Rock of Ages Bombs

[the next guy]

Rock Of Ages Box Office -- $18M to 21M Weekend

So This summer =

Will there be any movies that come and crush the buildings, or more flicks we will forget about in 5 years?

Contrast that with this weekend’s newcomers which each should have earned over $20M because of their star power. But New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages (3,470 theaters) fell to earth with a thud. Which Hollywood expected because the pic had been tracking poorly for weeks (and even went down at one point week to week). The studio felt the 1980s period piece was a hard sell to younger moviegoers. I suspect the problem was casting. Russell Brand has been repellant to moviegoers, while Tom Cruise as iconic rocker proved just too incredulous for audiences. The PG-13 musical is looking to open to only $15M this weekend after taking in just $5.3M Friday and $5.4M Saturday. Given that the pic was based on the Broadway warbler, it did worse than the studio expected and far worse than Mamma Mia which with the same pedigree opened to $27M. Warner Bros was holding out hope for this $75M-budget pic, thinking that a good CinemaScore could generate great word of mouth and therefore great legs for the film. It didn’t materialize: audiences only gave Rock Of Ages a mediocre ‘B’. There’s just no way to save this s(t)inker with hack director Adam Shankman at the helm: in fact, weekend gross may fall below $15M by Monday.

 

[NatiboyB]

good. I hope that male stripper movie does als. Go see promethus again.

 

[lamont614]

russel brand is horrible i hope hollywood finally pulls the plug on this dude

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Thats my boy bombed too, thank god.

 

[the next guy]

good. I hope that male stripper movie does als. Go see promethus again.

The stripper movie will break even only because of Matt McConaughey

russel brand is horrible i hope hollywood finally pulls the plug on this dude

There is like no comedians left breh. They trying to push Andy Samberg now.

 

[TreyAce]

its a musical
how good did they expect it to do

The Dark Knight Rises
The Amazing Spider-Man
Resident Evil: Retribution
The Expendables 2
Paranormal Activity 4
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (hopefully)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

these films will all do numbers
everything else is a hit or miss pretty much

 

[lamont614]

The stripper movie will break even only because of Matt McConaughey



There is like no comedians left breh. They trying to push Andy Samberg now.

they need to push some nikkas like mike epps or hate to say this hart
or chappelle or chris rock and make eddie do a r rated flick

 

[the next guy]

they need to push some nikkas like mike epps or hate to say this hart
or chappelle or chris rock and make eddie do a r rated flick

Chappelle I think wont come back though... eddie martin lawrence chris rock and will smith need to get together with cosby and get some thing done.

 

[Bud Bundy]

its a musical
how good did they expect it to do

The Dark Knight Rises
The Amazing Spider-Man
Resident Evil: Retribution
The Expendables 2
Paranormal Activity 4
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (hopefully)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

these films will all do numbers
everything else is a hit or miss pretty much

it had to do with there timing. They should have opened this during the fall or winter. You don't try to go against the summer block busters.

 

[the next guy]

it had to do with there timing. They should have opened this during the fall or winter. You don't try to go against the summer block busters.

IMO rock of ages was supposed to be a blockbuster. Julianne Hough is not a leading actress that's for sure.

 

[CoolazzFemale]

Been kinda of a soft summer for movies. Except Avengers

 

[the next guy]

Been kinda of a soft summer for movies. Except Avengers

It's going to flat this year. Spider Man will disappoint alot of people.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I'm looking forward to seeing Gangster Squad, but I'm not sure when it'll be released

 

[RJY33]

Not many more im looking forward to now. Hoping Expendables and Total Recall will be good.

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

The only other movie i might see this summer is batman; might see spiderman to check out the 3d imax joint.