Moonlightaholics

Personally, I think J-Lo's dress is looking a bit too heavily photoshopped. But then again, who's looking at her anyway when Alex is in the picture??

There's a woman in the picture? No, seriously, this cover shows what the movie is about 100 times better than the detached over-white poster. He's truly connecting to her, she's mischievious, I finally see that she's having baby shoes behind her back and he's having roses for her - I don't know if I would have seen all this the same if I didn't know the movie but it really builds on their character.

And who am I kidding - he looks fabulous!

Box office update (overseas numbers from beyond-beautiful.org):

$37.0m USA
$33.3m worldwide

$70.3m total

So far in 2010, 231 movies have been released in the US; The Back-Up Plan is 35th in terms of box office. Given the budget, genre, and some of the huge films released (Iron Man, Toy Story, etc. etc.) I really think that the film's performance has been unfairly talked down by commenters (who have repeatedly called it a flop). Obviously I have no idea about industry perceptions or CBS's expectations, but as a regular punter, I'm delighted. $70m bucks FFS!!!

Red

redwinter101 wrote:Box office update (overseas numbers from beyond-beautiful.org):

$37.0m USA
$33.3m worldwide

$70.3m total

So far in 2010, 231 movies have been released in the US; The Back-Up Plan is 35th in terms of box office. Given the budget, genre, and some of the huge films released (Iron Man, Toy Story, etc. etc.) I really think that the film's performance has been unfairly talked down by commenters (who have repeatedly called it a flop). Obviously I have no idea about industry perceptions or CBS's expectations, but as a regular punter, I'm delighted. $70m bucks FFS!!!

Red

Totally agree!!!

Note that some of the critics who initially dismissed it, did something of an about face saying it should be seen. Face it, most movie critics are men and most men just aren't into rom-coms.

As for CBS' expectations, I'd say they were pretty happy with the movie's performance after the disappointing showing of the first movie out of CBS Films 'Extraordinary Measures'. That film was shuffled to the post position out of the studio in place of BUP. With two recognizable Hollywood names (Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser) as leads, the film grossed $14.9 Million worldwide. BUP pulled in nearly that much ($12.2 Million) its opening weekend, a little below the $15 million the studio was looking for. Even so, not bad for a rom-com with limited name recognition. Sure, J-Lo was the name people recognized, but there are quite a few more now that know who Alex O'Loughlin is.

If they had used the poster on the DVD cover (at the top of this page), a few more would have known as well.

As the movie has now aired in all the major markets, I'm moving this into the "Past Projects" forum.

Red

But we are still awaiting the DVD...

Hopefully with some darned extras of some sort...

wpgrace wrote:But we are still awaiting the DVD...

Hopefully with some darned extras of some sort...

(And just because it's a past project doesn't mean we'll stop talking about it. )

Red

Cos I imagine we'll be a BIT chatty about the DVD...

wpgrace wrote: Cos I imagine we'll be a BIT chatty about the DVD...

This crowd? Oh, surely not!

Lucky

Change of plan, folks - this is going back into current projects.

Red

wpgrace wrote:But we are still awaiting the DVD...

Hopefully with some darned extras of some sort...

Check out the link below....there will be a few extras, including deleted scenes.

BUP DVD

grace! Proof once again of why you should be the CEO of Alex's people.


You simply mention something, and it happens! Yur that gooood!

All Hail Grace!

Well now we gotta hope that the extras include lots of Alex... cos I saw enuf of that little dog in the movie...