"12 Rounds" John Cena’s Next WWE Movie Bomb
WWE announced: “Detective Danny Baxter [John Cena] is about to have the worst day of his life when an evil crime lord kidnaps his girlfriend and forces him to go ’12 Rounds’ around the streets of New Orleans”.
Well sounds like another WWE movie bomb. Vince McMahon should just stick to what he does best- wrestling. Granted these movies make a lot in DVD sales, but a lot of money goes into movie budget, filming, salaries, and distribution. Making a Hollywood movie is not cheap or easy. Let’s take a look how previous WWE Films went:
See No Evil, starring Kane: $15,019,200 box office, $16,490,000 rentals
Rotten Tomatoes: 8% critics, 31% fans
The Marine, starring John Cena: $18,719,747 box office, $30,020,000 rentals
Rotten Tomatoes: 21% critics, 29% fans
The Condemned, starring Stone Cold Steve Austin: $7,327,940 box office, $22,300,000 rentals
Rotten Tomatoes: 15% critics, 47% fans
Looks pretty bad in terms of critical review, fans’ input, and box office. However, it seems pretty clear thanks to WWE’s DVD production, that they make all of their money with that. Depending on their movie budget and the other costs, it seems that if you consider DVDs, rentals, and T-shirts, WWE could actually be making a profit on these bombs.
Here was the trailer for “See No Evil”:
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that was one bad trailer.
Marine was the best movie of 2007 =)
that may be a bad trailer but it was an awesome film, no doubt
In relation to budget costs, I bet these films made money. So why not make more?
Make sure you purchase the Director’s cut. They forget to edit out the blowjob and monster facial that the blond girl takes from a dude who looks suspiciously like porn legend Peter North