{"id":230320,"date":"2025-10-28T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230320\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:29:09","slug":"why-are-so-many-movies-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230320\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are so many movies bombing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something pretty concerning is going on at the box office right now \u2014 all the movies starring A-list actors are bombing. Think about it. First, there was The Smashing Machine, which was headlined by one of the biggest stars of our time, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson (and Emily Blunt). It had Oscar buzz, good reviews, and was produced by a hip studio \u2014 A24. The result? $11 million at the box office<\/a> in its entire run, on a budget that was at least $50 million (not including promotion).<\/p>\n

Then there was Roofman<\/a>, starring Channing Tatum. Again, great reviews, another A-lister as his co-star (Kirsten Dunst), and this time it was seemingly commercial. It\u2019s going to top out at around $20 million.<\/p>\n

The list goes on and on. There\u2019s After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, which has only made just over $2 million domestically; Good Fortune, which starred both Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen, but has only squeezed out $11 million so far; and then there\u2019s the disaster of Tron: Ares<\/a>, which will no doubt go down as the biggest money loser of the fall movie season. Things were compounded this weekend when Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which most assumed was fairly commercial, stumbled out of the gate with a $9.1 million opening.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s going on here? It seems \u2014 to me anyway \u2014 to be a mix of elements. For one thing, the movies Hollywood thinks are \u201ccommercial\u201d may not be. The Smashing Machine could have appealed to UFC fans, but Mark Kerr comes from another era. The Rock should have brought people in, but it\u2019s not an action movie. The best bet would have been for A24 to give it a slow platform release rather than a wide break. Roofman should have done better, and the same goes for Good Fortune and Deliver Me From Nowhere, but those seem to be the kinds of movies people are waiting to see on streaming. They will find an audience there \u2014 but it makes the kinds of movies opening in theaters rather uniform, as the only dependable genres seem to be horror and large-scale blockbusters. Yes, Tron flopped, but did anyone really think it would be a hit?<\/p>\n

But aren\u2019t movie stars important? I don\u2019t know that they are. To me, there are precious few still out there, with perhaps Leonardo DiCaprio being on the list. Sure, some may point to the fact that One Battle After Another will likely lose money for WB, but it\u2019s also \u2014 by far \u2014 the most successful would-be Oscar contender currently playing in theaters, and it\u2019s the one with the strongest CinemaScore rating (A), meaning audiences are actually liking it.<\/p>\n

So, where do we go from here? Will adult fare \u2014 from here on \u2014 be consigned only to streaming? I want to hear from you. Why do you think these movies tanked? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something pretty concerning is going on at the box office right now \u2014 all the movies starring A-list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,52391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-230320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-smashing-machine","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}