Either Warner Brothers or the exhibitors are cutting their losses. Last weekend, WAYF was pulled from 2,059 screens. On the remaining 274, it garnered less than $38,000, or about $139 per screen. What a fiasco.
He has to man up and take on the chin, but he'll survive WAYF (though he may not feel like he will). No better way of forgetting an old project than getting started on a new project.
Hope so. He's young and therefore presumably resilient. But there's a difference this time. His previous box office bombs failed for lack of distribution (M&OW, Paperboy, At Any Price). That was someone else's fault. But WAYF got wide distribution (oh thank you, thank you Warner Brothers). It was available in every community and no one came. That has to hurt, personally and professionally.
I'm sure it does hurt, and I know that it must feel like a knife in the back, but oftentimes failures are due to a combination of factors that no one can predict (why does the stock market go up and down? Nobody knows). The nature of the film was controversial/divisive. Even though EDM is the most mainstream, bubble-gum pop electronic music made (so straight white guys can be DJ's too), nevertheless many fans/DJ's fancy themselves as part of some kind of underground that the rest of us know is not only above ground but also on center stage. These people are as possessive about their music as the real underground DJ's/fans are, and its easy to get them irate in the same way that Twilight made underground goths and vampire fiends irate.
In other words, he's not responsible. If he blames himself he's giving himself too much credit for the no show. No one - not even Zac Efron - can make people show up to a movie they don't want to see. How many Depp films have flopped despite having Johnny Depp?
"No one - not even Zac Efron - can make people show up to a movie they don't want to see."
Not quite true. I didn't want to see this movie; I only went because Zac Efron is in it. Taking the box office total and dividing by an average ticket price of $10, we now know there are about 350,000 people in the United States who will go to a movie because Zac is in it.
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so close yet so far sigh
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I don't know, there's something about two adults calling each other "baby" that turns me off. Maybe she nurses him, but what's his excuse?
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I'm curious to find out what he was running away from or towards in his boxers. I guess I'll likely have to wait for the movie to find out though.
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Stay Straight, Zac.
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In other words, he's not responsible. If he blames himself he's giving himself too much credit for the no show. No one - not even Zac Efron - can make people show up to a movie they don't want to see. How many Depp films have flopped despite having Johnny Depp?
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Not quite true. I didn't want to see this movie; I only went because Zac Efron is in it. Taking the box office total and dividing by an average ticket price of $10, we now know there are about 350,000 people in the United States who will go to a movie because Zac is in it.
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