Weekend estimates: 15.90 M THE MARTIAN | 15.50 M GOOSEBUMPS | 11.37 M BOS | 10.83 M TLWH | 9.00 M HT II | 8.20 M PA: TGD | 7.27 M STEVE JOBS

[TalismanRing]

Smaller witch movies rarely do well.

 

A $90m budget isn't small. 

 

The quality of the movie with it's 17% on RT isn't helping.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Fuck Spectre and Hunger Games, next month will be owned by Peanuts and The Good Dinosaur!

[Wrath]

A $90m budget isn't small. 

 

The quality of the movie with it's 17% on RT isn't helping.

 

Its quite the weekend for horrendously reviewed movies. Steve Jobs' RT% > the other 4 wide releases' RT percentages added together.

[grey ghost]

That's some remarkably precise segmenting.

It's not a genre but there's been a few of them.

[Tau Ceti]

Riddick and Witch Hunter prove Diesel can't carry a movie.

The irony is he's central to the success of a billion dollar franchise.

 

Or they prove that he makes really, really bad script choices. With the right concept and budget there's no reason Vin Diesel couldn't have some modest successes. The Rock has done it.

[eXtacy]

Whelp, now those are some legendary (bad) numbers

[grey ghost]

A $90m budget isn't small. 

 

The quality of the movie with it's 17% on RT isn't helping.

Smaller as in, not as big as Harry Potter or Oz.

[DAR]

A $90m budget isn't small. 

 

The quality of the movie with it's 17% on RT isn't helping.

 

Compared to what most movies cost these days, that's like a charming little indie.

[La Binoche]

The lead actress in Jem is on ABC's Nashville, playing a singer who can't catch a break. Life imitating art. 

[grim22]

Was listening to the radio on the drive to work and the radio ad for "The Last Witch Hunter" started "Horrible things are coming. The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel in theaters now". Whoever combined the dialogue with the actual ad knew what they were doing.

[grey ghost]

Or they prove that he makes really, really bad script choices. With the right concept and budget there's no reason Vin Diesel couldn't have some modest successes. The Rock has done it.

Did the Rock really carry San Andreas, though?

Disaster movies sell themselves.

[TalismanRing]

Was listening to the radio on the drive to work and the radio ad for "The Last Witch Hunter" started "Horrible things are coming. The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel in theaters now". Whoever combined the dialogue with the actual ad knew what they were doing.

 

Actual truth in advertising.

[DAJK]

Was listening to the radio on the drive to work and the radio ad for "The Last Witch Hunter" started "Horrible things are coming. The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel in theaters now". Whoever combined the dialogue with the actual ad knew what they were doing.

That's awesome

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Was listening to the radio on the drive to work and the radio ad for "The Last Witch Hunter" started "Horrible things are coming. The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel in theaters now". Whoever combined the dialogue with the actual ad knew what they were doing.

Intentional shade? LMFAO

[dudalb]

A $90m budget isn't small. 

 

The quality of the movie with it's 17% on RT isn't helping.

Like everybody else, I have to laugh at Jem,but fact is that Last Witch Hunter is going to be ,finiancailly a much more painful film.

Jem cost 5 Million;it;s bombing is like a quarter dropping out of your coat pocket into the gutter. But TLWH with a 90 Million dollar budget is going to cause some hurt at Lionsgate. Luckily they have Mockingjay 2 coming out, but, still, with their major cash cow franchise coming to an end Lionsgate will be in real trouble if they continut to spend major bucks on films like "TLWH".

[dudalb]

Actual truth in advertising.

Well for Lionsgate execs THe Last Witch Hunter will be terryfying.....

 

 

And the ghost of New Line Cinema will haunt them for Halloween.....I can see a really similair scenario.

[filmlover]

This is what happens when you release a bunch of movies that look completely unappealing on a single weekend.

[zackzack]

Some theater chain is boycotting the movie because of its VOD plan?

Are these chains becoming gangster-like?

[Box Office Freak]

This is the worst weekend I have ever seen since being on this site

 

[Macleod]

Riddick and Witch Hunter prove Diesel can't carry a movie.

The irony is he's central to the success of a billion dollar franchise.

 

To be fair, the last Riddick was made totally independently (he stuck his neck out on that), and cost less than half of LWH...is probably a better movie...and will probably end up better "on the books" than LWH, as well.  But yes, your point is taken.