“Give me some money kid…”
Must be nice to keep it all in the family! “The Karate Kid” movie remake which we weren’t so sure about initially and stars Will Smith’s son Jaden opened to a super impressive $56 million this weekend. The movie which cost $40 million to make put Jaden right in his dad’s footsteps, Will who was a producer along with Jada on this has only two movies open bigger – “I Am Legend” at $77.2 million and “Hancock” at $62.6 million.
Meanwhile after bumbling the movie poster and maybe even the casting the “A-Team” movie opened to an unimpressive $26 million in sales putting it at number two.
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The A Team was actually quite entertaining. I haven’t seen The Karate Kid but to accomplish such a feat at his age and a remake at that…pretty awesome. The $26MM isn’t as unimpressive as you make it out to be because the film was not expected to generate much domestically. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely could’ve done better for a live action action flick, especially with a production budget of $110MM. Expectations were not high for it as well as The Karate Kid but Karate Kid ended up surprising everyone, even studio executives.
Splice was pretty crap, Prince of Persia was not as entertaining as it could’ve been, Sex and The City was ehh; writers don’t seem to care as much any longer.
Make up your mind was $26MM good or not. If I spent $110 DOLLARS and only got $26 back in return i would be ready to smack a bitch. But I don’t waste my time putting such garbage into my head so what do I know.
The studio as I said did not expect a big return domestically for the remake. I mentioned the production budget merely to depict the cost of production. With the current market of the industry, you assess the ticket sales to devise your opinion of the opening weekend’s take and the studio did not expect a generous opening. The idea is over the lifespan of the film and foreign take, it should generate the production budget. If it doesn’t and ends up earning half ofthe production budget or only the marketing budget, then the film is and will be considered a failure at the box office, which causes it to be pulled earlier than the stipulated contract date (usually 96 days) and is then placed on DVD.
So to me it couldve earned more but people were more drawn to The Karate Kid since it’s more family friendly. In total The A-Team earned merely $41MM so that means the foreign take was only about $15MM. Not good in my eyes but the studio was not expecting a big return the opening weekend, thus why I said it wasn’t as unimpressive as mentioned above because if they expected $75MM and earned only $26MM, then their opening domestic take would be considered unimpressive. It’s only viewed unimpressive by the writer since Karate Kid earned what it did.
I stand corrected, I thought the flick was gonna be a box office bomb. Congrats to Jaden!
I do know that I’m tired of them trying to turn TV shows into movies. That shit is wack.
I’m there with you. Hollywood needs to be more creative as opposed to going back to the 1980s TV Guide and choosing to remake memories. It’s pretty lame. Whatever happened to starting a movie from scratch?
LOL
Now that’s funny. When they start looking at the 1970s for “new” movies, that’s when I say I’m done
I heard though that the A-Team was good though.. but as for GI Joe, Thundercats, He-Man, The Smurfs… I mean, when does it stop? LMAO
They’re remaking the Warriors, Road Warrior, Red Dawn, Masters of the Universe, Highlander, Conan, Fright Night and dozens more. Of course by now you’ve seen Tron trailers. It looks good but geesh Hollywood…really? Creature from the Black Lagoon is being remade so you seen they’re going back to the 50′s. Oh yeah, Voltron. If they ruin my Voltron I’m reading a letter. LoL
Why is everyone congratulating Will Smith for pimping out his son. All black people respect is money?
He’s not pimping out anything, his son did an awesome job in the movie, so give him credit for it. Also, it did extremely well and rightfully so. Great job Will & Jaden !!!
on top of that, him and jada did some producing.
so more than likely didnt let him out of there sights.
so quick to judge…
Nevermind hating ass bigots, jealous over a kid making more money than their hating ass can count. Hats off to Will & Jada for the way in which they’ve handled the transitioning of the their son into a movie star! That’s a big accomplishment to be bringing in those type of numbers, numbers that merely reflect the respect and admiration that people have for what seems to be a wonderful family.
I havent seen it probably see it on video but hey why not get your children into show business unless you see in the future it messes them up via jacko otherwise that is just being smart if the child wants to be a star like his daddy let him be a star