Robocop malfunctions at the box office

It wasn't even close. The scifi action remake of Robocop was shot down by the kid's film Lego Movie second week reign. With $48.8 million the family friendly film easily topped the box office chart with only a mere 29% drop from the previous week. The film has now grossed $129 million domestically and will easily surpass the $200 million mark. Not bad for a $60 million budget film not many people thought will do this well. In a weekend cluttered with 80's remakes, the second spot went to About Last Night a romantic comedy remake of the 1986 movie that starred Rob Lowe & Demi Moore, but this time stars Kevin Hart. Benefiting from the fact that Valentine's Day landed on a Friday, the film did incredibly well on that day as the date movie to go and easily took the second spot with $27 million. With a budget of just $12.5 million the movie is already a runaway hit for its studio. In the third spot and probably burning some circuits among audience members, Robocop failed to even beat the numbers of the last Paul Verhoeven's remake (Total Recall). Its $21.5 million is a big disappointment for the $100 million budget film (the studio was expecting at least a $50 million opening). That said, the international numbers might save the film from being total bomb since after two weeks the film has now a worldwide gross of $96 million, not exactly Iron Man 3 numbers, but still hopeful it might not lose that much money in the following weeks. Monuments Men took the third place with $15 million for a two weeks total of $43 million, not exactly the numbers expected for this $70 million production. The third remake debuting this weekend, Endless Love did not brought the expected numbers on Valentine's weekend. With just $13.3 million gross the only its number can go is down and will quickly fade out of the charts. Ride Along continues doing very well in its fifth week with $8.7 million for a total of $116.1 million. Great numbers for the $25 million production. The bomb of the week title belongs to the ill conceived Winter's Tale which debuted in the 7th spot with $7.7 million. The idea of mixing a romantic story within a scifi canvas felt like a by-the-numbers studio tactic to lure both men & women, but only a few bought the concept while most audiences ignored it and went back to watch the Lego film again. It its 13th week of release Disney's Frozen continues its now slow journey to the $400 million mark. It only dropped 14% from last week and grabbed $5.8 million for a total domestically of $376 million so far. If it wins, as is expected, the Oscar for Best Animated movie and Best Song, that could boost its sales for a few more weeks. The 2013 leftover Lone Survivor added $4.0 million to its $118 million gross in the 9th spot. Finally in the 10th spot That Awkward Moment took some $3.3 million for a total of $21.4 million in its third week. Doesn't look like much, but since the movie cost so cheap ($8 million) to make, it is a hit in its own right.

 

The Lego movie numbers are crazy

 

Thanks for the report panchy. You should post these more often. Hipefully Robocop will do better, so Hollywood invests more in scifi movies.

 

Hopefully it keeps bombing so hollywood invests real bucks in an original script for the first time in about 10 fucking years

 

Yup. Most of these remakes have bombed bad, but unfortunately there are like 50 more remakes in production right now.

 

There are tons of original scripts. Hollywood just wants guaranteed money.

 

this

 

It's called 'formula'.

 

THIS...There Should be a Filmmaking LAW that NO Flick Can Be Remade Until it's 35-40 YEARS Old, Minimum...

 

True...Thing is, While Some Original Scripts WILL Fail, Others will Be WILDLY Successful, Spawning Sequels, Merchandising Opportunities, REMAKE Opportunities, etc...@ SOME Point, Hollywood's Gotta CEASE w/Regurgitating the Same Shit, Over & Over...

 

90% of all current movies lack heart.

 

they made Robocop too agile...he's a fucking robot that should weigh a tonne and move more like a terminator...in the trailors he's moving around like spiderman :shit:

 

they made Robocop too agile...he's a fucking robot that weighs a tonne and should move more like a terminator...in the trailors he's moving around like spiderman :shit:

so basically they really fucked up with the "robo" part of the character :scratcher:
i know why too, they were greedy and wanted to make the character super fast to throw in as much action as possible


in the originals they got this right...i remember that even in Robocop video games he moved around with really heavy feet

 

True, but this year's Oscar nominations are particularly strong:
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Dallas Buyer's Club
American Hustle
Gravity
12 Years A Slave

All great movies..

 

naaaah people aren't stupid...they want to see robots acting like robots
whoever heard of a 1 tonne robot dodging bullets..it's ridiculous...the whole point in having a metal suit is to just walk through that shit

this is why the movie flopped

 

i understand

don't think i'll pay to watch a crappy robot like that

 

TALOS the Iron-Man like Army bodysuit is way too cool: it not only protects the body from bullets, but it segregates a healing liquid to any open wound

<script src="http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=560&height=345&playList=517966546" type="text/javascript" data-readbyplayerseed="true"></script><object name="FiveMinPlayer115292067211134" width="560" height="345" id="FiveMinPlayer115292067211134" data="http://cfiles.5min.com/FlexPlayers/SmartPlayer_246.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">




</object>




​

http://on.aol.ca/video/army-building-iron-man-like-body-suit-517966546

<object name="fivemincookieswf" width="1" height="1" id="fivemincookieswf" data="http://cfiles.5min.com/flashcookie/StorageCookie_01.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">


</object>

 

Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Now if they could only afford proper kevlar for all their ground troops.

:goodnews:

 

Yeah but if Robocop and Total Recall have proven that remakes aren't exactly guaranteed money, why won't they stop shoving them down our throats and go back to taking chances? If the problem is the budget stop paying actors so much guaranteed money. Their contracts should be based off of the gross.

 

You REALLY Think 10 of 11 Remakes are SUCCESSFUL???opcorn:...

 

Prequel, Sequels and Book Adaptations Don't Count, Bro...What were the BUDGETS of the Films You Listed?

 

So if this Guy Gets Shot in the FACE, What Happens???:scared2:...