Meanwhile, in Paraguay, “Humping Pig” was still playing to sell-out crowds.
Despite near universal bad reviews, Max Payne won the top spot (full top ten after the jump) with an $18 million gross, just below studio predictions. To whoever keeps seeing these: …Stop. Video game adaptations are never good. It won’t be different this time, I promise. Your child-like optimism is just encouraging them. Okay, rant over, you can go back to watching wrestling now. Via Nikki Finke:
“It’s a good start,” one analyst told me [of Max Payne]. “But this is a film that will drop like a lead balloon. Is Fox going to be happy with a $38 mil domestic box office on this film?” [Estimated budget: $35 million]
Elsewhere, W grabbed the number four spot behind The Secret Life of Bees, with both performing about as well as expected. Sex Drive turned out to be the big disappointment:
The sex comedy opened the weekend to just $3.5M from 2,421 dates for 9th place. ”It’s a huge disaster,” one film financing source told me. “They spent close to $25 mil and the film won’t break $7.5 million box office when all is said and done. And given its subject matter, I’m sure they did not sell this well overseas. So this has to be a major, major writedown for Summit.”
Anyway, so that’s the news. Would it be more interesting if I wore this novelty top hat? How bout if I drink my coffee from a twisty straw? What if I cut off my own thumb? Now it’s on again. Now it’s off. Now it’s on. How do I do that!
Summit Entertainment released the first ten minutes of Sex Drive online, and you can watch it after the jump. I feel bad for this movie, because I feel like it would’ve been a hit if it’d been released before they had a chance to make those 15 direct-to-DVD American Pie sequels. I even take back what I said about James Marsden being a bad choice for this. Still, I’m sick of all these goddamned stories about the biggest nerd in high school who still manages to get laid by the end of the movie. Whatever, dude, we’ll see who’s cool when the real cool guy is writing sarcastic things about you on the internet in ten years. Betcha won’t feel so cool then, will ya? Dick.
Also, there’s some tasty high school chick thong action around the 7-minute mark, and I know how much my lady readers enjoy that kind of thing. Read the rest of this entry »
This is my last post before Vince gets back and starts tannin’ hides and bustin’ rhymes, so I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from Tracy Jordan: “Live every week like it’s shark week.”
Here’s the red-band trailer for Sex Drive, which has a little more footage than the last trailer. I’m still on the fence about this. James Marsden playing the tough guy is about as believable as Michelle Rodriguez playing a fairy godmother. But I’m a sucker for a good mascot-costume’s-mouth-is-in-a-different-place joke.
Boring movie news day here on FilmDrunk continues with the trailer for Sex Drive (after the jump), an indie comedy directed by an unknown named Sean Anders, starring Josh Zuckerman and James Marsden. I thought it looked lame at first, but the "The big Mexican won’t go down!" scene at the end of the trailer kind of won me over.
I like how the guy from 27 Dresses is trying to shake off his Nancy-man image by playing the redneck older brother. He looks a little uncomfortable, like he’s auditioning for the Gay Shame Parade. That’s where a bunch of gay guys in suits march down mainstreet pretending to like football and having awkward personal space issues.
