No Reservations - is that really the title?
Out this weekend in 2,425 screens is the Catherine Zeta Jones and Aaron Eckhart starrer NO RESERVATIONS based on the German film MOSTLY MARTHA.
The film has been getting luke-warm and/or positive reviews (currently at 40% on the Tomato-Meter) but what strikes me about this film is how did Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow agree to finance a film about cooking and come up with a title like that?
Or how did a big budget movie about cooking with hardly any plot get made in today’s brutal film market?
Or how did they decide that this would be the ultimate summer counter-programming?
Or whether it was worth it to risk it all on proven box-office poision Aaron Eckhart?
Here is a partial list of some of Eckhart’s box office flops:
Nurse Betty - 2000 - $35 million budget - $25 million Box Office
The Pledge - 2001 - $35 million budget - $19.7 million Box Office
The Core - 2003 - $60 million budget - $31 million Box Office
The Missing 2003 - budget unknown - $27 million Box Office
Suspect Zero - 2004 - $27 million budget - $8.7 million Box Office
Black Dahlia - 2006 - $50 million budget - $22.5 million Box Office
As you can see the best the guy can do is hit a single, he hasn’t hit it out of the park yet despite great acting chops, rugged good looks and two great lauded performances as a “dick” in both THANK YOU FOR SMOKING and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.
Let’s see if the Eckhart-Curse is lifted this weekend….
Tags: Catherine Zeta Jones, Aaron Eckhart, No Reservations, Mostly Martha, remake
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