With all the hubbub surrounding The Avengers‘ release last weekend, it was easy to forget that Miley Cyrus had a new movie come out, entitled LOL. And despite having well-known names like Demi Moore in it, the flick flopped. Big time. Check out the trailer and see if you can figure out why!
For some comparison, The Avengers raked in an average of $47,698 per theater this weekend, while LOL earned $46,500…nationwide. This means that it earned about $440 per theater, but FilmDrunk breaks the numbers down even further:
Divide that by $11, which is about your average ticket price, and it comes out to 40 people per theater who saw LOL this weekend. The closest theater to me showing LOL had five showings per day. Multiply that by three days, fifteen showings, and that’s 40 people into 15 screenings, meaning, if my math serves (and I fully acknowledge that it might not), that the average screening of LOL had LESS THAN THREE VIEWERS (2.667).
To be fair, I’m not sure anything could compete with The Avengers, especially a movie that Lionsgate gave up on and put on the back burner for two years. Here’s the trailer for LOL; watch it and decide if the flick ever had a fighting chance:
What do you think of the trailer? Did LOL deserve the turnout it received?
sunflower / 321 posts
Is it bad that I actually have a little renewed faith in humanity because this movie flopped? Just that trailer is… painful.
guest
Looks like it would be an OK movie…IF you like movies about cotton-candy high school relationship drama. GACK. I would only go to see this movie if somebody paid me $50 and I was allowed to get wasted while I watched it.
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LOL. I haven’t seen it so I can knock it, but with a huge movie like The Avengers opening the same weekend, it didn’t stand a chance! Poor planning for the release day, bubble-gum teenybopper movie…yeah, it’s doomed. This kind of movie is best watched at home when you’re flipping through all the channels because you’re bored and there is nothing else on.
daisy / 603 posts
I haven’t seen it, but I also haven’t heard or seen any advertising for it – so maybe that has something to do with it?
Also, with a title like “LOL” I’m not that surprised no one went to see it.
rose / 802 posts
Doesn’t look THAT terrible, but… Demi Moore fell for this?!
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I dont know, maybe cause it looks like every other chick flick about highschool?
Maybe people are actually getting sick of Miley Cyrus?
daisy / 543 posts
The Avengers is just kicking everyone’s ass this week. Blowing people’s minds, no one wants to see a little flick about a girl called LOL and her relationship struggles. I enjoy Miley, I’m a fan but I don’t care for her movies. I might watch it once it comes out on DVD or amazon instant video.
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i think it’s bad planning on their part…no way this could have compared to opening weekend of The Avengers.
magnolia / 1028 posts
Why do I feel like all she’s doing in the movie is looking confused with her mouth always open and making out with different guys?? Kinda looks like her real life… Pass on this piece of crap!
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Yes, that trailer is just awful.
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Haven’t seen it or heard of it til now. LOL. But no, I won’t be watching it. I never really liked her movies either.
sunflower / 332 posts
Haven’t heard of it, saw the trailer, thank G-d I haven’t heard of it!
LOL got swallowed whole by The Avengers movie!
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I think that if Avengers hadn’t come out, it might have had a chance. I wouldn’t pay $7 to go see it, but I’d eventually like to check it out.
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Seems like a topical teen movie. Angry girl, jerk ex-boyfriend, falls for some guy, become friends, fight to be in love, some mean girl comes in and tries to steal him away. Onlllyyy, he can not be stolen for he loves the main girl. They ‘fall in love’ and kiss. End of movie. 13-16 years olds go crazy over it and annoy others with their constant raves about it.
Only….seems like no one is raving about this movie…
daisy / 727 posts
It seems like they pretty much showed the whole movie in the trailer.
orchid / 194 posts
It looked pretty crappy, yeah. Definitely didn’t stand a chance against Avengers.
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must not have been playing anywhere near me because i’ve never even heard of it. i actually saw the avengers though lol
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Hulk Smash!
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what the hell is this avengers movie i’ve been hearing so much about??
lol
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@dead_poetic009xx@xanga - lol
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I feel like it’s one of those movies I’d order on Netflix after it came out when I was bored and needed a sappy movie to watch. I certainly wouldn’t see it in the theaters, esp. when around my town the tickets are 10 bucks each. Plus I really don’t like her acting in anything, so maybe if it were a dif. teen star that I actually liked (can’t even think of one), then I’d be more inclined to see it.
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part of it must be the lack of marketing for this movie. There were virtually no commercials or trailors before other movie showings. And there weren’t that many movie theatres showing this movie in the first place
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meh if I really wanted to watch it I’ll download it
I wouldnt waste $13 to see a Miley Cyrus movie
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@hot_metalhead@xanga - haha i agree.
avengers is not my kind of movie at all either though.
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miley cyrus sucks and does not even belong to the same sentence as the avengers! lol!
dahlia / 2942 posts
i would rather pay to watch avengers many many times than pay for this once
orchid / 177 posts
That seems like a straight-to-TV kind of movie, like
Rags
or
Let It Shine
. I haden’t even heard about it until this article.
I bet it would have gotten more views had it been on like, Lifetime or something.
guest
lmfao!!! i wouldnt watch that movie if you paid me. but poor Demi she deserves wayyy better than being in horrible movie like this with c-list actors and actresses like miley