Culture ‘Bros’ Star Billy Eichner Reacts to ‘Disappointing’ Box Office Opening: ‘Straight People Just Didn’t Show Up’ - Maybe it's just a shit movie Billy?

Billy Eichner has shared his thoughts regarding the meager box office opening for his LGBTQ romantic comedy “Bros,” writing that “straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up.”

In a thread posted to his official Twitter, Eichner, who wrote, produced and stars in “Bros,” asserted that he is “very proud” of the movie, describing his experience covertly watching a sold out screening in Los Angeles during the weekend.

“Last night I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold out theater playing ‘Bros’ in LA. The audience howled with laughter start to finish, burst into applause at the end and some were wiping away tears as they walked out,” Eichner wrote. “It was truly magical. Really. I am VERY proud of this movie.”



The star also divulged that a theater chain had mounted plans to pull the trailer for “Bros” from its programming due to “gay content,” but Universal eventually convinced the company to maintain its placement in the pre-show rotation. “America, fuck yeah,” Eichner wrote.

“That’s just the world we live in, unfortunately,” Eichner continued. “Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore, etc., straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”

Eichner concluded his thoughts by encouraging “everyone who isn’t a homophobic weirdo” to see “Bros,” writing that it remains “special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen.”

“Bros” is the first gay rom-com to be given a wide theatrical release by a major studio, as well as the first with an all-openly LGBTQ cast.

The film fizzled at the box office this weekend, opening in fourth place with a slim $4.8 million gross from 3,350 locations. Though “Bros” carries a modest $22 million production budget, it will likely struggle to achieve profitability, considering its disappointing debut.

Even so, “Bros” has earned glowing approval from critics and audience polling remains strong. Universal will hope that word-of-mouth provides some staying power for the film in the coming weeks.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bros-box-office-disappointing-billy-eichner-reacts-1235390904/ (Archive)

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Sandra Bullock falls into the cryptoanthropological category of "Natal Tranny," meaning she may be a biological woman, but she was definitely born a man.

Nuh-uh, faggot.

 

[queue-anon]

Turns out the gay male population is actually quite small and catering to them doesn't lead to blockbuster ticket sales.

Who could've possibly foreseen this?

This movie didn't have a huge budget, so it probably could have done passable numbers had gay men shown up, but I've seen chatter that gay men aren't terribly interested in this movie. They don't find Eichner attractive (kind of important for any male rom-com lead, but especially if gay men are the intended audience) and find his personality grating. Naming it "Bros" was also a questionable choice. It sounds like a gross-out comedy starring Adam Devine.

 

[NoReturn]

But they had such big name stars at the premier! How could this happen!?

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Is he really trying to pull an Elizabeth Holmes here?

 

[Kled]

I saw the trailer for this when i went to see 3000 Years of Longing and it had to be the worst trailer I'd ever seen. Theres nothing charming about acting like a faggot. If it werent so blatant and poorly written, it might have been decent as a film but actual talent is rare in Hollywood.

 

[anustart76]

Comedies are the last kind of movies after dramas that need big special effects, what they desperately need is good WRITING.

Unfortunately there aren't any in the business as it's all been subsumed by "clapter" style jokes to not offend people, terrible improv remnants caused by the writer's strike, and incestuous writers rooms from those that survived the strike and guaranteed everybody would be a woke zombie just like them. Add in the studios focus testing the living hell out of everything, and, well... here you are.

Comedy can't survive a committee.

It's all just hyperactive/gross-out/shock humor now. Oddly enough, the same thing's happened to SpongeBob.
Some friends forced me to watch a few Bollywood comedies not that long ago, and despite having to watch them with subtitles, they were genuinely funny, and didn't have to lean on toilet humor. I could probably show those movies to my parents. Hollywood just doesn't know how to be funny anymore, especially in a family-friendly way.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Luke MacFarlane is fine because he still makes bank with those Hallmark checks. Also he went to Juilliard.

Billy Eichner is one of the most vapid shallow self centered faggots of all time. He's extremely loud and can't act. And he's already on the Asian hit list for trashing the equally shitty Fire Island film. (By the way.....he'd never be able to get with someone like MacFarlane irl......just saying.....)

And then there are experiences like this:


Also there are many fucking factors which explains why it flopped. Gee, it is almost like we.....aren't in a pandemic? Or had a massive hurricane?

 

[anustart76]

Luke MacFarlane is fine because he still makes bank with those Hallmark checks. Also he went to Juilliard.

Billy Eichner is one of the most vapid shallow self centered faggots of all time. He's extremely loud and can't act. And he's already on the Asian hit list for trashing the equally shitty Fire Island film.

And then there are experiences like this:
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Also there are many fucking factors which explains why it flopped. Gee, it is almost like we.....aren't in a pandemic? Or had a massive hurricane?

I remember when they added him to Parks & Rec and his character was just "annoying screaming faggot"
ie just him with a fake name

 

[Kheapathic]

Anyone remember when the newest version of Charlie's Angels was being made and the female director pretty much told men to piss off. Then when it did bad she blamed men for not showing up to watch it. Remember that Hollywood is a literal den of evil child molestors and rapists; they'll never be happy, and even if their movies don't make money, they have special accounting hacks to not actually lose money. The whole thing is a propaganda mill for people who want you to worship niggers and fags.

 

[The Ugly One]

Representation is important, and straight men weren't represented in this movie.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I remember when they added him to Parks & Rec and his character was just "annoying screaming faggot"
ie just him with a fake name

Hes also a theater kid which explains things. He was roommates with the guy who played Penguin in Gotham and the spectral dude who's name i forget in Dishonored 2.

 

[anustart76]

Hes also a theater kid which explains things. He was roommates with the guy who played Penguin in Gotham and the spectral dude who's name i forget in Dishonored 2.

Oh yeah the Outsider. Off-topic, but the Outsider was way cooler in the first Dishonored. The character went from an ominous, mysterious presence to edgy emo guy.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I love degenerate gay shit, and I am very sure that that is the same for most straight guys

Nigger, wut?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Reviews are saying Eichner was the worst part about the film, and he's on screen a whole damn lot. This is how you know he, as the screenwriter, wrote this for himself for him to jerk off to. Some samples:




Link to a long review that's positive, but there's a section of dislikes and they list the (five?) sex scenes as being the least enjoyable part about it.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Oh yeah the Outsider. Off-topic, but the Outsider was way cooler in the first Dishonored. The character went from an ominous, mysterious presence to edgy emo guy.

Well yeah I mean they mocapped him onto RLT and he's hideous which makes perfect sense as Penguin. He's as ugly as Dream.

 

[Jack Awful]

The Hollywood market machine doesn't see people as people, they see them as vague identities based on traits like "gay", "straight", "black", "white".

You can't just have a movie starring gay people, it has to be some kind of momentous, important step forward for gay rights, alienating people who aren't gay, and making actual gay people feel pandered to.

 

[Matt Damon]

You can't just have a movie starring gay people, it has to be some kind of momentous, important step forward for gay rights, alienating people who aren't gay, and making actual gay people feel pandered to.

"Eat the multi-billion dollar corporate slop and pretend it's social justice, you weirdos."

 

[Jack Awful]

"Eat the multi-billion dollar corporate slop and pretend it's social justice, you weirdos."

"And if you don't, you're a bigot. You're inherently a bigot for being straight, but at least by watching bros you can repent a little bit."

 

[Kenya Jones]

Nigger, wut?

Straight guys are the gayest people ever. Think of college frat guys and all the gay shit they do.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Sounds like he didn't even target the faghag audience, there's a bunch of women who'd love this shit. You made a shitty movie, gayboy, don't whine that no one wants to see it.