List of Saturday Night Live feature films
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Saturday Night Live has made several efforts to develop some of the more popular sketches into feature-length films, with varying degrees of commercial and critical success. The first foray into film came with the successful Aykroyd and Belushi vehicle, The Blues Brothers (1980), which earned over $115 million on a $27 million budget.[1]
In 1990, Lorne Michaels oversaw the writing of a sketch anthology feature film titled The Saturday Night Live Movie with many of the show's then-current writing staff, including Al Franken, Tom Davis, Greg Daniels, Jim Downey, Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and George Meyer, contributing. The screenplay only got as far as a Revised First Draft dated July 26, 1990 before being abandoned.[2]
The success of Wayne's World (1992) encouraged Michaels to produce more film spin-offs, based on several popular sketch characters. Michaels revived 1970s characters for Coneheads (1993), followed by It's Pat (1994); Stuart Saves His Family (1995); A Night at the Roxbury (1998); Superstar (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000). Some did moderately well, though others did not—notably, It's Pat, which did so badly at the box office that the studio that made the film, Touchstone Pictures (owned by The Walt Disney Company, which also owns NBC's rival ABC), pulled it only one week after releasing it,[3] and Stuart Saves His Family, which lost $14 million.[citation needed] Many of these films were produced by Paramount Pictures. The films based on The Blues Brothers were produced by Universal Studios, which merged with NBC in 2004 to form NBC Universal (Universal also has a joint venture with Paramount for international distribution of the two studios' films).
Reception
Box office performance
Film | Release date (United States) |
Budget (estimated) |
Box office revenue | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
United States | Elsewhere | Worldwide | |||
The Blues Brothers[1] | June 20, 1980 | $27 million | $57,229,890 | $58,000,000 | $115,229,890 |
Wayne's World | February 14, 1992 | $20 million | $121,697,323 | $61,400,000 | $183,097,323 |
Coneheads | July 23, 1993 | $33 million | $21,274,717 | — | $21,274,717 |
Wayne's World 2 | December 10, 1993 | $40 million | $48,197,805 | — | $48,197,805 |
It's Pat | August 26, 1994 | $8 million[4] | $60,822 | — | $60,822 |
Stuart Saves His Family | April 14, 1995 | $6.3 million | $912,082 | — | $912,082 |
Blues Brothers 2000 | February 6, 1998 | $28 million | $14,051,384 | — | $14,051,384 |
A Night at the Roxbury | October 2, 1998 | $17 million | $30,331,165 | — | $30,331,165 |
Superstar | October 8, 1999 | $14 million | $30,636,478 | — | $30,636,478 |
The Ladies Man | October 13, 2000 | $24 million | $13,616,610 | $126,602 | $13,743,212 |
MacGruber | May 21, 2010 | $10 million | $8,525,600 | $797,295 | $9,259,314 |
Critical response
Year | Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | The Blues Brothers | 83% (54 reviews)[5] | 60% (12 reviews)[6] | — |
1992 | Wayne's World | 84% (50 reviews)[7] | 57% (14 reviews)[8] | A−[9] |
1993 | Coneheads | 35% (31 reviews)[10] | 49% (20 reviews)[11] | B+[9] |
1993 | Wayne's World 2 | 61% (44 reviews)[12] | 60% (21 reviews)[13] | A-[9] |
1994 | It's Pat | 0% (11 reviews)[14] | — | — |
1995 | Stuart Saves His Family | 30% (27 reviews)[15] | 54% (16 reviews)[16] | — |
1998 | A Night at the Roxbury | 11% (55 reviews)[17] | 26% (14 reviews)[18] | C−[9] |
1998 | Blues Brothers 2000 | 45%[19] | — | B−[9] |
1999 | Superstar | 32% (74 reviews)[20] | 42% (28 reviews) [21] | C+[9] |
2000 | The Ladies Man | 11% (73 reviews)[22] | 22% (23 reviews) [23] | C−[9] |
2010 | MacGruber | 48% (151 reviews)[24] | 43% (24 reviews)[25] | C−[9] |
References
- ^ a b "The Blues Brothers (1980)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ Script Review: THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE from filmbuffonline.com
- ^ "Live, From New York, It's the Worst Movies From the Cast of SNL". filmcritic.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-27.
- ^ It's Pat: Julia Sweeney's gender-bending character goes to Hollywood, but can he ... er ... she ... er ... er ... Pat cross over?, a September 1994 article from Rolling Stone>
- ^ "The Blues Brothers". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "The Blues Brothers". Metacritic.
- ^ "Wayne's World". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Wayne's World". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Cinemascore". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20.
- ^ "Coneheads". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Coneheads". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Wayne's World 2". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Wayne's World 2". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "It's Pat". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Stuart Saves His Family". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ "Stuart Saves His Family". Metacritic.
- ^ "A Night at the Roxbury". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "A Night at the Roxbury". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Blues Brothers 2000". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Superstar". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Superstar". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Ladies Man". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "The Ladies Man". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "MacGruber". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "MacGruber". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-07-31.