The official Jonah Hex thread.

[Bad Superman]

I tried to avoid spoilers but I just read that Hex has "supernatural powers"? WT@!

 

[FlawlessVictory]

By contrast, newcomer Warner Bros' Jonah Hex already is such a flop that it's not even meeting the studio's low opening weekend expectation of $10M from 2,825 venues after it wasn't tracking. My sources say it opened to only $1.9M Friday and $1.7M Saturday so it's hard-pressed to get to even $5M this weekend. As one Warner Bros exec said about the lesson learned; "You don't take a handsome actor and disgfigure him." The studio is so embarrassed that it took great pains to point out that the pic was greenlighted before Diane Nelson took over as DC Entertainment prez. About the cowboy with the disfigured face and legend that he can't be killed, a minor character in the DC Comics galaxy of stars, Jonah Hex was attempted on the cheap. The studio claims the final budget was $35M. UPDATE: But I hear Warner Bros cut the original budget of $80M to $40M right before production with no script changes. Then the studio did 70 pages of reshoots about 6 months ago. That may have added another $25M for a new budget of $65M. Ouch! As one insider tells me, "the studio looked at the movie a long time ago and wrote it off".

http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/fir...ex-just-weak-8-5m-karate-kid-very-strong-30m/

 

[Docker2.0]

At the rate WB is going: The money it made from TDK will be wasted in DC flops. Will GL be a BO success? Time will tell.

 

[Prison Mike]

I think GL can be a huge success. It's just a shame though that Jonah Hex may prevent lesser known DC heroes from getting their own movies. I really hope The Flash gets a feature film.

 

[Docker2.0]

If GL is a success, Flash will get made. However, I think with Hex bombing, you can kiss WW goodbye.

 

[Prison Mike]

Why would Wonder Woman be affected by Jonah Hex box office numbers? Wouldn't GL and Flash movies be able to predict WW's success more?

 

[Docker2.0]

WB was already fearful of doing superheroines(spelling). I think this bombing just reinforced ANY fears WB has concerning the genre. If GL is a success, Flash will be made in the exact same tone. After that, it's Bats and Supes yet again.

 

[RogueDK]

And the Jonah Hex DC Showcase short.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Well it did better than Steel.
Steel

Domestic Total Gross: $1,710,972
Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: August 15, 1997
Genre: Action / Adventure Runtime: 1 hrs. 37 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $16 million

 

[The Sage]

WB was already fearful of doing superheroines(spelling). I think this bombing just reinforced ANY fears WB has concerning the genre. If GL is a success, Flash will be made in the exact same tone. After that, it's Bats and Supes yet again.

The bombing of a movie about a pretty unknown character to the mainstream audience isn't going to deter them from doing Wonder Woman, who's a well-known character. The success of Green Lantern and subsequently the Flash will determine it.

 

[Mace Dolex]

^ If people remember how good the 90's Flash TV show was then there is a glimmer of hope that it's gets made, Wonder Woman only works as a weekly TV show in which it can find time for an audience.

DC never had any hopes for Jonah Hex, there was no marketing, toy line, cereal, breakfast cereal.

 

[Bad Superman]

This just shows that WB don't know how to handle comic book films with the exception of the new Batman franchise.

 

[Docker2.0]

^ If people remember how good the 90's Flash TV show was then there is a glimmer of hope that it's gets made, Wonder Woman only works as a weekly TV show in which it can find time for an audience.
DC never had any hopes for Jonah Hex, there was no marketing, toy line, cereal, breakfast cereal.

This!
Plus the fact that after Catwoman, WB execs have gone on record and said that they don't want to do female leads in superhero movies for awhile, even though Catwoman just sucked regardless of the cast.

 

[John Locke]

Lesson 1: Don't open a movie about a lesser known character on the same day as the movie millions of people have been waiting for 11 years.

 

[Docker2.0]

This just shows that WB don't know how to handle comic book films with the exception of the new Batman franchise.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dccomics.htm

It's amazing that out of DC's 20 movies, 15 of them are Bats or Supes related.

 

[Tony Stark]

why would you feel sorry for her?

by watching her interviews it is clear that she doesnt want to be an actress but a movie hollywood star. a name in hollywood that gets money by going to talkshows,magazines photoshoots,.....

her focus is always on her look. she always poses and shows her tounge. nothing wrong with that. but this is what she wants to be IMO .


one of the rumors why she got fired from TF3 was also because of her new plastic surgery. the new pics are proof that its true because her face looks strange and different. i also wouldnt be suprised that she is hard to work with.

I don't believe the plastic surgury was why she got fired. She got fired because she publically lambasted Bay while the movie was in theaters. The Studio won't take that, it's bad for stockholders it's bad for the company. Shia La Beouf waited nearly a year before coming out and criticizing the film, and he was pretty tame compared to Megan.

You are right that she just wants to be a star, and with her looks, she will have Paris Hilton like success. What will change though is she will not be in any more big budget hollywood blockbusters. She shot herself in teh foot there. She will appear in alot of horror movies, and if she agrees to appear nude, she will be in some adult type movies.

 

[Tony Stark]

This!
Plus the fact that after Catwoman, WB execs have gone on record and said that they don't want to do female leads in superhero movies for awhile, even though Catwoman just sucked regardless of the cast.

Shows you the stupidity of the average Hollywood exec.

 

[Raiden]

Lesson 1: Don't open a movie about a lesser known character on the same day as the movie millions of people have been waiting for 11 years.

I think WB did that intentionally because they believe that this movie will fail, and by putting Hex in the same weekend as TS3, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Along with The Losers' poor performance earlier this year, it doesn't seemed like DC is doing so great in the box office aside from Nolan's Batman movies.

 

[Judge Holden]

Now I agree that just because this movie was mishandled doesn't mean that GL will be. My main beef with GL is the casting of Ryan Reynolds whose best effort to date has been Van Wilder.

Van Wilder isn't his best effort to date...

That's just been the best effort you have seen... which means you need to watch better movies...

 

[Golgo-13]

I might actually go and see this. I'll by a ticket for The A Team (a movie i actually enjoyed) and then walk in to see Hex.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I liked RR in Waiting. If you've ever worked in a restaurant like that, you'll know that movie is almost a documentary.

 

[BestGirl]

Even if Transformers isn't a huge hit (it will be) she will not be helped at all because she still has two sub 7 million openers to her name. And yes I read that she isn't in Hex that much but the studio pushed her hard in the adds and had her name on the poster.

I found the focus on Fox in the ads to be odd, since it hasn't yet been proven that she's a BO draw and from what I've heard she was barely in the movie.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/fir...ex-just-weak-8-5m-karate-kid-very-strong-30m/

Well it may be good that they're trying to keep it away from the regular DC Entertainment label. I don't think it'll have any effect on WW or and of the other heroes though.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

And the Jonah Hex DC Showcase short.

Also interesting to note about this short is that Jonah Hex will be voiced by Thomas Jane, who actually lobbied hard for the role in the live action film. When he pursued the role, he had pictures taken of him (in full make-up) as Jonah Hex, and had them sent to the studio.

 

[Octoberist]

I feel bad for all of the actors involved with this movie, including Megan Fox. (I know she's an easy target but I'm not a fan of kicking someboy when they're down)

There were really talented actors in the movie, and it's almost embarrassing to see a movie bomb like this.