My guess is WB thought Robbie is a big enough of a name to put butts in the seats and she isn’t. They probably should have cast some other big names to draw viewers. Casting unknowns sometimes backfires.
Who cares? It’s Star Wars, they can do what they want. It’s an excellent series. Far better reviewed what what’s in the theater. They should have put baby yoda in the movie and maybe people would have showed up.
Watson’s involvement is spelled out in her contract. You don’t just don’t say “I don’t feel like promoting it now”. If she wanted limited involvement then she had that put in her contract and Sony was ok with it.
I’m not saying the box office was bad at all this weekend but Stranger Things appealed to me much more than any of the other horror offerings this weekend.
It’s an indie film not a blockbuster. All I hope is with this cast, the various fan bases don’t cause the likability of this film to implode. I feel sorry for the older actors.
TLK surely didn’t need Aladdin to do well on a holiday weekend. TLK will be massive because it is TLK. Opening weekend will beat BatB’s opening easily.
What’s weird is it didn’t feel like a Ritchie film at all. It was your typical remake., no better or worse. I can’t help but think Disney had such control of filming he was creatively muted.