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Toy Story 3 Sets A Box Office Record For Pixar, Jonah Hex Fails Miserably!

The animated movie has nabbed Pixar it's biggest opening weekend ever while Jonah Hex couldnt even make the top five...

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By Josh Wilding - 6/20/2010
The third installment in the Toy Story franchise beat previous Pixar box office hits, Finding Nemo (which opened to $70.3 million in 2003) and The Incredibles (which opened to $70.5 million in 2004), to give the animation giant it's biggest ever opening weekend.

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According to Box Office Mojo, as reported via IGN, Toy Story 3 managed to rake in an estimated $109 million to take the No. 1 spot in North America. The movie made another $44.8 million overseas although it's yet to be released in the UK where it will open this time next month. Overall, the take of it's global opening weekend was $153.8 million.

However, the DC Comics western Jonah Hex which stars Josh Brolin and Megan Fox completely bombed not only with the critics but financially as well. The movie was unable to even reach the studio's expectations, making a paltry $5.1 million and only reaching the #8 spot. This of course makes the chances of a sequel extremely unlikely.

Iron Man 2 meanwhile fell to ninth place but continued to make money, and almost half as much as Jonah Hex despite the fact it's been out two months, with $2.7 million making a worldwide total of $604.8 million.



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Source: IGN Movies
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Ironbat95 - 6/20/2010, 1:11 PM
This i what happens when a film studio:

A) Starts promoting a movie about 6 weeks before it's release

B) Is released the same day as Toy Story 3

Good job Warner Bros.
StuckInPanels - 6/20/2010, 1:17 PM
YOU NEVER MESS CONTEND WITH PIXAR!!!! seriously, I'm so glad this film TANKED horribly...this probably makes it one of the worse CBM made....Punisher War Zone made more money and that was in the same place opening week as Hex....lets hope the animated short does the character some REAL justice

@ironbat...yeah it doesn't help that promos started 6 weeks prior...it helps to promote it months in advance...even that Mastadon said this film was nowhere near complete and should not have been released this week....YOU FAIL WB, your not gonna replicate TDK money with hex, Now if this film had an attached Teaser for Green lantern then maybe it would have done better...well ladies and gentlemen, START YOUR FAN CASTS NOW for the potential reboot
claybo4131 - 6/20/2010, 1:17 PM
@Ironbat

Took the words right out of my mouth

We know WB isnt as smart as the folks at Marvel really
InstigatorGIRL - 6/20/2010, 1:30 PM
@Ironbat My thoughts exactly. Thank you. =)
conformist21 - 6/20/2010, 1:34 PM
jonah hex 2 is coming out the same day as the Avengers movie.`
cfho83 - 6/20/2010, 1:43 PM
i knew jonah hex was gonna bomb, it looked stupid
TheUnknown - 6/20/2010, 1:45 PM
Jonah Hex.... reminds me of catwoman.
soperman - 6/20/2010, 1:50 PM
jonah hex isnt even getting released in my entire country
InTylerWeTrust - 6/20/2010, 1:51 PM
Well deserved on both accounts.
Magicfingers - 6/20/2010, 2:02 PM
A "Nice job" to the a$$ hats at Warner Bros.
I like westerns (The Quick and the Dead & anything with Clint Eastwood). I had some high hopes when I first learned that they were going to make a Hex film, but once I saw that Fox was going to be in it... all hope went *flush*. Then I read some of the plot details. WTF? Could they get any farther for the original source material?
@Ironbat95- You said it all. :) They really thought that they could go toe-to-toe with ANY Pixar film!? HA!
kyle - 6/20/2010, 2:30 PM
did josh really think that this movie was good? why on earth wud such a good actor think this film is good? toy story for the win. cant wait until inception
superdog - 6/20/2010, 2:32 PM
Hex would have bombed even if it didn't open against story. It was just a crappy movie and everyone knew it. My worry is that after the losers tanked and now Jonah hex that wb/dc will be scared off making comicbook movies, especially with lesser known characters.
gorgeousgeeks - 6/20/2010, 2:45 PM
I think if you put Megan Fox in a movie then you're desperate for something hot to make up for a lack of story because if you cast Megan, you're not looking for amazing acting.

I was thinking about seeing Hex. I guess I better see it on Monday when the tickets are 5 bucks since it probably won't last very long.
Ironbat95 - 6/20/2010, 2:45 PM
@supedog yeah that really sux when you think about it. DC has to take a page out of Marvels book and MAKE ALL THEIR FILMS BE IN ONE UNIVERSE. It isn't like Marvel where they don't have all the rights to put all their characters in one universe but at least they are succeeding with the characters they got. Warner Bros. has every DC character under their roof and they don't use them.
Ironbat95 - 6/20/2010, 2:45 PM
@supedog yeah that really sux when you think about it. DC has to take a page out of Marvels book and MAKE ALL THEIR FILMS BE IN ONE UNIVERSE. It isn't like Marvel where they don't have all the rights to put all their characters in one universe but at least they are succeeding with the characters they got. Warner Bros. has every DC character under their roof and they don't use them.
InstigatorGIRL - 6/20/2010, 2:51 PM
Its going to be on DVD by August just wait.
OptimusPrime114 - 6/20/2010, 2:51 PM
@teabag:..........MEGAN FOX!!!!!!
Kyos - 6/20/2010, 2:57 PM
Well, even if Hex was a [frick]ing great movie, opening against Pixar is nothing but insane.

Really seems like WB knew how crappy the movie is and tried to get it in and out the cinemas without anyone noticing...
LEEE777 - 6/20/2010, 2:59 PM
Great stuff @ JOSH! I luv TOY STORY! (lol) ; D

Well I'll deff buy a couple of copies for Christmas prezzies anyways, damn all the big blockbuster cbm's have gone this year already! : (


GATOR @ DVD in August seriously? I think i will then lol! : P
HeyICUP - 6/20/2010, 2:59 PM
failed...never read the comic but i get this feeling that they screwed the story.
guess this is the end for megan fox.


so...when is her porno career gonna start.
JoshWilding - 6/20/2010, 3:00 PM
Although I've seen niether of them, I have to agree with Ironbat95!

Personally, I cant wait until Toy Story 3 is released here next month and I'll pick up Jonah Hex on blu-ray in about six months time when it's on sale for £5.99! :P
jrocka - 6/20/2010, 3:11 PM
hahah im glad this movie suck on box office.. this what happen when u release a movie and the public goes hex who? when they could have made wonder woman or the flash instead...
InstigatorGIRL - 6/20/2010, 3:16 PM
@LEEE Oh I don't know if it really will or not but that's my theory because if it did that bad then it will be taken out of theaters a little faster than most and put on dvd.
BIGBMH - 6/20/2010, 3:24 PM
Anyone still wanna argue DC's movie making is better than Marvel's? Hahaha!
Here's how I see it. DC was making movies slowly. They had both Batman movies which are arguably the top 2 CBMs period. Other than that, not much, but nothing that bad. Marvel had quantity, but a lot of stuff in the bad-eh column. Let's say Ghost Rider is Marvel's worst. Now DC has pretty much released a Ghost Rider level movie by the sounds of it. The argument that DC has a higher standard of quality is pretty much gone. Meanwhile, Marvel movies are getting better in quality and they're building a cinematic universe.
I'm hoping things are going to get better for DC. Green Lantern seems great, Batman 3 is almost guaranteed amazing, and Superman is on the horizon. However I think everyone knows who is winning right now.
Animated movies are a completely different story though.
KeithM - 6/20/2010, 3:29 PM
Actually they were probably clever by putting it up against Toy Story 3.

They knew it would have tanked even if was the only film released that weekend.

Now they can tell the suits "ah it was up against Toy Story, we didn't stand a chance!"

But surely, not even the bean counters are dumb enough to fall for that are they?

0 for 2 so far DC... Green Lantern better be good.
DDD - 6/20/2010, 3:37 PM
Jonah Hex has a limited audience to begin with and
then they make a cartoon out of the plot and story,
of course it's gonna bomb...duuuuhhhh!!!!

It doesn't matter if it came out against a terrible
movie, no one's gonna go see crap like this! They
should have put more care into this. Hex ain't
supernatural, just the stuff around him.

Heck I might not even see this on blue ray, it looks
that bad just by the TV trailers. Damm, and I like
Jonah Hex...this ain't Jonah Hex! IDIOTS!!!
DasBoot - 6/20/2010, 3:42 PM
There's no way Josh Brolin really thinks this is a good movie. Aren't the actors required to promote whatever movie they're in as part of their contracts?
WakeUp - 6/20/2010, 3:42 PM
The movie was only an 80min run time, the studio knew nobody would stay for anther 10 mins....unless they showed Megan fox's boobs at the end of the credits...I'd sit around for that
ViperXX79 - 6/20/2010, 3:55 PM
A major problem with Josh Brolin is that he automatically turns about 50% of the country off because he opens his mouth. I'd love to see a Johah Hex movie but I'll never watch this because Brolin is in it.
TANKGIRL - 6/20/2010, 4:26 PM
the best movie ever i mean toy story
RorMachine - 6/20/2010, 4:44 PM
haha, yeah Ironbat pretty much summed it up. It also doesn't help to edit your movie down to just over a frakking hour! But I still haven't seen it so can't pass judgement yet.
superdog - 6/20/2010, 5:10 PM
Ror@ I've seen it and trust me you can pass judgement and you'll be fine. It's trash.
RoadDogXXIV - 6/20/2010, 5:27 PM
Megan Fox is not a bad actress. She has a terrible taste in picking scripts ("Passion Play", I have a feeling, may change all that). Hell, Nicolas Cage - for a period of time until "Bad Lieutenant" - starred in a slew of god-awful pieces of shit, and he was an ACADEMY AWARD WINNER!
Ven0m - 6/20/2010, 5:32 PM
Toy Story 3 [frick]ing rocks. I still want to see Hex and judge for myself.
StuckInPanels - 6/20/2010, 6:08 PM
@RoadDog....Nic Cage is a BANKABLE name, he makes movies that do reasonably well despite reviews, he makes studios money, whereas Megan Fox is a horrible actress with horrible choices...she has lost everything now, no one will add her to their movies...she lost the Transformers, Jonah Hex, and also that god awful Jennifer's Body....no matter what she does next will not make up for all the bad she has done to these films.

Now not to give ALL blame to her, but to me Brolin at this point is not the best person to be a LEAD actor, now he was amazing in No Country but his recent roles have as mostly a support character or a secondary main character, he was rarely in the movie but when he was he was awesome. So his second outing as a lead was a mistake...He didn't care about this movie during the NBA finals, he wanted to know the score and be at the game....WOW, talk about loving your film there Brolin boy.
Jackwagon - 6/20/2010, 6:09 PM
Warner Brothers should change their name to Wanna Be's. They'll never get it because it's run by a bunch of execs who have never read anything but the Wallstreet Journal. I'm surprised that they had the success that they did with Batman. They need to hire someone from DC who can consult with writers on source material. Jonah Hex could have been an epic western with numerous sequels if they really cared. First and foremost, the cast was all wrong. Hugh Jackman should have been cast as Jonah (maybe their was a contractual problem with Marvel, I don't know, but Josh Brolin sucks.) Period. Second, the special effects. Why couldn't they have used the same team to make up the scars on Jonah's face that they used for Harvey Two Face in TDK? Another problem with westerns is they can't be done in a studio set. Nolan would have been good for this because he stays away from CGI for the most part. Third, the writing. This is where a Feige-like consultant comes in. Someone who can choose good storytellers who only tweak the source material. Not come up with some outlandish Wild Wild West 30 story giant mechanical spider?! It's just a shame. I envisioned another Josey Wales like tale and now it's gonna take about ten years before anyones gonna even mention a Jonah reboot and this could have been a very good franchise. "Friends and Unity" to the suits at the WB. My hope for a good Green Lantern movie just dropped several notches.
jacksback - 6/20/2010, 6:17 PM
@ IG, it should have went straight to DVD, as bad as it turned out...those damn idiots...
Joe6Pack74 - 6/20/2010, 7:02 PM
I wasted $10 buck on Jonah Hex and it was just bad. I so wanted it to be good as I like the Comics. Should have been locked in the WB vault never to be seen by anyone but people who buy it bootleg.
luv1138 - 6/20/2010, 7:10 PM
Toy Story 3 ? You cannot compete with that!
mindform - 6/20/2010, 7:23 PM
One looked awful from the very beginning and well, the other is Toy Story 3 so really, is anyone surprised?
TChallaTchaka - 6/20/2010, 7:57 PM
You've Just been Hexed! Maybe this movie was trying to be ironic by opening up the same weekend as Toy Story 3.. Come on now, Barbi and Ken had better chemistry and parts than Josh and Megan..
Gstatus360 - 6/20/2010, 7:58 PM
Its said to say it but we will never get the Jonah Hex movie we imagined for two reasons.One is because only one man and one man alone could ever do the character justice. Clint"MUTHAFUKIN"Eastwood!!! But he's old as hell now so thats out. And two(which is so obvious anyone with a brain could have pointed this out)the movie was dog shit!!! John Malcovich was great but the movie was dog shit. I knew its was gonna be bad just from the trailer but I said naw i'll give it a shot lol.
Maybe this EPIC FAIL will be what WB needs in order to get their act together with any movie thats not batman cuz marvel is killin it right now
TChallaTchaka - 6/20/2010, 8:17 PM
Who the hell knows about Jonah Hex? [Generally Speaking] Doing C list characters is straight out LUDICROUS its just like DC doing a moving on Vigilante or Question. Or Marvel making a movie about Cloak and Dagger... "but you don't have to take my word for it" Hopefully Green Lantern does not suffer the same fate.. because as much as I try to believe in DC they might have to stick to making cartoon movies.. I have four words for DC comics

As Bruce Campbell once said " Cartoons, their great! They're always on time and they never ask for a raise."

ClaireLannister2016 - 6/20/2010, 9:46 PM
The people who work at Pixar are :)
48and2 - 6/21/2010, 1:00 AM
Actually you can't really say "Megan Fox picked a bad script" with Hex. You've got Brolin, Malkovich, Fessbender (sp?), Arnette, and Aidan Quinn - the script couldn't have been that bad.

I agree the character had massive movie potential - as I said over and over in my review, they had 80+ years of westerns to pull material from - should have focused on that, introduce the character in a 3:10 style epic, save the rest for later.

My theory is: It's the release date pressure, and good ole production incompetence that's ruining some of these films. They handed it off to an experienced AD to give him a shot at doing his own thing, and he dropped the ball/s (lol). Must have been alot of studio pressure, and some situation similar to what happened with X3. There is good footage and some good ideas there; had it been organized better.

I strongly believe Hex could've been made into an at least average movie by pulling out the ole "if all else fails use narration trick" to make things cohesive, and watchable. Hell I could've fixed the movie with another month of time.

Yes I have too much time on my hands so I do things like listen to commentaries (actually thinking about getting involved in the industry when I go back to California). But this problem with deadlines happens on many movies - Transformers 2 suffered dramatically from it.

In certain situations, I believe the studios/execs need to become more flexible on release dates. Yes movies are amazingly expensive to make, but it's more expensive to waste that money than spend a little bit more and make something worth making, and that people will enjoy; serve to bolster interest, and eventually profit. You guys know all this, it's just unbelievable how shit like this happens...

Anyway, I'm surprised Toy Story 3 didn't do more actually.
Kyos - 6/21/2010, 4:01 AM
@Token A Question movie would rock... if done right...
Shaman - 6/21/2010, 5:25 AM
Igirl- "Its going to be on DVD by August just wait."

It'll hit the bargin bins by october too. And not the 2 for 20$ ones. The 2 for 10$!

Lucky Luke is a better film in any possible way than this. And it's a freakin' french film!!! Hope you're proud of yourselves, WB. You made the french better than you.
Shaman - 6/21/2010, 6:19 AM
VirtualVD- I agree with everything you just said. EVERYTHING from westerns to blue beetle to ant-man. Ironman might not have been an "A" player per say when compared to Spidey & Cap but at least there was "something" to him for the whole audience. Something different than any other "B" or "C" hero that the audience of today could relate to. What does ant-man, Jonah Hex or Blue Beetle have? Not much, sadly. They have had "supporting" written all over them from the beginning, except Hex which was in a whole world of his own, and one that really doesn't do it for the majority of the movie going audience at that. Megan Fox is a nail in any non pornographic coffin IMO.
comicb00kguy - 6/21/2010, 6:33 AM
Jonah Hex could have been greatness if it had been played closer to a Clint Eastwood-style western, but maybe a little darker (about the ONLY time you will EVER hear me say that!), which would be much closer to the character as he appears in the comics. I would have also not gone the route of ridiculous things like the horse-mounted Gatlin guns that just screamed out "this isn't just bad, it's SciFi bad!". I mean, the first time I saw the ad for Hex, I was looking for the giant mechanical spider.

skullboy - 6/21/2010, 6:52 AM
Sigh, Warner Bros. screws DC again. Time for a divorce already.
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