{"id":2270,"date":"2017-10-29T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/10\/29\/amityville-the-awakening-made-just-742-this-weekend-one-of-the-worst-openings-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2017-10-29T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:00:16","slug":"amityville-the-awakening-made-just-742-this-weekend-one-of-the-worst-openings-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/10\/29\/amityville-the-awakening-made-just-742-this-weekend-one-of-the-worst-openings-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amityville: The Awakening\u2019 Made Just $742 This Weekend, One of the Worst Openings of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/amityville-the-awakening\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amityville-the-awakening\">Amityville: The Awakening<\/a>?&#8221; Neither has anyone else, it seems, as the latest installment in that strangely long-lasting horror franchise made just $742 in 10 theaters this weekend, ranking it among the poorest openings ever.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2016\/02\/watch-new-trailer-for-delayed-horror-film-amityville-the-awakening-starring-jennifer-jason-leigh-bella-thorne-270318\/\" title=\"Watch: New Trailer For Delayed Horror Film \u2018Amityville: The Awakening\u2019 Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh &amp; Bella Thorne\">Watch: New Trailer For Delayed Horror Film \u2018Amityville: The Awakening\u2019 Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh &amp; Bella Thorne<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>There are a few reasons for that, however. The film, which stars\u00a0Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bella Thorne and was filmed in 2014, was released for free on Google Play a few weeks back; it&#8217;s also making its way to Blu-ray and DVD next month. That, combined with essentially zero advertising, explains how it averaged just $74 per theater.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/blade-runner-2049-sex-scene-hologram-1201891833\/\" title=\"\u2018Blade Runner 2049\u2019: How that Holographic Sex Scene Was Made Using GoPros, an iPad, and Stopwatches\">\u2018Blade Runner 2049\u2019: How that Holographic Sex Scene Was Made Using GoPros, an iPad, and Stopwatches<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/dimension-films\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dimension-films\">Dimension Films<\/a> \u2014 the genre wing of the Weinstein Company, whose future is uncertain in the wake of the ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal \u2014 &#8220;The Awakening&#8221; is the 10th installment in the &#8220;Amityville&#8221; series and a direct sequel to the original film. Like a lot of horror movies of late, it completely ignores every other sequel made before it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of &#8220;Amityville: The Awakening?&#8221; Neither has anyone else, it seems, as the latest installment in that strangely long-lasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-AC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}