The A-Team flopped. It only generated 25 million dollars losing against Jaden Smith who has now become the newest Karate Kid. Two redone 80's franchises that squared off went the way of the kids (Which should answer the "Why do they always make movies directed only towards kids" question, because of money that’s why!).
Only to make matters worse the director of The A-Team, Joe Carnahan, decided to take his frustrations out on Deadline Hollywood’s very own Nikki Finke. Below is his rant:
"She's an idiot. You've got this fu#$in' moron who, I believe, her influence doesn't stretch west of Bundy. I just think this town... But 99.999% of people outside of Hollywood have no fu$#in' idea who she is, or will miss her when she's gone. She's someone I really want to see, she's got to, go down in flames. I just think she's a miserable... That's someone who's antithetical to every good thing about this business, Nikki Finke. That's why I don't engage. I think she's a putz. I can just see her surrounded by like 47 cats and, yes, she hasn't been laid in about 17 years. And that's fine. It's unfortunate that she knows nothing and she just spits out venom and expects people to kind of circle the wagons. I swear to god the sun will set on her sooner rather than later, guaranteed. People like that don't make it."
Weew, that’s pretty strong words for someone you really don’t know. At first glance one would think that Nikki and Joe had been giving each other the Dutch Rudder for quite awhile now. But no. This is backlash from a failed weekend at the box office and as a result Joe lost his mind and took his frustrations out on someone who wrote up a review detailing why she thought The A-Team bombed. Click on the jump for Nikki's opinion.
The A-Team lost to one thing in particular and that was The Karate Kid. Any movie that is directed towards kids or can draw parents and kids combined will beat out a movie that is directed only towards the adults. That’s just the way it is. Could The A-Team have been better? Yes, off course but what movie out there could be better? If you guessed all of them then you would be the winner!
Joe it’s just the nature of the beast, your movie was entertaining but you released it the wrong weekend. Leave your drama for your mama! Nuff said.