“Charlie’s Angels” only earned $8.6 million this past weekend at the box office, while racing drama “Ford v Ferarri” topped the box office with a $31 million debut and the war film “Midway” came in second earning $8.75 million.<\/p>\n
Why such low numbers for the “Charlie’s Angels” reboot? Elizabeth Banks suggested the reason was because men “don\u2019t go see women do action movies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Banks wrote, produced, directed and starred as Bosley in the remake.<\/p>\n
Before the movies release, Banks hinted that this exact situation would happen in an interview with the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, people have to buy tickets to this movie too. This movie has to make money,\u201d Banks told the Sun. \u201cIf this movie doesn\u2019t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don\u2019t go see women do action movies.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are many movies that have had success with female-leads, though. Banks further explained that the success of movies like “Captain Marvel” and “Wonder Woman” were because they belonged to a “male genre.” “Captain Marvel”, which starred Brie Larson, brought in $1.1 billion worldwide earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll go and see a comic book movie with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel because that\u2019s a male genre,\u201d Banks explained. \u201cSo even though those are movies about women, they put them in the context of feeding the larger comic book world, so it\u2019s all about, yes, you\u2019re watching a Wonder Woman movie but we\u2019re setting up three other characters or we\u2019re setting up \u2018Justice League.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the way, I\u2019m happy for those characters to have box office success, but we need more women\u2019s voices supported with money because that\u2019s the power. The power is in the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Banks is taking the box office flop in stride. Tweeting about the movie on Monday, she said: “Well, if you\u2019re going to have a flop, make sure your name is on it at least 4x. I\u2019m proud of #CharliesAngels and happy it\u2019s in the world.”<\/p>\n
When the original “Charlie’s Angels” film came out in 2000, it brought in $40 million at the box office it’s first weekend. That series starred Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu.<\/p>\n