'Steve Jobs' Movie Pulled From Over 2,000 Theaters After Flopping at Box Office

[Techpainter]

Not surprised. I saw the film. Fassbender could not have looked LESS like Jobs. It seems that Boyle stubbornly insisted on using him as the lead. Actually he looks more like young version of Boyle than any version of Jobs. Wonder what that means...

The new Steve Jobs film faced another disappointing box office performance this past weekend, with the Danny Boyle-directed movie dropping more than 69 percent in profit from the previous weekend to a $823,000 weekend gross. Most surprising, however, is the movie's removal from 2,072 theaters across the country in one single weekend, after initially premiering in 2,411 just over three weeks ago (via Cult of Mac).

When the film was in limited release and preparing to go wide on October 23, the projections for its debut box office weekend were between $15 and $19 million. According to Box Office Mojo, to date, the overall lifetime gross of Steve Jobs is just hitting the projections for its opening weekend: $16,684,073. In the two weeks the movie was in a limited run in Los Angeles and New York, it displayed impressive numbers, earning the fifteenth spot as the highest grossing per-theater average film in movie history.

Unfortunately, when Steve Jobs debuted wide, it earned only the 7th spot at the weekend box office with about a $7.3 million take in its first three days. The disappointment of the film's performance is in direct contradiction to a bevy of positive reviews, even ones that hinted at Oscar nominations for Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet over a month before the movie released.

Currently, Steve Jobs sits at 85 percent on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with a total of 156 positive reviews to 27 negative. With the holiday movie season kicking into gear after a slow October at the box office, it seems that Universal has ditched its initial plan of a word-of-mouth build-up for the movie. If Oscar talk continues for its stars, there's a possibility it could return to a few more theaters closer to the awards show.

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[C DM]

Not surprised. I saw the film. Fassbender could not have looked LESS like Jobs. It seems that Boyle stubbornly insisted on using him as the lead. Actually he looks more like young version of Boyle than any version of Jobs. Wonder what that means...

Not sure that was really all that much behind it all (especially considering how good of a performance Fassbender put into it).

 

[AFEPPL]

People are just not interested in the person/topic..

 

[MH01]

I'll watch it at some point.

Most people really don't care about Steve jobs, well not enough to say spend money at a cinema to watch it over say the new James Bond.

 

[SDAVE]

I feel like movie ticket prices should reflect the budget of the movie, that would make people watch movies more frequently.

Some theaters charge $15 for the same movie ticket for a movie that has $45m budget and $200m budget. If video games can drop in prices, why can't movie tickets?

 

[imageek]

Not surprised. I saw the film. Fassbender could not have looked LESS like Jobs. It seems that Boyle stubbornly insisted on using him as the lead. Actually he looks more like young version of Boyle than any version of Jobs. Wonder what that means...

AN actor's ability to appear as the subject ls less valuable than the actors ability to act the part. From what I speculate... Fassbender may not have the insight into who the character was and was pressed to act the script (which I doubt was anything like the sociopath that the character was).

 

[Steve121178]

Not surprised. I saw the film. Fassbender could not have looked LESS like Jobs. It seems that Boyle stubbornly insisted on using him as the lead. Actually he looks more like young version of Boyle than any version of Jobs. Wonder what that means...

It doesn't matter what he looks like. I thought Fassbender played the role quite well, but Ashton Kutcher was vastly superior which is surprising as Kutcher is hardly Laurence Olivier but he had the walk, mannerisms and speech mastered to a degree.

I felt it odd that the film focused on the time period that Boyle chose. It would have been far more relevant to at least have touched upon the first part of the early 2000's. 'Steve Jobs' was good, but the critically panned 'Jobs' was so much better!

 

[C DM]

It doesn't matter what he looks like. I thought Fassbender played the role quite well, but Ashton Kutcher was vastly superior which is surprising as Kutcher is hardly Laurence Olivier but he had the walk, mannerisms and speech mastered to a degree.

I felt it odd that the film focused on the time period that Boyle chose. It would have been far more relevant to at least have touched upon the first part of the early 2000's. 'Steve Jobs' was good, but the critically panned 'Jobs' was so much better!

Wasn't it the script that chose the timing and situations, and that in turn was based on the biography that was written prior to it?

 

[JethroJay]

The new Steve Jobs film faced another disappointing box office performance this past weekend, with the Danny Boyle-directed movie dropping more than 69 percent in profit from the previous weekend to a $823,000 weekend gross. Most surprising, however, is the movie's removal from 2,072 theaters across the country in one single weekend, after initially premiering in 2,411 just over three weeks ago (via Cult of Mac).

When the film was in limited release and preparing to go wide on October 23, the projections for its debut box office weekend were between $15 and $19 million. According to Box Office Mojo, to date, the overall lifetime gross of Steve Jobs is just hitting the projections for its opening weekend: $16,684,073. In the two weeks the movie was in a limited run in Los Angeles and New York, it displayed impressive numbers, earning the fifteenth spot as the highest grossing per-theater average film in movie history.

Unfortunately, when Steve Jobs debuted wide, it earned only the 7th spot at the weekend box office with about a $7.3 million take in its first three days. The disappointment of the film's performance is in direct contradiction to a bevy of positive reviews, even ones that hinted at Oscar nominations for Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet over a month before the movie released.

Currently, Steve Jobs sits at 85 percent on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with a total of 156 positive reviews to 27 negative. With the holiday movie season kicking into gear after a slow October at the box office, it seems that Universal has ditched its initial plan of a word-of-mouth build-up for the movie. If Oscar talk continues for its stars, there's a possibility it could return to a few more theaters closer to the awards show.

Article Link: 'Steve Jobs' Movie Pulled From Over 2,000 Theaters After Flopping at Box Office

 

[JethroJay]

The problem with this movie? Fiction.

 

[JaySoul]

Just watched it.

Oh my lord. It is awful. I'm flabbergasted.

- Sorkin's script is abysmal, dull, hokey
- The pre-presentation set up just doesn't work
- Michael Fassbender looks MORE like JOSH LYMAN from WEST WING than STEVE bloody JOBS
- The Lisa storyline is crammed in there for emotional effect

The only decent thing is Kate Winslet. She's excellent.

Otherwise, honestly it's just a gigantic badly made bore. 3/10.

 

[bingeciren]

It is more like a theatre rather than a movie. Way too much dialog and all the scenes are confined almost entirely to indoors. It sometimes makes me wonder how these people memorize such long lines of script.

The performance of all the actors are good but it is really a boring movie.

 

[diipii]

Geeks who make computers are not sexy.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Geeks who make computers are not sexy.

But 'sexy' isn't just on the surface.

You must be a youngling. I've gotten wood just talking to a woman that might not be a 10, or even a 4, but their mind, the way they talk, the way they think, the way they laugh, entices me, excites me...

Hopefully you will experience that someday...

 

[grahamperrin]

Geeks who make computers are not sexy.

Certainly not as sexy as the geeks who fix them.