Wanted to see it, looked and it wasn't in my area at release. Forgot about it and when I remembered it had been there a few days and been pulled. Oh well.
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'Steve Jobs' Movie Pulled From Over 2,000 Theaters After Flopping at Box Office
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Actually Pablo charged a LOT for his paintings once he got famous... The love of it doesn't pay the rent. Taking money for your work doesn't mean it's not sincere or not artistic. Even artists have to eat.
I do know what you mean, but I'm not convinced that this film was made purely to cash in on Steve Jobs's life. I haven't seen it yet, but from I've read and seen so far, and from what I've seen previously from both Dany Boyle and Sorkin, I think this film started with a real artistic intention , not just pure "opportunism" like Tim Cook thinks.
One thing I'm surprised I didn't see in any of the comments....
Good movie or not, personally with the price of movies these days, a "documentary" (please note the quotes, before getting any ideas...) is the kind of thing I would much rather see on Netflix or RedBox. I'm not going to pay $50 to take my family to see this movie when it would be perfectly cromulent to wait until it shows up on Netflix. I'm far more likely to (and did) take the family to see The Martian, something much more attuned to the big screen.
Good movie or not, personally with the price of movies these days, a "documentary" (please note the quotes, before getting any ideas...) is the kind of thing I would much rather see on Netflix or RedBox. I'm not going to pay $50 to take my family to see this movie when it would be perfectly cromulent to wait until it shows up on Netflix. I'm far more likely to (and did) take the family to see The Martian, something much more attuned to the big screen.
It's good to see that not only are many macrumors posters experts in patent law, business, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, sales, engineering and the auto industry, there are now several experts in the film and theater business.
If its failed with the mass market there is a great chance I'll love this movie.
Plenty...Sorkin is claiming ONLY 40 minutes of the 2 hour movie is made up - other than that everything is perfect.
“There’s not a fact about Steve Jobs that has been distorted, perverted or invented except this: Steve Jobs didn’t’ have confrontations with five people 40 minutes before every product launch. That’s a writer’s conceit.”
http://deadline.com/2015/11/steve-jobs-aaron-sorkin-steve-jobs-facts-lies-1201613284/
Exactly my feelings. Maybe these kind of movies are just too niche. I can't wait to see it, but that's because I'm a huge Apple (and Steve Jobs) fan. But this won't appeal to the masses.
I have no doubt it's been said already, but the people who knew Steve and have actually seen it, or were involved in its creation, think it's quite good and an accurate portrayal.
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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Umm, the movie was directed by David Fincher, not Danny Boyle. Check your facts.
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
no one wants to watch a fake contrived story about Jobs. Do a real documentary talking to real people in his life while they are still alive. Then you might get some attention.
"Target market"? Is this how you think the movie business, and art in general, should be viewed?
Except these day - Box office doesn't mean everything. There's a ton of other ways to make money via syndicating the film (netflix, itunes, blu-ray, international, pay/broadcast television). The movie will make money. Will it be a blockbuster - likely not. But it will make money.
No, it didn't flop b/c of the central subject it flopped because the script didn't engage the viewer and poorly cast actors that didn't even attempt to match the persona of real life people the film was portraying. One look at the scream fest trailer and it's no wonder why people didn't want to pony up $10-15. Jobs' story is a quite compelling human one, it's just that the movie doesn't tell one. It's why Sony tossed it overboard a long time ago.
Did it ever occur to you that all the people would love to keep this myth of a jesus-like Steve Jobs alive for the sake of the company's success? I suggest independent thinking...
Yup, soon the name Steve Jobs will be forgotten, and fade into history just like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John D. Rockefeller.
Looks like Laurene Powell-Jobs got the last laugh over this movie -- at least as far as the big screen is concerned.
Look everyone. You think this movie has it been? Jem and the Holograms is being outright pulled from the theaters after two weeks. They're scaling down like this movie. Down to zero.
So it could be worse
So it could be worse