"Men in Black: International" and "Shaft" become yet two more summer sequels to underperform

Rocketman outsold Dark Phoenix this past weekend.

You mean X Women and People in Black? Yes, both movies lecture the audience to be more woke.

[quote] sick of re-makes and sequels

Personally I've been sick of re-makes and sequels since the mid 90s

Wasn't the original Men in Black the only good one? They should have quite while they were ahead.

r2 Shaft flopped harder than any of those movies, and it is quite un-PC - in fact, it's a homophobic movie according to reviews.

Maybe people are tired of 'franchises' these days.

Both Child's Play and Toy Story will do huge business this weekend and no one will have learned their lesson.

Chris Hemsworth Does Not Bring Butts to Seats

I didn't even know there was a new Shaft movie out. The marketing for this film must have been poor.

r8: it is a paradox: Hemsworth is beloved as Thor, to the point where he was considered an MVP in the last Avengers film thanks to his comic performance, but when he tries a blockbuster elsewhere, audiences stay in droves.

stay away in droves.

Fuck.

This is the first I've heard of Men in Black: International. I did a search and learned it's the fourth one. I had no idea there was a third one. Or that it had that horrible Pitbull song in it.

Late Night also flopped. Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson (with her awful short blond hair) are box office poison.

Mindy Kaling is over-rated.

Hollywood needs to make a genuine effort to make good movies if they want people to start dragging their asses to movie theatres in the age of Netflix and Youtube.

R13, I certainly agree about Emma's short, bleached hairdo - unflattering.

I saw Last Night this past weekend. It's a thoroughly conventional, pleasant, undemanding comedy; I'm genuinely stunned that such a mundane film came out of Sundance and that Amazon paid $13 million for it.

R17, you mean "Late Night."

Pleased that a homophobic movie tanked.

Men In Black was a huge hit because of the comedy that was built on the "odd couple" chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Nobody cares about the men in black organization (whatever it's called) or the alien plot. No wonder this sequel flopped.

Why not make a movie with new characters and a new story that highlights the strengths of Hemsworth and his female costar rather than trying to shove them into a franchise that was only successful because of Smith and Jones? Weird.

This Men In Black reminds me of when they tried another Independence Day a few years ago. I'm surprised Armageddon 2 hasn't seen the light of day...yet.

I think Hollywood peaked in regards to wasting resources on mass appeal. Some movies would be commercial hits if they wouldn't go overboard with the costs. Wasting money on gimmicks and overpriced PR when you can reach more customers through social media than print media, for example.

But Hollywood is like an old Gentlemen's Club where the members overpay and overcharge each other to put more money from outsiders in their pockets.

Samuel Jackson tanked worse than Chris Hemsworth.

"Poms" was bad, too.

[Quote] Wasn't the original Men in Black the only good one? They should have quite while they were ahead.

The first 2 are fun. And the third was ok but they shouldn't have bothered with this? Do they even have a catchy theme song like the other 2 did.