TMC
04-24-2022, 03:54 AM
Does anyone else remember when the Real World producers tried creating “reality movies”?
In 2003, reality TV was taking over television, and The Real World (https://temple-news.com/racy-reality-reaches-the-big-screen-with-the-real-cancun/) producers/creators (https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2003/04/26/real-cancun-sinfully-delicious/30514702007/) wanted to take their success to the big screen, and create (https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/trio-of-asu-students-appears-in-reality-movie-the-real-cancun/article_d78ef30d-7e64-560b-b178-269721875fc4.html) “reality movies” (https://www.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-56-the-real-cancun-1798212173). It’s basically reality TV filmed (https://www.salon.com/2009/12/15/tully/) over a few days (https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/6778) and cut down to 2 hours or less, and the selling point was it could show more than what reality TV could back then (streaming wasn’t a thing yet). Also, it would get filmed, and unlike a real movie, could be edited and released fast, as there were no scripts, screenplays etc.
They filmed The Real Cancun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Cancun) over 10 days, and cast 16 college students and filmed them on spring break in Cancun. It was filmed from March 13-23, 2003, and would be released to theaters the following month, on April 25, 2003. It cost them $7.5 million to make (without the marketing) and only earned $5 million at the box office. It was a critical and financial (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BoxOfficeBomb/NThroughR) bomb (https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2003-2/the-real-cancun/), killing the new movie genre The Real World people hoped to make a thing.
In 2003, reality TV was taking over television, and The Real World (https://temple-news.com/racy-reality-reaches-the-big-screen-with-the-real-cancun/) producers/creators (https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2003/04/26/real-cancun-sinfully-delicious/30514702007/) wanted to take their success to the big screen, and create (https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/trio-of-asu-students-appears-in-reality-movie-the-real-cancun/article_d78ef30d-7e64-560b-b178-269721875fc4.html) “reality movies” (https://www.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-56-the-real-cancun-1798212173). It’s basically reality TV filmed (https://www.salon.com/2009/12/15/tully/) over a few days (https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/6778) and cut down to 2 hours or less, and the selling point was it could show more than what reality TV could back then (streaming wasn’t a thing yet). Also, it would get filmed, and unlike a real movie, could be edited and released fast, as there were no scripts, screenplays etc.
They filmed The Real Cancun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Cancun) over 10 days, and cast 16 college students and filmed them on spring break in Cancun. It was filmed from March 13-23, 2003, and would be released to theaters the following month, on April 25, 2003. It cost them $7.5 million to make (without the marketing) and only earned $5 million at the box office. It was a critical and financial (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BoxOfficeBomb/NThroughR) bomb (https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2003-2/the-real-cancun/), killing the new movie genre The Real World people hoped to make a thing.