![]() ![]() They will also probably be talking about trying to save what remaining P&A they have unspent of the approved $47M. I’ll guarantee that some folks at JP Morgan and other creditors are having a tough weekend, and that MGM brass is working to spin the results better to them. The absolute dumbest part is where one of their friends, who is. ![]() If that isnt stupid enough, the movie doesnt even explore the fact that theyre in the 80s much, but rather focuses more on the guys doing a bunch of stupid shit. MGM made their pitch to creditors, and the creditors approved the P&A spend, in early January. A bunch of stupid guys end up getting stuck in the 80s after discovering their hot tub is actually a time machine. The P&A spend and distribution pattern show that MGM considered HTTM a one-weekend picture: they would have to grab their money entirely the first weekend, because they were expecting a drop-off of at least 60%. One of the two banks involved did an analysis that HTTM would need to gross $40M domestic for them to break even. They even brought in some highly paid consultants to bless the numbers, the marketing plan, and advise them (one of whom was a senior movie marketing exec with credentials from outside). I viewed this large P&A commitment it as a “Hail Mary” play, because at this point what does MGM management have to lose? And I think they were hoping that HTTM would miraculously do well just at the moment final bids for MGM were being negotiated. The reason MGM had to get creditor approval for its P&A spend, which I was told is $47M by the way, is because the creditors stand to lose even more money if HTTM does not come out at least break-even. The P&A money comes from the credit facility, and the creditors are weighing in on every key decision. The film cost $50M to make, which is not really that cheap, especially for a movie that should have been made for $20M. Jacob, not yet born in 1986, becomes a one-man New Gen Greek chorus, observing the behavior of his elders - and glimpsing his mother-to-be as, ebehind-the-scenes info given me by an insider on MGM/UA’s Hot Tub Time Machine, which was supposed to open to $20+M and earned only $13.6M: And he’s got a life, unlike his virginal computer-addicted nephew Jacob (Clark Duke from the excellent Web comedy series Clark and Michael). It is the sequel to the 2010 film Hot Tub Time Machine. The film stars Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Adam Scott, Chevy Chase, and Gillian Jacobs. Nor is he a deadender with a cheating wife like his buddy Nick ( The Office‘s Craig Robinson). 13.1 million 4 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is a 2015 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Steve Pink and written by Josh Heald. But at least he’s not a self-destructive, harddrinking screwup like his buddy Lou ( The Daily Show alum Rob Corddry). Cusack is a dissatisfied fortysomething whose girlfriend has dumped him. ![]() The giggles over bad hair and worse fashions are sweetened by casting famous-since-the-’80s John Cusack as one of a quartet of accidental tourists zoomed back to a 1986 winterfest in a ski town where three out of the four once partied hard. Yet even with Doing It on its little mind, Hot Tub Time Machine reaches for greater cultural relevance, inviting both those who lived through the ’80s and those who weren’t yet born then to laugh, safely, at sex in that decade. ![]()
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