Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:56AM - By Damon Houx
What if you spent $200 million dollars on a movie and no one came? That’s the big headache with Mars Needs Moms, which lost the most money of any studio release this year. With a reported budget of $150 Million (not including prints and advertising), the film made $21 million domestically and $39 Million worldwide. Other big money losers include the Conan The Barbarian reboot (reported budget $90 million, worldwide gross $49 Million) and The Big Year (reported budget $41 million, worldwide gross $7 million). You can’t win them all.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 10:40AM - By Damon Houx
It would have been great if The Big Year, which stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson was also a remake of a 1980′s movie just so it’d be a trifecta, right? I guess you could make the case that Steve Martin peaked as a film actor in the 80′s, so we could pretend every big release this weekend was recycling. Regardless, it will be The Thing - a prequel to a 1982 film – versus Footloose - a remake of the 1984 film – battling for the top spot come Sunday, unless Real Steal surges.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 3:28PM - By Damon Houx
Who would think that Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin would make a comedy together? Wilson and Black have already crossed paths, from their would-be TV show Heat Vision and Jack to the first season of Community, they’re both regular collaborators with Ben Stiller, and that gang of comedians. But Steve Martin seems to either make quality films or plain hackwork. Hard to say what The Big Year will be, which has three men taking a year off from life to explore the world. Check out the trailer and the poster…
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