Monday, 29 March 2010

Oh dear

Just saw the news that Uma Thurman's latest film, Motherhood, which was made for $3m and which also featured Minnie Driver, closed after only taking £88 on its opening weekend. No, that's not a typo - only eleven people went to see it. Ouch.

Goes to show that big names mean nothing in getting a film seen, and that filmmaking is incredibly financially dangerous, but then I think we all knew that.
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3 comments:

Paul said...

I think there's a Tom Sizemore film which had a decent budget and made about $11, and one of the tickets sold was refunded.

I imagine that like this film, it was released in only a couple of theaters.

29 March 2010 at 23:08
Andy Dougan said...

While I'm all in favour of naff films like Motherhood being ignored at the box office, that's only part of the story. The film was part of an experiment in a new distribution model from Metrodome in which it was released simultaneously in the cinema and on DVD and, I think, pay per view. The real test will come in the DVD sales although if people won't pay six quid to go to the movies I can't see them rushing to lash out fifteen quid to have an Uma movie of their very own. At the time of writing Motherhood is ranked 5,672 on Amazon's best selling DVD chart so we can draw our own conclusions. I believe the record for worst performing film ever is a film called Zzyxx which was released on a single cinema in Texas and took $30 in its entire run.

30 March 2010 at 09:52
Ada Calgie said...

Poor Jack Scagnetti.

31 March 2010 at 17:59

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