December 16, 2008
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The Man will always prevail.
Did you or anyone in your impossibly creepy extended family catch a showing of the independently-produced animated feature Delgo over the past weekend? I didn't think so. According to several articles I've perused over the past few hours, Marc Adler and Jason Maurer's ambitious little fanasty flick is now considered to be one of the biggest flops in cinematic history, grossing an embarrassingly small $511,920 in a whopping 2,160 theaters. The film, which boasts an array of varying talent such as Chris Kattan, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Val Kilmer, Burt Reynolds, Eric Idle, and the late Anne Bancroft, was apparently a labor of love that, unfortunately, crashed and immediately burned when it came time to present itself to the world at large. Does this mean that Delgo is an artistic failure or atomic proportions? Since I've yet to see the film, I can't really say for sure. What it does mean, however, is that producing, distributing, and marketing your mainstream motion picture outside of the Hollywood machine is an increasingly difficult task to accomplish. More importantly, this depressing set of circumstances prompts us to take a peek at the other films which, for one reason or another, failed to make bank at the box office. Click right here to see what I'm rambling on about. Who knew P2 was such an astonishing failure? Everyone except me, apparently. Now I'm all ashamed and stuff. Thanks.
Don't worry Delgo -- I'll catch you on DVD.
2 Spasms:
P2 wasn't good, but it wasn't worse than Ghosts of Mars or many others on that list. I guess I'll have to check Delgo out too.
Box office success isn't a great indicator of quality sometimes, but most of the films I've seen off that list suck.
I'll be catching this one on January 31st, at the local Winter Kids Festival...
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