Just how badly has “Battle for Terra” performed at the box office in two scant weeks?
The sci-fi film, which I dissected last week at PajamasMedia.com, scored less than $1 million in its opening weekend on a fairly robust 1162 screens.
Pretty ugly.
But this weekend it got worse.
The film fell a jaw-dropping 83 percent over the weekend. Typically, blockbuster movies fall 50 percent or more from their first to second weekends, mostly because the bulk of movie goers intending to see the film in question already did so.
Case in point: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” fell 68 percent from its opening weekend. Even that number is pretty high for a blockbuster.
But 83 percent? Yikes.
Clearly, audiences are wary of CGI animations that don’t hail from either Pixar or DreamWorks. But frankly “Battle for Terra” isn’t that bad. The animation is a few notches below “state of the art,” and the story occasionally clicks when it isn’t mired in ideology.
Just don’t expect a “Battle for Terra 2″ any time soon.
(Photo: The 3-D animated film “Battle for Terra” suffered heavy casualities at the box office.)
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I don’t know, Fox/Blue Sky seems to do pretty well at the box office (although I’m starting to wonder if most people don’t think their movies are from DreamWorks!).
If the audience was turned off by the storyline and ideology, is that bad news for Avatar? Then again, I remember how everybody was saying that movies about the Titanic always flop…
Never bet against Cameron … but the stakes are awfully high for him. It’s the first real movie that’s also 3-D. It could impact the next wave of films.