NewlyRetired
Footballguy
This is true but the incredibly bad reviews do give me a moments pause. The current 12% on Rotten Tomatoes is incredibly bad.
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After Earth - Will Smith's vanity project involving his son. (1 Viewer)
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MaxThreshold
Footballguy
His kid needed to stay out of that and be content with sitting on the sidelines. Ughh.NewlyRetired said:
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Zigg said:
Isn't Fast and Furious part 53 or whatever killing it at the box office?
General Malaise
Poop Lord
General Malaise
Poop Lord
I really do think our world would be better off if they paying customers were sucked out of their seats and teleported to a remote desert island where we watch them survive on Reality TV.
Fantasy_Freak
Footballguy
Marcus Theaters are not carrying the movie, approximately 700 theaters in the midwest.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/209511791.html
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/209511791.html
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Fast and Furious 6 has a pretty solid 74% Rotten Tomatoes score. After Earth is at 12%.Zigg said:
Fennis
Footballguy
BlueDredSo
Footballguy
You take fun way too seriously. He's a kid, and Will Smith's son. What did you expect? Sitting on the sidelines is not in their blood.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Sitting at 13% now after 86 reviews. Average rating has been a 3.8 out of 10. I can see it opening in the $45M-$55M range domestically which might be enough to get the movie close to break even after all is said and done (full domestic run, full international run, dvd/blu rays etc). If it opens lower than that or has an enormous drop off rate in the second week then things could change. This movie contains the lowest reviews I can ever remember for a big movie going into its premiere.
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dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Love the scenes of the two of them living in the bathroom...
...wait
...wait
Insein
Footballguy
FF might as well be shakespeare next to this.Zigg said:
Fennis
Footballguy
RT has the Worst of the Worst from 2000-2009. Its a nice walk down memory lane. "Movies" like Glitter, Gigli, Battlefield Earth, All about Steve (Sandra Bullock), Swept Away (Madona), The Hottie & The Nottie (Paris Hilton) and many more.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/
Over the last decade, we've collected reviews for thousands of movies. Most films, even profoundly mediocre ones, can expect to receive at least cursory support from the pundits. However, once in a while, a film will take such a critical drubbing that further attention is warranted. That's where our Worst of the Worst list comes in. We've compiled a veritable cornucopia of dull, foolhardy, and outright terrible films, from legendary duds (Battlefield Earth) to chuckle-deficient comedies (Epic Movie), from hapless sequels (Basic Instinct 2) to scare-free would-be fright fests (Alone in the Dark). We've pored over the reviews to bring you the lowest Tomatometers of the decade -- including several (All About Steve, Whiteout) that were released within the last several weeks. In other words, we suffered for our work -- now it's your turn.
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Chase Stuart
Footballguy
This thing looked horrible in the trailer.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Get lost, corky. I did a search and nothing came up.
Sorry this thread is more popular than the one you started.
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Joe Summer
Footballguy
It looked horrible in the house, too.
Smack Tripper
Footballguy
Will smiths kid reminds me of the jack robinson quite from reg Dunlop to the owner in slap shot
kentric
Footballguy
tdoss
Footballguy
Rumor looks like when you take two celebs and photoshop their faces together to see what their kids would look like. Demi's eyes and Bruce's jaw...weirdly cut and pasted together...with no shading or blending to tie the pieces together.
pittstownkiller
Footballguy
General Malaise
Poop Lord
Tdoss on a roll in here. 
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I think I just watched it in the bathroom. It was about what I expected.
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Insoxicated
Jesus that kid is an annoying little twit... constantly mimicking anyone who's getting attention and trying to dive in the foreground while cameras frantically swapped trying to keep in in the side of the frame.
General Malaise
Poop Lord
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
You're not even close. This is a stinker of epic proportions.
Cypher Raige? That's really Will's name in the movie? Did a 6 year old write this thing?
Have we had enough of blatant Hollywood nepotism yet? Will Smith could help his son a lot more if he would just let the kid do this stuff on his own - y'know, the good old fashioned way and EARN IT.
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badmojo1006
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
wow those are some awful predictions for After Earth. Looks like the pre-release reviews are killing it on the vine.
Premier
Footballguy
The father/son duos new M. Night Shyamalan-directed adventure After Earth only earned $9.8 million on its opening Friday (technically, that number includes Thursday night shows as well), which puts it on pace for a weekend of just $27 million a tough result considering the poorly reviewed Sony effort cost $130 million and carried Will Smith-sized expectations.
Tremendous Upside
Footballguy
There better be a scene where Will Smith punches one of those big animals in the face and says "Welcome to After Earth!!!"
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
OH HELL NO!
Smack Tripper
Footballguy
Why did we never get an independence day sequel?
BigSteelThrill
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Emerich is still hoping to complete the trilogyhttp://screenrant.com/independence-day-2-sequel-plot-details/
http://www.fansshare.com/news/jeff-goldblum-will-return-for-independence-day-sequels/
pollardsvision
Footballguy
I don't know if I've ever seen the kid in a movie, but if I did ever, for some reason, get the urge, I'd resist as a protest for remaking "The Karate Kid".
Maybe it was a decent movie. No idea, but it still never should've been done. That movie was perfect the first time around.
ETA: Actually, I did see The Pursuit of Happyness. I can't remember if I liked it or not, but I don't remember hating it.
Maybe it was a decent movie. No idea, but it still never should've been done. That movie was perfect the first time around.
ETA: Actually, I did see The Pursuit of Happyness. I can't remember if I liked it or not, but I don't remember hating it.
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bigbottom
I put on my robe and wizard hat
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
Got to love Hollywood nepotism. Why work to be a star when mommy or daddy can buy it for you? Working for it is waaaaaaay too hard.
Abraham
Footballguy
Nepotism exists in pretty much every industry out there. In fact, small businesses where kids take over for their aging parents are probably much much more common then Hollywood kids actually turning in to stars that can stand on their own.
Fennis
Footballguy
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/
But the big story – or should I say, the sad story – is Sony Pictures/Columbia’s After Earth (3,401 theaters) starring Will Smith and his son and directed by the now unwatchable M Night Shyamalan. Big online ticketseller Fandango first spotted the pic’s underperformance when After Earth ticket sales began lagging Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me (2,925 theaters) on Thursday for shows beginning at 9 PM. The magic-themed heist thriller amazingly overtook After Earth on Friday and stayed #2 all weekend, debuting with $27.5M for the weekend. That overperforms the $20M which the studio was predicting.
But #3 After Earth earned only a ‘B’ CinemaScore which won’t help or hurt word of mouth. It opened to a $26.5M weekend. That’s way less than the high $30sM to low $40sM which Sony was predicting and which tracking showed was possible right into Friday.
On Friday, rival studios chortled its grosses were ”2.5 times worse than Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid reboot and half of Oblivion‘s opening” with Tom Cruise. Not hard to understand because reviews for the sci-fi newcomer were just plain awful: 13% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair, Sony Pictures rarely has a big underperformer like this. And rightly or wrongly depending on how much you care about Jaden Smith and/or nepotism in Hollywood, the studio positioned the movie as a broad family film, building on Jaden’s stardom from the worldwide hit The Karate Kid and reaching out to young teens and families.
Will Smith’s residual mega-wattage was still strong enough to open the summer tentpole comfortably above $20M. But even that and Sony’s marketing prowess couldn’t overcome this Shyamalan meltdown, yet another in his string of box office stinkers which have made audiences and critics alike completely soured on him. (The director lost me forever after the execrable The Happening…) I’m told that Will really wanted M Night to direct – even though this subject matter decidedly wasn’t in Shyamalan’s wheelhouse - and they together developed the script for a “not terribly expensive” movie. But a budget of at least $130M is hardly insignificant. Still, given the fact that Smith has made billions for Sony Pictures, the studio felt it just couldn’t say no to its most successful movie partner.
Now Smith and Sony must weather this very public failure. I’m told the studio worked “really hard” to fix this crapfest in post-production and that even an arrogant know-it-all like Shyamalan was aware the pic didn’t work but couldn’t fix it on his own. ”You keep hoping people are going to be as good as their best work,” one insider told me about this all-too-familiar filmdom situation.
“Sometimes some collaborations bring forth amazing results. And some are not meant to be.” Without a solid opening in North America and no chance for a strong summer multiple, pic will have to depend on overseas grosses. Sony launched it internationally day and date in 3 locations this weekend, and Korea opened very strong, but the overseas rollout really begins next week and the week after. As for the studio, it still has projected winners coming up this summer like Grown-Ups 2, Elysium, Smurfs 2, and This Is The End from the Superbad/Pineapple Express comedy team.
But the big story – or should I say, the sad story – is Sony Pictures/Columbia’s After Earth (3,401 theaters) starring Will Smith and his son and directed by the now unwatchable M Night Shyamalan. Big online ticketseller Fandango first spotted the pic’s underperformance when After Earth ticket sales began lagging Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me (2,925 theaters) on Thursday for shows beginning at 9 PM. The magic-themed heist thriller amazingly overtook After Earth on Friday and stayed #2 all weekend, debuting with $27.5M for the weekend. That overperforms the $20M which the studio was predicting.
But #3 After Earth earned only a ‘B’ CinemaScore which won’t help or hurt word of mouth. It opened to a $26.5M weekend. That’s way less than the high $30sM to low $40sM which Sony was predicting and which tracking showed was possible right into Friday.
On Friday, rival studios chortled its grosses were ”2.5 times worse than Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid reboot and half of Oblivion‘s opening” with Tom Cruise. Not hard to understand because reviews for the sci-fi newcomer were just plain awful: 13% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair, Sony Pictures rarely has a big underperformer like this. And rightly or wrongly depending on how much you care about Jaden Smith and/or nepotism in Hollywood, the studio positioned the movie as a broad family film, building on Jaden’s stardom from the worldwide hit The Karate Kid and reaching out to young teens and families.
Will Smith’s residual mega-wattage was still strong enough to open the summer tentpole comfortably above $20M. But even that and Sony’s marketing prowess couldn’t overcome this Shyamalan meltdown, yet another in his string of box office stinkers which have made audiences and critics alike completely soured on him. (The director lost me forever after the execrable The Happening…) I’m told that Will really wanted M Night to direct – even though this subject matter decidedly wasn’t in Shyamalan’s wheelhouse - and they together developed the script for a “not terribly expensive” movie. But a budget of at least $130M is hardly insignificant. Still, given the fact that Smith has made billions for Sony Pictures, the studio felt it just couldn’t say no to its most successful movie partner.
Now Smith and Sony must weather this very public failure. I’m told the studio worked “really hard” to fix this crapfest in post-production and that even an arrogant know-it-all like Shyamalan was aware the pic didn’t work but couldn’t fix it on his own. ”You keep hoping people are going to be as good as their best work,” one insider told me about this all-too-familiar filmdom situation.
“Sometimes some collaborations bring forth amazing results. And some are not meant to be.” Without a solid opening in North America and no chance for a strong summer multiple, pic will have to depend on overseas grosses. Sony launched it internationally day and date in 3 locations this weekend, and Korea opened very strong, but the overseas rollout really begins next week and the week after. As for the studio, it still has projected winners coming up this summer like Grown-Ups 2, Elysium, Smurfs 2, and This Is The End from the Superbad/Pineapple Express comedy team.
