Monday, March 31, 2014
On 10:02 PM by Staff No comments
Not even. Sure, his new flick was so dwarfed by the "Noah" marketing
blitz that you can be forgiven if you didn't know there was a new Arnold
Schwarzenegger movie this weekend. But there was, and "Sabotage," which
cost an estimated $35 million to make, earned a mere $5.3 million over
the weekend.
"Arnold has been a box-office bust in the U.S. ever since he came back from his political tour of duty, and even before that his star was steadily falling," says Exhibitor Relations senior box-office analyst Jeff Bock. "'Sabotage' is Arnie's worst debut of his career, when adjusted for inflation. Ouch."
His age isn't helping him either.
"At nearly 70, he's not quite believable as the Action Jackson he once was," Bock says. "Plus, Liam Neeson is getting all the scripts that are actually good, whereas Arnie gets the Z-grade scripts nowadays."
Then again, if you suspect that all translates into retirement for Schwarzenegger, think again. The world doesn't end at the Eastern seaboard — a lucky fact of geography for the Styrian Oak.
"The big money for Arnold is made back on DVD sales overseas," says casting director Bonnie Gillespie, author of "Self-Management for Actors." "He's untouchable."
In fact, Arnie is not only surviving via worldwide sales; he's thriving. His Ulmer Scale rating? A whopping 98, which means that film financiers stand a 98 percent chance of recouping their investment in worldwide upfront sales before a single frame of a movie is even shot...More
"Arnold has been a box-office bust in the U.S. ever since he came back from his political tour of duty, and even before that his star was steadily falling," says Exhibitor Relations senior box-office analyst Jeff Bock. "'Sabotage' is Arnie's worst debut of his career, when adjusted for inflation. Ouch."
His age isn't helping him either.
"At nearly 70, he's not quite believable as the Action Jackson he once was," Bock says. "Plus, Liam Neeson is getting all the scripts that are actually good, whereas Arnie gets the Z-grade scripts nowadays."
Then again, if you suspect that all translates into retirement for Schwarzenegger, think again. The world doesn't end at the Eastern seaboard — a lucky fact of geography for the Styrian Oak.
"The big money for Arnold is made back on DVD sales overseas," says casting director Bonnie Gillespie, author of "Self-Management for Actors." "He's untouchable."
In fact, Arnie is not only surviving via worldwide sales; he's thriving. His Ulmer Scale rating? A whopping 98, which means that film financiers stand a 98 percent chance of recouping their investment in worldwide upfront sales before a single frame of a movie is even shot...More
Thursday, March 6, 2014
On 11:06 PM by Staff No comments
After Katy Perry had less than kind words for Miley Cyrus regarding their now infamous kiss at her Bangerz concert
in Los Angeles in February, Miley is hitting back where it hurts --
taking a dig at Katy and her reportedly now ex-boyfriend John Mayer.
It all started with Katy's appearance on Australian talk show Sunrise Tuesday, when she was asked to comment on her and Miley's much-publicized kiss.
"I
just walked up to her to give her like a friendly girly kiss, you know,
as girls do, and then she like tried to move her head and go deeper and
I pulled away," she said. "God knows where that tongue has been. We
don't know! That tongue is so infamous!"
Not surprisingly, Cyrus wasn't too pleased with her comments, and responded Wednesday.
Clearly, Miley's alluding to the reports that Katy has split with her on-and-off boyfriend -- and notorious serial dater -- John Mayer....More
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