Summit may really be rethinking whether it wants to take a chance on releasing the Mel Gibson movie The Beaver nationwide. This weekend they through it up on some screens in a limited release and it did really badly. It made $104,000 on 22 screens which does not seem that bad. I mean that is more than that one Jessica Simpson movie made during its entire run, but less than $5000 a screen for something like The Beaver signals disaster for a wider run. No one wanted to go see Mel or his beaver. That almost sounded like porn. I have seen the previews and I don't think it is a bad idea for a movie, but I also can;t stand looking at Mel on the screen. Shoot it again with someone else and it might stand a chance. Other than that, it is probably a straight to DVD release at this point.l
I heard really good things about it, but won't see it 'cause of Mel. I know you should separate the person from the product, but I just can't.
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ReplyDeleteA bomb? Really?? Well, ain't that a surprise!!
ReplyDeleteSorry Jodie, but I just can't. And evidently nobody else could either. Mel needs to go underground for quite awhile if he ever expects to recover from his mess.
ReplyDeleteColor me surprised.
ReplyDeleteThe premise seems decent, but I can't get past Mel. I can't ignore who he is at his core. The guy has had enough chances, now I just want him to go away.
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ReplyDeleteMy local radio show can't wait to see this movie! They hate Mel Gibson but will go because he is a train wreck. They did the same when Charlie Sheen was in town, vowing to stay until the very end, even once the crowd started heading to the exit doors halfway through.
ReplyDeleteThey get free movie passes, so it's not like they're supporting him financially. But they also get to give an honest assessment, which may or may not hurt him.
I will see nearly anything Jodie Foster is involved with, but Mel makes this one a no-go, whether it's in the theater, on dvd, or anything else.
ReplyDeleteNot interested. Lethal Weapon 4 was on TV this weekend, and I loved the LW series but I won't even give his face the time of day for free, not after that recent interview.
ReplyDeleteI think Jodie is a creative and daring producer, she dared to take a subject that most would like to ignore. Specially families of people with depression.
ReplyDeleteI also can't see why they say it is a bomb. It has only been in a select few theaters and of the people I know will go see it, it wasn't a theater near them.
You can't compare this movie to the rest around it, the subject is dark and the appeal will go to the people of an older age.
I don't think the whole tale of the money this movie will produce is there yet.
I saw previews of it and it looked like it would be a decent movie, but I just can't support it because then I feel like I'm saying that what Mel Gibson has done is okay - and I don't think it is. I also refuse to watch 2 1/2 Men, and many other shows/movies where I just have problems with some of the things that are done behind the scenes.
ReplyDeleteI am older and have no interest in seeing Mel in anything.
ReplyDeleteMel is in it, so it is a NO WAY I WILL GO. No DVD EITHER. Sorry Jodie. : (
ReplyDeleteI'm not interested in this either - and I see almost every movie. It isn't because of Mel - put him in the right role and I might come around - and he is a very skilled director - the problem is Jodie is just too sappy a storyteller. I saw Little Man Tate in the theaters and hated it. TV movie of the week at best. You'd think after working with so many dynamic filmakers (Scorsese, Demme, Fincher) her movies would - you know - actually feel alive or something.
ReplyDeleteWhatever. I don't really watch movies, so I don't care.
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ReplyDeleteMel has become a distraction to any movie he is in. I wouldn't watch it if it were free.
ReplyDeleteAnd Azlee is one of Mel's biggest defenders on TMZ. The 24 hours a day for the past year type defenders. They collect there; it's frightening.
I invite anyone who defends Mel Gibson to enter into a romantic relationship with him-wonder how long they'll defend him, once they're on the receiving end of his psychotic episodes!
ReplyDeleteNope. Won't see it; nor will I spend one cent on anything that has Mel Gibson attached to it. And the same goes for Jodie Foster, now that she's decided to back this loser.
I am usually pretty good about separating the actor from the character in a movie...but I can't even look at Mel without hearing that hateful rant that was released. No thanks.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone read the interview Movieline did with Jodie Foster? It was pretty interesting, even though she very much so skirted the issue of working with Polanski and Gibson.
ReplyDeleteI was not at all surprised to see that this bombed.
I don't see how this movie could have succeeded. I read that the budget was $21 million -- for a movie with an older actor (let alone Mel and his baggage) with a puppet on his hand. That's a hard sell outside the art house theaters. Heck, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo only made about $10 million in the US and they had a built in audience from the books.
ReplyDeleteIt will be a good straight-to-DVD
ReplyDeleteIt will go straight-to-Goodwill, where nobody buys anything with his name on it either!
ReplyDeleteI don't quite understand - what did Mel do that was so bad?
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