Steve Jobs film pulled from 2,000 cinemas
 

The new big-budget movie about Apple founder Steve Jobs has been pulled from more than 2,000 cinemas in the US after flopping at the box office.

Starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle, Steve Jobs had been expected to triumph at the box office and go on to clean up during awards season.

But it only made $7.3m on its first weekend of release, well below the projected forecast of $19m. In fact, it only did marginally better than Jobs, 2013's universally derided biopic starring Ashton Kutcher, which made $6.7m in its first weekend, despite costing $30 million to make.

It's proof that big-name celebrities, talented directors and huge budgets don't guarantee a hit. Check out some of Hollywood's biggest flops...

Steve Jobs film pulled from 2,000 cinemas: Hollywood's biggest flops

Maybe because there has been too many JOBS movies already? As I posted in another thread - I was like WTF, another jobs movie? It simply did not sparkle much interest for me.

Overkill and overhype

They might want to space out movies about the same subject a few years apart.

Apparently nobody gave a damn, including me.

He's not a good hero to have, unless you're completely brainwashed, the best heros are people like anti-vaxx doctors who risk their lives to get the word out e.g Wakefield, Tenpenny etc, give me a film about them any day!

that's because Apple people don't like to see their hero with flaws and the rest of the world doesn't care

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The man and the movie suffered the same problem..neither one was all that great....

I had interest in seeing this, because I Danny Boyle is one of my favorite directors -- but this is a "wait for video" type of movie for me. I'll save the theater for big spectacle movies...and I'll bet a lot of other people are like that too.

I really don't understand why everyone gets so excited over Steve Jobs. Before he died I had never heard of the guy! No wonder nobody is going to see this.

reminds me of the epassporte dude

Him and his movie are more dead than flash.

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There goes my weekend plans. I was super stoked about a Saturday double feature. I already bought my AMC movie passes online. So much for Gem and the Holograms, and Steve Jobs. :(

Michael Fassbender is not a big enough star that people would go see the film because he is in it and I don't see the decision to cast him in this role as a wise move.

Everyone must be running win 10

Yeah. How many Jobs movie do people need to see?

Doesn't help that it's not the sort of movie anyone needs to see on a 80 ft screen with Dolby Atmos sonics.

Apparently you live under a rock then.

maybe because they don't really care who that 4 eyed bald fart.
should instead get porn on theaters

i liked it thought it was cool

maybe because who gives a shit about Steve Jobs?
Maybe Hollywood has been blinded by the great movie The Social Network but come on, David Fincher is a genius director and Facebook is way more interesting than Apple anyway.

I watched the Kutcher version and by the end of the movie I hated jobs. I don't see how you could like the guy after watching it. He's a deadbeat dad that stabbed his friends in the back every chance he got.

They probably thought, didn't I just watch that movie a year or so ago?

i didnt even know there was a new one. I just thought it was weird everyone was talking about a movie that was made a few years ago.

The saddest part is that the best film about Jobs (well both jobs and Gates) was the made for TV movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley :2 cents:
http://www.entertainmentbuddha.com/b...con-Valley.jpg

one day HBO or another studio is going to make a mini series about Steve Wozniak, the true inventor of apple, and the
days in the homebrew computer club , it could be a winner

http://www.amongtech.com/wp-content/...b-1080x575.jpg

yep. the man was a scumbag. but the hollywood snobbery LOVES their pretty phones, thinks he is God, hence they make movie after movie after movie about their God, regardless that every single one of them bombs with the public.

:2 cents:

This I would watch. I'd also love to see a film about Bill Gates life. I guess they like to wait until they die first.

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I saw the film it was very good and he wasnt portrayed as god at all but as an egotistical scumbag who was driven for the most part.

no doubt he was brilliant in his own way, still there are too many people eager to make money on his name. I am actually glad the new movie fcked up:1orglaugh

Will be on RedBox in a month!

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I watched the other one despite the fact I never really cared about Apple at all. Always thought they are more of a fantastic marketing company than a tech company.

Why watch another one..

:2 cents: Bill Gates is the man - he contributes a TON to charity

this new movie flopped because people were so traumatized from watching ashton kutcher play jobs and they did not want to be reminded :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

That isn't what you think it is, it's money he would have had to pay in taxes, which instead goes towards sterilizing the Third World

Steve Jobs - One Last Thing. This PBS documentary came out in 2011 or so. It's on YouTube or pbs.org and was pretty good.

I heard recently, I forget where exactly but I think it was NPR, that their (his and his wife's) charitable work and donations will have long-lasting and far-reaching consequences for the betterment of mankind. Treating the illnesses and not the symptoms so to speak.

This is his game, he diverts money from taxes over to 'charity' which is in reality money put towards helping out his other investments, it's the same as what most of the super-rich do

Yes!!!!

I saw this one a couple of times - its really good.

I cannot think of anyone who would want to see this aside from adult king & mark prince.

flooped with 8 millions in earnings, ok

A lot of truth to that. It probably would have done better at a film festival setting

Yes The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a good one, at telling the real story of apple and MS early days... even if completely forgets Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, etc. so it is not a documentary.

The Commodore 64 has sold more than any other computer in history, 30 million units according to The Guinness book of Records (but historians say 20 milion max). C64 it was also the longest production run, from early 1982 through to 1992. The Commodore Amiga was first with real multitasking, cool stereo audio etc., but C= had seriously bad managers who, unlike Apple, trashed the initial tech+sales+brand advantage. Brand was so much trashed that no one could even sell C= or Amiga branded PC's later.

I can understand, it would have been confusing to the most viewers of the movie to add the Commodore and Atari guys, after all only MS and Apple survived, and a movie is not a documentary, it requires a clear story with not too many characters. For the real story one will check wikipedia and serious docs, or GFY.

About Steve Jobs and Apple: lots of young people thinks that Steve Jobs invented the cell phones, and totally ignores the existence of Motorola (or Nokia, which in fact, vanished). This is surely a marketing success. Check all the USA movies in the past 30 years, every single computer is an Apple one, except very rare Dell's. If aliens can intercept our movies, they will think that 99% of people use Apple on earth.

Not purchased by the masses?

I'm the only person I now who uses an Android phone. Everyone I know uses an iPhone...and everyone I see that I don't know who is using a phone is using an iPhone.

I bought my first Mac in 1984, and have owned at least one of almost every hardware they've made. But I didn't go see the movie - nor did I intend to - because while I enjoy the productivity of the Apple technology, I'm not interested in the resistance "from behind". The politics and mudslinging.

Just as I didn't get all that much out of The Social Network, as I couldn't figure out who and why the intended audience for the movie was. I write PHP scripts, I hosted my first BBS in 1986, I've been through dial-up modems, software that came and went, and hardware that cost months pay, that wen't obsolete in months... I don't want to re-live all of that through the eyes of the over-paid and under-worked winged monkeys that is SIlicon Valley.

Apple today is not Apple then. Watching the movie would only make me bad abut all of the Computers and systems they run on, are Camels Designed by Committee.

Yes, that was an excellent movie! :thumbsup

Lots of people buy iPhones but last I checked android still had slightly over 50% market share.