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Paramount Pictures just announced the JUSTIN BIEBER 3D MOVIE is scheduled for wide release on February 11, 2011, because it’s Valentine’s Day weekend. (I can’t report this straight, people.) Step Up 3D helmer Jon Chu is directing the 3D feature film about the teen pop idol and Magical Elves partners Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz are producing with Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun and Island Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid. Chu’s Step Up 3D bombed at the box office this summer, while the Magical Elves won an Emmy for Top Chef. With a release date less than 6 months away, Bieber’s summer concert in Nashville was filmed for behind the scenes footage. Cameras also followed him to the August 31 performance in Madison Square Garden, which was filmed using 3D cameras. The film’s focus is on Bieber’s rags to riches bio, and how his trajectory was fueled by the web.
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$41 million domestic doesn’t seem like a bomb to me- not successful but also not a bomb – and with a worldwide tally of $135 million, Summit will do fine on Step Up 3D
Step Up 3D has made over 130 million worldwide. Hardly a bomb considering to cost next to nothing to make.
C’mon, Nikki. STEP UP 3-D has done $137MM in worldwide b.o. so far (according to Box Office Mojo). Not too shabby for a movie that only cost $30MM to produce. No need to bash Jon M Chu!
What are you people talking about? Split $137M in half (the distributor’s take) = $68M. Now subtract your production cost of $30M = $38M. At least $10M into P&A = $28M.
Hopefully there are no other costs that would usurp the remaining pittance of the film’s $28M profit. This movie seems like a loser at this point. Unless it cleans up on DVD…
Won’t Bieber just be a wisp of an already vapid memory when this thing comes out?
Does anyone who really matters care about this? Ok, if you are 11….maybe.
Years ago, a film that cost $20 mill to make and grossed twice that at the box office (domestic) would be considered a success. Many middle budget films and genre films would find audiences that way, and studios could anticipate doubling that B.O. in terms of DVD and TV rights, and viola, you have a very profitable revenue stream. But there lies the problem we face today. Any film that doesn’t cross the $100 mill bar at minimum is deemed a failure. While you may be accurate to say SU-3D didn’t perform as well domestic as hoped, it was not a bomb, and you may not realize it, but by categorizing it that way, you’re actually doing work for the studios, the very studios you like to stand up to and call them out on. You do some great work for us all, Nikki, keeping us informed, but please be a touch more careful in aiding the current studio mentality.
Gotta love out of context quotes: “Jon Chu is directing the 3D feature film about the teen pop idol and Magical Elves”
“JUSTIN BIEBER 3D MOVIE” finally something of substance from Hollywood, I hope they don’t mess this one up as I have really high hopes for this one.
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