ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stealth Stunk, Sony Struggles, Sinbad Squashed

Stealth Stunk, Sony Struggles, Sinbad Squashed

by Scott Weinberg | November 15, 2005

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John Horn of the LA Times delivers an interesting article on the sad state of affairs over at Sony Pictures. Seems that, aside from "Hitch," none of Sony's releases have found an overly receptive audience this year. (For those keeping score, Sony's 2005 releases include "Stealth," "xXx: State of the Union," "Lords of Dogtown," "Bewitched," and that "Deuce Bigalow" sequel.) Also, it seems that "Fun With Dick & Jane" is a merciless money-pit, and that alleged "Sinbad" movie starring Keanu Reeves and "Stealth" director Rob Cohen? Yeah, that project's dead now.

"Light romantic comedies are not supposed to be expensive, grueling endeavors, but the filming of "Fun With Dick and Jane" was anything but fun for Sony Pictures.

Months over schedule and millions over budget, the remake of the 1977 caper comedy had a revolving door of top-dollar screenwriters constantly reworking its script. A year after the Jim Carrey movie began filming, director Dean Parisot had to go back behind the cameras, reshooting some 30 pages of new dialogue. The movie missed its planned summer release and will now come out in December."

Also, "the studio pulled the plug on "The 8th Voyage of Sinbad," a planned expensive spectacle that was to pair "Matrix" star Keanu Reeves with director Cohen. While Cohen's "The Fast and the Furious" and the first "XXX" movie were global smashes, his $135-million "Stealth" was a summer flop, grossing just $32.1 million in domestic theaters and generating a Sony loss of almost $50 million."

Check out the full LA Times article right here.

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Celeb:	Dean Parisot
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ESotSM writes:
on Nov 15 2005 11:37 AM

Rob Cohen is slated to appear in my forum class about the Hollywood Industry this Friday at UCSB. I'm gonna have to ask him about these! Oooh, I'm getting goosebumps already.

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glenbo writes:
on Nov 15 2005 12:00 PM

It is not a surprise that Sony Pictures is doing horrible this year because the movies they have put out are absolutely terrible and embarassing. THEY ALL F*****G SUCK! This company deserves to suffer because of these decisions to actually make this shit and because the audience has to suffer with them. Every Hollywood company has its mishaps, but this is not acceptable. When you think about Sony's past in recent years, it seems that they just have one or two huge movies a year (either Spiderman or a derpy Adam Sandler flick) with not much else to offer. They need to stop putting out remakes and sequels and put out original and groundbreaking movies made by top filmmakers, but I strongly doubt it.

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lovelykeira writes:
on Nov 15 2005 01:15 PM

Yea I can't say I liked any of the movies that are mentioned above. But that sucks about the Sinbad movie, I thought that it sounded pretty good. And I really want to see Fun with Dick and Jane, it looks hilarious.

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Reel 2/Dialogue 2 writes:
on Nov 15 2005 01:30 PM

[b]Grabbing Thar's Hammer...[/b]
Poor Mr. Parisot. I hope he doesn't get the critical blame for [i]Dick and Jane[/i]. After [i]Galaxy Quest[/i], I'll continue to have faith in him.

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jeremyd4 writes:
on Nov 15 2005 06:14 PM

Finally it seems like the message is getting through.

make good movies = make lots of $$$$
make bad movies (remakes, sequels, corny CGI filled ones) = make lots of enemies

Can this really be happening? Are audiences getting smarter?!? This is a great day!

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lavatory love machine writes:
on Nov 15 2005 06:54 PM

rob cohen is an incredible bad director, he made an OK movie with fast/furious but let's not forget that before that he directed Daylight, a film so bad that put a stop for ever to Sly's acting career

xxx is just awful, the action scenes are standard but the rest is disgusting

haven't seen stealth, but it looks horrid and it never crossed my mind to see it

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blaxarbush writes:
on Nov 16 2005 06:19 AM

[b]Awsome[/b]
This is a kick ass game

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Sadistik writes:
on Nov 16 2005 07:03 AM

how much did Dick and Jane end up costing? Anyone?

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Callpacas writes:
on Nov 17 2005 02:10 AM

so, is sony films in the red or what? or are they stil profiting from dvd sales? Get them where it hurt the most.

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MC. writes:
on Nov 17 2005 02:52 AM

Stealth was terrible.

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dracus writes:
on Nov 17 2005 07:35 AM

In reply to this comment (#827766)
The audience may getting smarter and tired of remakes, but now that Spielberg has announced that he's going to remake his own Sugarland Express, remakes will probably incease.

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Flim Springfield writes:
on Nov 17 2005 04:19 PM

Sony should start cranking out two Spider-Man movies a year. That will haul in the profit. :)

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Dayyve writes:
on Nov 21 2005 05:25 PM

No surprise here with Sony, look at how trite all those movies are. The only one I've wanted to see is the worst reviewed of the bunch- Lords of Dogtown. And thats only because I used to skate. Besides, I heard they install a rootkit in your brain if you go watch one of their movies.

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