The unmitigated disaster that is We Are Your Friends is ostensibly the worst opening for a 2,000-plus-theater live-action release since 1982. Blimey…. The problem? Bad marketing.
Was it a comedy? Was it a drama? Was it a really long music video? And if you don’t pop molly at warehouse shows on a regular basis, would it even make sense? What advertising it did have focused on Efron, who has never headlined a non-romance that opened to more than $10 million….
and also:
What marketers should be taking from this is that if a story is unfamiliar to their intended audience, they have to help them understand it in some fundamental way before they ever get to the theater.
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