The new Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins movie absolutely tanks big time at the box office, and Marvelâs Black Widow continues to do so as well.
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins actually comes in at #2 this weekend bringing in only $14 million, according to estimates, trailing behind M. Night Shyamalanâs Old with $15.75 million.
For its third weekend, Black Widow dropped another massive 58% and only brought in $10.86 million, less than the third weekend of the first Ant-Man movie.
Deadline is once again spinning things for Hollywood and now blames the âdeltaâ variant of the coronavirus, but the real problem is that these movies arenât any good.
I know where I live, people are outside in droves, going to beaches, boating, having cookouts, birthday parties, beer tents, carnivals, restaurants, etc. â and no one is getting sick.
Fans arenât going to theaters because they are âafraid,â they arenât going because the movies released suck and have no hype as no one is talking about these films and people could care less.
Case in point, Snake Eyes has a 43% Critics Score at Rotten Tomatoes and a lukewarm 73%, and from what I heard from the hardcore GI Joe fans, they hate it. Not good.
If you build it they will come
Regarding Black Widow, Marvel fans didnât show up at all, as I think the film was really unneeded and also came in too late in terms of the timeline of the MCU. Black Widow is already dead, so what was the point? Was it to bring in a replacement character for Natasha? Well, where was this character for the past ten years? Now, similar to how Captain Marvel retconned the MCU, Black Widow is another retcon (admittedly, I still have yet to see it)? Pass. The woke marketing and replacement of a fan-favorite villain certainly didnât help things as well.
So is streaming to blame? I donât think so.
Only around 2% or less of Disney Plus subscribers purchased Black Widow, so to blame the same-day release on streaming is a complete joke. Netflix also recently lost 500,000 subscribers, so what does that tell you?
What about piracy? I donât think that is much of a factor as well, as piracy has always been around. As the saying goes, âif you build it they will come,â well, Hollywood hasnât been building jack for the past few years, and now they are playing the blame game when all they have to do is look in the mirror.
