(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)In October of 2000, just at the turn of the millennium, MTV aired a cheap and risky TV show largely inspired by skateboarding videos of the late ’90s and born out of Big Brother magazine called “Jackass.” Centered around a group of unruly pranksters, amateur stuntmen, and skaters, the show provided gigantic ratings for the network and went on to become a controversial cultural phenomenon.
Yet, because kids were…The post Tales From the Box Office: How Jackass: The Movie Made a Big Leap To The Big Screen appeared first on /Film.
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