Sunday, March 13, 2011

"Mars" Bombed At The Box Office

Looks like all the dire predictions about "Mars Needs Moms" are coming true. The opening weekend of this movie was disastrous for Disney.

The news was particularly bad for Disney financially, since Mars cost $150 million to produce, but only grossed $6.8 million in its debut -- one of the studio’s lowest openings in recent memory.

Ouch! There goes all the profit from "Gnomeo and Juliet"!

My question is, does this movie falls under the control of Disney animation, or does it fall under a live-action division? If it falls under Disney animation, one would think that John Lasseter would have creative control (or at least, a say) in the movie. From all indications, this movie had bad reviews and almost dead out of the water.

I know that one can't expect every one of them to be a hit (with the exception of Pixar), but this was a very bad miss from the beginning.

Zz.

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