'Jem and the Holograms' pulled after just 2 weeks in theatres
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[quote]That low-budget basic bitch ABC Family movie that is committing fraud by calling itself Jem and the Holograms has turned out to be a bigger and stinkier turd than expected. If I could time travel back to 1985, I’d tell my young, innocent, little self to just stay in bed for most of 2015. Just pull the covers over your head and don’t turn on the TV or look at something called the Internet. “It’s for your own good!” is what I’d scream at my young self as my young self played with a Pizzazz doll.
The Jem movie that isn’t a Jem movie was first shat up onto screens on October 23rd and it became one of the biggest wide-release bombs in history by only bringing in $1.3 million. The evil, childhood-murdering executives at Universal probably shrugged over that, because Jem only cost $5 million to make, so many box office expert types figured that they’d eventually make their money back. But well, it did worse and worse and after just 2 weeks, movie theater owners realized that they should immediately yank that blasphemous piece of trash. They figured that they’d make more money if they showed the Screech sex tape or cyst-popping videos on IMAX 3D and in Smell-O-Vision. (You know, I’d probably pay actual money to watch cyst-popping videos on IMAX 3D and in Smell-O-Vision.)
Jem’s second week in theaters only brought in $387,925. After that, Universal stopped reporting how much it made, because I guess they thought it was stupid to submit a report that only had zeros on it. A box office analyst tells Business Insider that theaters are contractually obligated to show a movie for at least two weeks, but he’s never heard of a studio not even bothering to report.
“Theater chains are contractually obligated to hold a film for two weeks after booking it. However, in all my days as an analyst, I’ve never seen a studio actually stop reporting after two weeks. This is unprecedented, and shows just how badly this film flopped. Not only is it the lowest-grossing debut for a studio film this year, but it’s the worst all-time — by a considerable margin — for any film released in 2,000-plus theaters.”
Well, the US probably doesn’t have to worry about other countries declaring war on us for infecting them with Jem, because it’s probably not going to open anywhere overseas. Although, it supposedly opened in a couple of foreign countries including Slovenia where it made a whopping $3k!!! I don’t know if this is totally accurate, but Jem’s Wikipedia page currently has this hilariously sad piece of info on it:
[B]The film ended its North American theatrical run on November 5, 2015, two weeks after opening. Its final domestic gross is $2,184,640 with overseas takings of $7,815 for a worldwide total of $2,192,455.
The film’s international rollout began in October 22, where it debuted to a fourth-place finish in Slovenia. It debuted in 9 screens and had a weekend gross of $2,064. The movie’s total is $3,046.[/B][/quote]
3k overseas gross? Ow, painful.
But not as painful as the fact that it's a 5 million dollar movie that hasn't even made half its budget.
Fucking wow....
I guess that movie was truly outrageous.
And here I was thinking that it would turn out okay.
Bring back B low budget movies.
If you going to go old school, do it all the way.
This movie and that movie about soccer can be friends together.
It's a shame the movie turned out to be this awful.
The comic is one of the best I'm currently reading.
I didn't know this was a thing being shown, how bad could it have even been? Like, it better have unintentionally "80's cartoon" moments
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I watch the toon show on you tube in the first time since I was a kid. it wasnt that bad.
[QUOTE=dai;49091323]I didn't know this was a thing being shown, how bad could it have even been? Like, it better have unintentionally "80's cartoon" moments
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The only thing it's got in common with the source material is that they're in a band.
I was confused when I saw trailers for it. Had no idea what it had to do with Jem.
Sorta glad it bombed. You can't really take a popular older cartoon and just plaster the name on something else so far removed from it.
it wasn't about this
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-r9apq_Fs[/media]
[QUOTE=dai;49091323]I didn't know this was a thing being shown, how bad could it have even been? Like, it better have unintentionally "80's cartoon" moments
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Basically they turned it into a generic teen Disney flick about a teenage girl becoming a famous singer.
whoever wrote this article is really annoying
on the other hand, they shoulda just made a movie about vocaloids and called it jem., thats the same thing right
I mean it lost half its budget but 2mil isn't that big of a flop in hollywood. For reference, John carter lost Disney 300mil
They had advertisements for it on instagram and what they showed made it look like MTV teen garbage. I think the few comments it did have were all hate
It should take a cue from the new Peanuts film by being more faithful to the source material.
I was so indifferent to both the original cartoon and remake until I saw the advertisment. Even having watched less than a single full episode, I could tell from the 15 second trailer that it had literally nothing to do with the cartoon. Only time I've ever been offended by something I cared nothing for.
Remember this is the move made by the guy who directed 2(!) Justin Beiber documentaries.
Whats sad is that that awful Marmaduke movie did better than this. A "new kid trying to fit in" movie based on a mostly unfunny comic strip did better than throwaway MTV garbage "loosely based" on an 80's cartoon.
[QUOTE=SteakStyles;49093426]Whats sad is that that awful Marmaduke movie did better than this. A "new kid trying to fit in" movie based on a mostly unfunny comic strip did better than throwaway MTV garbage "loosely based" on an 80's cartoon.[/QUOTE]
AFAIK the Marmaduke one was at least faithful to the source material so it at least appealed to fans.
The movie no one asked for is terrible and flopped? Wow, what a shocker...
Boy nobody could have seen this coming. They more or less borrowed the movie name and character name then made a movie that was nothing at all like the show. Jem fans pissed. To non Jem fans its a mediocre movie.
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Look at all the money that could have been donated to charity instead of this piece of shit movie.
[editline]11th November 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;49094141]The movie no one asked for is terrible and flopped? Wow, what a shocker...[/QUOTE]
Is it worse than epic movie?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;49091170]3k overseas gross? Ow, painful.
But not as painful as the fact that it's a 5 million dollar movie that hasn't even made half its budget.[/QUOTE]
No, it made 3k in slovenia at the time the article was written. That sentence is really confusing, apparently it made 2k on opening night here, I looked it up and by the time it was removed from our theaters it made a little over 6k. In Croatia, in the time period it was shown in theaters, it made about 1.5k on premiering and about 2k before it got pulled. In other words, a disaster. I wonder how many times they even bothered screening it.
Not even mad tho, this movie looked like shit and I am resonating with amusement that it managed to flop this badly. Watching the statistics of its failure is probably more entertaining than the movie.
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holy shit it's been years since i've seen Jiz
[video=youtube;xAK108u2xAs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAK108u2xAs[/video]
the entire series was gold
never heard of it, no wonder it did pathetically overseas
I took a screenshot of an ad for this movie I came across on tumblr.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ECHazap.png?2[/IMG]
Look at this. Look at how bad of an advertisement this is. This has nothing to do with the movie itself; you could insert any movie into this format and it would 'work'.
Whoever came up with this must have had the thought process: "Uh, what do kids do, text? They know about texting and emojis right? They like that? And they call their friends squad?? Well ok here's this."
But maybe this advertisement does serve the movie well, because it's generic, shitty, memey, and shallow.
[editline]14th November 2015[/editline]
im srry im just so mad about Jem and the Holograms The Movie
I take it that the ideology was "Transformers was a hit, G.I. Joe was kind of a hit, so logically this film loosely( ? ) based on a niche 80's cartoon will be a hit!".
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