{"id":1880,"date":"2015-10-24T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2015-10-24T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:49:07","slug":"pan-doesnt-fly-in-weekend-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/pan-doesnt-fly-in-weekend-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPan\u201d doesn\u2019t fly in weekend box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton\r\nFreelancer <\/pre>\n<p>Warner Brother\u2019s (WB) \u201cPan\u201d was a huge disappointment at the box office opening weekend. The film cost more than $250 million to make and market, but took home about $40.5 million worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>This just adds to WB\u2019s list of recent box office disappointments with films like \u201cJupiter Ascending\u201d and \u201cEntourage\u201d also doing poorly. Even with the upcoming Chinese release on Oct. 22, WB is planning on losing at least $100 million on the film. This makes \u201cSan Andreas\u201d WB\u2019s only box office success of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was \u201cPan\u201d a box office disappointment, it was also ripped apart by critics.<br \/>\nMichael Philips, the Tribune Publishing critic, called the film, \u201cThe official worst-ever Peter Pan adaption of any sort,\u201d and Peter Bradshaw in a review for The Guardian said, \u201cJoe Wright\u2019s fantastically dull origin-myth reboot of the Peter Pan story resembles nothing so much as a John Lewis Christmas TV ad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director Joe Wright faced some controversy earlier this year for casting Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily. Since the character is supposed to be a Native American, a lot of people were upset about the apparent white washing of the role.<\/p>\n<p>The Harry Potter series was hugely successful for WB as it appealed to younger audiences and adults alike, so the studio wanted to fill that gap with retold classic stories. The studio was already developing a sequel to \u201cPan\u201d and has a re-imagined \u201cTarzan\u201d coming next summer.<\/p>\n<p>WB needs a success with a huge year coming up in 2016, featuring \u201cBatman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice\u201d, and \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d hoping to kick off a large DC Cinematic Universe.<br \/>\nWith the modern superhero movie craze, those films are projected to do very well for the studio. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the hotly anticipated Harry Potter Spin-off \u201cFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\u201d coming out 2016 that looks extremely promising, but now the pressure is really on for WB with their upcoming lineup of films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Brother\u2019s (WB) \u201cPan\u201d was a huge disappointment at the box office opening weekend. The film cost more than $250 million to make and market, but took home about $40.5 million worldwide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}