The Producers Of “The Rhythm Section” Respond To It Flopping Hard

Deadline says that The Rhythm Section, which stars a butch Timothee Chalamet-looking Blake Lively as an assassin, had issues from the jump off. Last April, Paramount didn’t include the movie in its CinemaCon reel which showed off their upcoming big movies. Like Terminator: Dark Fate–which also bombed. Paramount is set to lose between $30 to $40 million on this movie and the overseas launch is not guaranteed. They’re thinking of skipping an overseas launch and sending it direct to streaming.

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“Cats” Could Potentially Lose At Least $71 Million

What you are looking at above is the terrifying CGI version of James Corden as Bustopher Jones, as he dives head-first into the trash. It’s an appropriate metaphor, because someone in Hollywood has been crunching the box office numbers on the live-action adaptation of Cats. And we already knew the movie was garbage. But now we know that from a financial standpoint, Cats is extra-stinky.

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“Dark Phoenix” Was A Massive Bomb

Yahoo! Finance says that Disney released their Q3 earnings press release on Tuesday, which was their first full quarter since acquiring Fox. The X-Men franchise has made a lot of money for 20th Century Fox. Disney probably thought the first X-Men movie since their acquisition was going to dump more money into Scrooge McDuck’s swimming pool. Nope! Dark Phoenix actually took money out, not surprisingly.

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Fred Savage’s New Show “What Just Happened??!” Tanked

The vacant “whooshing” white noise you heard last night was Fred Savage’s new Fox show What Just Happened??! traveling through the airwaves and missing damn near every single antenna, fiber, cable, and internet tube that might have brought it into the homes of viewers. It tanked. Spectacularly. According to The Wrap, “a mere 809,000 total viewers watched” the season premier, and judging from the reactions it received on Twitter, none of those viewers liked what they saw.

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Tiffany Haddish Bombed At A NYE Stand-Up Performance In Miami

Booking a New Year’s Eve show in a major city is a pretty impressive feather for any stand-up comedian’s cap. Unfortunately for Tiffany Haddish, the feather wasn’t tightly secured and fell off and got trampled during her set at Miami’s James L. Knight Center. Tiffany was not ready and bombed spectacularly. And because #thesetryingtimes continue a pace in 2019, some clown recorded it and posted in on Twitter, prompting harsh backlash to Tiffany’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad night.

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“Baywatch” Flopped At The Box Office

I don’t know what’s worse: the opening weekend numbers for Baywatch, or all of the “Baywatch belly flopped” jokes that came out of it.

It looks like the bait of Zac Efron’s beefy upper body (or seeing him in Real Housewives of Gold’s Gym drag) wasn’t enough to get people to watch the Baywatch movie. According to Box Office Mojo, its four-day domestic box office gross was less than $23 million. It cost $69 million to make. Baywatch came in at #3 under Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Pirates of the Caribbean 5 came in at #1 with more than $78 million. So people did want to see a mess in the ocean, just not one starring The Rock and Zac Efron.

Fingers are being pointed at a number of reasons why Baywatch flopped in North America. The Hollywood Reporter says that movie theaters had a really lousy Memorial Day weekend (it was the lowest Memorial Day weekend in nearly two decades). The Rock blames the critics.

Bold move from this critic who watched #Baywatch w/ other critics who laughed their ass off, but then they decide to trash it publicly. ???? https://t.co/k8x6XFBzPd

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) May 25, 2017

So does Paramount’s president of marketing Megan Colligan. She tells The Hollywood Reporter that Baywatch tested great in screenings, but the critics killed it with their bad reviews. Baywatch currently holds a rating of 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. I guess this officially means Baywatch Nights is no longer the most embarrassing Baywatch? Congratulations, Baywatch Nights!

Here’s the cast working hard for those overseas dollars at the Berlin premiere of Baywatch in Berlin today.

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