I had a unique experience last night. Went to the first, 7 p.m. screening of WAYF and found myself alone in the theater. That's never happened before, kind of spooky. And not encouraging for the success of this project. I didn't expect a crowd, but I thought there would be at least three or four other people who wanted to see this newest Zefron project at it's first showing
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"Warner Bros. pickup We Are Your Friends, starring Zac Efron is faring only marginally better with the critics, landing a 42% rating on RT and a 46/100 from Metascore. But it's also suffering a worse fate at the box office with Friday estimates now pegging the film to be making $3M for the weekend on 2,333 screens. That includes the $175K it made in Thursday previews. That's worse than Efron-headlined flicks That Awkward Moment ($8.7M opening in Jan. of 2014) and Charlie St. Cloud ($12.4M opening in 2010)."
I don't mean this to be a dig at Zac at all, but did anyone expect the movie to do well? It seems to cater to a very specific niche and I don't see it having wide appeal outside of his fans and those who like EDM who are willing to give the movie a shot. Plus, I don't think they did themselves a favor by waiting so long to do any sort of meaningful promo. To be honest, I thought the way they handled promo was a bit weird...going to all these cities and hosting screenings. So now, people get to see the movie for free with no way to know if they'll go again and contribute to the box office. Just seems a little odd to me
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I felt a little sorry for Max because it's his first cinematographic project, even if 43% in Rotten Tomatoes and 47% on Metacritic was not like what everyone predicted for the movie (everyone was guessing even worse) I'm thinking how is he dealing with this (but I must say: I'm pretty sure the Imdb rating is mainly for people who didn't watched the movie yet)
I didn't feel so sorry for Zac because he must be accustomed to fail, I'm just concerned about how this will affect his career, maybe people on the industry tought that the "Neighbors" success had something to do with him, but I think it was a mix of Seth and Zac fans, and I must say, I just wanted to see "Neighbors", but I actually don't want to see this "We Are Your Friends"
And I don't want to concern everyone but "Dirty Grandpa" looks like a failure too, maybe Zac have some chance to do well with "Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates" (critically and commercially) and "Neighbors 2" (at least commercially)
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"Warner Bros. pickup We Are Your Friends, starring Zac Efron is faring only marginally better with the critics, landing a 42% rating on RT and a 46/100 from Metascore. But it's also suffering a worse fate at the box office with Friday estimates now pegging the film to be making $3M for the weekend on 2,333 screens. That includes the $175K it made in Thursday previews. That's worse than Efron-headlined flicks That Awkward Moment ($8.7M opening in Jan. of 2014) and Charlie St. Cloud ($12.4M opening in 2010)."
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I didn't feel so sorry for Zac because he must be accustomed to fail, I'm just concerned about how this will affect his career, maybe people on the industry tought that the "Neighbors" success had something to do with him, but I think it was a mix of Seth and Zac fans, and I must say, I just wanted to see "Neighbors", but I actually don't want to see this "We Are Your Friends"
And I don't want to concern everyone but "Dirty Grandpa" looks like a failure too, maybe Zac have some chance to do well with "Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates" (critically and commercially) and "Neighbors 2" (at least commercially)
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