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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: Machiavelli on August 18, 2014, 09:00:45 pm

Title: 'The Expendables 3' tanks at the box office: 5 things that went wrong
Post by: Machiavelli on August 18, 2014, 09:00:45 pm

Oliver Gettell
Los Angeles Times
August 18, 2014

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"The Expendables 3" lived down to its title over the weekend as moviegoers shunned the third installment of the shoot-'em-up franchise featuring the action heroes of yesteryear. The movie grossed an estimated $16.2 million, falling short of Lionsgate's projected take of $20 million to $25 million and putting it in the No. 4 spot for the weekend.

"The Expendables 3" also trailed the series' previous two movies, which debuted with $34.8 million and $28.8 million, both good for the No. 1 spot. What happened this time around?

More (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-expendables-3-tanks-what-went-wrong-20140818-story.html)

Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_expendables_3/)

Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-expendables-3)

IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2333784/combined)

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_3)