Mike Myers’ ‘Love Guru’ Bombs at Box Office
The Love Guru starring and written by actor Mike Myers has bombed at the box office. Many thought the movie would go head-to-head with Steve Carell in Get Smart this weekend for the coveted top spot. It is not going to even come close
The movie opened Friday night in 4th place in theaters. The Love Guru opened on 3,012 screens and made just $5,425,000 for an average of $1,800 per screen. By comparison Get Smart opened on 3,911 screens for $13,500,000 and an average of $$3,452 per screen according to Box Office Mojo.
Guru has been promoted and advertised non-stop starting with the contestants on American Idol going to see Mike Myers in character as the ‘Love Guru’ as well as Myers showing up as the guru during one of the last Idol shows this season.
Production costs for the film were over $64 million dollars.
The average critics score on Yahoo! movies is D+ and with Yahoo! users it is a C with over 850 ratings.
Film synopsis of The Love Guru:
Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams’ owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.
The movie has looked like a bust every time it has been shamelessly promoted over the past few months. Either Justin Timberlake in a Speedo scared away audiences or without it the movie wouldn’t have registered on the the box office richter scale this weekend.
Myers has created and brought us big hits like Wayne’s World and Austin Powers, but Mike comes up way short with The Love Guru.
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I wonder why he thought this movie would have been a good idea?! I wonder if it will even be worth downloading from the torrents later.
I saw this movie, And I would have to say it was the worst movie I have ever seen in theaters. Never again will I go and see a random movie without knowing something about it.
$65 million budget? How did this cost more to make than ‘The Matrix’?
@Kanye:
It cost $40 million to get Mike Myers’ head digitally attached to a 5 year old’s body, and another $20 mil to get JT on board. The rest was spent on the writers.
the day mike myers died. so sad..
He’s been doing interviews on the sports talk circuit, and he kept bringing up how hockey has become ingrained in his psyche, ever since he was a kid (growing up in Canada). I think his wacky fanatical canucklehead hockey love drowned out the other creative impulses in his head, which turned out to be the ones needed to make the movie actually good
(disclaimer - I have not seen it yet, but it does look pretty iffy from trailers, and my iffy sense seems to have nailed it so far)
Inflation, good sir
I’m so glad people lost money on that stupid piece of shit. Hollywood should not be rewarded for their consistent laziness.
Apparently his movies thus far have made $ 3 B. What’s $ 64 M?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0EplL_3mg