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Jessica Simpson's new movie opens to huge box office numbers...IN RUSSIA! Remember the news about Jessica Simpson doing a movie called Major Movie Star, which was about her playing an actress who joins the Arny to research for a major movie role?
http://www.huffingtonpost...38446.html Well, the movie opened up a couple of weeks ago in Russia and had boffo box office numbers. I guess the movie studio is now going to release the movie in Bulgaria next month. No word yet on the USA release date.  | |
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728huey said: Remember the news about Jessica Simpson doing a movie called Major Movie Star, which was about her playing an actress who joins the Arny to research for a major movie role?
http://www.huffingtonpost...38446.html Well, the movie opened up a couple of weeks ago in Russia and had boffo box office numbers. I guess the movie studio is now going to release the movie in Bulgaria next month. No word yet on the USA release date. The US has no market anyway at this point, its in a total state of HUGE decline, no one is even doing promo for their albums at this point here anymore. Even the High School Musical kids were doing promo for their movie...in ROME. Jessica's movie is going to go straight to dvd in the usa like everything else does here. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: 728huey said: Remember the news about Jessica Simpson doing a movie called Major Movie Star, which was about her playing an actress who joins the Arny to research for a major movie role?
http://www.huffingtonpost...38446.html Well, the movie opened up a couple of weeks ago in Russia and had boffo box office numbers. I guess the movie studio is now going to release the movie in Bulgaria next month. No word yet on the USA release date. The US has no market anyway at this point, its in a total state of HUGE decline, no one is even doing promo for their albums at this point here anymore. Even the High School Musical kids were doing promo for their movie...in ROME. Jessica's movie is going to go straight to dvd in the usa like everything else does here. Three has to be some Yakov Smirtnoff joke that explains this.... LastDecember, don't be too dramatic about the state of movies. That "High School Musical" opened at number one with 42 million. That's pretty good considering the popularity of the series was probably waning with over hype and the kids getting older. Now I agree that there might be less of a market for "fringe" comedies like this, but movies in general aren't doing that awfully. Jessica Simpson cannot get asses in the seats (her role in the "Dukes of Hazard" and the money it had was a fluke) or in the record store. Is that what you're talking about? The fact that made yet another "Saw" and it got asses in the seats again stuns me! I was shocked that my sister went to see it. At least she claimed she went to the cheap show. Oh...just discovered all those stories seem to be not to obvious jokes. [Edited 10/29/08 14:12pm] | |
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VinnyM27 said: lastdecember said: The US has no market anyway at this point, its in a total state of HUGE decline, no one is even doing promo for their albums at this point here anymore. Even the High School Musical kids were doing promo for their movie...in ROME. Jessica's movie is going to go straight to dvd in the usa like everything else does here. Three has to be some Yakov Smirtnoff joke that explains this.... LastDecember, don't be too dramatic about the state of movies. That "High School Musical" opened at number one with 42 million. That's pretty good considering the popularity of the series was probably waning with over hype and the kids getting older. Now I agree that there might be less of a market for "fringe" comedies like this, but movies in general aren't doing that awfully. Jessica Simpson cannot get asses in the seats (her role in the "Dukes of Hazard" and the money it had was a fluke) or in the record store. Is that what you're talking about? The fact that made yet another "Saw" and it got asses in the seats again stuns me! I was shocked that my sister went to see it. At least she claimed she went to the cheap show. Oh...just discovered all those stories seem to be not to obvious jokes. [Edited 10/29/08 14:12pm] Actually the interesting thing is that no one ever does the "math" on movies. If you break them down to "screens" and "dollars per screen" you see that alot of so called smashes, arent really putting asses in seats there just on alot of very empty theaters screens. I never really paid too much attention to this until someone showed about 10 years ago the break down of variety magazine and how if you look at the movie at the bottom of the list, its making just as much per screen as the "smash". "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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VinnyM27 said: lastdecember said: The US has no market anyway at this point, its in a total state of HUGE decline, no one is even doing promo for their albums at this point here anymore. Even the High School Musical kids were doing promo for their movie...in ROME. Jessica's movie is going to go straight to dvd in the usa like everything else does here. Three has to be some Yakov Smirtnoff joke that explains this.... LastDecember, don't be too dramatic about the state of movies. That "High School Musical" opened at number one with 42 million. That's pretty good considering the popularity of the series was probably waning with over hype and the kids getting older. Now I agree that there might be less of a market for "fringe" comedies like this, but movies in general aren't doing that awfully. Jessica Simpson cannot get asses in the seats (her role in the "Dukes of Hazard" and the money it had was a fluke) or in the record store. Is that what you're talking about? The fact that made yet another "Saw" and it got asses in the seats again stuns me! I was shocked that my sister went to see it. At least she claimed she went to the cheap show. Oh...just discovered all those stories seem to be not to obvious jokes. [Edited 10/29/08 14:12pm] As for jessica she really has never sold in terms of mainstream success. I mean newlyweds was the big thing, that was it, it helped the one album, but for the most part she has had a gold album a platinum one ((off newlywed sales) and the other three have averaged 200-300 thhousand, so i never really understood why people think that Jessica was putting up "numbers", she really never was. Despite all that she is top 20 in money earning females, goes to show what really counts are not charts. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: VinnyM27 said: Three has to be some Yakov Smirtnoff joke that explains this.... LastDecember, don't be too dramatic about the state of movies. That "High School Musical" opened at number one with 42 million. That's pretty good considering the popularity of the series was probably waning with over hype and the kids getting older. Now I agree that there might be less of a market for "fringe" comedies like this, but movies in general aren't doing that awfully. Jessica Simpson cannot get asses in the seats (her role in the "Dukes of Hazard" and the money it had was a fluke) or in the record store. Is that what you're talking about? The fact that made yet another "Saw" and it got asses in the seats again stuns me! I was shocked that my sister went to see it. At least she claimed she went to the cheap show. Oh...just discovered all those stories seem to be not to obvious jokes. [Edited 10/29/08 14:12pm] Actually the interesting thing is that no one ever does the "math" on movies. If you break them down to "screens" and "dollars per screen" you see that alot of so called smashes, arent really putting asses in seats there just on alot of very empty theaters screens. I never really paid too much attention to this until someone showed about 10 years ago the break down of variety magazine and how if you look at the movie at the bottom of the list, its making just as much per screen as the "smash". I've noticed the per screen thing. Yeah, some "blockbuster" can get by in having half filled theaters...as long as its a lot of theaters. Of course, it all depends on what a film costs if it makes money. Now of days. DVDs (and all that other crap like Itunes) has to account for making money back unless it does really well on the screen and that often helps if it costs very little. | |
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VinnyM27 said: lastdecember said: Actually the interesting thing is that no one ever does the "math" on movies. If you break them down to "screens" and "dollars per screen" you see that alot of so called smashes, arent really putting asses in seats there just on alot of very empty theaters screens. I never really paid too much attention to this until someone showed about 10 years ago the break down of variety magazine and how if you look at the movie at the bottom of the list, its making just as much per screen as the "smash". I've noticed the per screen thing. Yeah, some "blockbuster" can get by in having half filled theaters...as long as its a lot of theaters. Of course, it all depends on what a film costs if it makes money. Now of days. DVDs (and all that other crap like Itunes) has to account for making money back unless it does really well on the screen and that often helps if it costs very little. With something like Jessica's movie im sure the budget was very low, its actually considered an "indie" film, to me that bar of "indie" film needs to be lowered way down, the term "indie" is applied to any film costing less than a million, which is absurd, in this age of DV technology taking over "film" unless you have a top star salary in there most movies are considered "indies". The common rule for films is that you have to take the film cost and multiply it by 3 and anything you make over that is profit. So something like a "high school musical" is pure cheddar to the studios that made it, for the most part, that movie cost more in "promotional fees" than it cost to make and pay the actors, and by the way, one actress in there is 24 now, its time for college musical "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Well, here's an update on that Russian blockbuster movie.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news...rica/14847 Jessica Simpson's Major Movie Star Goes Straight to DVD in America By Us Magazine October 30, 2008, 5:35 pm PDT Jessica Simpson's Major Movie Star may have opened No. 1 in Russia earlier this month - but it's not having as much success stateside. The flick will be renamed Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous, and released only on DVD in America, a source confirms to Usmagazine.com. The movie - about a ditzy movie star who enlists in the army to earn money to pay her bills - is slated to hit stores Feb. 3. The film will still premiere in Bulgaria next month, but, as Fox News points out, it will not have a release date in any country in which English is the primary language. Simpson's rep had no comment. Simpson's last movie, Blonde Ambition, hit video store shelves after showing in just eight Texas theaters, and earning about $1,300.  | |
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