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foxfilipino
Don't blame the actors too much for a movie's success or failure. There are lots of variables which contributes to a movie's box office gross. The actor's popularity is just one of them.
Take for example Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks...they are some of the most highly respected veteran actors in Hollywood, both A-listers, and have had successful movies under their belts...but they also have their shares of failures...Mirror Mirror? Larry Crowne? Eat Pray Love?
We can't really blame Piolo's sexual orientation, whatever it may be...there are very successful gay men in hollywood...Neil Patrick Harris? Which is kind of ironic, because his most popular role to date, Barney in How I Met Your Mother, is a known womanizer...the fact that he is gay didn't ruin the "magic" of his part, and people still accepted it.
The only thing we can expect from an actor is if, he or she can play the part well. That's it. the movie's success may or may not depend on him/her.
For example Batman....The most successful Batman movie is the Dark Knight (over $1 Billion worldwide gross)...the lead, Christian Bale was the weakest link of that film...but everything else clicked...the story, the production, the dialogue, the villain...etc. it was a good movie, that's the reason for it's success. Christian Bale's performance? Well, if you can take his grating voice as Batman, more power to you.
Looking at it another way...George Clooney is one of Hollywood's biggest actors, ever...a definite A-lister...but when he took up the Batman role, with Arnod Swarzenegger (another Hollywood giant back then), what happened? It was one of the least successful Batman movie, it was so bad that Warner Brothers decided to kill the franchise...and reboot. So, what happened? Well, the story sucked, the production was over-the-top, and batman-nipples...people were turned off...so, what happened to Clooney's star power? Why didn't his popularity save the movie? The plain reason is, he couldn't have. People will watch a good movie more than watching actors...one of the reason a movie becomes "good" is if it has the right actors for the parts, among so many other reasons...so, one actor alone is not the end all or be all of a movie's success or failure.
Take a look at last year's No Other Woman...do you really think that movie was such a big hit because of the actors? Cristine Reyes just had a flop (Tumbok)...Anne Curtis' Who's That Girl was a mild box office hit, nowhere near No Other Woman...so, who was the "it" factor which made their movie such a huge hit? Derek Ramsey? Of course not! It was a combination of, people could relate with the story, and the witty dialogues...then in the following weeks, people were curious why it was such a big hit, that they checked it out (me, included), which made their movie an even bigger hit...and at that time, the biggest Filipino movie ever...until a couple of months later when Praybeyt Bejamin unseated them from that position. But the stars only contributed to that success... and not the only reason.
Terms like "bankable star" is an illusion. Some stars are lucky enough to be included in a good film, but are not really popular (ex. Derek Ramsey's No Other Woman and Praybeyt Benjamin)...and some actors have had the misfortune of being included in a mediocre movie, but is actually very popular and very good (ex. Marian Rivera's Super Inday and Tarot). About Marian Rivera...her other movies...My Bestfriend's Girlfriend, You to Me Are Everything, and Shake Rattle And Roll X-Nieves, are actually very good and have been very successful....Temptation Island is an oddity...it's a bad film, but it still made money...by the looks of things, Every breath U Take won't even reach Temptation Island's final gross (more than $1.4M or over P61M).
Of course, there are those who transcends a bad movie, and people will still watch whatever movie they make, like Vic Sotto's Enteng roles...but that's more of the exception rather than the rule.
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uncertain is the figures you both said for those movies.
