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| 2004-06-18 |
| Disney Doom: ’80 Days’ the Latest $100 Million Flop After Just One Day Disney, the movie studio that can’t buy a break these days, is about to have a very bad weekend. Their big new $100 million-plus movie, "Around the World in 80 Days," opened on Wednesday to very little interest. Its take was about $1.5 million on over 2,700 screens. According to boxofficemojo.com, the negatively-reviewed movie starring Jackie Chan had a $540 per screen average. That translates into about 50 people per theater. . . . . Apparently his final film as the polygamous (Islamic?) Prince Hapi failed to draw any audience. Not his fault. Besides he is busy right now! |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #13 too articulate for NMM, too smart for Gentle and Antiwar....one of the older trolls.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-18 11:14:10 PM |
| #12 Care to make any guesses? I bet I can nail it in one... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-18 11:08:50 PM |
| #11 apparently, it shows. Directed and written by Stevie Wonder and John Kerry - humorless and bad visually ps - I sent an email to the Fredmeister for an IP search |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-18 11:07:22 PM |
| #10 "half the lure (Jackie Chan) isn't there anymore" Guys - here's the problem. Not written or directed by Jackie. I heard that his pkg deal had required that he do one or two with someone else calling the shots - this is an example of the result. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-18 11:03:22 PM |
| #9 I love Jackie movies, as do my two teenage sons - I asked them today if they knew this flick was out and they said no. What kinda advertising effort doesn't reach MTV/ComedyCentral-watching kids or Foxnews/HBO watching adults? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-18 10:57:52 PM |
| #8 The movie didn't seem to be that great, from the commercials; half the lure (Jackie Chan) isn't there anymore, because he's wearing down physically and is apparently leaning towards more slapstick than physical comedy. Moreover, he's reportedly grown disgruntled with the US film market (Asian films getting treated poorly and all) and will keep the next "chapter" of the Police Story series away from US distributors. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-06-18 10:50:48 PM |
| #7 I know Sarge - I'm a Californian too. (I doorknobed literature in my precinct for Arnie last fall) |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-18 3:00:59 PM |
| #6 Yes - Twins was a good movie - very funny. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-18 2:59:45 PM |
| #5 Big Ed, Arney had a cameo part in the movie. I don't think it helped one way or the other. On another note the Demoncrats here in the golden state fear the Govenator. That is why he is so effective, not unhlike my favorite Gov Ronny Reagan. I like the story and will probably rent this when it comes out on video (I rarely go to the movies). |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-06-18 2:59:27 PM |
| #4 Twins was hardly a flop if you consider money spent to money earned (as Hollywood generally calculates these things) I think it did very well. |
| Posted by: yank 2004-06-18 2:36:29 PM |
| #3 Our Governor can kick your Governor's ass |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-18 2:03:50 PM |
| #2 Wow! Arnold played a minor role in a movie that didn't do well! STOP THE PRESSES!!! I mean, it's not like he's never been in a flop before!!! (Ignoring, of course, Batman & Robin, Junior, Eraser, Jingle All the Way, Twins, Last Action Hero, or The Rundown.) |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-18 1:26:33 PM |
| #1 Lets be honest, how many advertisements has anyone seen for this movie? I didn't even know it was out, I assumed it was coming out later in the Summer. If they are unwilling to dump cash into advertising they risk a huge flop, that's how the business works. |
| Posted by: yank 2004-06-18 1:26:08 PM |