| Posted by: Bourne101 at May 14, 2008, 6:12 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Grand_Marquis I could see Kung Fu Panda going the way of Happy Feet - a decent flick that just can't hold its own amongst heavy hitters. That it used 'kung fu fighting' in the trailer doesn't bode well either. Happy Feet made $200 million domestically and nearly $400 million worldwide. What about that didn't hold its own? And it demolished all of the heavy hitters. I think Kung Fu Panda will do very well. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Grand_Marquis at May 14, 2008, 5:42 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I could see Kung Fu Panda going the way of Happy Feet - a decent flick that just can't hold its own amongst heavy hitters. That it used 'kung fu fighting' in the trailer doesn't bode well either. From the looks of Get Smart, it might end up being another Pink Panther disaster. Then again, it might not. Hard to say just yet. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at May 14, 2008, 5:32 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Well, Speed Racer is officially the first bomb of the summer. My prediction for the next bomb of the summer is... Well, now that I think of it, not much coming out looks like it is going to bomb. Postal will for sure, but I'm not sure how wide that is going on the 23rd. Wanted would be next on the list, but it could end up doing alright. Narnia, Indy, The Strangers, Sex and the City, Kung Fu Panda, Zohan, The Hulk, The Happening, Get Smart, The Love Guru, and Wall-E (big releases in May and June) should all be quite successful. That doesn't mean that something like The Strangers will go and make $100 million domestically, but it should be successful in terms of its budget and such. I think the marketing for The Strangers has been too good for it not to do pretty well. I've seen the preview at numerous high grossing movies, there are TV spots galore on plenty of popular channels, and those previews and spots are making it look pretty damn good. Obviously with Indy in the way of things, it will be tough, but w... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: dannywalker17 at May 14, 2008, 5:15 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | Quote: Originally Posted by dannywalker17 Speed Racer Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemovies Speed Racer looks really cool. I really don't think it'll flop. Quote: Originally Posted by KCJ506 I can't believe you all expect SPEED RACER to flop. Its a family friendly movie. Those usually make money. I mean...heck...Forbidden Kingdom beat Sarah Marshall at the box office last weekend! It's got cars racing in it, and that's all kids need to know. Not to mention many of their parents will want to take them because they loved the cartoon as kids. And you have to factor in all the 18-35 crowd who will see this movie while under the influence. Wha'd I tell ya? Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemovies The action looks like it's going to suck. The dialogue sounds so bad that not even the great
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| Posted by: poopontheshoes7 at April 28, 2008, 12:57 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Incredible Hulk I really hope it doesnt flop, but everytime I hear someone say that a new Hulk is coming out everyone says that the first one sucked and they dont wanna see it. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Moviefan1234 at April 28, 2008, 11:59 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I disagree completely. I think it looks like 100% great popcorn entertainment. Great action scenes featuring three very talented performers, a very interesting premise, and a really cool bending bullet spin on things. Sign me up! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ilovemovies at April 28, 2008, 11:53 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | The action looks like it's going to suck. The dialogue sounds so bad that not even the great Morgan Freeman is able to make it sound good and it just looks painfully generic and incredibly stupid in every way. It looks dumb but not fun to me. All of the trailers I've seen for the movie make it look unintentionally hilarious. Mr. & Mrs. Smith wasn't a great IMO, however it's a friggin' masterpiece compared to how Wanted looks. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Moviefan1234 at April 28, 2008, 11:30 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemovies Fixed. Haha yeah right. Just curious, but what do you think looks so bad about WANTED? Everything I've seen from it has been nothing but positive. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Preston_79 at April 28, 2008, 11:26 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Speed Racer looks like a crappy flick. How old would you be today if you watched that cartoon when you were younger? I'm guessing you'd be mid 20's and I don't see anyone older than 13 seeing that movie. I think this movie will flop in the United States. Maybe it will break even, but that is by no means a successful movie. Horrible looking, just dreadful. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Eric Flatpack at April 28, 2008, 11:13 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | The Happening i think will have a poor box office return because Mark Walhberg doesn't really draw many people in and i think people are tired of M Night Shyamalans type of movies. I don't think the Hulk will be a massive flop but it won't come off as well as Iron Man, Indy 4 etc. Hellboy 2 i imagine will get a modest return but be big on when it comes out on dvd. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: AndrewDB at April 28, 2008, 10:42 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by MidnightAngel Looks like an action movie directed by John Woo and co-written by the Watchowski Brothers. Could Wanted be the next Crank? Please.. don't insult Crank that way. Wanted is a pure popcorn flick in my mind. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MidnightAngel at April 28, 2008, 10:23 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by JohnLocke2342 i agree with ilovemovies. Wanted looks really bad. The CGI looks pretty shitty too.. I dunno.. I just see a whole "post-matrix lets bring the genre back" kinda thing that isn't gonna go over well with it's audience. Bend Bullets? Oh.. ok Looks like an action movie directed by John Woo and co-written by the Watchowski Brothers. Could Wanted be the next Crank? | | Static Link |
| Posted by: JohnLocke2342 at April 27, 2008, 11:58 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | i agree with ilovemovies. Wanted looks really bad. The CGI looks pretty shitty too.. I dunno.. I just see a whole "post-matrix lets bring the genre back" kinda thing that isn't gonna go over well with it's audience. Bend Bullets? Oh.. ok | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ilovemovies at April 27, 2008, 11:56 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by the saw is family just curious what is edgy about wanted? imo it looks like your typical over the top action flick, absolutely nothing edgy about that. Exactly. It looks pretty stupid actually. Morgan Freeman is a living legend and pretty much a god (he did play him afterall twice ). I'll see him in just about anything. But this looks like it's him slumming it. Angelina Jolie too for that matter. And after great performances in The Last King of Scotland and Atonement, I'm disappointed in James MacAvoy that this is what he chooses for his first big action blockbuster type flick. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: therealjohng at April 27, 2008, 11:33 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Terror Australis I think you were meant to say that The Dark Knight going to be the bomb! Nope. It's going to tank. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: franky4fingerz at April 27, 2008, 10:38 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by MidnightAngel Predicting a movie out of the summer movie season.......Saw V will flop due that R rated horror movies are not big moneymakes like The Ruins and PG-13 rated horror movies are even more successful like the Prom Night remake. not really true. The saw franchise is very successful. however, this movie will flop because its so fucking tired. None of the films are good and I think audiences might finally understand that. Plus, this halloween its all about rocknrolla. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MidnightAngel at April 27, 2008, 9:45 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Predicting a movie out of the summer movie season.......Saw V will flop due that R rated horror movies are not big moneymakes like The Ruins and PG-13 rated horror movies are even more successful like the Prom Night remake. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Terror Australis at April 27, 2008, 9:15 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by therealjohng The Dark Knight is going to bomb, I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet. I think you were meant to say that The Dark Knight going to be the bomb! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: the saw is family at April 27, 2008, 8:39 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Badbird I think Hulk will bomb because no one cares. I think Wanted will bomb because it's way too edgy for the summer blockbuster crowds - though I really want to see it. just curious what is edgy about wanted? imo it looks like your typical over the top action flick, absolutely nothing edgy about that. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: JohnLocke2342 at April 27, 2008, 6:15 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I know you guys love them but I think that The Incredible Hulk and Hellboy 2 will bomb. The Incredible Hulk for the obvious reason of how the first one made out.. and how the Hulk doesn't translate too well on screen. I just don't see the Hulk carrying a film franchise to the point that people need to go out and spend their hard earned dough on this movie. It looks OK at best. Hellboy 2 I think for the same thing. Most people have no idea who Hellboy is, and their lack of any "big" names really hurts them. I don't know how well the first one performed, and I know that the word has gotten better since then, but I still can't picture it doing anything close to massive. I dunno.. I guess we shall see. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Moviefan1234 at April 27, 2008, 5:42 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by MidnightAngel Get Smart will be a moderate hit but not a blockbuster hit. The Happening might be a safe flop and if it does then the director should kiss his director career goodbye after celluloid shit like The Village and Lady in the Water. Not so fast my friend. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=44122 THE HAPPENING looks great. I think it'll do well at the box office. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MisterChristian at April 27, 2008, 5:36 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: There is every reason for Warner Bros. to be concerned about the Wachowski Brothers’s treatment of the classic cartoon Speed Racer. I am hearing that Un-Aided Awareness is at only 5 percent, though it has a Total Aware of 77 percent. Definite Interest, however, is at a mere 29 percent, and that could spell trouble. That's less interest, for example, than has already been generated by the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher picture What Happens in Vegas (Fox), which opens on the same day. Speed Racer is showing strength with the 25 Plus crowd — people who grew up watching the original show — but it's struggling to get traction with Under 25s. Warner Bros. must be hoping that this picture will skew very young and will play like a family film, luring parents to bring their children. Preteens are never fully represented in industry tracking, but, even so, this is a big, very expensive blockbuster. Unless it is connects more strongly with Males Under 25, it could turn into a huge disappointment.... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at April 27, 2008, 8:26 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Scarfather 48-62ish and 150 in the end. It won't do Goddamn magnificent, but you're really underestimating it. Kids wield that phenomenal power known as their parent's wallets. Iron Man has a much wider demographic, but is really for 12+ This is the first "Go ahead and bring your toddler" film of the Summer and I expect receipts to reflect that. Though, that doesn't mean parents aren't going to bring their toddlers to Iron Man (fucking morons as they can be) but alas, you understand what I'm going on about. I understand, but don't you think that Narnia will take away a lot of that crowd? It's going to have to have a massive opening to make $150 million overall. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at April 27, 2008, 8:24 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by bigred760 It'll only have to contend with Iron Man it's opening weekend and I don't think What Happens in Vegas will be much of a threat. Again, I mean if a teenager has the choice between Speed Racer and What Happens in Vegas, they're probably going to choose What Happens in Vegas. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Badbird at April 27, 2008, 8:16 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I think Hulk will bomb because no one cares. I think Wanted will bomb because it's way too edgy for the summer blockbuster crowds - though I really want to see it. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Scarfather at April 27, 2008, 8:02 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Bourne101 Just out of curiosity, what is your prediction for Speed Racer? 48-62ish and 150 in the end. It won't do Goddamn magnificent, but you're really underestimating it. Kids wield that phenomenal power known as their parent's wallets. Iron Man has a much wider demographic, but is really for 12+ This is the first "Go ahead and bring your toddler" film of the Summer and I expect receipts to reflect that. Though, that doesn't mean parents aren't going to bring their toddlers to Iron Man (fucking morons as they can be) but alas, you understand what I'm going on about. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: God of War at April 27, 2008, 8:00 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by MidnightAngel The Happening might be a safe flop and if it does then the director should kiss his director career goodbye after celluloid shit like The Village and Lady in the Water. Thank you. I'm glad that I'm not the only one here that thought both of those movies were shit. Two of the worst movies I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. And I'm willing to bet that Night will continue his trail of celluloid shit with this new film. As for potential flops. I have to say Hulk, even though it looks like alot of green fun. Speed Racer looks beyond dumb, but it will make money, the same as Meet The Spartans did. Mummy 3 will do ok, Wanted will do ok, even though dumb bitch bag, Jolie is in it. Ironman will do very good, as will Indy 4. Hellboy will rake in suckers money. lol. Hancock should do well considering I Am Legend did very well. So people will if nothing else, just see it for Smith. And lastly, TDK will kickass... Fuck the rest. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MidnightAngel at April 27, 2008, 7:14 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Get Smart will be a moderate hit but not a blockbuster hit. The Happening might be a safe flop and if it does then the director should kiss his director career goodbye after celluloid shit like The Village and Lady in the Water. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at April 27, 2008, 1:16 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Bourne101 Speed Racer. It will probably flop like a fucking pancake. The 5-year old audience isn't enough to keep it going. It worked for Alvin and the Chipmunks and a shit ton of other films. That movie is pretty much the only kiddie action movie coming out this summer. I don't think Spy Kids was intended for anyone over 9, and it did well enough. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Drewza89 at April 27, 2008, 1:03 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Frank the Tank The new X-Files movie will probably underperform. It's been 6 or 7 years since the show has been on and I think people have forgotten about it. The budget was only 30 million dollars and I think you're underestimating its fanbase. It will easily make back the budget and will make even more on home video. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: KCJ506 at April 27, 2008, 12:45 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I can't believe you all expect SPEED RACER to flop. Its a family friendly movie. Those usually make money. I mean...heck...Forbidden Kingdom beat Sarah Marshall at the box office last weekend! It's got cars racing in it, and that's all kids need to know. Not to mention many of their parents will want to take them because they loved the cartoon as kids. And you have to factor in all the 18-35 crowd who will see this movie while under the influence. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Frank the Tank at April 27, 2008, 12:36 am | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | I don't think Speed Racer looks that bad. It will do okay. Definately not number 1 movie of the Summer, but will do around 135, I think. Get Smart and The Love Guru look like two movie that look like flops to me. I don't think that many young people will care about Maxwell Smart and The Love Guru really looks awful. The new X-Files movie will probably underperform. It's been 6 or 7 years since the show has been on and I think people have forgotten about it. Journey 3-D is another one that could possibly be a flop, it looks pretty expensive. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: bigred760 at April 26, 2008, 10:04 pm | | Topic: Predict The Biggest Near Future Flop Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Bourne101 Yeah, it's a shame that bright lights and pretty colors is all Speed Racer has going for it. There may be a minor teen crowd, but I see teens choosing Iron Man, Vegas, Narnia, Indy etc. over Speed Racer. It'll only have to contend with Iron Man it's opening weekend and I don't think What Happens in Vegas will be much of a threat. | | Static Link |
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