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Delgo - worst opening ever

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:24 pm 
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From HuffingtonPost.com:

Despite a cast of big-name voices, the cartoon movie Delgo made the record books over the weekend by being a historic failure.

Never heard of it? You probably aren't alone. Despite playing on well over 2,100 screens (by comparison Slumdog Millionaire is on 169), it made less than any other movie before it that has done the same.

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Delgo had by far the worst opening ever for a movie playing at over 2,000 theaters. The computer-animated fantasy scrounged up $511,920 at 2,160 sites, far less than the already record low $916,000 the movie's distributor estimated on Sunday.

It averaged $237 average per screen.

The movie features voices of Val Kilmer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Chris Kattan, Eric Idle, Burt Reynolds and even the late Anne Bancroft. Here's the trailer:

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:43 pm 
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Well,...it kind of looks like crap. :?

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:10 pm 
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Hmm, watched the preview... I haven't even heard of this movie, and I agree, with that kind of star power I would expect that I would have heard of it.

The second thing I thought was that the animation quality was sub-par... not as lifelike as Pixar or Dreamworks. They probably need time to come up to speed, but with as bad as this movie is doing I wonder whether they'll be able to make enough money to survive that long.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:53 pm 
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I smell Oscar.. :braindead:

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:18 pm 
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Might have had a chance... if it had been made 25 years ago.

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