20th Century Fox Finds ‘Scavengers’ For Its ‘Diary Of A Wimpy Kid’ Director Thor Freudenthal

COMMENTS (9)

• Good for Chris Baldi. He is very funny and I really like his other script, what would kenny do.

  Comment by wga writer — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 2:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• The first wimpy kid movie was great fun. This script sounds like it could be great. Have fun!

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 2:43pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I don’t know what you saw but what I saw was even less than 53% fresh according to RottenTomatoes.com. Yes it was $15 mil in production and probably double that for marketing and that left ~$19 mil in profit. Okay but not great and the 2nd movie better charm the hell out of the audience because I personally thought it was a strong contender for a Razzie. 40% of audience reviews thought it was borderline to POS. Keep making a crap franchise and I smell a lawsuit from either the publisher or the author.

    Comment by P. Lee — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 4:00pm PST  Reply to this post

    • first, that’s not even close to how a studio calculates profit on a film. second, a 15mm movie that grosses 64mm domestic (and 11mm reported publicly – often there’s much more that sites like boxofficemojo don’t know about) is a piece of business that studios will jump at over and over again. third, it’s a kids’ movie, you don’t have to like it, but they sure like the dvd sales and nickelodeon buys.

      Comment by you sound moronic — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 5:26pm PST  Reply to this post

    • I like how you start off with “I don’t know what you saw, but what I saw…” as if you actually saw the movie yourself. But you didn’t. You quoted Rotten Tomatoes.

      Comment by B — Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 10:19am PST  Reply to this post

      • I was pleasantly surprised by the first Wimpy Kid movie. I never read the books so I went in with no expectations, but I found it a cut above most live-action family films.

        Comment by FR — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 10:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Great script, great package, and Fox needs a hit. Makes sense.

  Comment by 9021oh — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 4:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• How’d your kids like it? How much did they like Kinney.s books?

  You must have the cheese touch

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 5:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• Thor Freudenthal has the coolest name ever.

  Comment by Mike — Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 9:30am PST  Reply to this post