From Box Office Mojo:
“The movie earned an estimated $448,000 from 2,160 locations this weekend; that tops 2008’s Delgo ($511,920) for the worst debut ever for a movie in more than 2,000 theaters. It also had the second-worst per-theater average for a movie in nationwide release at just $207. To put that in perspective, if each location played Oogieloves five times a day on one screen at an average ticket price of $7, that would translate to fewer than two people per showing.”
It finished somewhere in the 20s in rank. The owners of those 2000 screens have got to be seriously unhappy. Even by Labor Day weekend standards this is horrible.
One thing I’m curious about: Apparently the film is “audience participation”. That is, the audience is supposed to stand up, clap, wave, etc. along with the movie at certain times.
If it’s just you and your kids in the theater, are you comfortable doing this? What if there are two families several rows apart? What is the embarrassment level here in being in a nearly empty theater and going thru the motions?