I feel bad for Samberg. The movie was a $10.5 million loss for Universal
The budget for this film was $20 million and it only made $9,496,130. So Universal had to eat a 10.5 million loss. The movie tanked so bad it was out for only three weeks! I read somewhere that Universal wanted to pull the movie out of theaters just under two weeks after its release.
I can just imagine the dialogue in the boardrooms or when them damn suits at Universal met up with the actor(s), producers and directors of the film.
They probably kissed Andy Samberg and directors Akiva Schaeffer and Jorma Taccone's ass in person. But behind their backs them suits probably said, "This movie's gonna be a turd at the box office and we're gonna have to find some movies in our catalog to make up for this s*** stain."
Good thing Samberg has a good vibe about him, and that Brooklyn 9-9 is a hit, plus his collecting them checks from doing so much voice work.
You guys gotta realize. When an actor co-produces, writes, and stars in a film as Samberg did with Popstar, it takes a lot out of them mentally and physically. Publicly Samberg played it cool about this film being a big ass flop, but privately you know this film probably *beep* him up.
Some of y'all probably saying that this movie was a filler/who cares vanity project for Andy Samberg and so why are you (me) reading so much into the film? Well, I'll just say that I've followed his career for a while and something inside of me said to write this. That's all I'm trying to say.