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Well, Sue Sylvester did tell people not to see it...

Kim Hollis: Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie opened to $6 million. What do you think of this result?

Brett Beach: I guess this is what happens when you send a film out to 2,000+ venues as a 3D only film, and people just don't want to show up. But by the same token, I wouldn't have been surprised if it had done in the teens. Somebody keeps launching the soundtrack albums into the top 10, and though this may not impress anyone else here, in only 18 short months, the "Cast of Glee" surpassed both Elvis and the Beatles as the act with the most Billboard Hot 100 hits, charting over 200! I find this horrendous, but it's the age of digital singles, so what can ya do? I am sure there was very little invested in this movie, and no one's pride has been wounded, but if it's not an epic fail, it's a fail nonetheless.

Edwin Davies: As Reagan mentioned in his forecast, it's tough to get people to pay to see something they can watch on TV for free, and this stank of such rank opportunism that I can hardly imagine fans of the TV show running out, paying premium prices to watch the show when they could just watch an episode on Hulu. If the show had been off the air for a while, a la Sex and The City, then I could see people wanting to go and see it because there would be a real novelty to the experience. I doubt this will hurt the brand of the show much, but it's probably sobering for the creators to realise that it isn't the cultural juggernaut that they must have hubristically believed it to be when they decided to release a film version.

Jason Lee: I would assume that the gross majority of the songs sang on the Glee tour were from the show and were already released via iTunes or physical CD. If so, then the film's audience was the portion of the TV show's fans who A) were fans of the music B) probably already own the CDs and C) would have been interested in attending the tour, or actually did attend the tour. As such, I would imagine that most of the film's intended audience has probably been milked enough as it is.

David Mumpower: I also believe that there was clearly a large amount of chaos with this release, and that didn't help any along with the fact that a major player in the Glee universe was bitching about her part being edited out. That doesn't happen if there is cohesion in the process; like everything else involving Glee, this is a glorious mess that speaks to the passion of a few zealots. Meanwhile, the rest of us look on confusion and go, "All this over Glee?" From a box office perspective, this is somehow A) a disaster and B) rather impressive given the buzz. We don't see many box office paradoxes such as this.

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