Mars Doesn't Really Need Your Moms After All

[daddytodd]

So, I guess "Mars Needs Moms" is now one of the biggest bombs in Hollywood history. $175 million budget, $6.8 million opening weekend.

I hated this movie based on teaser trailers a year ago -- and I was predisposed to love it, seeing how it's based on a book by Berke Breathed, of "Bloom County" fame.

However, I'm pretty sure Breathed's book isn't wall-to-wall fart jokes, which was what the trailer was selling.

The best fallout is the shuttering or Bob Zemeckis's motion-capture studio, ImageMovers Digital. Or, rather that, with, the closing of Zemeckis's studio, his motion-capture remake of "Yellow Submarine" has also been killed.

There IS a god!

Comments

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that any such abomination was in the works, but YES that's excellent "collateral damage"!

[putzmeisterbear.livejournal.com]

Oh thank goodness. That would be like doing a remake of... Well, there isn't really anything to compare to Yellow Submarine. And it should stay that way.

[blachubear.livejournal.com]

I'm glad "Yellow Submarine" isn't going to be murder by the hands of Zemeckis. Thanks for the info Daddy.

[tbrough.livejournal.com]

Wow, glad that Submarine has been tanked for now. I'm just nervous someone else will take it up.