Eco-Disaster Movies Flood Theaters
For some reason, studios are producing a plethora of disaster movies based on Global Warming. And if Water World is any indication, such movies are going to be complete duds at the box office. Laughingly, producers are quoting the success of AlGore’s Inconvenient Truth at the box office for some sort of demand to make these films.
News Flash, Hollywood. That movie flopped. Why? Because hippies can’t afford movie tickets? Or because the American populace just aren’t into propaganda flicks?
From Cinematical here:
A movie is coming out called Otherworld, which features demons that are unleashed against humanity because of global warming. Now, producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis have announced their adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s German novel The Swarm, which features aliens that are unleashed against humanity because of global warming.
Unlike most alien invasion movies, the aliens of The Swarm come from the bottom of the ocean. And unlike the underwater dwellers of The Abyss, these aliens are ticked off by pollution rather than nuclear weapons. Besides having to compete with the similar-sounding Otherworld, The Swarm will also have to follow in the footsteps of the badly titled eco-disaster movie from M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening, which features nature unleashed against humanity because of global warming.
To provide some perspective, Little Man, starring the Wayans guys pretending to be a midget pulled in 58 Million bucks. Al Gore’s movie? Only 26 Million. This means that if Global warming were black, smoked a cigar and dressed in baby clothes, twice as many people would be interested.
And its nice to see that M Night Shyamalan is finally going to deep-six his movie making career by making an eco-nut movie. Once the backers realize that Shyamalan is a black hole for money, he may never get backing for another film.
M. Night Shyamalan “deep-sixed” his movie making career when he kept writing after the 6th sense.
I wouldn’t call Gore’s film a flop, 26 million isn’t bad for a movie with a $20 budget. Gore actually believes the garbage he spews though and he attacked a real fear of the American people. Thats how popular movies are made and as you can see, lots of copy cat films are run off by alternate directors so they can get a piece of the pie.This subject (false as it is) will make film directors and producers a lot of money over the next decade and this past year of actual weather is going to help their plight.
A movie that costs 10 bucks and makes 100 in the box office is not a successful film. And production, distribution and promotion costs were much more than 20 dollars. It may have been profitable, but the gross is still very low for a national release. And a 26 million dollar take is laughable in Hollywood, and by no means implies that there is a demand for similar films.
More people want to see Little Man 2 than anything having to deal with Global Warming.
And how funny is it that Hollywood may start treating global warming as the next “Creature from the Black Lagoon?”
South Park was right. It really is becoming ManBearPig.