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'Steve Jobs' Movie Pulled From Over 2,000 Theaters After Flopping at Box Office
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The only bitter people I've seen are several posters in the various threads about the movie. Are you suggesting it's "bitter" to remove a film from X amount of theaters because it's not performing well? That's not bitter. It's business.
I don't think most people care whether or not fassbender looks like Jobs. At least outside of this forum. There are many biographical movies about people and the performers portraying them look little to nothing like them. Other people have posted that it's too soon since his death for this movie. And inaccuracies? It's a movie. I would find it a struggle to find a bio pic that wasn't riddled in inaccuracies.
I would think there'd be little interest *inside* tech circles either (apparently I'm right ;-).
I think tech people would be interested in what actually allowed Jobs to do what he did. This movie seems to be too fictionalized to help anyone understand what really happened, how it happened, or why... Well that's the impression I got from the trailers: people with the names of famous tech figures -- but not the personalities or faces -- yelling at each other, dramatically.
While that may be true, I seriously doubt there were any people who read the reviews, and the inaccuracies detailed therein, and decided not to see it. This is/was the type of movie where people already decided if they were going to see it (or not) months ago. Reviews likely played no part in their decision.
I think thats bitter! Two weeks and you pulled the movie from theaters because its not doing well as you expected. That's not good. Don't punish the people who haven't gotten around to seeing it yet, because their expectations weren't met. I'd fine with them pulling it if they release it on Netflix, DVD, etc right now. Legally, we have no way of viewing it now.
This film may well have had some good acting in it.
However, I couldn't get past the complete unlikeness of Fassbender to Jobs. You might as well have had an animated potato representing him.
I'd like to see a tv documentary about Steve Jobs over several episodes.
However, I couldn't get past the complete unlikeness of Fassbender to Jobs. You might as well have had an animated potato representing him.
I'd like to see a tv documentary about Steve Jobs over several episodes.
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Shame- I thought it was a really good movie. Although I think the Isaacson biography is the place you want to go if you want to know what actually happened in his life. His friends say it was too harsh and his haters think it's too gentle, which tells you it's probably about right.
I'm glad they pulled the movie! That's not something you see everyday. They should do that with more movies.
Art? It's not a picasso. It's a movie with a budget and a company backing it because it's banking on a return based on an audience. Geez.
This makes the idea even worse in 2015, when tech people are likely to own technology that beats the theater experience. The only time I've been to a theater in the last few years was to see the Hobbit movies, and I only went to check out HFR.
He is, he thought that handing over $13 for a movie ticket to see a movie that others say is not good is a bad idea. How often do you "think for yourself" by wasting money and time?
Not even. Posted some time ago to wait for it on cable.
Even then I don't know whether I have the time to watch it. Too many better things to do.
Maybe with iPad in bath room 15 minutes at a time over a few days?
What did they really expect? We've see. This same story told over and over in several different movies dating back to Pirates of Silicone Valley.
Maybe it would've been more interesting if they broke some new ground by being the first movie to cover his entire life all the way through to the iPhone and iPad launch then there might have been reason to see it. As it stands, it was just another made for DVD movie that we've already seen played by different actors.
Maybe it would've been more interesting if they broke some new ground by being the first movie to cover his entire life all the way through to the iPhone and iPad launch then there might have been reason to see it. As it stands, it was just another made for DVD movie that we've already seen played by different actors.
They do when movies aren't making money. They get replaced by other movies that are killing it. This movie has ZERO importance to movie theaters when things like Spectre or Hotel Transylvania 2 is killing it (yes... a Sandler movie destroyed the Jobs movie... lol)
While Apple fans like us aren't entirely to blame, I know I have done my part to discourage people from seeing this movie after reading about people who were close to him talk about how inaccurate it is. Why in the world does it focus on his relationship with his daughter when nobody gives a crap about that and nobody really has any inside knowledge about that? What about the technological revolution that he helped start? What about the amazing teams that he assembled and those interactions? So many missed opportunities with this film. It's a shame.
I thought it was an excellent movie overall. The casting of the Steve Jobs role was spot on.
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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I thought the movie was entertaining. The movie should not have had a slow rollout, I think that hurt the film. Also, how many Steve Jobs movies do we need. I feel like it was 3 SJ movies too late.
Are you new to the movie business? If a movie isn't doing well it gets pulled and replaced by either something new or it's slots are taken over by other movies that are doing well. Punish? This makes no sense. Theaters don't host movies for public benefit. They do it to make money. The movie wasn't making money. Take solace though. With the film being pulled, it will reach Netflix and DVD a lot sooner than it would have if it was a hit.
It's pretty simple to me. The movie had limited mass market appeal. Outside of tech circles, Jobs was basically just the "iPhone dude". The movie was well reviewed by critics and movie goers who actually went to see it. Unfortunately, not enough people wanted to see it. It happens to tons of well received movies. Steve Jobs being the subject matter made this movie no more special than any other.
The average American, while they may enjoy using Apple's products, does not have a fascination with Steve Jobs. They are simply consumers of the products he helped bring to the market. I'm not surprised that the film didn't do well in theaters.
I watched it opening night in a theater that was perhaps 10% full. I can only imagine that showings yesterday were closer to 1% full. It's an utter waste of the screen to be running the movie, when you could just be running any of 10 other movies and be getting quite a bit more people into the seats.
The movie wasn't good. I wouldn't recommend it. I loved the Steve Jobs biography from Isaac, but this movie was crap. They tried to make you care about 10+ relationships between Jobs and other characters which didn't really intermingle at all, and in the end you cared about none of them, because none of them got more than 10 minutes of time on the screen.
Film IS an art, just like music, literature, painting, sculpture, etc.. It's just the most expensive of arts ( well, excluding architecture maybe ), wich makes it more liable to be fiddled with by it's financeers, since the losses can be more dramatic than in other arts.
( Even Transformers or a McDonald's jingle is actually art, it's just very very bad art )
The movie itself was pretty good as I do really like Aaron Sorkin's style.
The issue I had with it is how historically inaccurate it was and feel it was an uneven portrayal of his personality.
When I watched it Thursday evening, there were only 4 other people in the theater.
The issue I had with it is how historically inaccurate it was and feel it was an uneven portrayal of his personality.
When I watched it Thursday evening, there were only 4 other people in the theater.
There's no point of us going back and forth. I can only speak for myself and say I am disappointed they pulled the movie after two weeks. I am sure there are tons of people, including myself, who haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. I guess it's our fault we didn't have time to see it within the two weeks it was playing in theaters. I didn't expect them to pull it THIS quick. I guess we will have to wait on the DVD or something.