![]() ![]() Adam, Lou, and Nick have also assumed their younger bodies, although Jacob's appearance has not changed since he was not born yet, though he occasionally flickers.Ī cryptic repairman appears and warns them not to change anything, as it might affect history. The next day, they go skiing, and after many strange occurrences, realize they have traveled back to 1986. While drinking in their hotel room's hot tub, the four accidentally douse the console with an energy drink. When they arrive, they find that the town is not what it used to be, with many of the stores boarded up and the hotel run down. Three estranged, depressed friends-Adam Yates, a workaholic who was dumped by his girlfriend neglected husband Nick Webber-Agnew, who works a dead-end job and Lou Dorchen, an alcoholic slacker in his 40s-reconnect in 2010 when Lou is hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning after a suicide attempt.Īlthough Lou denies that he attempted suicide, Adam and Nick arrange for him to join them and Adam's slacker nephew Jacob at Kodiak Valley Ski Resort, where the three enjoyed themselves in their youth. A sequel, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, was released on February 20, 2015. It follows four men who travel back in time to 1986 via a hot tub, and must find a way to return to 2010. They will also probably be talking about trying to save what remaining P&A they have unspent of the approved $47M.Hot Tub Time Machine is a 2010 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Steve Pink and starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, and Chevy Chase. I’ll guarantee that some folks at JP Morgan and other creditors are having a tough weekend, and that MGM brass is working to spin the results better to them. MGM made their pitch to creditors, and the creditors approved the P&A spend, in early January. The P&A spend and distribution pattern show that MGM considered HTTM a one-weekend picture: they would have to grab their money entirely the first weekend, because they were expecting a drop-off of at least 60%. One of the two banks involved did an analysis that HTTM would need to gross $40M domestic for them to break even. They even brought in some highly paid consultants to bless the numbers, the marketing plan, and advise them (one of whom was a senior movie marketing exec with credentials from outside). I viewed this large P&A commitment it as a “Hail Mary” play, because at this point what does MGM management have to lose? And I think they were hoping that HTTM would miraculously do well just at the moment final bids for MGM were being negotiated. The reason MGM had to get creditor approval for its P&A spend, which I was told is $47M by the way, is because the creditors stand to lose even more money if HTTM does not come out at least break-even. The P&A money comes from the credit facility, and the creditors are weighing in on every key decision. ![]() The film cost $50M to make, which is not really that cheap, especially for a movie that should have been made for $20M. Here’s behind-the-scenes info given me by an insider on MGM/UA’s Hot Tub Time Machine, which was supposed to open to $20+M and earned only $13.6M: ![]()
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