Surrogates and Pandorum perform poorly at the box office

Touchstone Pictures’ Surrogates came in second and Overture Films’ Pandorum limped in sixth at the box office over the weekend as the two sci-fi films bombed behind the family cartoon Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Whilst Touchstone had hoped Surrogates would be the top earner, Surrogates only managed to claw back $15M of its $80M budget as Cloudy stole $24.6M of its thunder from its second week of release. Pandorum faired worse for Overture, pulling in only $4.8M, less than half of what was reasonably expected from the R-rated film.

Although typically a quieter time of the year at the box office, pundits speculate that a large part of both films’ poor performance is a result of poor reviews.  Of course, those reviewers would claim that the reviews are the result of poor movies.  Personally, I prefer to make up my own mind, so I’ll be heading to the theater to see both films (if for nothing else but to support the sci-fi genre). Will you?

Source: Reuters / Box Office Mojo

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