Why Will Smith's Gemini Man flopped at the box office

BY IAN SANDWELL

 

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Not even two Will Smiths was enough to convince audiences that Gemini Man was worth going to see.

 

Ang Lee's ambitious sci-fi film is projected to have a loss of $75 million or more after struggling at the box office, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

 

The latest blow to Gemini Man was its failure to land big in China, where it could only debut with $21 million and lost out to fellow new opener, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

 

Including an estimated $36.5 million in the US, the movie has grossed $118.7 million worldwide and, according to Forbes, will struggle to go past $200 million by the end of its run as it has now opened in all of the major markets bar Japan.

 

Full Story: https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a29534432/will-smith-gemini-man-box-office-flop-reasons/

So the big question is why did it flop at the box office?Another BS click bait headline?

Hey Triple F, maybe you could click on the link to get the answer!

Aside from the content/story...

High frame rates do not guarantee high profit

 

Why would one use such an ambitious overly expensive technology when there is not a single cinema in the US that could play it in full frame rate (as I heard recently in a radio report)?

In Germany there is supposed to be one(!) cinema that could make use of it.

Edited October 22, 20196 yr by KhunBENQ

I went to see it last week.. It was ok, nothing special

1 hour ago, inactiveposter said:

Hey Triple F, maybe you could click on the link to get the answer!

Yeah I but in my haste to post my stupid comment I totally missed the link so cheers for that.Thinking about it if they posted that headline they could have quoted that part of the story instead of the other irrelevant info so I'll not so steadfastly stand by my stupid comment!

who care willy's a tosser

Edited October 23, 20196 yr by Mad mick

I actually consciously avoid anything promoted as a Will Smith movie having suffered through 'I Am Legend' a few years back!

8 minutes ago, Mad mick said:

who care willy's a tosser

he hasn't got the attraction of having boobies, on attract bums on to seats

 

 - but then... neither has the Maleficient lead either 

 

 

$$$???

I suppose it will soon be out on Disc?  

 

 - not Dvd as it probably would not have the (frame rate) capability either

(compared to BluRay)

It flopped because it was <deleted>. Thats all. 

I had thought I might go see it, but now I'll probably give it a miss. (At least it's not a front to promote his children into the acting world).

2 hours ago, gmac said:

I actually consciously avoid anything promoted as a Will Smith movie having suffered through 'I Am Legend' a few years back!

Hum! I liked that movie. I've been avoiding him since 'After Earth'.

Because he put his untalented and ugly kid in it?

10 hours ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Hum! I liked that movie. I've been avoiding him since 'After Earth'.

oh wasn't that a family shocker

On 10/23/2019 at 4:29 PM, gmac said:

I actually consciously avoid anything promoted as a Will Smith movie having suffered through 'I Am Legend' a few years back!

I liked that Legend film!

Gemini was OK- some good action sequences. Certainly no worse than anything from Marvel. Ending was dire though. Way too Hollywood.

On 10/23/2019 at 7:04 PM, Number 6 said:

Because he put his untalented and ugly kid in it?

Because the film was a porker.

 

His son also ruined a film with Jackie Chan set in China. Why do they insist on ruining great and loved movies with <deleted> remakes.

I'll just wait for it to turn up on my TV box sometime in the near future then, no point in going to the cinema to see it and waste good money on a mediocre movie.

On 10/23/2019 at 12:52 PM, AgMech Cowboy said:

Hum! I liked that movie. I've been avoiding him since 'After Earth'.

Right!  That film was a complete disappointment.  The son was suck-ers also.  

On 10/22/2019 at 9:24 PM, englishoak said:

It flopped because it was <deleted>. Thats all. 

As a brilliant young co-worker I once had would put it "it sucks!"

Ask him why and you'll hear "it just does!"

As I said, brilliant.

 

Will "You gotta be givin' me some Oscars" Smith.  I think MIB was the last of his I saw.