Worst Box Office Weekend In Years

Bangkok-Dangerous-PosterSo you’re a studio executive in charge of the new Nicolas Cage film “Bangkok Dangerous” and you get the news that your movie came in at #1 at the box office this weekend! Yay! Time to break out the champagne to celebrate right? Surely the President will want to reward your keen leadership of this project by giving you a 7 figure raise, 3 new cars and a bus full of 19 year old virgins right?

Well, hold on a second. #1 at the box office is great when you’re “The Dark Knight” and #1 means an opening weekend of something around $170 million dollars, or maybe even an X-Men film with something around $60 million. Yes, at that point break out the champagne and lube. But don’t get too excited just yet.

Yes you were #1 at the box office… but that only equaled $7.8 million dollars… on a $45 million dollar budget. Whheeee, we’re #1.

It was the worst weekend at the box office in years, and not since “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” made just over $6 million opening weekend has a film made less money to come in at #1. Brutal!

But hey, things could be worse. You could be Babylon A.D. with only $4 million on your second weekend for a grand total of just under $18 million dollars on a $70 million budget. YIKES!

So congratulations Mr. Studio executive for guiding your film to the #1 spot at the box office! Now pack your things and get the hell out! You’re fired!

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18 thoughts on “Worst Box Office Weekend In Years

  1. Well it come down to this, why the hell would you spend 45 million to make a movie,when you could just read the script and say “wow my 5 year old could right one with a better plot, more involved characters and hell even make it more violent.” I saw this movie, but thank god i didn’t pay for it, bonus of working at a movie theater, although it still ended up being one of the WORST movies I have ever seen, that goes up there with Blood Reign. Not only did I throw my shoe at Nicholas’ Cage big grease ball head half way through the movie, I CHEERED when he shot himself at the end. All in all I am swearing off nick cage, hell I already hated the guy, but Face off was his only good movie, well 60 seconds was Alright and so was matchstick men, but even thoes movies can’t make up for the load of crap he signed up for this time around, he prolly laughed his head off when he got paid 30 mil upfront for this movie…. although funny enough The Producers did prove that you could make more money off a flop, conspiracy….? although how this movie could Possibly be number one for this week, it makes me shiver to think these a-holes in hollywood make money even when they don’t try.

  2. “But it will make its money back on DVD”.

    Executive gets a pass. Especially when he passes the buck on to his own underlings and peons, kicking them out of the door before his boss takes notice and says

    “But it won’t make a dime in foreign; everyone else has seen the Pangs original and won’t spend a cent on the redo…

    Haha

    Actually, it could have been worse. The film could have actually MADE money. Count our blessings. Hmmm…I KNEW there was a reason Cage wants a Ghost Rider 2 so bad.

    And the Pangs? They done better too.
    (not the ORIGINIAL Bangkok, which I thought was an uneven film…but some of the suspense-horror offerings)

  3. $8M on opening weekend from a $45M budget makes it the worst weekend in 5 years? I say Hollywood is doing pretty good.

    With news coming out early last week that the unemployment rate at 6.1%, the highest in 4.5 years, I am not suprised that this weekend wasnt great.

    Plus whose idea was it to make Bankcock Dangerous R-Rated anyways? No self respecting adult is going to go see that movie. Only teens who have nothing to do and have the extra $10-15 to blow will go see it and if the movie is R-Rated they then will sneak and making the $10-15 go elsewhere.

  4. I suppose that is how the movie/entertainment industry is different from most traditional businesses. In a traditional business, the executives and CEO will make and have the most money. In the film biz, actors and directors get paid a ton more than a lot of the executives. When you get paid 20-30 million bucks to act in a movie, that is nearly the paid day for a years work for many top CEOs.

  5. “Surely the President will want to reward your keen leadership of this project by giving you a 7 figure raise, 3 new cars and a bus full of 19 year old virgins right?”

    Post Labor Day weekend is dumping ground for movies like Bangkok Dangerous. They already expected the movie to perform low.

    You have to realize that in the film business, the studio executives and bosses oftentimes make far less than the movie’s directors, actors, and producers. Even if a movie succeeds, the movie’s directors, actors, and producers will demand a bigger paycheck for the sequel. So, they are the ones that will be celebrating the most.

  6. Actually a few films have done worse on their opening weekends (according to boxofficemojo.com/alltime/lowest1.htm)
    Bangkok Dangerous – 7.8 million
    He Got Game – 7.6
    Dickie Roberts – 6.6
    Fire Down Below – 6
    Eye of the Beholder – 5.9 million
    What’s interesting is how many movies on that list are released in January and September.

  7. Come on chuck, have more faith, LOL, The Score (IMO) was very good and cant wait to see RK (huge fan of De Niro & Pacino) but im not expecting a great movie maybe good or pushing it a very good one.

  8. Is this beacuse of the start of both the NFL and college football seasons? (Granted, there were few compelling college games this past weekend.) Bangkok Dangerous is more of a “dude’s” film, right? Maybe they should have put it out a few weeks ago…

  9. Re: “Righteous Kill”

    I think that looks like it’s going to be a steaming turd. This is the same director of last year’s “88 Minutes”, which was an absolute flop.

    And even if it offers the pairing of two film icons, don’t forget “The Score” (2001). It was a turd as well, even though it gave us a holy trinity of acting (De Niro, Brando and Norton).

  10. That’s really funny but I don’t suppose it is such a huge suprise now that we’re in September though. Isn’t that always the month of the film calendar when nothing good comes out and/or nobody goes to the movies?

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