2013 04 19 – Oblivion

This week there is only one opening.

Here's the poster, my shoot will be posted on Wednesday.

WHY DID PEOPLE OF JAPAN START HAVING WORLD WAR II FLASHBACKS?

This movie, Oblivion, is a thriller/suspense movie. MPAA rating is PG.

Do you know why Japanese restaurants stopped delivery of sushi to Tom Cruise's house? They started having World War II flashbacks, as his latest movie would bomb so hard.

I don't care how much money Oblivion has already earned in various countries over the world. This is the weakest movie of this year and the first movie I have such bad vibes against. FX are so sterile they look like made by a student for graduation's thesis. There is no tension, no clear adversary. I don't feel anything when Tom Cruise's character flies over devastated Earth in trailer.

Wait... who knew, I felt something. Something familiar... Oh, yes... an echo of last year's John Carter. Oblivion is in the same league: a big thing that doesn't deliver.

In two weeks nobody will care about this movie (cough*Iron Man 3*cough). And no-one should care now. Do you feel you can throw away two hours of your life? I bet a few critics on RottenTomatoes will be cited with "The title of this movie is really prophetic" or something like this.

Ok... now, here comes time for shooting. I checked numbers for John Carter and it opened in 3749 theaters, with not that low $8050 per theater and $30,18 mln total. We know Oblivion will open in 3800 theaters, and I think per-theater number can be very similar. I'm going with $9000 per theater, because there will be people who want to see this. Fine for them. But I saw the trailer and felt great when it ended -- because I got the warning not to watch it at all costs.

Am I hypocritical? Well, no. I'm not going to see it. I think good about people who see this, but it really doesn't deserve their money and attention.

Shots:

47 mln  --  Donald Shanahan, Examiner
44 mln  --  Bill Bonfanti, FilmGo
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40 mln  --  Damon Houx, ScreenCrave
40 mln  --  C.S. Strowbridge, The-Numbers
39 mln  --  Gitesh Pandya, BoxOfficeGuru
38 mln  --  HSX
37,05 mln  --  the final weekend number of the movie  (3783 theaters, $9795 per theater)
36,9 mln  --   Ray Subers, BoxOfficeMojo
35 mln  --  Perri Nemiroff, Shockya
34,2 mln  --  Mario Ludwinski, USBOPredictions2013.blogspot  (3800 theaters, $9000 per theater)
34,2 mln  --  Laremy Legel, RopeOfSilicon  (3800 theaters, $9000 per theater)
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32 mln  --  Movie Critic Assassins, BreitBart