Comments on: Weekend Box Office: ‘Apes’ Rise With Massive $54 Million, Audiences Rise Against Ryan Reynolds

By: Gabe Toro

Gabe Toro — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

Touche, redcup. Though I was speaking purely anecdotally regarding The Change-Up. Ask how many of those women enjoy it and if they recommend it!
As for the Horrible Bosses number, I was working off estimates and forgot to re-edit. D\’oh.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

\”(cue: “Death Of Modern Masculinity In American Cinema” thesis)\”
I\’d love to rise to the challenge (no pun intended) but I\’m just on the way out to a special sneak preview of \’Killer Elite\’ where they\’re reportedly giving out a set of character-etched lawn darts to the first 20 in line.

By: jj

jj — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

redcup pwnd you. 😀

By: redcup

redcup — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

\”“Crazy Stupid Love” registered the strongest weekend-to-weekend hold of any release in the top ten.\”

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

Crazy, Stupid, Love. WB $12,100,000 -36.7%
Horrible Bosses WB (NL) $4,620,000 -35.7%

By: redcup

redcup — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

\”What went wrong with “The Change-Up”? Despite two good-looking leads, there was no crossover potential to women given that the trailer relied heavily on the shock that women had bowel movements. \”

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3240&p=.htm

\”Distributor Universal Pictures\’ research showed that 59 percent of Change-Up\’s audience was female\”

By: nah brah

nah brah — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

All the sequels weren\’t good.

By: Gigi Young

Gigi Young — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:06 +0000

To be honest, is Ryan Reynolds really a star, or just an actor who happened to luck out with The Proposal (a Sandra Bullock rom-com)?

He\’s been around for a while, headlining movies like Blade: Trinity and National Lampoon\’s Van Wilder, and remaining in the public eye with his semi-high-profile relationships (Alanis & Scarlett), but his \”A-List\” status just seems to be something Hollywood has cooked up because there aren\’t very many young leading men behind Will, Brad, Denzel, George, et al–who, incidentally, still pack the cineplex. I see the same thing happening with actresses like Blake Lively or Emma Stone–a lot of the leading ladies from the \’90s and \’00s are still going strong in the \’10s.

By: rvm

rvm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:05 +0000

\”The print and billboard ads didn’t help, with Reynolds smiling like a jackass while fondling barely-clad women. Audiences don’t want to see their leading characters having TOO much fun.\”

over-analyzing much?

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:05 +0000

@Mary

I\’m not surprised it\’s under-performing. It\’s awful and most of the people I actually talk to about it either agree or deem it \”ok.\” Not getting the super-positive take from critics at all.

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:05 +0000

It\’s true, rvm.

\”3. Cowboys And Aliens Living Together, Mass Hysteria\”

God, perfect.

By: padre

padre — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:05 +0000

I was all set to post a big rah rah on Young Hercules\’ victory hold, then Redcup had to go and completely cut me off at the knees. Yeah well, the victory is still true IN SPIRIT if not in actual deed.

And the Change Up was never going to work with two guys who look and feel so much alike. The ads look more like some Morman dude leading a double life than two different dudes. One of them needed to be a small Asian woman or something. And mark my words, this will not be the end of Ryan Reynolds! The young leading man landscape is a bleak Sahara. Hollywood has no choice but to give these guys much more opportunity and rope than previous generations of men got. There is no choice.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:04:05 +0000

Surprised to see that Fox Searchlight\’s “Another Earth” continues underperforming; and the film clearly will not gross higher than Sony Pictures Classics\’ \”Moon\”. ( It may proves again that Sony Pictures Classics is better at releasing some kinds of films than many other distributors.)

I am worried that it may lead Fox Searchlight to drop out from “The East” (Brit Marling’s upcoming sci-fi project). If it happens, I would recommend Sony Pictures Classics and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions to finance “The East”; they will be able to make good profit, like that they did with “Moon”.