Movie industry about to die? New movie takes in just

Not an actress who interests me. Her ex husband is more exciting.

This film has not come to my town yet. It must be a city film.
 
According to the Guardian it was caused by the distributor's decision to screen it at only one cinema.

The disaster has now degenerated into a bitter confrontation between Metrodrome, responsible for marketing the film in the UK, and producer Jana Edelbaum, who blames the company for Motherhood's atrocious performance.

The film, thought to have cost $5m to make, earned just over
 
It has nothing to do with Piracy by the way OP. I know you never said it did but that isn't to blame for the poor intake. Uma Thurman is so yesteryear!.



Because I don't listen to critics most of the time. I judge movies for myself. But in saying that the odd time critics do get it right. As hard to believe as it is, they do get it right once in a while.
 
Poor journalism as ever... If any journalist actually bothered to dig into the facts, they'd find that this film was released on one screen at one small cinema in London for less than a week. It's become a common thing to do for indie releases the weekend before they're released on DVD. It's likely Metrodome spent very little money on the advertising of the theatrical release and instead concentrated on the DVD instead.

This story shouldn't be used as a slight on the film industry but rather a slight on the shoddy state of 'journalism' these days. Don't let the facts get in the way of a pithy story!
 
Because I don't listen to critics most of the time. I judge movies for myself. But in saying that the odd time critics do get it right. As hard to believe as it is, they do get it right once in a while.[/QUOTE]

Same here more often than not a film that has been slated by critics i enjoy.
Its all a matter of personal opinion and just because a critic doesn't like a film it doesn't mean you wont.

:)
 
Cinema, along with theatre audiances, are on the increase, not decrease, which has happened time and time again during difficult economic perioRAB. The music industry, at least in the UK, is now starting to follow the same trend. There are loaRAB of articles on the web on this subject.

In terms of this particular movie, perhaps its just BAD.;)
 
This puzzled me. I saw it on sale in Morrisons and I'd only read the cinema review of it in this month's Empire that very morning !

Surely the reason it made so little money isn't necessarily so much to do with the fact that it's terrible (although I can well believe it is), but that the distributor(s) cocked up the cinema and DVD release dates? I don't believe for a second it represents any decline in cinema attendances.
 
It's already been pointed out (by me) that the reason it took so little money is that its "opening weekend" took place in just one cinema. The cinema in question is an expensive one in central London and the film was slated by critics. It was simply a bad marketing decision.
 
it was on at the apollo a couple of screenings a day with zero publicity. the apollo is not one of the most busy cinemas in the west end, being hidden away from leicester square and showing a weird mix of arthouse and low to medium budget films

most people wouldn't have even known it was even out

the apollo has lately taken to showing films for a handful of showings a week a few days before the dvd release

they have just done the same with the house of the devil

this is such a lame tabloid story
 
Just a matter of zero interest, like a gili
It had already bombed in the US i believe.
Perhaps some feminist websites will make hay out of it as commentary on society lol
But seriously, the box office draw for that poster alone is ziltch.
I wouldn't be surprised if barely anyone even bothered to pirate that film.
The top "pirated film" lists are out there, and they tend to include only box office winners, not losers.
 
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