The weekend actuals are out: $30,180,188 domestic.
"John Carter of Mars" Moving Ahead!
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No it doesn't. The estimate for the weekend was $30.6 million. The actual number was $30,180,188. So Sunday business was roughly $400k less than expected.
So there is no evidence yet of a good staying power at the box office, unfortunately.
Does it have the Gabriel song used in the trailer IN the movie? Because I thought that first trailer with the song was much better than the white apes trailer.
No, neither Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" nor Peter Gabriel's cover of Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage" is in the film.
Nice article about the perplexingly negative media reaction to John Carter: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/54267
Damn, this film bombing is a shame. I thought the trailers were shit like everyone else, but I went to see it anyway and I really really enjoyed the hell out of it. It was a nice solid sci fi action adventure. It just had quite possibly the worst ad campaign for a movie in recent history and a March wasteland release date to help bury it for some reason. Which is a shame, because the end left a few questions unanswered...
March is not a wasteland, hasn't been for some time. Tell that to 300, Horton Hears a Who, Lorax or others. The movie's ad campaign just didn't work.
A recent studio exec even said that idea of the old "dumping ground" for films in Jan and September have to be reevaluated. They are now realizing that audiences will show up in former months once considered 'less lucrative' like Feb/March/Sep/Oct. So they will plan a calendar of hit films and not 6 months of hits/6 months of 'who knows'.
I don't recall where I read it but that is the reality for Hollywood now.
Hunger Games is about to bow next and that should be huge, also Wrath of Titans.
A recent studio exec even said that idea of the old "dumping ground" for films in Jan and September have to be reevaluated. They are now realizing that audiences will show up in former months once considered 'less lucrative' like Feb/March/Sep/Oct. So they will plan a calendar of hit films and not 6 months of hits/6 months of 'who knows'.
I don't recall where I read it but that is the reality for Hollywood now.
Hunger Games is about to bow next and that should be huge, also Wrath of Titans.
Yep, a good read.
Sadly more doom and gloom
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/john-carter-disneys-epic-fail/3xouri4e
John Carter: Disney's Epic Fail?
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/john-carter-disneys-epic-fail/3xouri4e
John Carter: Disney's Epic Fail?
I know nothing about the books/material whatever this is based on, and have barely seen a trailer or read any reviews of this, so I can say I had a pretty clean slate when I went to see it this afternoon as I wanted something to do.
Wow. What a mess.
Charatcters I couldn't care less about, villains who were villains for the sake of being villains, no plot that I could make out, zero characterization, etc etc
It's bad when the film ended an hour ago and I can't remember a single characters name (well yes apart from JC, but it did help that his name is the title)
Dominic West's "charatcer"... *shakes head* fuck me, the word cypher doesn't even begin to do justice. And as for Mark Strong, please, can someone get this guy a new agent? If I see him in one more movie as a bad guy I'm gonna scream
Wow. What a mess.
Charatcters I couldn't care less about, villains who were villains for the sake of being villains, no plot that I could make out, zero characterization, etc etc
It's bad when the film ended an hour ago and I can't remember a single characters name (well yes apart from JC, but it did help that his name is the title)
Dominic West's "charatcer"... *shakes head* fuck me, the word cypher doesn't even begin to do justice. And as for Mark Strong, please, can someone get this guy a new agent? If I see him in one more movie as a bad guy I'm gonna scream
He has the same agent as Sean Bean I think.
Some actors are typecast good, bad or stooge it's just the way of things.
Don 't count on it...it will at least make it's money back I think...people underestimate after release grosses, but if you are going to count marketing costs and so on you have count all sources off income.
RAMA
More people saw it on Sunday than on Friday. That indicates word of mouth. I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about audiences liking it.
It made less on Sunday than on Friday, but it did get a very good Saturday increase.
No, that is a an oversimplification. Different kinds of movies tend to distribute differently over the weekend days. Films skewing older or younger tend to do well on sundays, whereas heavily anticipated films targeting young adults tend to do really good on friday.
Next weekends gross will give us a better picture.
