Pompeii is off to an appropriately disastrous start as it brought in $3.4 million on Friday. BoxOffice projects a $9.6 million weekend frame based off that figure. Pompeii's opening day is in line with the $3.2 million earned by The Legend of Hercules and only slightly ahead of I, Frankenstein's $2.87 million. Reviews are in the cellar at 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, while word of mouth is also suffering at 55 percent from the Flixster community. With a large $100+ million production budget, the pressure now rests almost entirely on Pompeii's overseas box office prospects.
Why does Paul WS Anderson still get movie to direct
They better hope international audiences are here for this mess.
I just don't get the market position for this film. I have a feeling that 300 sequel will also bomb as most recent Roman and Greek stories all flopped hard.
I heard about it on the radio and this movie critic was like this will be trashed by all the movie critics and compared it to the the resident evil movies.
I heard about it on the radio and this movie critic was like this will be trashed by all the movie critics and compared it to the the resident evil movies.
and compared it to the the resident evil movies.