Johnny Depp Flops At Box Office AGAIN With Transcendence
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Warner's Transcendence bombed this weekend with an estimated fourth place start of just $11.15 million. The pricey (100 million + budgeted) sci-fi film starring Johnny Depp had been widely expected to get off to a lackluster start this weekend, but the film was ultimately unable to live up to its relatively modest expectations for a film of its cost. Clearly, the film's largely negative critical reviews didn't help matters this weekend. The opening weekend performance of Transcendence was quite similar to the $11.59 million launch of Grindhouse over Easter weekend back in 2007.
Transcendence opened with $4.85 million on Friday (with an alarmingly high $850,000 of that total coming from Thursday night shows), fell a harsh 21 percent on Saturday to take in $3.82 million and is estimated to slide 35 percent on Sunday to gross $2.49 million. The film's estimated opening weekend to Friday ratio of 2.30 to 1 is soft for a film aimed at adult audiences over Easter weekend. The audience breakdown for the film skewed towards male moviegoers (56 percent) and moviegoers over the age of 25 (56 percent). Transcendence looks to fade away from theaters quickly, especially with it having received a disappointing C+ rating on CinemaScore.
The goodwill from the Pirates series has been dwindling down. He's in a weird situation where his weird roles aren't appealing anymore, yet when he plays a "normal" person it's not appealing I hope he's able to deliver something new sometime in the near future.
