[quote name='mywhitenoise']I heard this movie was pretty awful, and didn't live up to it's hype.[/QUOTE]
There was no hype really. If anything, this movie allowed more people to take notice of how the Weinsteins really don't know what they're doing when it comes to handling movies.
Fanboys was just one of many movies the Weinsteins decide to make, then after it gets made they decide they're not sure what to do with it, then they decide to let it sit on the shelf for years, often resulting in getting ditched into a few theaters without any fanfare to fulfill contractual obligations (see Outlander, Killshot). And like Killshot, they spent extra money on Fanboys to redo a lot of the movie, only to unceremoniously dump the movie. So they spend money on a movie they don't want to try and make money with, then they pour more money into it before not trying to make money with it.
Hell, there's a John Cusack, Ken Watanabe, Chow Yun Fat movie they've been sitting on that supposedly is coming out this year.