Thursday, December 26, 2024

Fifty Shades of Disaster: “Gray” Sequel Scores 75 Negative Reviews, Box Office Blowout Expected, Part 3 to TV?

Call it Fifty Shades of Disaster.

The sequel to “Fifty Shades of Gray,” called “Fifty Shades Darker,” is a critical bust. So far only 9% of critics on Roten Tomatoes have had anything good to say about it. The Jamie Dornan-Dakota Johnson tie down has 75 negative reviews and 7 good ones.

At the box office this weekend, “Darker” will be lucky to finish 3rd behind”The LEGO Batman Movie” and “John Wick 2” with Keanu Reeves. Also releasing today David Oyelow and Rosamund Pike in “United Kingdom.” All three of those films have ratings 80 or higher.

At this rate, if there is another “Fifty” movie it will likely go straight to a TV platform or VOD. And who knows if Dornan or Johnson will even do it. The novelty of E.L. James’s crap novel has passed. And with James getting final cut–which I reported last week– no movie director will want to pick up the last handcuff.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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