad executive right out of “Madmen”. Woody Harrelson arrives as a super secret Richard Nixon operative who needs her to improve the public’s perception of the Apollo program. For some reason he needed to blackmail her which didn’t quite make sense.

In Florida Johansson and Tatum met-cute. He’s the Apollo mission’s launch director and doesn’t think he needs her help. He resists her every way he can.

After successfully doing her job, Harrelson then tells Johansson he wants a backup plan in case the moon landing fails. He wants her to organized a secret fake film of the landing to broadcast instead. Of course this puts her at odds with her budding romance with Tatum.

Let me cut to the chase… even if this is a screwball comedy (which it’s not) the plot makes no sense. Harrelson wants to use the actual audio of Armstrong/Aldrin from the moon but use the fake video of Johansson’s mock up. Huh?

If the Lunar Module arrived without crashing, no disaster, therefore the fake footage is unnecessary.

Then there’s the fake drama created as a wedge between Johansson and Tatum. Apparently Johansson’s character has a secret criminal past (just like Don Draper) that Harrelson uses to blackmail her. This was so unnecessary - couldn’t she just have been a successful ad exec without that bullsh#t?

Then there’s Tatum’s backstory. He feels personally guilty for the deaths of the astronauts in the Apollo 1 launch testing disaster. I can just imagine the writer’s room discussion about how they needed to add more gravitas to the story and let Tatum prove his acting chops. Again totally unnecessary.

At the age of 44, Tatum is 8 years older than Gene Kranz was in 1969 (the actual flight director). In his first scene I noticed that Tatum looked like he had very obvious stage makeup. Throughout the movie, except for two lines between his eyebrows, he had absolutely no wrinkles… no crows feet when he smiled, no lines across his forehead, no laugh lines. (BTW, Kranz was not the flight director for Apollo 1.)

At the end, the movie attempts to become a comedy again with antics involving Chekhov’s Black Cat. When all else fails, throw in some slapstick. (The poster above spoilers the ending.)

And my final petpeeve - Berlanti, who is opening gay, included a character (played by gay actor Jim Rash) who is the worst gay stereotype - he can only be described as “f@ggy”.

The fact that the movie flopped at the box office, probably doesn’t matter to Apple Studios who produced it. They didn’t care that 2023’s “Napoleon” lost $165 million.

[cjbolan]

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[theomenmedia]

Transformers One Posts An Underwhelming Opening Weekend Box Office Number

"Transformers One" sparks but doesn't blaze at the box office. $39M global opening - what went wrong?

Link to the full story: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/transformers-one-a-subpar-start-at-the-box-office-despite-nostalgic-appeal

[lonelya1ien]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) is one of the coolest movies I’ve ever seen my life and I can’t believe I didn’t know about this when I was a kid.

[tinas1469]

Warner Bros. spent $125 million to produce “Wonka" and at least that amount of money if not more to promote Wonka around the world.

So over the weekend Wonka made $39 million at the domestic box office and $112.4 million at the international box office to bring its total to $151.4 million.

To be only 26 million over budget is very disappointing, especially during the holidays and more box office competition is coming.

I don't blame Timothee' s relationship with Kylie Jenner for the low numbers ( I saw people out there doing that). I think in general people didn't know what to expect from this prequel and didn't know any of the songs in the movie, they could have done a better job of getting the songs out there.

I fully expect Dune Part Two to do way way better, everyone is excited about that movie.

[trixiesol-blog]

[bodybybane]

Emma Roberts Blames ‘Internet Culture’ For Dakota Johnson's Box Office Film Flop https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a61540621/dakota-johnson-madame-web/

[hotstoriesblog]

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[fiercemillennial]

“The Book of Clarence" Fumbled: What Happened to Jay-Z's Big-Budget Flop?

Jay-Z's "The Book of Clarence" bombed at the box office. Was it the genre-bend, the critics, or a blizzard of bad luck? We unpack the factors behind the flop.

Was it the genre-bend, the critics, or a blizzard of bad luck? We unpack the factors behind the underwhelming performance of Jay-Z’s biblical comedy-drama. Forget cuffing season, Hollywood just witnessed a major fumble with the release of Jay-Z’s $40 million biblical comedy-drama, “The Book of Clarence.” This ambitious project, boasting a talented cast and a unique blend of humor and historical…

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

Watching Bad Samaritan at 11 PM probably a terrible idea but the special interest made me do it

[silveragelovechild]

All the media outlets are heralding Aquaman 2 is a box office flopped. They forget that DC’s new movie Guru, James Gunn, also had his DC movie flopped at the Box Office.

[space-sharks-tank]

I hate Disney the corporate entity and all the monopolizing and damage they've done to art and entertainment but man...Once Upon a Studio fucking got me right in the feels man. You can tell how much love there is for the imagination, artistry, and legacy Walt Disney Animation Studios have made over the last 100 year.

Somewhere buried deep under the corporate machine and greed, the creativity and soul that made Disney animation so iconic and beloved still lives.

[faerygardenparty]

I love that the Minecraft movie people were like “we want to avoid an ugly sonic situation” but then copyright struck the Minecraft YouTubers who are arguably the reason why the game is still culturally relevant today for giving the trailer constructive criticism, do these people realize that the sonic movie itself managed to avoid their own ugly sonic situation by listening to fans’ criticism and not antagonizing them??

[ronaldreaganfan]

seated for the reagan movie ^_^

[evilcyclopsxmen]

Deadpool & Wolverine came out this weekend and I haven't heard anyone talking about it lol