Justin Bieber concert film bombs in debut

[Hum]

The performer's second concert documentary Believe is turning in a dismal performance at the Christmas box office, where it has earned only $3.1 million in its first three days. On Friday, it fell below $1 million to $790,000 for a 14th place finish.

Believe is now only expected to take in $4.5 million over the course of its five-day debut (Wednesday through Sunday), including a meek weekend haul of $2.2 million. Granted, the movie is said to have cost only $5 million to make, but Believe will do only a fraction of the business that Bieber's Never Say Never enjoyed in February 2011.

 

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[Nick H. Supervisor]

But...what about all of his beliebers? Don't tell me people are finally starting to ignore this guy?

And how can a concert documentary cost $5 million? The cost of putting together a concert, perhaps, but a few guys with cameras filming the behind-the-scenes parts? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what a concert documentary is, though.

[Hum]

And how can a concert documentary cost $5 million?

 

 

Cost of making multiple film prints and distribution ... ?

 

No wonder JB is retiring. :p

[cork1958]

Man!

 

Just his looks want to make me :x

[McKay]

But...what about all of his beliebers? Don't tell me people are finally starting to ignore this guy?

And how can a concert documentary cost $5 million? The cost of putting together a concert, perhaps, but a few guys with cameras filming the behind-the-scenes parts? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what a concert documentary is, though.

 

I guess fans can only be so loyal after he repeatedly turned up hours late for several concerts, and leaned over a railing a spat on them.

[Shiranui]

Maybe it's because his fans are from the download generation.

[Hum]

^ And maybe because his 'songs' are lame. :laugh:

[D. S. Veteran]

It debuted on Christmas day. Most kids must have been at home, celebrating the holidays. I'd give it another week before sticking a fork in it.

[Farchord]

I'm Canadian, and I say, Kill the kid with fire...

[Jim K Global Moderator]

It debuted on Christmas day. Most kids must have been at home, celebrating the holidays. I'd give it another week before sticking a fork in it.

 

Well, typically Thanksgiving is the busiest day for theaters and Christmas is the second.

[firey]

It debuted on Christmas day. Most kids must have been at home, celebrating the holidays. I'd give it another week before sticking a fork in it.

 

Uhm.. I drove past the movie theater on Christmas.. it was packed.

[Dick Montage]

Who the hell goes to the cinema on Christmas day?  Weird.

 

Either way, 2013 was the beginning of the end for young Bieber.  He has had 101 opportunities to say "OK, I've acted like a jerk, I'm a kid growing up in the public eye and I humbly apologise" (as his management agency should have had him do 100% in my opinion).  But he has carried on literally spitting on his fans, abusing the general public, acting like the biggest jerk in the industry (I'm sorry Kanye, I'mma let you finish but Bieber was the bigger jerk this year).

 

IF he and his brand want any kind of longevity, he needs to disappear for say 2 years, come back not reinvented but just more likeable and more genuine.  But that won't happen, the industry is all about short term profit.  I also think a lot of his fans have switched over to the (genuinely less talented) One Direction.

[firey]

Who the hell goes to the cinema on Christmas day?  Weird.

 

Nothing else is really open on Christmas day except a few restaurants. Plus lots of people get movie passes/gift cards for Christmas.  

[Dick Montage]

Yes, which they could use anytime.  Don't most people spend it with their friends/family?  Maybe it's just me, but it just seems a really odd thing to do.  To each their own :)

[firey]

Yes, which they could use anytime.  Don't most people spend it with their friends/family?  Maybe it's just me, but it just seems a really odd thing to do.  To each their own :)

 

They go to the movies with the friends/family.  It's not like they all go alone haha.

[Dick Montage]

Aaaaaaah, I thought like just single people alone in the cinema.  It kinda made me feel sad...

[Ryster]

But still, sitting in a dark room staring at a screen for 2 hours on Christmas day does seem a little odd to me... maybe it's just me being a Brit but I like being at home with my family on Christmas day, eating turkey, then relaxing in the afternoon in the lounge with my family playing a game or two, perhaps watching some comedy on TV, while having a drink or two, then having a nice cold meat salad for tea (dinner) pulling crackers and wearing those paper hats, getting those lame cracker gifts, and reading those so bad they're good "jokes"  ;-)

[DocM]

Can't we just skip all the ego trippimg and go straight to his OD - please?

Better yet - someon should throw a synthetic weed party and invite him, Kanye, Kim, Lindsay, Miley and about 10 others so they can cannibalize each other.