“I found it interesting that Tyler did that with Temptation, hiring Kim Kardashian because she has 16 million Twitter followers, which would seem like a brilliant marketing plan,” Essence told Sister 2 Sister.
Perry admitted that he cast the reality star to lure her followers to the theaters. The movie earned $22.3 million its debut weekend, despite horrid reviews from movie critics. According to “E!,” the film brought back bigger receipts than most other non-Madea Tyler movies, with the exception of Why Did I Get Married Too.
“It’s not a failure, but it did worse than his movies usually do just based on him,” clarified Essence. “I thought that was an interesting finding. Your experiment didn’t work.”
Ouch.
Atkins said that just because a reality star may have a huge social media following, doesn’t mean her fans will follow her to scripted television and movies.
“He has one of the biggest Twitter personalities out there in his movies, and he had one of the worst box office weekends.”
Wow. What did Perry do to Atkins to make her throw such shade? But wait, she’s just getting revved up.
“People want to see good stories. It’s not necessarily that they want to see Kim Kardashian in a movie. They want to see her in a bikini. They want to see her with Kanye [West]. They want to see her on her show talking about her life with her sisters, but that doesn’t mean that they want to see her in a movie,” she said. “The fact that people want to see their lives and the volatility of that…. I don’t’ think that it translates at all.”
Atkins might as well have said, ‘Kim, stay in your place.’
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