Comments on: Box Office: Ouch! George Clooney Gets Sacked

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:00:44 +0000

To quote Lily Tomlin: “It’s called show business not show art.” Of course the suits care about big bucks only.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:00:00 +0000

To quote Lily Tomlin: “It’s called show business not show art.” Of course the suits care about big bucks only.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:35:34 +0000

I think this article misses the boat by a mile. Back in the day, say the 90′s, movies stars were people who opened movies. Any movie. That is their job. People like Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts would star in movies and they would get a minimum of 15 to 20 mil on the opening weekend no matter how bad the flick was. With ticket price inflation that would be about 25 – 30 mil now. Our current crop of “stars” make excuses for why they can’t open a movie by themselves, YET they still cash checks for 10 to 20 million bucks plus a percent of the gross in many cases.

Clooney is a prime example of our current fraud stars. He whines about not getting a Writer’s Guild check which would have taken money from the writer’s, he made a bad joke about Charlton Heston because he disagrees with him on gun control, and his smug speech at the Oscars basically made the statement that Hollywood is more moral than the rest of the country and that was just plain silly.

Sorry Charley, but listening to people from Los Angeles lecture to me about Global warming when they all drove SUV’s in the 90′s is just so much BS.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:35:00 +0000

Sorry Charley, but listening to people from Los Angeles lecture to me about Global warming when they all drove SUV’s in the 90′s is just so much BS.

By: Kevin Gustafson

Kevin Gustafson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:30:03 +0000

It probably was pushed back because it was a stinker. People are paying taxes too. I thought the movie was going to be bad from the trailer. Winking at the audience at the old fashioned style of the movie is expected. But it went overboard.

By: Kevin Gustafson

Kevin Gustafson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:30:00 +0000

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:36:58 +0000

Maybe it also had to do with the weak commercials they showed for the film? I saw ‘em a buncha times on various stations, but they were all showing the same scenes, and none of ‘em looked any interesting, or funny… which for a “comedy”, is the utmost important thing.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:36:00 +0000

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:58:12 +0000

Good point about releasing Leatherheads this weekend. Releasing it the week after the Superbowl would have made more sense.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:58:00 +0000

Good point about releasing Leatherheads this weekend. Releasing it the week after the Superbowl would have made more sense.

By: Kevin Gustafson

Kevin Gustafson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:44:01 +0000

Leatherheads wasn’t strong enough of a movie to draw its audiences away from the other competing movies too. Single women/the date crowd would see 21, The Ruins, and Superhero movie. Old people won’t be able to get to theater opening day. The movie was overhyped.

By: Kevin Gustafson

Kevin Gustafson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:44:00 +0000