Father Stu | Sony | April 13th, 2022 | Stars Mark Wahlberg 🤮 and Mel Gibson 🤮 | PG-13 edit coming to theaters on December 9

[Old Spice]

This re-release sounds like the ultimate lump of Christmas coal that no one asked for.

[cookie]

49 minutes ago, AJG said:

X-Men: ORIGINS

Matrix: REVOLUTIONS  

Father Stu: REBORN

 

 

 

So they changed the title even though it's the same movie...? Makes it sound like it's a sequel.

 

Edit: Missed that it was a PG-13 re-edit, so I guess the name change tracks... kinda.

Edited November 2, 2022 by cookie

[WittyUsername]

Oh Sony, never change.

[dudalb]

On 11/2/2022 at 10:18 AM, filmlover said:

Of course now they're trying to court those hardcore Christian demos after it failed to become the Oscar contender Wahlberg obviously thought it would be when making it. Sometimes it really helps to try and get a read on who your potential audience is.

One problem is that hardcore Christian demos are  largely fundy Protestents, and a lot of them don't like the Catholic Church very much.

[AJG]

Got re-released in 1000 theatres. Flopped like nobodies business

 

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Nobody loves a cynical cash grab more than Mark Wahlberg, who’s been in the paycheck phase of his career since like 2010. But alas, the PG-13, swear-word-free cut of his April religious drama Father Stu, which he’s been plugging on Fox News, did so poorly in nearly 1,000 theaters this weekend that Sony decided not to release numbers, and the trades dutifully agreed to pretend that it never happened.

 

 

One thousand theaters is not insignificant! Sony publicist Tahra Grant didn’t respond to my query about why that happened, but unlike with the Catholic Church, it’s hard to keep abuses of the box office a secret. Two exhibition sources say Father Stu: Reborn grossed about $125,000 total this weekend—not in one theater, or even on Friday night; that’s the weekend domestic total—meaning about $127 per theater. With an average movie ticket price of around $9, that translates into—let’s do the math—14 people per theater who paid to see a Mark Wahlberg movie this weekend. Yikes. Good thing Wahlberg moved from L.A. to Nevada for tax purposes—sorry, I mean to give his kids a “better life.”

 

 

14 People Per Theatre.

Edited December 12, 2022 by AJG

[dudalb]

9 hours ago, AJG said:

Got re-released in 1000 theatres. Flopped like nobodies business

 

 

14 People Per Theatre.

As expected.

As stated the core "Faith" autdinece are Protestent Fundies, and a lot of them dislike the "Papists" a lot.