'Jem and the Holograms' pulled from screens after 2 weeks
"Jem and the Holograms," the movie reboot of the popular late-1980s cartoon, opened in wide release October 23 and has done so poorly that Universal appears to be yanking it from theaters after only two weeks. Though a small number of theaters have the movie on their schedules, it has disappeared from most theaters, and Universal isn't reporting any box-office figures for it after last week.
This is an unheard of move for a movie that was in theaters nationwide.
"Theater chains are contractually obligated to hold a film for two weeks after booking it. However, in all my days as an analyst, I've never seen a studio actually stop reporting after two weeks," Jeff Bock, senior box-office analyst at Exhibitor Relations, told Business Insider Monday. "This is unprecedented, and shows just how badly this film flopped. Not only is it the lowest-grossing debut for a studio film this year, but it's the worst all-time — by a considerable margin — for any film released in 2,000-plus theaters."
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 4, 2020 7:24 PM
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See, if they hadn't screwed it up and actually adapted the source material instead of just pasting the name on a generic movie about a all-girl band, they'd have every thirty-something mother taking her daughter to see it and probably more than a few gay men, some of whom might have been accompanied by their daughters as well.
Pity.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 9, 2015 11:39 PM
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They should of just done the Jiz parody instead lol
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 9, 2015 11:52 PM
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They fucked the franchise for good. Nice one.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 9, 2015 11:52 PM
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Why didn't they do this for [italic]Shitty Little Annie[/italic], too?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 9, 2015 11:53 PM
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I read that they had a generic girl band script and they just slapped the name Jem on it. They didn't even try. They could have made a mint if they actually had someone who cared.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 9, 2015 11:56 PM
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If they went all out with 80s huge hair satire the movie may well have been a hoot!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 10, 2015 12:06 AM
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[quote] They fucked the franchise for good. Nice one.
This is the problem: assuming you'll have a multi-film franchise before you know whether anyone even wants the first one.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 10, 2015 12:07 AM
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Last Wednesday its per screen average was only $10
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 10, 2015 12:08 AM
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They pissed on the audience that would have gone, would have dressed up as the characters, generated tons of earned media and here we are. Nobody will even give a re-do money, which is what they should have done after the universal pan of the preview. Gen X and Y parents would have taken their kiddos to see this film for the nostalgia trip fun if they had handled this right.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 10, 2015 12:12 AM
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A re-do would have been washing garbage. This never should have been greenlit.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 10, 2015 12:13 AM
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The same thing happened with the JOSIE AND TRHE PUSSYCATS movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 10, 2015 12:14 AM
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Maybe Hollywood should just try to think of something NEW?????
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 10, 2015 12:15 AM
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The 80s are over. Gen X needs to accept that their time has come and gone. Their 80s nostalgia era was the 2000s. The end. Look at that horrible "Tron Legacy" film.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 10, 2015 1:53 AM
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Imagine if this was just the beginning and audiences rejected all movies based on comic books and cartoons. Sigh.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 10, 2015 2:00 AM
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[quote]The 80s are over. Gen X needs to accept that their time has come and gone.
The youngest members of Gen X are only 34. Their purchasing tastes and habits will matter to marketers for another fifteen years or so. You don't become part of an irrelevant demographic until you hit fifty.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 10, 2015 2:03 AM
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Sometimes there are valid reasons to feel nostalgic for a certain time or place.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 10, 2015 2:17 AM
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Those poor little girls will never get a job in this town again.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 10, 2015 2:43 AM
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Oh Goody! This means we'll probably be able to see it on Netflix next week!!
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 10, 2015 2:55 AM
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It looked like a sucker's movie based on the trailer alone.
I probably would have seen this film if it looked like it had a bigger budget & resembled the 80's cartoon that I loved.
Oh well live and learn Hollywood morons!
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 10, 2015 3:22 AM
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R21 that's the weirdest looking asshole I've seen in forever!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 10, 2015 5:04 AM
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R21 Stop spamming this image everywhere.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 4, 2020 6:12 AM
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They should've included The over-rouged slutty rival group The Misfits.
I would've seen the film in theaters just for that
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 4, 2020 6:30 AM
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R11 except Josie and the Pussycats was actually a fun movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 4, 2020 11:08 AM
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[quote]They should've included The over-rouged slutty rival group The Misfits.
They pop up at the very end. Pretty much an afterthought...
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 4, 2020 11:52 AM
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I had never heard of the cartoon before. Why on earth Universal chose to reboot this obscure tripe?
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 4, 2020 12:01 PM
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R7 you don’t have to tell us, pet.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 4, 2020 7:24 PM
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