Dan's last post posted an interesting question-- and not just the fact that Box Office Mojo is quite often full of it, editorially speaking.
According to Wikipedia, It's Pat (1994) is the lowest-grossing "Saturday Night Live" movie ever made, at $60,822 (on 33 screens). Whether or not that includes the four dollars I paid to rent the laserdisc is not known. Even adjusted for Zimbabwean sort of inflation, this can't be.. er, underdone.
Stuart Saves His Family (1995) is next with $912,000 in receipts. It's wasn't good enough, it wasn't smart enough, and darn it, people hated it. Good thing Al Franken found a job outside show biz to fall back on.
Then the BO jumps over tenfold to MacGruber (2010, $10,000,000), then The Ladies Man (2000, $13,616,610) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998, $14,051,384). The rest of the SNL stable of shaky cinematic spin-offs managed to be somewhat profitable-- Superstar (1999) did over $34 mil on a $14 mil budget.
Bear in mind MacGruber is just out of the gate: It may yet achieve a Coneheads (1993) level of mild success. Or just avoid being a complete failure.
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Ah but you see, They specified national release, and I think neither Pat nor Stuart went wide. Like all SNL comedies they went broad, but that's not the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. 33 screens for IT'S PAT ain't much, but it's decent saturation in all MAJOR American urban markets. I'll concede this one as a "platform release" and relieve of the ignominious lowest place.
ReplyDeleteThe IMDB does not list how many screens STUART was released on, but at nearly a mill of BO it probably went out truly wide and crashed spectacularly.