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Morbius Film Flops AGAIN As Clueless Execs Try To Take Advantage Of Trendy Meme
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8:57Now PlayingThe film “Morbius”, with Jared Leto playing the lead role and title character, is currently in its second running in theaters and to the shock of executives at Sony, the film flopped even worse than its original running. The studio apparently was hoping to ride the wave of the popular “it’s Morbin' time” meme, which to anyone who knows the internet and pop culture, is a horrible piece of data to base such a massive financial decision on. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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"Morbius is back in theaters — despite no one even asking for it — and its unpopularity is only making itself more obvious. The film made just $85,000 on Friday after making a return to over 1,000 theaters, bringing its domestic cumulative to $73.6 million (via Forbes).
Morbius was originally released on April 1st and wasn’t the most well-received. In The Verge’s review of the flick, our TV and film reporter, Charles Pulliam-Moore, says Morbius’ pacing, plot, and the performance of its lead actors feel “ill-conceived,” and “calls into question Sony’s grand project of building an entire cinematic universe on Spider-Man’s back.”
Sony likely re-released the movie with the hope that renewed interest in the “it’s morbin’ time” meme would somehow trigger a second larger wave of people who would want to sit through the Spider-Man spinoff. But it turns out that a meme’s popularity doesn’t directly correlate to genuine interest — who could’ve guessed?"
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