Star Trek #1 - $3.12 M Wednesday - $159 M domestic - $233 M worldwide

[USSPhilippi]

Re: Star Trek #1 - $3.12 M Wednesday - $159 M domestic - $233 M worldw

Believe it or not, I think Dance Flick is a wildcard. Those stupid spoof movies inexplicably seem to do very well sometimes.

They are usually released when nothing else is playing, they attract the teenage idiot crowd that texts on their phones through the entire movie. Disaster Movie was a total bomb, it barely even made back its $20m budget with ticket sales. But then Meet the Spartans, a movie equally as terrible and uninspired makes $85m from a $30m budget. So "wild card" is right, but I suspect (and looking through Wiki and IMBD I think I'm backed up by evidence) that movies like this released during peek seasons tend to get buried. Disaster Movie was released in August, ....Spartans was released in January. Epic Movie, the only other "...Movie" that made a conciderable chunk of cash in the past few years, was released in January as well.

In any case, I hope Dance Movie crashes and burns. Jason Friedman and Eric Seltzer need to be kicked in the balls repeatedly.

Friedman and Seltzer are not invovled with Dance Flick AFAIK;it's a product of the Wayans family which started the Scary Movie series.

 

[FordSVT]

Re: Star Trek #1 - $3.12 M Wednesday - $159 M domestic - $233 M worldw

Believe it or not, I think Dance Flick is a wildcard. Those stupid spoof movies inexplicably seem to do very well sometimes.

They are usually released when nothing else is playing, they attract the teenage idiot crowd that texts on their phones through the entire movie. Disaster Movie was a total bomb, it barely even made back its $20m budget with ticket sales. But then Meet the Spartans, a movie equally as terrible and uninspired makes $85m from a $30m budget. So "wild card" is right, but I suspect (and looking through Wiki and IMBD I think I'm backed up by evidence) that movies like this released during peek seasons tend to get buried. Disaster Movie was released in August, ....Spartans was released in January. Epic Movie, the only other "...Movie" that made a conciderable chunk of cash in the past few years, was released in January as well.

In any case, I hope Dance Movie crashes and burns. Jason Friedman and Eric Seltzer need to be kicked in the balls repeatedly.

Friedman and Seltzer are not invovled with Dance Flick AFAIK;it's a product of the Wayans family which started the Scary Movie series.

I know. And the Wayans have been milking the cow since SM1, they're just making sure they're all employed at this point.

 

[cooleddie74]

Re: Star Trek #1 - $3.12 M Wednesday - $159 M domestic - $233 M worldw

Almost any new Wayans movie is guaranteed to suck balls. They haven't done anything good since SCARY MOVIE 2, and even that one was iffy in spots.