Alvin & the Chipmunks:The Road Chip

Expecting to make back roughly 15% of it's budget on opening weekend? Well, with the competition, it's kinda expected. Here's to not jinxing it.

As of December 18th, it made back $4.1 Million.

edited 19th Dec '15 3:02:49 PM by TheFarmboy

One critic said the person who saw Road chip over star wars are downright stupid. I don't blame the critic for saying that.

DESTROYED.

Well, to be fair, they're were kinda hoping The Force Awakens averted What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?. That movie is kinda dark for this movie's target audience.

True, but then again if you ask a child if they would want to see Star Wars or Chipmunks, they would most likely pick the former. However there would be parents hesitant to take their child to see a PG-13 movie if they're like 5 or 6 years old, where a kid over 10 wouldn't be too bad.

Opening weekend Sales now is 14.4 Million, which was the lowest compared to it's earlier installments. Yeah, a movie made to be yet another cash-in is insignificant next to the power of The Mouse.

edited 20th Dec '15 2:35:16 PM by TheFarmboy

The Chipmunks at least got new antagonists. That had to count for something, right?

Film's still going to make its money back. I was right about that when I spoke about Maleficent, which was equally hated around these parts, and I'm right about this one.

It may not be as big a hit as the predecessing films, but that's due to timing issues.

Yeah, I had that feeling too. It doesn't matter what people say, as long as it makes back it's budget, there will be more...

Just the movie's entry for Box Office Bomb, isn't it a bit too early for that? Especially since now that Box Office Mojo is now counting Foreign income.

How much did they spend on advertising?

Chances are most of the budgeting went to marketing. I don't think this has been released overseas has it? Unless if it hasn't, those numbers added up to the American viewings will show if this "bombed" or not

The Black Nerd actually made a good point during his review of the film. The character designs for the chipmunks look less realistic and more appealing compared to the other films.

It hasn't been released over here yet, for starters. Which is odd since you'd think they'd want to time it for Christmas rather than the January slump. They even waited to premiere The Peanuts Movie this Christmas weekend.

I'm wondering on what business executives think how much money films need to make in order to be a financial success. Because they seem to think that making past it's budget isn't enough. For it to make money, or to be a hit, it has to go twice, or in an extreme case maybe 3-5 times it's normal budget. So even if this movie would pass it's budget of 90 million dollars, it wouldn't be enough, because they wanted more than 180 million, and they'd consider it a failure.

Yeah, it only made about 42 Million in it's first week, and it only limped to 64 million in two weeks. So even if barely made it's budget back, it wouldn't be enough to cover marketing costs.

Wow, with this disaster and Fantastic Four (2015), someone at fox is fucking up.

edited 3rd Jan '16 9:51:05 AM by hamza678

Well with this it's just that everyone is tired of the Chipmunks. With Fantastic Four it was "the movie is terrible and nothing interesting happens plus the director didn't care."

People here are overreacting, or just want it to fail that badly, lol.

It already made its budget worldwide, and it still hasn't opened in other multiple countries. I'm pretty sure it's going to get 100,000,000+ domestically when it ends its run. There's obviously going to be a profit, no "destruction" as someone so eloquently placed it. I mean, I forgot, but one of the movies made $23,000,000 or so on opening weekend? The distance isn't that far off. I think box office predicted $250k, we'll see.

Damn overseas markets.

The films always did better overseas in the first place.

Honestly, I'm not sure if others are measuring how it did against Star Wars instead of how these films usually do within themselves and others of its kind? Cause that'll be laughable. People's hate on some children's movie is so pathetic and ridiculous and weird. I hope they aren't adults, cause humanity is worrisome enough as is.

It's going to make a profit, but I hope they don't keep dragging it for a quick buck and make another one either (cause that's what they are doing). I'm not sure what the contract is, but these films would have been fine as a trinity. Road Chip should have been the third actually to erase the worst travesty out of the four.

I refer the honorable tropers to the point I made in post 57.

People's hate on some children's movie is so pathetic and ridiculous and weird. I hope they aren't adults, cause humanity is worrisome enough as is.

There always exists the possibility adults don't want children to be exposed to crap.

And please don't give me the 'then don't let your children watch it' excuse, because I mean children in general.

To reiterate my point, even if the movie made it through the hundred million mark, it's still be the lowest grossing chipmunk movie, and Fox wouldn't say it was a hit, because it didn't make as much as the other chipmunk movies. Let's look at Disney's Winnie the Pooh movie in 2011. It may have passed it's budget of 30 million dollars, but it only made 44 million. So to Disney, it wasn't a hit. I'm not sure how much money can a movie make to be considered "a hit," but I'm speculating.

@Napoleon De Cheese5th The adults aren't the children, so they really have no business to control what their children want to see or really care about the "adult" opinion on it as long as it's okay to watch for them (as in, within the rating). And for something they think it's crap, they surely devote their time, out of their day, to hate on a kid's movie in the internet. I'm sorry not sorry, but you can't defend people embarrassing themselves and acting like 6 year olds, lmao. So.

And I'm not sorry if you may be one of them.

edited 12th Jan '16 4:46:15 PM by CroixJean

Any post claiming to defend 'maturity' while not only making apologies for an Alvin movie and resorting to a thinly veiled personal attack but using the word 'lmao' and the term 'sorry not sorry' is automatically invalid, but thanks for trying anyway.

Edit: Basically, you are not making any actual point in favor of the movie, which is really arguing for it. You are just pushing the discussion away from the work of fiction itself, which is what these boards are about by the way, and shift it from people who happens to dislike it and be vocal about it. In a way that includes personal disqualification. And that is bad form posting. And frankly as 'butthurt' sounding as the postures you are criticizing, if not even moreso. You use 'it's a children's movie' as an automatic ticket to disqualify criticism of it by adults without going beyond that other than resorting to group insulting, but... it just doesn't work that way.

edited 12th Jan '16 5:30:35 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Already on DVD and Blu-ray. That was quick.