box office

[thepaulo]

i'm not sure who cares but i do this anyway.....so i'll throw some numbers out there....

harry potter and the order of the phoenix in five days 140 million......
of course many of the movies are still early in their first run....

worldwide international usa
930 million 625million 305 million pirates 3:AWE
885 million 550 million 335 million spiderman 3
642 million 324 million 318 million shrek 3
455 million 244 million 211 million 300
252 million 141 million 111 million ocean's 13
250 million 95 million 155 million transformers (2 weeks)
245 million 77 million 168 million wild hogs
225 million 108 million 117 million ghost rider
224 million 99 million 125 million fantastic four 2
205 million 102 million 103 million die hard 4
185 million 185 million 0 mr bean's holiday
156 million 60 million 96 million norbit
147 million 50 million 97 million meet the robinsons
145 million ? 145 million ratatouille
139 million ? 139 million knocked up

in the USA, pirates 2:DMC made 423 million
Spiderman 1 made 404 million
shrek 2 made 461 million
harry potter and the sorceror's stone made 318 million
obviously, this is a work in progress....a rough estimate after the midpoint.....and a way for me to keep busy and stay out of trouble

[Mike Teacher]

Really looks like the Age of Movies from the Land of Make Believe.

What say you about the fantasy/animation/superhero innundation?

Sequelitis speaks for itself.

[Don Stugots]

on the whole list, i have only seen the 300. i loved it but i havent seen another thing since, mainly because, as much as i love movies, i hate going to the movies to see them.

[Chimee]

300 is going to be my first Blu-Ray purchase. I loved that damn movie.

[xample]

Norbit made 156 million worldwide?

I'm in a complete state of shock.

[JPMNICK]

168 million wild hogs

this speaks volumes about what the country wants to see.

[ScottFromGA]

Norbit made 156 million worldwide?

I'm in a complete state of shock.

yeah...and 40 bucks of my money went to shit cause of that movie. FUCK, what a piece of shit that movie was.

[thepaulo]

good movies generally bomb.....most independents would praise heaven if they made 20 million worldwide....it's about promotion and distribution and hollywood backs their percieved notion of mass entertainment.......oscar bait is a loss leader for them....the cost of doing business

[cupcakelove]

I've seen two movies on that list, and one of them was a free advanced screening.

[Cleophus James]

Rank Title USA Box Office
1. Titanic (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/) (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/) (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298148/) (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/) (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/) (1999) $431,065,444
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/) (2006) $423,032,628
7. Spider-Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/) (2002) $403,706,375
8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/) (2005) $380,262,555
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167260/) (2003) $377,019,252
10. Spider-Man 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/) (2004) $373,377,893
11. The Passion of the Christ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/) (2004) $370,270,943
12. Jurassic Park (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/) (1993) $356,784,000
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/) (2002) $340,478,898
14. Finding Nemo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/) (2003) $339,714,367
15. Spider-Man 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413300/) (2007) $334,344,283

Remember when Jurassic Park would never be topped?

[thepaulo]

gone with the wind is well over 1 billion domestic adjusted gross......can't be beaten.....

[drjoek]

gone with the wind is well over 1 billion domestic adjusted gross......can't be beaten.....

Frankly Paul O I dont give a damn :wink:

[JPMNICK]

gone with the wind is well over 1 billion domestic adjusted gross......can't be beaten.....

how long did it run for?

[thepaulo]

update.......harry potter&tootp......191 million international....140 million domestic total 331 million
box office up from last year this week 14%

[Mike Teacher]

Ya adjusting for inflation gives a very, very different list, Gone with the Wind made almost $200 Million, in 1939, and that's 1939 dollars. Adjusted that's $1.3 billion, and that's just domestic. I forget the %age of the population that saw it, some surreally large number.

Anyway, people seem to rely on Box Office Mojo and the very different adjusted for 'ticket price inflation' list is here:

Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm)

for the click-lazy and w/o all the numbers [domestic, not worldwide] it begins like...

1. GWTWind '39
2. Star Wars '77
3. Sound of Music '65
4. ET '82
5. 10 Commandments '56
6. Titanic '97
7. Jaws '75
8. Dr. Zhivago '65
9. Exorcist '73
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves '37

and on...

[cougarjake13]

Rank Title USA Box Office
1. Titanic (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/) (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/) (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298148/) (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/) (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/) (1999) $431,065,444
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/) (2006) $423,032,628
7. Spider-Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/) (2002) $403,706,375
8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/) (2005) $380,262,555
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167260/) (2003) $377,019,252
10. Spider-Man 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/) (2004) $373,377,893
11. The Passion of the Christ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/) (2004) $370,270,943
12. Jurassic Park (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/) (1993) $356,784,000
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/) (2002) $340,478,898
14. Finding Nemo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/) (2003) $339,714,367
15. Spider-Man 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413300/) (2007) $334,344,283

Remember when Jurassic Park would never be topped?


thats just sad that abortion of a movie star wars 1 phantom menace is a top 5 movie

[thepaulo]

the sound of music was awesome....

[thepaulo]

thanks mike the teacher....i'm having fun with your box office mojo link....
thunderball is the biggest bond at #26

[Doctor Manhattan]

Ya adjusting for inflation gives a very, very different list...

I'm glad you posted this. This is exactly why box office records don't mean shit and why they are broken almost with every big budget movie that comes out. Not only is the value of the dollar changing but so is the way people go to the movies, how they buy tickets, where they go, etc.

If you still dressed up to go out, drive for a few hours to the closest theater (That only has one screen) and see Transformers or Harry Potter, I'm sure they number of tickets sold would not be as high.

And the studios know people eat the records up, that is why I think they don't tell you the number of tickets sold, just an estimated amount of money made. And because ticket range in price you can't even use the number of screens to figure out the number of tickets sold.

Looks like Titanic was the last movie to come out that belongs on a list of biggest selling movies.

[thejives]

When you adjust for inflation, the films are much more classically acclaimed.

Not that they're necessarily the best movies of the period ... but they're sure as hell better than fucking wild hogs.

It makes me think film audiences really are getting dumber.

[CHUCKWAGONCOOK]

The films I most like to watch are the ones that tell a story and keep me interested. Not the kind that have a bunch of screamimg, horn-honking, jerk teenagers at them. maybe a film like..... Bababaloo, the same name bandit.

[Yerdaddy]

I saw Mr. Bean's Holiday yesterday on a bus from Phnom Penh and I just assumed it was some 10 year-old low budget made-for-BBC TV throw off. Now I see it's a new theater release and I'm shocked. What a piece of shit! It wasn't even as good as the Mr. Bean TV episodes. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever watch this turd! Not even on a bus across Cambodia. I'd rather watch something called "Twatto Goes to Summer Camp".

Now after that shit ended they stuck in The Gods Must Be Crazy II. There was no sound and it was a low budget fuck-off of a movie shot in Africa and it made no sense made no effort at story or acting but it was so stupid within 15 minutes I was loving it. That's what they should have done with Mr. Bean. I bet it would make a shitload of dough these days just as a bitch-slap to the overpriced garbage Hollywood is cranking out these days.

[zentraed]

When you adjust for inflation, the films are much more classically acclaimed.

Not that they're necessarily the best movies of the period ... but they're sure as hell better than fucking wild hogs.

It makes me think film audiences really are getting dumber.

ironically, film audiences have just gotten younger, but i'd be willing to bet that wild hogs trended older.

[PapaBear]

This whole thing with inflation and shit just makes me wish they'd go by ticket sales instead of dollars.

[thepaulo]

i can only hope at this point that mr bean's holiday will be better than wild hogs.....

[cupcakelove]

i can only hope at this point that mr bean's holiday will be better than wild hogs.....

I think that's a sure thing. Mr Bean = Gold

[Yerdaddy]

i can only hope at this point that mr bean's holiday will be better than wild hogs.....

Was Wild Hogs better than The Gods Must Be Crazy II? Because that was better than Bean Vacation. And I love Bean.

"BEANS AND FRANKS!"
http://images.popcornmonsters.com/2524.jpg

[PapaBear]

Paul called this one right on Friday! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070723/en_nm/boxoffice_dc_4;_ylt=AnqMGmK0o2sidgQ9pvR0.JYE1vAI)

[spoon]

Ya adjusting for inflation gives a very, very different list, Gone with the Wind made almost $200 Million, in 1939, and that's 1939 dollars. Adjusted that's $1.3 billion, and that's just domestic. I forget the %age of the population that saw it, some surreally large number.

Anyway, people seem to rely on Box Office Mojo and the very different adjusted for 'ticket price inflation' list is here:

Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm)

for the click-lazy and w/o all the numbers [domestic, not worldwide] it begins like...

1. GWTWind '39
2. Star Wars '77
3. Sound of Music '65
4. ET '82
5. 10 Commandments '56
6. Titanic '97
7. Jaws '75
8. Dr. Zhivago '65
9. Exorcist '73
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves '37

and on...


When I first saw the C. James post on top grossing films I was going to post both the original Star Wars and ET had to be rated higher due to the year they grossed those sums. Hence the inflation issue that Mike just found and it added a few more interesting films to the list. Most much better then what we rank high these days. The whole argument about film viewers these days someone else made.

I love Papa's idea on ticket sales and that seems to make way too much sense. And from the original list from this year, I've seen zero. In fact, I only would like to see one to this day and will soon with 300. At least it seems a little different from the norm with a decent story line. I'm soooo sick of the disney cartoons and bullshit/terrible comic book renditions.

[Yerdaddy]

When I first saw the C. James post on top grossing films I was going to post both the original Star Wars and ET had to be rated higher due to the year they grossed those sums. Hence the inflation issue that Mike just found and it added a few more interesting films to the list. Most much better then what we rank high these days. The whole argument about film viewers these days someone else made.

I love Papa's idea on ticket sales and that seems to make way too much sense. And from the original list from this year, I've seen zero. In fact, I only would like to see one to this day and will soon with 300. At least it seems a little different from the norm with a decent story line. I'm soooo sick of the disney cartoons and bullshit/terrible comic book renditions.

Adjusted for population growth of course:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/US_Population_Graph_-_1790_to_Present.svg/800px-US_Population_Graph_-_1790_to_Present.svg.png

[thepaulo]

yeah....i was pretty close this week....though if those damm potter kids could have just stopped reading and gone to the movies again it all might have been different.....
the big surprise was that Hairspray did very well and was a close third
chuck and larry---$34,233,750 in 3495 theaters
hairspray $27,476,745 in 3121 theaters

[PapaBear]

Can you imagine how hard it was to be a redneck this weekend? "Do we watch the fag movie, the satanic movie, or the faggy race mixing musical?"

[sailor]

good movies generally bomb.....most independents would praise heaven if they made 20 million worldwide....it's about promotion and distribution and hollywood backs their percieved notion of mass entertainment.......oscar bait is a loss leader for them....the cost of doing business

as i've said in other threads on other subjects...if the public wanted to see independent type flicks, do you seriously think the major studios wouldn't be putting out that type of movie? like with drugs, blame the user, not the supplier.

[PapaBear]

as i've said in other threads on other subjects...if the public wanted to see independent type flicks, do you seriously think the major studios wouldn't be putting out that type of movie? like with drugs, blame the user, not the supplier.
But the public WOULD go see them, if they saturated the market with independents. The public will consume whatever is fed to them.

[StupidGirlllll]

I took my kids to see Hairspray on Friday & it was very crowded. I was surprised to see so many people in there. I am going to go see The Simpsons this weekend.

[Yerdaddy]

as i've said in other threads on other subjects...if the public wanted to see independent type flicks, do you seriously think the major studios wouldn't be putting out that type of movie? like with drugs, blame the user, not the supplier.

I'm with you on the public thing. Sure I have utter contempt for ad blitzes for shit movies, (they work or the studios wouldn't spend the money), but the public loves to have Multiple Miggs throw his spunk in their eyes. We love half-assed sequals, flavor-of-the-month genres like a million bad comic book adaptations, happy endings (in movies as well as massages), revenge fantasies, simple plot formulas, and patronizing war movies that tell us we're the greatest. All that shit sells in America, and it sells all over the world. Indies, or "smart" movies, or whatever the minority would rather see, get their fare share of the marketplace - and that's a smaller share of the pie. You can sell primitive sensational crap with an ad blitz, but you can't sell a mental challenge.

And, about 10 years ago, when indies became a flavor-of-the-month and the studios actually tried to cash in on them by marketing every piece of shit coming out of a film school or video store clerk's super-8 camera it didn't make movies any better. It just made it harder to tell the marketing con-jobs from the actual good films. I was glad when the indie craze died.

Ultimately I think the fact is and will remain that most movies are one form of crap or another and there just aren't that many really good movies to be made at any given time. The trick is to be able to tell which ones are good and which ones are shit. I've got my system of combining popular opinion with select critics and combined critics opinions, and it works fairly well. The other thing I do is seek out great movies of the past. Kind of like when grunge died and was replaced with Creed and Limp Bizkit and I gave up on contemporary music and went back and discovered Niel Young, Janis, The Pretenders, Traffic and jazz and classical music. I found the stuff that stood the test of time, but that I hadn't discovered yet. I've done the same wtih movies and been well satisfied when I can find the access to classic and foreign movies.

[thepaulo]

bravo, sir....i shouldn't say this but i 'm getting to the point where i get more surprises out of an old movie than i do from something new..... there is not enough real excitement and experimentation and passion.....it's out there but it's getting harder to know where it's gonna come from.....

[Some Asshole]

i care, paulo...i care

[spoon]

i care, paulo...i care

Shut up asshole.

[thepaulo]

he may be an asshole but he cares, and that counts for something.

[mr.smokepants]

he may be an asshole but he cares, and that counts for something.

Hey Paulo...I know this is a poor thread to solicit reviews, but I just watched The Proposition. I found it fucking incredible....you?

[mr.smokepants]

Can you imagine how hard it was to be a redneck this weekend? "Do we watch the fag movie, the satanic movie, or the faggy race mixing musical?"

I'm tellin ya....it's a hard choice. I think I'll take the kids fishing, then to the NASCAR race, and finally to the Klan picnic. I am of course, kiddin! The picnic is next week!

[thepaulo]

sheesh, you're fucking up the box office thread......
the proposition is one awesomely brutal western.....the interesting thing is that nick cave wrote it (cave is one of the cooler musicians to come out of the eighties) and he has another movie in the works....cave was on letterman the other night and was great.....




i have a lot to say but am too lazy to say it.....

[drjoek]

i have a lot to say but am too lazy to say it.....

Preach on Brother

[thepaulo]

my 50 million prediction of the simpsons was so wrong.......
72 million!!!!

[ScottFromGA]

my 50 million prediction of the simpsons was so wrong.......
72 million!!!!

Looks like Fox knocked a HOMER straight to the oscars!!! gee gee gee


for some reason, i feel like i just ripped someone off.

[thepaulo]

sorry...i've been told i'm obsessive compulsive....or maybe adhd...anyway
Anyway ....
Bourne Ultimatum 70,181,000
Simpsons 129,000,000

summer totals....
spiderman 3 337,000,000
shrek 3 321,000,000
pirates3 308,000,000
transformers 297,000,000
HP & TOOTP 261,000,000

[thepaulo]

worldwide international usa
958 million 650million 308 million pirates 3:AWE
890 million 553 million 337 million spiderman 3
828 million 554 million 274 million Harry Potter & the Order of the Pheonix
734 million 413 million 321 million shrek 3
633 million 329 million 304 million transformers
457 million 246 million 211 million 300
338 million 205 million 131 million die hard 4
315 million 121 million 194 million ratatouille
287 million 170 million 117 million ocean's 13
254 million 123 million 131 million fantastic four 2
253 million 85 million 168 million wild hogs
230 million 113 million 117 million ghost rider
185 million 185 million 0 mr bean's holiday
165 million 18 million 139 million knocked up
160 million 64 million 96 million norbit
159 million 78 million 81 million saw III
153 million 55 million 98 million meet the robinsons

overall heading for a record summer even though there hasn't been anything that has been
overwhelmingly successful


in the USA, pirates 2MC made 423 million
Spiderman 1 made 404 million
shrek 2 made 461 million
harry potter and the sorceror's stone made 318 million
obviously, this is a work in progress....a rough estimate after the midpoint.....and a way for me to keep busy and stay out of trouble

http://movieblather.com

http://yourlifesamovie.com

http://thepaulo.com

[thepaulo]

best summer ever.......

2007- $4.15 billion

beats
2004- $3.95 billion

so much for bootlegs killing the industry....

[GreatAmericanZero]

best summer ever.......

2007- $4.15 billion

beats
2004- $3.95 billion

so much for bootlegs killing the industry....

i never understood that. Every boxoffice report u read "boxoffice is down 2 % from last year" or whatever and then the boxoffice always seems to make as much as ever. But the news reports always makes it seem like its a drastic time for the film industry.

Since this was the "summer of the sequel" and it was a huge success, i guess that means we have alot more shitty sequels to look forward to in our lifetime

[thepaulo]

LOS ANGELES, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A re-imagining of the classic slasher movie "Halloween" broke the record for a new release during the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

The movie, directed by rock star-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie, earned about $26.5 million since opening on Friday, easily beating the rosiest predictions.

"Halloween" distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer expects its film will hit $30 million when sales for the Monday holiday are included. Observers had expected it to make $20 million for the four-day period. Final data will be released on Tuesday.

The three-day sum smashes the $16.5 million Labor Day opening record set two years ago by "Transporter 2," which added $3.6 million on Monday. The all-time record for the four-day period is $29.3 million set by 1999's "The Sixth Sense" in its fifth weekend.

[PapaBear]

That doesn't surprise me much. On Friday night, it sold out on all showings here. It even sold out the second midnight show. This is a pretty small town, and we don't get too many sold out shows. Good job, Rob!

[cougarjake13]

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
week of 31 August 2007 Rank Title Weekend Gross
1 Halloween (2007) $32.5M $32.5M
2 Superbad (2007) $15.2M $92M
3 Balls of Fury (2007) $14M $17M
4 The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) $13.1M $202M
5 Rush Hour 3 (2007) $10.1M $122M
6 Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) $8.04M $21M
7 The Nanny Diaries (2007) $6.6M $16.8M
8 Death Sentence (2007) $5.5M $5.5M
9 War (2007) $4.6M $17.4M
10 Stardust (2007) $3.81M $31.8M

[TheMojoPin]

I heard Ewan McGregor bought tickets to 16 different showings and only went to 2 of them.

THE FOOL.

[helterskeletor]

hey I found a site that says they'll pay you to read scripts if you can estimate lifetime box office earnings for certain movies that are coming out. If you're in like the top ten percent they send you scripts and pay you $250 per script.

I'm not advertising for them, it costs nothing, etc. I joined up but didn't really ever look at it again. I may get into it again and see if I can make some extra cash.

Anyway, if Paul or anyone else wants to check it out it's called Kinostat. http://www.kinostat.com/index.php

It's the KEY-nostat to extra money!! Gih gih gih!

[thepaulo]

updated totals as of now.....
worldwide international usa
961 million 652million 309 million pirates 3:AWE
933million 642million 291 million Harry Potter & rhe order of the Pheonix
892 million 555 million 337 million spiderman 3
785 million 464 million 321 million shrek 3
698 million 382 million 316 million transformers
514 million 332 million 182 million the simpson movie
457 million 246 million 211 million 300
419 million 215 million 204 million ratatouille
371 million 236 million 135 million die hard 4
369 million 145 million 224 million bourne ultimatum
312 million 194 million 118 million ocean's 13
278 million 146 million 132 million fantastic four 2
253 million 85 million 168 million wild hogs
230 million 113 million 117 million ghost rider
220 million 190 million 30 million mr bean's holiday
219 million 78 million 138 million Rush Hour 3
201 million 52 million 149 million knocked up
160 million 64 million 96 million norbit
153 million 55 million 98 million meet the robinsons
147 million 28 million 119 million I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry
146 million 95 million 51 million Music and Lyrics




in the USA, pirates 2MC made 423 million
Spiderman 1 made 404 million
shrek 2 made 461 million
harry potter and the sorceror's stone made 318 million
obviously, this is a work in progress....a rough estimate after the midpoint.....and a way for me to keep busy and stay out of trouble

http://movieblather.com

http://yourlifesamovie.com

http://thepaulo.com

[thepaulo]

i need to update this list this week

[thepaulo]

updated totals as of now.....
worldwide international usa
961 million 652million 309 million pirates 3:AWE
939 million 647million 292 million Harry Potter & rhe order of the Pheonix
892 million 555 million 337 million spiderman 3
795 million 474 million 321 million shrek 3
703 million 384 million 319 million transformers
614 million 406 million 207 million ratatouille
527 million 343 million 184 million the simpson movie
457 million 246 million 211 million 300
440 million 212 million 228 million bourne ultimatum
383 million 248 million 135 million die hard 4
312 million 194 million 118 million ocean's 13
289 million 157 million 132 million fantastic four 2
255 million 115 million 141 million rush hour 3
253 million 85 million 168 million wild hogs
230 million 113 million 117 million ghost rider
220 million 190 million 30 million mr bean's holiday
218 million 69 million 149 million knocked up
197 million 78 million 119 million hairspray
185 million 65 million 120 million I now pronounce you chuck and larry
177 million 49 million 128 million american gangster
175 million 73 million 101 million evan almighty
172 million 49 million 123 million superbad
170 million 93 million 78 million beowulf
160 million 64 million 96 million norbit
160 million 62 million 98 million meet the robinsons
157 million 33 million 124 million bee movie
146 million 95 million 51 million Music and Lyrics
145 million 94 million 51 million Resident evil:extinction




in the USA, pirates 2MC made 423 million
Spiderman 1 made 404 million
shrek 2 made 461 million
harry potter and the sorceror's stone made 318 million
obviously, this is a work in progress....a rough estimate after the midpoint.....and a way for me to keep busy and stay out of trouble

http://movieblather.com

http://yourlifesamovie.com

http://thepaulo.com

[thepaulo]

Will Smith's I Am Legend sets a December record with 76.5 million beating out Lord of the Rings:Return of the King
Alvin and the Chipmunks also does a ridiculously impressive 45 Million....
Sheeesh.

[fezident]

There's gotta be a way to adjust these box office figures.

Movies cost $11.75 in midtown Manhattan NOW. When LOTR came out, it was probably in the $9.50 - $10.50 range.


Heck, I remember seeing THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN for 79 cents!

Blockbuster numbers aren't an honest representation of success anymore.

[Hottub]

You're right, fezident. The rest of the civilized world goes by tickets sold, not money.
Makes a whole lot more sense. I remember one time seeing a list adjusted for the dollar, inflation, etc. but I forget where.

[thepaulo]

earlier in this thread.....

[thepaulo]

2007 is a record year for total domestic box-office with 9.7 billion....
passing 2004 with 9.45 billion.

[thepaulo]

obviously i'm obssessed with the B.O.
this should be it for the year, although some of the current releases are doing quite well and should be jumping up the list.
The international B.O. makes a big difference in some US bombs like the Golden Compass and Mr. Bean's Holiday.

updated totals as of now.....
worldwide international usa
961 million 652million 309 million pirates 3:AWE
939 million 647million 292 million Harry Potter & rhe order of the Pheonix
892 million 555 million 337 million spiderman 3
795 million 474 million 321 million shrek 3
703 million 384 million 319 million transformers
614 million 406 million 207 million ratatouille
527 million 343 million 184 million the simpson movie
457 million 246 million 211 million 300
440 million 212 million 228 million bourne ultimatum
383 million 248 million 135 million die hard 4
341 million 128 million 213 million i am legend
312 million 194 million 118 million ocean's 13
289 million 157 million 132 million fantastic four 2
255 million 115 million 141 million rush hour 3
253 million 85 million 168 million wild hogs
252 million 189 million 63 million the golden compass
231 million 105 million 126 million bee movie
230 million 113 million 117 million ghost rider
227 million 112 million 115 million enchanted
220 million 190 million 30 million mr bean's holiday
218 million 69 million 149 million knocked up
212 million 61 million 151 million national treasure 2
201 million 40 million 161 million alvin and the chipmunks
199 million 69 million 130 million american gangster
197 million 78 million 119 million hairspray
193 million 110 million 83 million beowulf
185 million 65 million 120 million I now pronounce you chuck and larry
175 million 73 million 101 million evan almighty
172 million 49 million 123 million superbad
160 million 64 million 96 million norbit
160 million 62 million 98 million meet the robinsons
146 million 95 million 51 million Music and Lyrics
145 million 94 million 51 million Resident evil:extinction




in the USA, pirates 2MC made 423 million
Spiderman 1 made 404 million
shrek 2 made 461 million
harry potter and the sorceror's stone made 318 million
obviously, this is a work in progress....a rough estimate after the midpoint.....and a way for me to keep busy and stay out of trouble

http://movieblather.com

http://yourlifesamovie.com

http://thepaulo.com

[thepaulo]

Box Office sucks this year....Jim Carry is the only one to have a hit......

2008 results so far

Worldwide international USA
$255million $110million $145million Horton Hears a Who
$254million $162million $93 million 10,000 B.C.
$205million $126million $79 million Jumper
$162million $81 million $81 million Cloverfield
$145million $67 million $77 million 27 Dresses
$141million $69 million $72 million Vantage Point
$138million $68 million $71 million Spiderwick Chronicals
N/A N/A $70 million 21
N/A N/A $70 million Fool's Gold
N/A N/A $66 million Hannah Montana 3D
N/A N/A $58 million Step Up 2

[FUNKMAN]

thanks Paul, now I'll be able to sleep...

[thepaulo]

sorry...I would have posted it earlier if I had known I was holding things up......

[FUNKMAN]

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/gif/ya5.gif

:tongue:

[thepaulo]

oops....didn't know you were sleeping...I'll be quiet now.....:innocent:

[TheMojoPin]

Remember the good ol' days when the general public didn't give a fuck what a movie made?

Well, no, I don't, since I've been born and raised in a post-Star Wars world, but I wish I did.

[thepaulo]

It would be nice if only the really intelligent, profound and thoughtful movies were the ones to make all the money but that must happen in Earth 2......

[Fallon]

Iron Man, The Marvel Comics adaptation, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the guy in the metal suit, hauled in $100.7 million during its opening weekend and $104.2 million since debuting Thursday night, the second-best premiere ever for a nonsequel, according to studio estimates Sunday. Link (http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20080504/120993390000.html)

[thepaulo]

Worldwide international USA

$276million $128million $148million Horton Hears a Who
$258million $165million $93 million 10,000 B.C.
$205million $126million $79 million Jumper
$201million $97million $104million Ironman (first weekend)
$162million $81 million $81 million Cloverfield
$145million $67 million $77 million 27 Dresses
$141million $69 million $72 million Vantage Point
$138million $68 million $71 million Spiderwick Chronicals
N/A N/A $79 million 21
$97million $27million $70 million Fool's Gold
N/A N/A $66 million Hannah Montana 3D
N/A N/A $58 million Step Up 2

[marcpsych]

"Jumper" sucked a huge cock.

[thepaulo]

Worldwide international USA
$763million $450million $313million Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
$568million $253million $315million Iron Man
$477million $271million $207million Ku Fu Panda
$447million $254million $182million Hancock
$376million $226million $159million Sex and the City
$371million $231million $140million Prince Caspian:Narnia
$291million $136million $153million Horton Hears a Who
$270million $175million $95 million 10,000 B.C.
$222million $141million $81 million Jumper
$220million $96 million $124million Wanted
$210million $130million $80 million What Happens in Vegas
$197million $41 million $156million The Dark Knight
$177million $57 million $120million Get Smart
$172million $91 million $81 million Cloverfield
$164million $92 million $72million Spiderwick Chronicals
$158million $81 million $77 million 27 Dresses
$155million $74million $82 million 21
$152million $79 million $73 million Vantage Point
$148million $84 million $64 million The Happening
$144million $86 million $58 million Step Up 2:the Streets
$115million $71 million $43 million Rambo
$112million $41 million $72 million Fool's Gold
$102million $74 million $28 million Mama Mia

[thepaulo]

this post from Mike Teacher earlier in this thread seems relevent right now....
adjusted gross




for the click-lazy and w/o all the numbers [domestic, not worldwide] it begins like...

1. GWTWind '39
2. Star Wars '77
3. Sound of Music '65
4. ET '82
5. 10 Commandments '56
6. Titanic '97
7. Jaws '75
8. Dr. Zhivago '65
9. Exorcist '73
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves '37

[thepaulo]

This might be too much information...

Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation*

Note: Use the adjuster tool in the upper right-hand corner to adjust into any year's dollars.Rank Title (click to view) Studio Adjusted Gross Unadjusted Gross Year^
1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,390,067,000 $198,676,459 1939^
2 Star Wars Fox $1,225,462,800 $460,998,007 1977^
3 The Sound of Music Fox $979,817,800 $158,671,368 1965
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $975,957,800 $435,110,554 1982^
5 The Ten Commandments Par. $901,280,000 $65,500,000 1956
6 Titanic Par. $883,019,700 $600,788,188 1997
7 Jaws Uni. $881,182,300 $260,000,000 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $854,051,900 $111,721,910 1965
9 The Exorcist WB $760,712,400 $232,671,011 1973^
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $749,920,000 $184,925,486 1937^
11 101 Dalmatians Dis. $687,430,700 $144,880,014 1961^
12 The Empire Strikes Back Fox $675,482,800 $290,475,067 1980^
13 Ben-Hur MGM $674,240,000 $74,000,000 1959
14 Return of the Jedi Fox $647,128,700 $309,306,177 1983^
15 The Sting Uni. $613,302,900 $156,000,000 1973
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark Par. $606,416,000 $242,374,454 1981^
17 Jurassic Park Uni. $593,096,200 $357,067,947 1993
18 The Graduate AVCO $588,731,200 $104,901,839 1967^
19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $583,601,600 $431,088,301 1999
20 Fantasia Dis. $571,339,100 $76,408,097 1941^
21 The Godfather Par. $542,987,300 $134,966,411 1972^
22 Forrest Gump Par. $540,393,800 $329,694,499 1994
23 Mary Poppins Dis. $537,890,900 $102,272,727 1964^
24 The Lion King BV $531,354,700 $328,541,776 1994^
25 Grease Par. $529,221,700 $188,389,888 1978^
26 Thunderball UA $514,624,000 $63,595,658 1965
27 The Jungle Book Dis. $506,917,800 $141,843,612 1967^
28 Sleeping Beauty Dis. $500,011,300 $51,600,000 1959^
29 Shrek 2 DW $488,830,400 $441,226,247 2004
30 Ghostbusters Col. $486,626,600 $238,632,124 1984^
31 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Fox $485,438,000 $102,308,889 1969
32 Love Story Par. $481,587,200 $106,397,186 1970
33 Spider-Man Sony $478,055,100 $403,706,375 2002
34 Independence Day Fox $476,569,900 $306,169,268 1996
35 Home Alone Fox $466,011,300 $285,761,243 1990
36 Pinocchio Dis. $463,734,900 $84,254,167 1940^
37 Cleopatra (1963) Fox $462,222,200 $57,777,778 1963
38 Beverly Hills Cop Par. $461,992,100 $234,760,478 1984
39 Goldfinger UA $456,144,000 $51,081,062 1964
40 Airport Uni. $454,845,600 $100,489,151 1970
41 American Graffiti Uni. $452,114,300 $115,000,000 1973
42 The Robe Fox $450,327,300 $36,000,000 1953
43 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $444,643,200 $423,315,812 2006
44 Around the World in 80 Days UA $444,553,800 $42,000,000 1956
45 Bambi RKO $438,341,600 $102,247,150 1942^
46 Blazing Saddles WB $435,005,300 $119,500,000 1974
47 Batman WB $433,127,800 $251,188,924 1989
48 The Bells of St. Mary's RKO $431,686,300 $21,333,333 1945
49 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $423,382,400 $377,027,325 2003
50 The Towering Inferno Fox $422,264,600 $116,000,000 1974
51 Spider-Man 2 Sony $413,892,200 $373,585,825 2004
52 My Fair Lady WB $412,800,000 $72,000,000 1964
53 The Greatest Show on Earth Par. $412,800,000 $36,000,000 1952
54 National Lampoon's Animal House Uni. $412,045,000 $141,600,000 1978^
55 The Passion of the Christ NM $410,769,300 $370,782,930 2004^
56 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Fox $408,153,100 $380,270,577 2005
57 Back to the Future Uni. $406,268,500 $210,609,762 1985
58 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers NL $396,497,300 $341,786,758 2002^
59 The Sixth Sense BV $396,144,400 $293,506,292 1999
60 Superman WB $394,623,900 $134,218,018 1978
61 Tootsie Col. $391,499,100 $177,200,000 1982
62 Smokey and the Bandit Uni. $391,010,500 $126,737,428 1977
63 Finding Nemo BV $387,601,800 $339,714,978 2003
64 West Side Story MGM $385,075,600 $43,656,822 1961
65 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone WB $384,681,300 $317,575,550 2001
66 Lady and the Tramp Dis. $383,456,000 $93,602,326 1955^
67 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Col. $382,359,700 $132,088,635 1977^
68 Lawrence of Arabia Col. $381,038,800 $44,824,144 1962^
69 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fox $378,877,600 $112,892,319 1975
70 Rocky UA $378,675,000 $117,235,147 1976
71 The Best Years of Our Lives RKO $378,400,000 $23,650,000 1946
72 The Poseidon Adventure Fox $377,725,500 $84,563,118 1972
73 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring NL $376,363,000 $314,776,170 2001^
74 Twister WB $376,254,300 $241,721,524 1996
75 Men in Black Sony $375,762,700 $250,690,539 1997
76 The Bridge on the River Kwai Col. $374,272,000 $27,200,000 1957
77 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World MGM $370,662,900 $46,332,858 1963
78 Swiss Family Robinson Dis. $370,199,000 $40,356,000 1960
79 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest UA $369,355,300 $108,981,275 1975
80 M.A.S.H. Fox $369,347,400 $81,600,000 1970
81 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Par. $368,305,800 $179,870,271 1984
82 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Fox $367,863,100 $310,676,740 2002^
83 Mrs. Doubtfire Fox $362,468,600 $219,195,243 1993
84 Aladdin BV $360,803,300 $217,350,219 1992
85 Ghost Par. $354,080,700 $217,631,306 1990
86 Duel in the Sun Selz. $351,020,400 $20,408,163 1946
87 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl BV $348,464,400 $305,413,918 2003
88 House of Wax WB $347,659,600 $23,750,000 1953
89 Rear Window Par. $346,440,600 $36,764,313 1954^
90 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Uni. $343,380,500 $229,086,679 1997
91 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Par. $339,985,500 $197,171,806 1989
92 Spider-Man 3 Sony $336,530,300 $336,530,303 2007
93 Terminator 2: Judgment Day TriS $334,755,900 $204,843,345 1991
94 Sergeant York WB $331,087,600 $16,361,885 1941
95 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Uni. $330,974,900 $260,044,825 2000
96 Toy Story 2 BV $329,115,300 $245,852,179 1999^
97 Top Gun Par. $327,841,700 $176,786,701 1986
98 Shrek DW $325,359,600 $267,665,011 2001
99 Shrek the Third P/DW $322,719,900 $322,719,944 2007
100 The Matrix Reloaded WB $321,268,000 $281,576,461 2003

[thepaulo]

Dark Knight makes $200,000,000 in six days....new record.

[Thebazile78]

10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves '37

Actually, it's "Dwarfs" not "Dwarves."

Honestly. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/)

[thepaulo]

The Dark Knighthas set another record....$300 million in ten days beating Pirates of the Carribean:Dead Man's Chest which did it in 16 days....
It's espected to beat the record to $400million set by Shrek 2.

[thepaulo]

Worldwide international USA
$777million $462million $315million Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
$707million $265million $442million The Dark Knight
$568million $253million $315million Iron Man
$559million $348million $211million Ku Fu Panda
$555million $333million $222million Hancock
$395million $254million $141million Prince Caspian:Narnia
$389million $237million $152million Sex and the City
$333million $122million $211million Wall-E
$291million $136million $153million Horton Hears a Who
$278million $174million $105million Mamma Mia!
$270million $175million $95 million 10,000 B.C
$254million $121million $133million Wanted
$246million $112million 134million The Increible Hulk
$222million $141million $81 million Jumper
$212million $ 74million $128million Get Smart
$210million $130million $80 million What Happens in Vegas
$172million $91 million $81 million Cloverfield
$164million $92 million $72million Spiderwick Chronicals
$160million $95million 65 million The Happening
$158million $81 million $77 million 27 Dresses
$155million $74million $82 million 21
$152million $79 million $73 million Vantage Point
$144million $86 million $58 million Step Up 2:the Streets
$115million $71 million $43 million Rambo
$112million $41 million $72 million Fool's Gold

[thepaulo]

Summer Box Office this year basically matched last year's record-breaking totals (but with fewer overall tickets sold).
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2026204720080820

[bobrobot]

Pay me watchya owe me, BITCH!!

[thepaulo]

trying to get motivated...here's a little B.O.


US Intl total

166 + 128 = 294 Monsters Vs. Aliens
139 + 148 = 287 Fast and Furious
143 + 75 = 218 Taken
107 + 74 = 181 Watchmen
94 + 67 = 161 He's Just Not That Into You
145 Paul Blart: mall Cop
91 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail


also I'll throw in this from last year....
Mama Mia made $145 Million in the US but $458 Internationally for a $603 total....
amazing

[hammersavage]

Fox's super hero spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine crushed the competition and ruled the global box office kicking off the summer movie season with a scorching debut. The romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opened reasonably well in second place helping the overall marketplace match the same weekend a year ago when Iron Man got 2008's record summer season started.

Wolverine generated a ferocious opening weekend grossing an estimated $87M over the Friday-to-Sunday period from a studio record 4,099 theaters for a sizzling $21,225 average. Starring Hugh Jackman who also produced, the PG-13 prequel tells the origin story of the popular X-Men character and successfully launched a new series of spinoffs for a decade-old franchise that previously grossed $606.6M domestically across its last three installments.

The opening ranked as the eleventh best for May, the strongest month of the year when it comes to debuts. However it was the fourth largest when looking at the first weekend of May when the summer movie season traditionally kicks off. Only fellow comic book pics Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M in 2007), Spider-Man ($114.8M in 2002), and Iron Man ($98.6M) have fared better. The Wolverine bow is also the third largest in studio history for Fox trailing Star Wars Episode III ($108.4M) and X-Men: The Last Stand ($102.8M).

Directed by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi), Wolverine got off to a muscular start with $35M in ticket sales on Friday. Saturday dropped by 15% to $29.8M while Sunday is estimated to fall by 25% to $22.3M. During their opening weekends, Saturday-to-Sunday declines were 30% for Iron Man and 22% for Spider-Man 3. The audience for the new tale was 53% male and 52% over 25.

A pirated copy of Wolverine surfaced online a month ago and may have had an impact on sales this weekend. Although there has been much speculation, no hard data exists pinpointing how much in ticket sales was lost. The source of the leaked early copy has not been found.

Looking at past summer kickoff films, the Origins opening weekend gross most resembled the $85.6M of X2: X-Men United from 2003, although ticket prices have risen by 21% since that year. By comparing admissions, Wolverine sold about as many tickets as 2001's The Mummy Returns which debuted to $68.1M which translates to roughly $88M at today's ticket prices. Both sold about 12 million stubs in their first three days.

Still, for an X-Men movie stripped of popular characters like Storm, Magneto, Professor X, and Rogue, Wolverine managed to stand on its own two feet and pull in numbers in line with franchise history. But without so many expensive actors demanding raises with each new installment, the cost was lower this time - $130M after tax credits from shooting in Australia are factored in. The first three mutant films were all shot in Canada with the initial installment opening to $54.5M in July of 2000. Last Stand carried a hefty reported price tag of $210M.

Fox and Marvel are developing an origin film for Magneto which is planned for a 2011 release. That same year, the comic book giant also aims to release the big screen adventures Captain America and Thor through Paramount and Spider-Man 4 through Sony.

Wolverine had sharp claws overseas too with a spectacular day and date launch that pulled in an additional $73M from over 9,000 screens in 101 markets making for a colossal $160M opening around the world. Next weekend, grosses are expected to drop sharply as Paramount invades theaters globally with its highly-anticipated sci-fi origin tale Star Trek.

For those not interested in super hero battles, Warner Bros. offered the Matthew McConaughey-Jennifer Garner wedding-themed comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past which debuted in second place with an estimated $15.3M from 3,175 locations for a decent $4,827 average. It was a respectable debut for a romantic comedy and slightly exceeded the chick flick offering Made of Honor which countered Iron Man this weekend last year with a $14.8M bow. However, Ghosts failed to come close to the $20M mark which most McConaughey romance vehicles tend to break.

His 2003 hit How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days with Kate Hudson opened to $23.8M, the 2006 pic Failure to Launch with Sarah Jessica Parker bowed to $24.4M, and last year's action-comedy Fool's Gold with Hudson debuted with $21.6M. Reviews were predictably negative and some fans may have passed on the chance to see McConaughey play a cocky but lovable hunk for the umpteenth time. The studio is hoping Ghosts, which reportedly cost $50M to produce, will keep running throughout the early summer weeks since the rest of May has virtually no date movies or female-skewing comedies.

Sony's hit thriller Obsessed dropped from first to third and lost 57% of its opening weekend business grossing an estimated $12.2M pushing the ten-day cume to $47M. The decline was on the high end of what films of the type generally see and the cume to date is impressive for a $20M-budgeted pic. Look for star/executive producer Beyoncé to reach a stellar $70M by the end of the domestic run.

In its third weekend, Zac Efron's 17 Again dropped 45% to an estimated $6.4M giving Warner Bros. $48.5M to date. Paramount enjoyed the smallest drop in the top ten with DreamWorks Animation's 3D toon Monsters vs. Aliens which took in another $5.8M in its sixth adventure, according to estimates, boosting the total for the year's top-grossing blockbuster to $182.4M.

Robert Downey Jr., the king of the box office one year ago, settled for sixth place with his disappointing violinist drama The Soloist which dipped 42% to an estimated $5.6M for $18.1M in ten days. Paramount's $60M DreamWorks/Universal co-production which also stars Jamie Foxx should stumble to a $30M final tally and may be a tough sell overseas too. Disney's nature documentary Earth followed with an estimated $4.2M, down 53%, putting the 12-day sum at $21.8M. The final gross should approach $30M as well, a solid figure for a non-fiction pic.

Universal's tough guy flick Fighting dropped a hefty 62% in its second round to an estimated $4.2M. With $17.5M in ten days, look for a decent $25M by the end of the run. The G-rated fun of Hannah Montana The Movie followed declining 37% to an estimated $4.1M putting Disney at $70.9M. The girlpower flick has surpassed the $65.3M of last year's 3D concert film Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds. Rounding out the top ten was State of Play which grossed an estimated $3.7M, down 47%, for a $30.9M total for Universal.

Wolverine kicked two of April's action sequels out of the top ten this weekend. Vin Diesel's franchise pic Fast & Furious grossed an estimated $2.7M, down 56%, and raised its stellar cume to $149.8M to become the year's second-biggest grosser and top-performing live-action film - for now. Universal has found that the fourth time is a charm as the new Furious has become the highest-grossing installment in the eight-year-old series. Look for a $155M domestic finish. Overseas, Fast & Furious captured an estimated $6.7M this weekend boosting the international total to $182.4M and the global gross to a stunning $332M.

Attracting a slightly smaller audience was Crank High Voltage which collapsed by 82% this weekend to an estimated $466,000 domestically. Lionsgate has taken in just $13.3M in 17 days and should conclude with a lackluster $14M for its Jason Statham vehicle, or half of the $27.8M total that 2006's Crank took in.

Crashing and burning with the worst opening of 2009 for a wide release was the animated sci-fi film Battle for Terra which stumbled to an estimated $1.1M from 1,162 theaters for a pitiful $916 average. The PG-rated film from Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate tells the story of humans trying to conquer a new planet for their survival. Moviegoers found no reason to pay top dollar to see this on the big screen.

Focus saw a strong platform debut for its crime thriller The Limits of Control which grossed an estimated $54,233 from only three locations for a sturdy $18,078 average. Directed by Jim Jarmusch, the R-rated film stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, and Gael Garcia Bernal and did well despite weak reviews. Business for new independent films in general has been horrendous this year so Limits hopes to find some early summer success from arthouse crowds not in the mood for mutants, Vulcans, or terminators.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $148.4M which was exactly even with last year when Iron Man opened in the top spot with $98.6M; but was down 17% from 2007 when Spider-Man 3 debuted at number one with a then-record $151.1M.



"Marvel are developing an origin film for Magneto which is planned for a 2011 release. That same year, the comic book giant also aims to release the big screen adventures Captain America and Thor through Paramount and Spider-Man 4 through Sony." I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's gonna be a lucrative year for Marvel.

[thepaulo]

"Marvel are developing an origin film for Magneto which is planned for a 2011 release. That same year, the comic book giant also aims to release the big screen adventures Captain America and Thor through Paramount and Spider-Man 4 through Sony." I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's gonna be a lucrative year for Marvel.

informative article...especially liked the part where they talked about the origins films being cheaper to make because all the actors from X-Men were holding out for more money.

[hammersavage]

Terminator eats the dick. They were hoping $80 million + over the weekend, not 55. Fuck you McG.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ben Stiller beat Christian Bale in the North American weekend box office duel between their respective "Night at the Museum" and "Terminator" sequels, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

The 20th Century Fox comedy "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" sold $53.5 million worth of tickets during the three days beginning Friday, far exceeding the $30.4 million debut of its 2006 predecessor.

"Terminator Salvation" earned $43.0 million. The film fell short of the $44 million start for the previous entry in the cyborg series, 2003's "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," the swan song of franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But the race between the two new sequels was closer than it appeared because Warner Bros. got a head start on the U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend by opening "Terminator" on Thursday, when it earned about $13.4 million. That takes the film's four-day total to $56.4 million.

The studios generally try to avoid each other when they roll out their big movies. In this case, "Night at the Museum" played to a broad audience, while "Terminator" was more targeted at male moviegoers.

Time Warner Inc-owned Warner Bros. said "Terminator" was likely more affected by competition for older men from the National Basketball Association playoffs, which hurt business in cities like Los Angeles.

Fox, a unit of News Corp, said the "Night at the Museum" opening set a new live-action record for Stiller. The film also opened in most international markets, earning $50.5 million.

Last weekend' North American champion, "Angels & Demons," slipped to No. 3 with $21.4 million, taking the 10-day total for Columbia Pictures' Tom Hanks religious thriller to $81.5 million. By contrast, its 2006 predecessor "The Da Vinci Code" had earned $136.5 million after the same period.

But the Sony Corp unit has said it never expected the second film to be as big, and noted it that it was the top choice internationally with sales of $60.4 million. Its foreign total now stands at $198.3 million.

And Dance Flick made $11 million too much.

[SP1!]

Box office means dick those Night at the Museum films suck, the first one was horrible but Im sure people just went to see it to have a night out with the family.


Its coming to a point when all the decent films will have to be shown on a site that pays with ads, there are no good films playing within 20 minutes of my house, it didnt used to be that way and that makes me sad. Fuck there used to be at least one theater who would show quality films but that doesnt happen anymore. Its splosions and effects so they can make money, fuck quality.


God it sickens me, there is no reason for me to ever go to a theater near me ever again.

[hammersavage]

Up with a big debut. Terminator falls off hard, kind of a bomb for the budget and the hype.

Pixar and Disney celebrated their tenth straight number one smash with the 3D flying house flick Up which enjoyed a strong opening atop the North American box office. The new horror film Drag Me to Hell played well to those looking for a scare with its third place finish. Most holdovers fell by more than 50% from last weekend's holiday session but overall sales for the top ten still matched up to last year.

Moviegoers spent the weekend with a grumpy old man and an adventurous young scout as the animated film Up debuted at number one with an estimated $68.2M from 3,766 locations. Averaging a stellar $18,109 per location, the PG-rated film continued Pixar's lucky streak which has seen every one of its offerings debut at number one in its first weekend of wide release. Grosses were boosted by extra surcharges that theaters collected for the 3D presentation, the first ever for Pixar. For example, New York City's Lincoln Square theater charges $12.50 for regular tickets, but $16.50 for Up in 3D.

Showered with praise and glowing reviews from critics, Up enjoyed the fourth biggest opening of 2009 trailing just X-Men Origins: Wolverine ($85.1M), Star Trek ($75.2M), and Fast & Furious ($71M). Friday kicked off the release with $21.4M, Saturday rose 24% to $26.5M, and Sunday is estimated to decline by 24% to $20.3M. Up unspooled in a record 1,534 3D locations with Disney reporting those theaters grossing 2.2 times more than the regular-priced 2D screens.

Up was able to fly past the $63.1M of its studio's last entry WALL•E, although the higher ticket prices meant the audience size was a bit smaller. But a clear victory was won over this year's 3D smash Monsters vs. Aliens from rival DreamWorks Animation which bowed to $59.3M in March. Not only did Monsters benefit from higher 3D prices but it also opened wider in 338 more locations. Up now holds the record for the biggest opening for a 3D pic.

For Pixar, Up ranks as its third best debut ever after The Incredibles ($70.4M in 2004) and Finding Nemo ($70.3M in 2003). And it was the seventh largest bow for any animated film in history behind Shrek the Third ($121.6M in 2007), Shrek 2 ($108M in 2004), The Simpsons Movie ($74M in 2007), Incredibles, and Nemo.

Disney was able to reach all audiences this weekend. Studio data showed that the crowd was 53% female and 53% 18 and older. With a CinemaScore rating of A+, one notch higher than WALL•E's A from last summer, a long life is expected. Plus kidpic offerings are light between now and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on July 1. With more and more schools closing for the school year in the coming days, Up should be able to hold up well in the weeks ahead and challenge Star Trek for the summer box office crown. That is, until the mid-summer tentpoles Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince arrive.

With the Pixar folks stealing away the family audience, Fox's Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took a sizable hit falling 53% to second place with an estimated $25.5M in ticket sales. After ten days of release, the PG-rated comedy adventure has pulled in an impressive $105.3M becoming the tenth film of the year to join the century club. A final tally in the vicinity of $170M seems likely putting Smithsonian about one-third behind the $250.9M of the first Museum which opened over Christmas weekend in 2006.

Universal's supernatural thriller Drag Me to Hell from director Sam Raimi debuted in third place with an estimated $16.6M from 2,508 theaters for a solid $6,630 average. While not a bad opening in any way, the debut was a bit disappointing given the starpower of the filmmaker, lack of horror films for two months, and the spectacular reviews from critics. Fellow PG-13 spookfests The Unborn and The Haunting of Connecticut opened to $21.1M and $23M respectively this year. Universal even generated a $21M bow for its horror pic The Strangers a year ago this very weekend. Drag's 11% Friday-to-Saturday drop should mean a shaky road ahead.

John Connor saw most of his followers vanish as the action sequel Terminator Salvation tumbled 62% in its second weekend to an estimated $16.1M falling two spots to fourth place. It was a larger drop than the 56% decline suffered by T3: Rise of the Machines in July 2003 after its extended holiday debut. Released by Warner Bros., Salvation has generated $90.7M over 11 days and looks headed for a final domestic tally of roughly $135M. That would put the new Christian Bale actioner 13% behind the $150.4M gross of T3, and a troubling 28% behind in actual tickets sold. Salvation cost a reported $200M to produce and was backed by a pricey marketing campaign. Overseas, the sci-fi film opened at number one in seven Asian territories through Sony this weekend and grossed $8.6M from 673 runs for a solid $12,700 average.

Posting the smallest decline in the top ten was Star Trek which dropped to fifth with an estimated $12.8M, down 44%. Paramount's reboot hit crossed the $200M mark on Friday in its 22nd day of release and became the first film of the year, and first since last summer's The Dark Knight, to surpass the double-century mark. With $209.5M in the bank, Trek is still plotting a course to reach $245-250M domestically.

Dropping 48% to sixth place was the Tom Hanks thriller Angels & Demons with an estimated $11.2M. The Sony release upped its domestic cume to $104.8M and is running 39% behind the pace of 2006's The Da Vinci Code. The Angels international total climbed to $251.7M this weekend and is now also 39% behind Code overseas. The global take for Demons stands at $356.5M.

Paramount's spoof comedy Dance Flick stumbled 54% in its second weekend and ranked seventh with an estimated $4.9M. With $19.2M in ten days, the Wayans venture should finish its run with roughly $30M. The summer kickoff flick X-Men Origins: Wolverine followed with an estimated $3.9M for Fox, down 52%, for a $170.9M sum. The mutant prequel is currently the third biggest grosser of 2009 and may end up with $180M. The Matthew McConaughey comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past grossed an estimated $1.9M for Warner Bros., off 51%, and has taken $50M to date.

The race for tenth place was too close to call with a pair of films reporting estimates just $13,000 apart. Sony estimated its relationship thriller Obsessed would tumble 66% to $665,000 while Summit expanded its indie comedy The Brothers Bloom and saw its weekend take climb to an estimated $652,000. The Beyonce Knowles hit has taken in $67.5M thus far and the Rachel Weisz-Adrien Brody starrer, which averaged a decent $4,405 from 148 sites, raised it total in limited release to $1.4M.

[thepaulo]

US Intl total


195 + 166 = $361,000,000 Monsters Vs. Aliens
105 + 252 = $357,000,000 Angels and Demons
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
171 + 171 = $342,000,000 Wolverine
210 + 102 = $312,000,000 Star Trek
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into You
I don't have any international Box office on Paul Blart....don't know why.

[hammersavage]

Looks like Star Trek will be the highest grosser of the year.

[brettmojo]

Looks like Star Trek will be the highest grosser of the year.
Nah. Transformers will own all. Not because it deserves to though.

[hammersavage]

Nah. Transformers will own all. Not because it deserves to though.

Ah, totally forgot about that. It will have the biggest opening weekend, but Star Trek has legs. I think it will be close.

[weekapaugjz]

Box office means dick those Night at the Museum films suck, the first one was horrible but Im sure people just went to see it to have a night out with the family.


Its coming to a point when all the decent films will have to be shown on a site that pays with ads, there are no good films playing within 20 minutes of my house, it didnt used to be that way and that makes me sad. Fuck there used to be at least one theater who would show quality films but that doesnt happen anymore. Its splosions and effects so they can make money, fuck quality.


God it sickens me, there is no reason for me to ever go to a theater near me ever again.

yeah, most theaters anymore are owned by big corporations. you are gonna be hard pressed to find independent theaters showing good movies. the place i work (kind of a gated community, with an emphasis on learning) has an indie theater open during the summer that plays a bunch of great indie films. i'm looking forward to seeing what they will be playing for the coming season. and my chick will be working there, so i'll get in for free.

[thepaulo]

yeah, most theaters anymore are owned by big corporations. you are gonna be hard pressed to find independent theaters showing good movies. the place i work (kind of a gated community, with an emphasis on learning) has an indie theater open during the summer that plays a bunch of great indie films. i'm looking forward to seeing what they will be playing for the coming season. and my chick will be working there, so i'll get in for free.

Independaent film makers wish you would pay for your ticket.

[weekapaugjz]

Independaent film makers wish you would pay for your ticket.

if they show gap, i will definitely pay for it!

[Gerald]

Terminator falls off hard, kind of a bomb for the budget and the hype.

Maybe if Sam Worthington had a fatal overdose on prescription drugs last January it would've grossed 200 million in six days.

[dereckfishboy]

Maybe if Sam Worthington had a fatal overdose on prescription drugs last January it would've grossed 200 million in six days.

I doubt it because Heath Ledger had a notable career andSam Worthington is a fuckin' nobody

[thepaulo]

Maybe if Sam Worthington had a fatal overdose on prescription drugs last January it would've grossed 200 million in six days.

Make that Christian Bale.

[GreatAmericanZero]

what do you think is going to win, "Land of the Lost" or "The Hangover"?

[lleeder]

what do you think is going to win, "Land of the Lost" or "The Hangover"?

I say either way we all lose.

[Drunky McBetidont]

what do you think is going to win, "Land of the Lost" or "The Hangover"?

i am sure land of the lost will do at least $50 million this weekend. I doubt hangover will break $20 million this week, but i think it will have legs and pick up steam in the next few weeks.

[hammersavage]

what do you think is going to win, "Land of the Lost" or "The Hangover"?

Ferrell still has the box office name so I say Land of the Lost. But it will be very close, maybe a couple million. And the Hangover will definitely get better word of mouth so should have better legs.

[hammersavage]

i am sure land of the lost will do at least $50 million this weekend. I doubt hangover will break $20 million this week, but i think it will have legs and pick up steam in the next few weeks.

No chance it will do $50. And Hangover will do over $20. I say $27 to $25.

[Drunky McBetidont]

No chance it will do $50. And Hangover will do over $20. I say $27 to $25.

the nastalgia ticket for middle aged dads and their children will bring in the bucks opening weekend. if it is as bad i think it will be, it will be a flash in the pan.

[lleeder]

I say LOTL does 76 million and hangover does 16.5.

[hammersavage]

the nastalgia ticket for middle aged dads and their children will bring in the bucks opening weekend. if it is as bad i think it will be, it will be a flash in the pan.

Middle aged dads don't go to the movies. That's why I never understood this movie. What is their audience? People may have liked the show, but its so campy and awful that you can't make a movie in the same vein. It's a comedy but its sci-fi. Ferrell doesn't draw like he used to. I really don't see the demographics they will pull in.

[hammersavage]

I say LOTL does 76 million and hangover does 16.5.

If LOTL does over $70 million, I will come to Long Island and blow you

[lleeder]

If LOTL does over $70 million, I will come to Long Island and blow you

I have a midnight showing to catch.

[thepaulo]

LOTL $39mill vs.TH $21mill

[Drunky McBetidont]

LOTL $39mill vs.TH $21mill

have you seen either of them yet?

[thepaulo]

have you seen either of them yet?

uhhuh....unfortunately.

[Gerald]

I'm not buying into the Hangover buzz. I've been burned too many times before by going into movies like American Pie, Old School and Superbad that have the reputation of being instant comedy classics and leaving feeling mystified about what the fuss was about. I like my onscreen comedy idiosyncratic, subversive, character-driven, and perverse. I can tell from the advertising The Hangover in all likelihood has none of those traits. I'm sure there'll be crassness and raunchiness aplenty, though, and it will spawn a hot new catchphrase that bros will recite to each other at the bar while pounding brewskis.

[GreatAmericanZero]

I'm not buying into the Hangover buzz. I've been burned too many times before by going into movies like American Pie, Old School and Superbad that have the reputation of being instant comedy classics and leaving feeling mystified about what the fuss was about. I like my onscreen comedy idiosyncratic, subversive, character-driven, and perverse. I can tell from the advertising The Hangover in all likelihood has none of those traits. I'm sure there'll be crassness and raunchiness aplenty, though, and it will spawn a hot new catchphrase that bros will recite to each other at the bar while pounding brewskis.

i'd say of those 3, "Old School" is a comedy i still will watch over and over again. "American Pie" and "superbad" were good the first time i saw them (i was in high school for the first American Pie) but i never felt they held up with repeat watching

the one thing i do like about "The Hangover" reviews is they say that the movie is consistently funny. Its so true that most comedies just stop being funny in the 3rd act...as they resolve the stories the jokes stop..but i read that "the Hangover" stays funny

Another thing I noticed about "The Hangover" reviews is that a lot of them take shots at Apatow. Like "Finally, a movie where the characters aren't just Apatow type stoner ugly guys saying improv-ed lines blah blah blah". I thought all those Apatow movies got good reviews from critics, but they all seem to be turning on him

[hammersavage]

Saturday grosses update. Looks like I won't have to go to Long Island.

Riding a wave of strong reviews and electric early buzz, the post-bachelor party comedy The Hangover pushed aside the competition and opened triumphantly at number one on Friday with a stunning $16.5M in ticket sales, according to estimates, in its first day of release. The Warner Bros. hit grossed nearly as much on its opening day as other recent R-rated comedies like I Love You, Man and Role Models collected during their entire first weekends. Hangover even powered ahead of the $10.5M first day take of the raunchy 2005 summer smash Wedding Crashers despite lacking the same kind of star names. A Friday-to-Sunday debut of about $45-50M seems likely for the groom-gone-missing comedy putting it in a tight race for the top spot this weekend.

Previous champ Up from Disney/Pixar held up quite well in its second Friday taking in an estimated $13.5M for a decline of only 37%. That puts the PG-rated toon on track to score $43-48M over the weekend thanks to what should be solid matinee business with families on Saturday and Sunday. Up could still beat The Hangover for the weekend crown depending on how moviegoers spend their dollars on Saturday. Regardless of its final chart position, the ten-day cume will surge to the neighborhood of $140M making the $250M mark easy to surpass in the weeks ahead.

Struggling to compete on Friday was the Will Ferrell adventure-comedy Land of the Lost which grossed an estimated $7.2M in its first day in multiplexes. That puts Universal on a course to reach $19-21M over three days for a third place finish. The weekend's other new release, Fox Searchlight's comedy My Life in Ruins, saw an estimated $1M on Friday and should find its way to roughly $3M for the weekend.

[thepaulo]

The Hangover has some funny spots and some dead spots. It's not a comedy classic.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i find that most comedy classics weren't classics the first time i seen them but become that way when repeat viewings are funnier and funnier. But a lot of comedies that get the big box office seem to have everything thats funny on the surface and its hard to watch them over and over again

[thepaulo]

And the Hangover also has that annoying guy from The National Treasure movies that Ron hates and barbecued in an on air interview..

[SP1!]

And the Hangover also has that annoying guy from The National Treasure movies that Ron hates and barbecued in an on air interview..

Nic Cage?

Fuck those movies sucked

[thepaulo]

Nic Cage?

Fuck those movies sucked

Justin Bartha

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

117 + 293 = $410,000,000 Angels and Demons
195 + 166 = $361,000,000 Monsters Vs. Aliens
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
175 + 171 = $346,000,000 Wolverine
223 + 112 = $335,000,000 Star Trek
128 + 148 = $276,000,000 Night at the Museum 2
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
106 + 98 = $204,000,000 Terminator Salvation
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into You
I don't have any international Box office on Paul Blart....don't know why
none on Up either.

[hammersavage]

UP #1 again. Hangover $43 million, LOTL grossed $19.5, this year's 'Speed Racer'.

3rd best R-rated comedy opening ever for the Hangover.

Audiences embraced two very different films as the animated blockbuster Up from Disney/Pixar won a close race to retain its position at number one while the raunchy new comedy The Hangover opened stronger than expected finishing close behind in second place. Will Ferrell's time travel action-comedy Land of the Lost had trouble finding audiences with a disappointing third place debut. With big Hollywood actors asking for more and more money, moviegoers spent their cash on two crowd pleasers lacking any major star names.

It was a close race for the box office crown but despite losing the Friday battle, muscular Saturday and Sunday sales lifted Up to another weekend in first place with an estimated $44.2M. Off only 35%, the PG-rated hit has now upped its ten-day cume to a robust $137.3M. If the estimate holds, it will be the largest second weekend gross for any film since last summer's The Dark Knight.

Sensational word-of-mouth, glowing reviews, and a lack of offerings for young children now starting their summer breaks all contributed to the fantastic performance. Up enjoyed one of the better sophomore holds for a Pixar film declining less than WALL•E (49%), Ratatouille (38%), and Cars (44%) from the last three summers. It also held up better than the most recent offerings from rival DreamWorks which unleashed its last three titles over the past year - 3D pic Monsters vs. Aliens (45%), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (45%), and Kung Fu Panda (44%). Up is on course to fly higher than all six of those hits by the end of its run reaching $275M, and possibly $300M, from North America alone making it the second biggest Pixar smash ever behind just Finding Nemo's $339.7M.

Helped by the surcharges it is collecting from the 3D screens, Up is set to take on Pixar's two biggest hits Nemo and The Incredibles. Nemo, which opened on the same weekend as Up in 2003, slid by only 34% in its second session for a ten-day tally of $144M. The following year's Incredibles bowed in early November, dropped just 29% in its second try, and banked $143.3M after ten days. It ended with $261.4M which Up looks to soar past.

The weekend's big surprise came in the number two slot as the post-bachelor party comedy The Hangover flew past expectations to a stunning $43.3M opening weekend, according to estimates. The R-rated pic averaged a scorching $13,238 from 3,269 theaters for the best average of the frame. Directed by Todd Phillips (Old School, Starsky & Hutch), Hangover enjoyed the third biggest opening in box office history for an R-rated comedy. Only Sex and the City ($56.8M) and American Pie 2 ($45.1M) debuted better and both capitalized on built-in audiences which Hangover did not have.

Reviews were very positive and word-of-mouth from advance screenings helped to fuel excitement. Hangover easily beat out the debuts of other raunchy summer laughers with the same rating like Wedding Crashers ($33.9M), Knocked Up ($30.7M), and Superbad ($33.1M). However, one trouble spot came from the Saturday gross which dropped a troubling 9% from Friday's stellar $16.5M opening day bow. Next weekend's results will determine whether fans rushed out upfront, or if recommendations can help broaden the audience. But with a production cost of under $30M, The Hangover will certainly become a financial winner for Warner Bros. which already has a sequel in the works with Phillips and lead actors Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms signed.

Looking like the first big clunker of the summer movie season, Universal's adventure-comedy Land of the Lost debuted weaker than expected in third place with an estimated $19.5M. The PG-13 pic launched ultrawide in 3,521 locations but averaged a mild $5,545. With Will Ferrell's salary and special effects, the remake cost over $100M to produce and needed a bigger opening in order to find the land of profitability. The bow was even worse than the $20.1M of Ferrell's last summer TV remake Bewitched from June 2005. Apparently, he did not learn his lesson.

Lost entered the marketplace trying to appeal to both families and to the comedian's fan following, but the well-received Up and Hangover stole away much of those respective crowds. The PG-rated Night at the Museum sequel still sold a solid amount of tickets providing even more competition for those seeking adventure and laughs. Plus Lost's bad reviews and rating made parents think twice before taking their younger children. A weak product, intense competition, and source material that wasn't wildly popular to begin with all contributed to Land of the Lost becoming this summer's Speed Racer.

Dropping 40% in its third weekend was Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian which grossed an estimated $14.7M. Fox's action-comedy sequel has banked $127.3M in 17 days, off 22% from the pace of its 2006 predecessor. Paramount's blockbuster reboot Star Trek followed with an estimated $8.4M, down only 33%, for a stellar total of $222.8M.

Sci-fi audiences have been spending half as much money on Terminator Salvation which fell 50% in its third mission to an estimated $8.2M. The Warner Bros. release became the year's twelfth pic to break $100M on Saturday and raised its cume to $105.5M. Given its $200M production cost, the domestic results remain underwhelming. But overseas, Sony launched the John Connor saga this weekend and pulled in an impressive $67.5M haul ranking number one in 66 of its 70 markets. The international total stands at $97.2M and will quickly surpass the North American tally by the end of the week. Sony purchased rights for most overseas territories. Compared to 2003's T3: Rise of the Machines, Salvation is running 21% ahead internationally for Sony but is lagging 17% behind domestically for Warner. Bros.

Devilish films took up the next two spots. Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell tumbled 54% in its second scare grossing an estimated $7.3M for a ten-day tally of $28.5M. Look for the Universal fright flick to end with $40-45M. Angels & Demons followed with an estimated $6.5M, down 43%, giving Sony a domestic take of $116.1M - down 39% from the pace of 2006's The Da Vinci Code. Demons collected $22.3M overseas this weekend to push the international total to $292.9M and the global gross to $409M making it the top-grossing film worldwide this year.

The tour guide comedy My Life in Ruins created no excitement with moviegoers opening poorly in ninth place with an estimated $3.2M. The Fox Searchlight pic averaged a weak $2,771 from 1,164 locations and was panned by critics. Rounding out the top ten was the spoof comedy Dance Flick with an estimated $2M, stumbling a steep 58% in its third round, for a sum to date of just $22.7M for Paramount.

Focus got off to a sizzling start with its pregnancy comedy Away We Go which bowed in four theaters with an estimated $143,260 for a potent average of $35,815. Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road), the R-rated dysfunctional family pic stars NBC faces John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph and earned mixed reviews from critics. Away expands to over 30 sites across numerous top markets next weekend.

[hammersavage]

Hangover #1 again. Will be the highest grossing rated R movie of all time.

Moviegoers could not get enough of Mike Tyson's tiger as the raunchy Vegas-set comedy The Hangover spent a second weekend at number one, dropping a remarkably low amount, and is on course to become the top-grossing R-rated comedy of all time. Also holding up well was the toon titan Up which remained in second place with a small decline of its own as it attempts to become Pixar's biggest blockbuster ever. Among new releases, Denzel Washington's hostage thriller The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 landed in third place with a respectable bow while Eddie Murphy's family comedy Imagine That was dead on arrival with one of the worst openings of the year.

Sliding only 26% from its surprisingly powerful debut, The Hangover was once again the top choice for ticket buyers selling an estimated $33.4M worth of stubs this weekend to lead all films in the marketplace. The Warner Bros. hit has now grossed a stunning $105.4M in just ten days. Normally only big-budget action movies join the century club this fast, not no-star comedies costing under $30M. Moviegoers that took a wait-and-see approach last weekend were infected by the buzz and the post-bachelor party flick is now broadening its audience and benefiting from strong recommendations.

The second weekend drop was even lower than those enjoyed by other popular R-rated summer comedies like Knocked Up (36%), Tropic Thunder (37%), and Superbad (45%). Instead, Hangover's decline was much like the 24% that both leggy 2005 hits Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin enjoyed. Hangover had little competition from new releases this weekend for its core audience of young adults as one film was an action offering playing older and the other was a comedy that was completely ignored. The sleeper hit now looks to surge past the $200M mark and could even surpass Wedding Crashers to become the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever.

Holding steady in the runnerup spot with a small decline of its own was the animated blockbuster Up which took in an estimated $30.5M in its third frame. Down only 31%, the Disney/Pixar sensation boosted its 17-day cume to a robust $187.2M. Up has now joined Shrek 2 as the only animated films in box office history to gross more than $30M in each of their first three frames. Third weekend grosses for other big toon hits include $28.4M for Finding Nemo, $28.2M for Shrek, $28M for Shrek the Third, and $26.5M for The Incredibles.

Compared to Nemo, Pixar's top performer ever, Up scored a larger third weekend gross and a smaller decline beating the fish pic's 39% drop. Nemo took in $191.5M in its first 17 days during the same time of year on its way to $339.7M and Up now looks to be on a trajectory to break the $300M mark as well thanks to great word-of-mouth and strong repeat business.

Denzel Washington faced off with John Travolta in the action remake The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 which debuted in third place with an estimated $25M. The Tony Scott-directed pic averaged a solid $8,133 from 3,074 locations and ended up in the same range as many of Washington's previous R-rated action films. In fact, the casting of Travolta seemed to add little value at the box office. Openings for Washington include $29M for Inside Man, $22.8M for Man on Fire, and $22.6M for Training Day. Pelham gave the Oscar winner his third best career opening after American Gangster ($43.6M) and Inside.

Fox's franchise flick Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian dipped only 34% in its fourth adventure to an estimated $9.6M. Total to date stands at $143.4M. Following its poor showing on opening weekend, Will Ferrell's competing action-comedy Land of the Lost fell 51% to an estimated $9.2M finishing in fifth. The $100M+ production has taken in just $35M in ten days for Universal and should stumble to a lackluster $55-60M final tally.

Eddie Murphy enjoyed a big win this weekend as he beat out the opening of his last dud Meet Dave. But just by an inch. The comedian's latest attempt at PG-rated family comedy Imagine That was rejected by parents and kids opening in seventh place to a dismal $5.7M, according to estimates. Paramount released the $55M production in 3,008 theaters and was rewarded with a laughable $1,895 average. It was the third worst opening weekend average for a wide opener all year faring better than only Battle for Terra ($933 from 1,160 theaters) and Miss March ($1,383 from 1,742). In fact, the last movie to open in 3,000+ theaters and generate a lower average than Imagine That was actually Meet Dave last July with its dreadful $5.3M from 3,011 sites and $1,744 average. Big paychecks for family comedies may have dried up for Eddie.

Star Trek didn't have the lowest decline in the top ten this time, but the sci-fi reboot still held up very well in its sixth round grossing an estimated $5.6M. Off only 33%, the Paramount smash lifted its total to $232M. Rival actioner Terminator Salvation followed with an estimated $4.7M, down 43%, for a $113.8M total for Warner Bros.

Sony's Angels & Demons ranked eighth falling 36% to an estimated $4.2M boosting the domestic total to $123.3M. Rounding out the top ten was the horror flick Drag Me to Hell which scared up an estimated $3.9M, down 45%, giving Universal $35.1M to date.

Audiences have been cutting their spending on sequels this summer. Battle of the Smithsonian is running 23% behind the pace of the first Night at the Museum at the same point in its run, Terminator Salvation is 17% behind T3, and Angels & Demons is 38% behind The Da Vinci Code. Add in higher ticket prices and the gaps widen when comparing admissions.

Francis Ford Coppola's new self-distributed pic Tetro debuted impressively in platform release grossing an estimated $31,339 from solo houses in New York and Los Angeles for a solid $15,670 average. Since its Thursday launch, the Buenos Aires-set drama has collected $38,169. Expanding successfully in limited play was the Focus comedy Away We Go which widened from four to 45 locations taking in an estimated $554,000 for an encouraging $12,311 average. Many indie films collapse after expanding from New York and Los Angeles but this quirky pregnancy pic showed strength in over a dozen markets making it a true independent hit attracting the non-popcorn crowd.

I didn't even know Coppola had a new flick. You see it Paul?

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

124 + 315 = $439,000,000 Angels and Demons
195 + 172 = $367,000,000 Monsters Vs. Aliens
180 + 176 + $356,000,000 Wolverine
233 + 119 = $352,000,000 Star Trek
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
145 + 177 = $322,000,000 Night at the Museum 2
115 + 166 = $281,000,000 Terminator Salvation
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
191 + 30 = $221,000,000 Up
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into You
I don't have any international Box office on Paul Blart...

[thepaulo]

Hangover #1 again. Will be the highest grossing rated R movie of all time.



I didn't even know Coppola had a new flick. You see it Paul?

No...but Coppola is making good on a promise to make small challenging films that George Lucus said HE would do.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i see that "Year One" is opening this weekend..i can't see it making any money. It just looks too broad and one note

[thepaulo]

i see that "Year One" is opening this weekend..i can't see it making any money. It just looks too broad and one note

seconded.

[Gerald]

Harold Ramis' filmography is maddeningly hit-or-miss:

Year One (2009) :flush:
Atlanta (2007) (TV)
"The Office" (3 episodes, 2006-2007)
- Beach Games (2007) TV episode
- Safety Training (2007) TV episode
- A Benihana Christmas (2006) TV episode
The Ice Harvest (2005) :flush:
Analyze That (2002) :flush:
Bedazzled (2000) :flush:
Analyze This (1999) :thumbup:
Multiplicity (1996) :flush:
Stuart Saves His Family (1995) :flush:
Groundhog Day (1993) :thumbup:
Club Paradise (1986)
Vacation (1983) :thumbup:
Caddyshack (1980) :thumbup:

[TheMojoPin]

The Ice Harvest is fantastic, sir.

[TheMojoPin]

No...but Coppola is making good on a promise to make small challenging films that George Lucus said HE would do.

Tetro might be decent, but other than that what the fuck are you talking about?

His career as a director post-Apocalypse Now:

Tetro (2009)

Youth Without Youth (2007)
... aka Jugend ohne Jugend (Germany)
... aka L'homme sans âge (France)
... aka Un'altra giovinezza (Italy)

Supernova (2000/I) (uncredited)

The Rainmaker (1997)
... aka John Grisham's The Rainmaker (USA: complete title)

Jack (1996)

Dracula (1992)
... aka Bram Stoker's Dracula (USA: complete title)

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III (USA: complete title)

New York Stories (1989) (segment "Life without Zoe") (as Francis Coppola)

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Gardens of Stone (1987) (as Francis Coppola)

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) (as Francis Coppola)

Captain EO (1986)

The Cotton Club (1984) (as Francis Coppola)

Rumble Fish (1983)

The Outsiders (1983) (as Francis Coppola)

One from the Heart (1982) (as Francis Coppola)

Granted, a few of those films are decent, but what is "small and challenging" about most of those?

[thepaulo]

I'm thinking in terms of Coppola and Lucas, lifelong friends thinking about commerce vs. art in their twilight years. Lucas had talked about abandoning big budget films.
Clearly neither have been very busy of late, but Coppola has then made two films fairly quickly, Neither one of those films was done to make make money but rather to explore an obscure artistic vision. It's curious but interesting.

Granted, Tetro might be decent, but other than that what the fuck are you talking about?

His career as a director post-Apocalypse Now:

Tetro (2009)

Youth Without Youth (2007)
... aka Jugend ohne Jugend (Germany)
... aka L'homme sans âge (France)
... aka Un'altra giovinezza (Italy)

Supernova (2000/I) (uncredited)

The Rainmaker (1997)
... aka John Grisham's The Rainmaker (USA: complete title)

Jack (1996)

Dracula (1992)
... aka Bram Stoker's Dracula (USA: complete title)

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III (USA: complete title)

New York Stories (1989) (segment "Life without Zoe") (as Francis Coppola)

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Gardens of Stone (1987) (as Francis Coppola)

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) (as Francis Coppola)

Captain EO (1986)

The Cotton Club (1984) (as Francis Coppola)

Rumble Fish (1983)

The Outsiders (1983) (as Francis Coppola)

One from the Heart (1982) (as Francis Coppola)

Granted, a few of those films are decent, but what is "small and challenging" about most of those?

[TheMojoPin]

I'm thinking in terms of Coppola and Lucas, lifelong friends thinking about commerce vs. art in their twilight years. Lucas had talked about abandoning big budget films.

Yes, we've all read Easy Riders Raging Bulls.

Clearly neither have been very busy of late, but Coppola has then made two films fairly quickly, Neither one of those films was done to make make money but rather to explore an obscure artistic vision. It's curious but interesting.

Why should he be comended for making two films quickly? And what is so obscure about either? I assume you're talking about Tesco and Youth Without Youth. For one, the movies came out two years apart from each other, which isn't terribly quick and secondly, YWY is really not very good at all. I'm curious to see Tesco and the early reports indicate it might be a good film, but in the grand scope of things this seems like a really rather unremarkable timeframe and and not terribly unique "artisitically."

Besides, ANY filmmaker comes off looking like a genius when compared to Lucas.

[Furtherman]

Dracula (1992)
... aka Bram Stoker's Dracula (USA: complete title)

Granted, a few of those films are decent, but what is "small and challenging" about most of those?

Directing Keanu Reeves.

[TheMojoPin]

Directing Keanu Reeves.

That just seems lazy.

[thepaulo]

Considering The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, I would just assume Coppola would be just the guy to make big budget epics.....but that is not what he has done.

[Gerald]

Sandra Bullock is still America's sweetheart*

* = even though her character in this new movie is reportedly a ball-busting C-word for the most part

[thepaulo]

Sandra has a huge opening.

[cougarjake13]

Sandra has a huge opening.




but how'd her movie do ??

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

129 + 330 = $459,000,000 Angels and Demons
195 + 172 = $367,000,000 Monsters Vs. Aliens
241 + 123 = $363,000,000 Star Trek
180 + 178 + $358,000,000 Wolverine
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
158 + 177 = $325,000,000 Night at the Museum 2
120 + 200 = $320,000,000 Terminator Salvation
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
228 + 39 = $267,000,000 Up
155 + 31 = $186,000,000 The Hangover
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into You

__________________

[thepaulo]

Still, this movie wasn't promoted enough.



"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

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Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
AMSTERDAM -- Paramount's DreamWorks-produced action sequel "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" -- screened for a receptive group of European exhibitors at the Cinema Expo confab here earlier this week -- rang up $60.6 million in its first day in domestic release.

Par released the early estimate of first-day boxoffice Thursday morning. The figure included more than $16 million from midnight Wednesday performances, as the 2 1/2-hour, Michael Bay-helmed pic -- in which Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox reprise topliner roles -- seems well positioned to hit its projected $150 million-plus in opening-frame boxoffice through Sunday.

Hasbro is a co-producer of the pic, which like its 2007 predecessor is based on a line of toy action figures. The first "Transformers" pic made more than $708 million worldwide.

[jlehane3]

If there is a Transformers #2 I'm off the grid.I have the Matrix #1 vcr and never watched it yet.The recent movies in that first list top box don't interest me.Like Stugots mentions in so many words,the Movie theatre isn't fun for me.They lost me.Didn't go to Star Trek(one that could have sucked me in).Kids stuff and fluff is what I see in those various lists(mostly).I now pay for 1-2 movies per year theatre.At the Goodwill store I'll buy maybe 15-20 movies per year($1-$3)....lately none.I watch trailers on YouTube and such to keep somewhat current.In that respect I'm not so atypical,since it's free.Once in awhile I'll visit HULU. <----viewing habits of a person with 10 tvs who watches none of them.:king: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a45/JLehane/BigMarsCropViking1976YellBB150.jpg Here is where my head's at....Nice big Faggot of the Opera..... Mars 1976...most of you can't see what I've seen and never will...in this lifetime.:laugh: <---Charlie Brown

[thepaulo]

Revenge of the Turds.





'Transformers' on track to reach $200 million
Three-day cume totals $126 million
By Carl DiOrio

June 27, 2009, 11:49 AM ET

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

'Transformers' scores $60.6 mil on Day 1
'Transformers' grabs $28.6 mil on Day 2
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen -- Film Review

Something has transformed "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" into a boxoffice monster.

Michael Bay's action sequel -- co-produced by DreamWorks and Hasbro, and distributed by Paramount -- rung up an estimated $36.7 million on Friday. That shaped a three-day cume of $126 million to give the Shia LaBeouf-Megan Fox starrer more than a shot at mounting a $200 million-plus debut through Sunday.

That would represent an opening-frame tally $25 million or more higher than most industryites had projected for its first five days. An effects-laden pic of epic length at 2 1/2 hours, "Fallen" has shrugged off critical brickbats to gain momentum since opening midweek.

"Fallen" toted an $89.3 million cume into Friday, based on Wednesday and Thursday grosses. Its $60.6 million first-day tally included an impressive $16 million in Tuesday-midnight coin.

"Transformers" easily should surpass in just five days the 6 1/2-day first-frame haul of the original "Transformers," which opened on a Monday evening in 2007 and played through the Fourth of July holiday to register $155.4 million through its first Sunday.

[hammersavage]

I say it drops 70% in week 2.

[lleeder]

As I'm reading this the commercial comes on for Transformers.

Shia la douche: This isn't my war.

What crap!!!!!!!

[SP1!]

Its amazing what people let pass for entertainment, it doesnt surprise me but when peter travers (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/25458013/review/28840142/transformers_revenge_of_the_fallen) says your film is the worst of the decade then it probably is.

[hammersavage]

$200 million for Tranny's. I still say it doesn't outgross the first one.

Robots ruled the box office as the highly-anticipated action sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen generated the second biggest opening in history with a gargantuan $201.2M in its first five days, according to studio estimates, sending the overall marketplace to its highest gross of the year. The eye-popping figure included $112M over the traditional Friday-to-Sunday period plus an additional $89.2M since its Wednesday launch. Playing ultrawide in 4,234 theaters including 169 IMAX screens, the Paramount release averaged a stunning $26,453 over the Friday-to-Sunday period and a gigantic $47,531 over five days.

The only other film to ever gross more in its first five days was last summer's The Dark Knight which hauled in a slightly better $203.8M from 4,366 venues. The first Transformers bowed to $155.4M in 6.5 days and needed 12.5 days to break the double-century mark on its way to a $319.2M finish.

The Michael Bay-directed pic set a number of other box office milestones. It set new records for a June opener, beating the $93.7M of 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and for a live-action film from Paramount exceeding the $100.1M of last summer's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In fact, Shia Labeof hopes to become the first star with $300M+ blockbusters over three straight summers with Transformers, Crystal Skull, and Fallen. The new Optimus Prime adventure also set a new five-day debut record for a Wednesday opener easily beating the $152.4M of Spider-Man 2 from 2004.

The onslaught began at 12:01am on Wednesday with an explosive $60.6M opening day haul which included over $16M in business from late Tuesday's post-midnight shows. It was the second largest opening day for any film after the $67.2M for Dark Knight which bowed on a Friday. Grosses dropped 53% to $28.6M on Thursday, rose 29% to $36.8M on Friday, and climbed again by 10% to $40.6M on Saturday. Paramount is being aggressive with its Sunday estimate of $34.6M projecting just a 15% dip from Saturday. Final grosses will be reported on Monday afternoon. The Friday-to-Sunday tally is the seventh best of all-time and the largest for a film not debuting on a Friday.

The new Transformers brought back the main cast members of the first installment including Labeouf and Megan Fox who have become even bigger draws with teens and young adults over the past two years. Fearing being crushed, competing studios left the whole month of June open when it came to big action tentpoles allowing Fallen to be the only action event film out there. A massive marketing campaign by the studio and its tie-in partners drove awareness for the product placement-friendly flick sky high. Critics were brutal and tossed every insult they could at the behemoth, but ticket buyers were more interested in two and a half hours of mindless popcorn escapism.

Overseas audiences were crazy for robot action too as the second Transformers flick has pulled in a stunning $181.6M since its launch a week ago making for a jaw-dropping $382.8M worldwide cume which already makes it the second biggest global blockbuster for the whole year trailing just Angels & Demons which has collected $467.7M in seven weeks. A whopping 72% of that take has come from outside of North America. Fallen is playing more evenly with domestic accounting for 53%.

A sizable drop is expected for Transformers next weekend, but with no effects-driven tentpoles scheduled to open until the July 15th launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the domestic haul could very well shoot past $350M in the weeks ahead.

Be sure to check BoxOfficeGuru.com all week for daily updates on Transformers.

Sandra Bullock followed in second place with what could become the top-grossing film of her career, The Proposal. The romantic comedy hit dropped a reasonable 45% in its second weekend to an estimated $18.5M giving Buena Vista a solid $69.1M in only ten days. Co-starring Ryan Reynolds, the phony engagement flick should be able to finish in the vicinity of $125M surpassing the $121.2M of 1994's Speed to be the highest earner for the actress. Admission prices have risen a steep 75% in the last 15 years so Proposal will not sell as many tickets though.

With robot fights hitting the multiplexes, the leggy comedy sensation The Hangover suffered its largest decline yet. Dropping 36%, still a good hold, the R-rated laugher grossed an estimated $17.2M lifting the cume to $183.2M. Hangover is set to smash through the $200M mark over next weekend's Independence Day holiday frame.

Carl and Russell overtook Kirk and Spock for the year's box office crown as the animated smash Up sailed past the quarter-billion mark. The tenth toon from Disney and Pixar dropped 45% to an estimated $13M in its fifth weekend to boost the amazing cume to $250.2M making it 2009's top-grossing title. Optimus Prime will steal away that prize later this week, but Up still has hopes of surpassing the $300M milestone and now sits at number 47 on the list of all-time domestic blockbusters behind Night at the Museum's $250.9M. The flying house flick is running only slightly behind the pace of 2003's Finding Nemo which banked $14M in its fifth round for a cume of $254M.

The frame's only other new wide opener landed in fifth place. The family drama My Sister's Keeper starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin bowed to an estimated $12M from 2,606 locations for a moderate average of $4,616 per theater. The PG-13 film based on the best-selling book about a girl fighting leukemia earned good reviews and played to a more female audience and those in the market for a good cry.

Sony placed its pair of not-so-stellar performers in the sixth and seventh slots. The Jack Black-Michael Cera comedy Year One collapsed 70% in its second weekend to an estimated $5.8M for a ten-day total of $32.3M. The Denzel Washington-John Travolta hostage pic The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 grossed an estimated $5.4M, down a troubling 55%, to a cume of $53.4M after 17 days. The studio cannot be pleased with these declines.

Paramount's Star Trek slipped 35% to an estimated $3.6M and boosted its amazing total to $246.2M. Despite the arrival of studio stablemate Transformers, the Enterprise held up impressively. Close behind was Fox's Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian which fell 55% to an estimated $3.5M giving the sequel $163.2M to date.

The indie pregnancy comedy Away We Go expanded nationally and landed in the top ten for the very first time this weekend. The Focus release widened from 132 to 495 locations grossing an estimated $1.7M which was good enough for the ten spot. Averaging a mild $3,390, the R-rated pic has taken in $4.1M to date and continues to grow thanks to good word-of-mouth, more screens, and a larger ad spend.

On the specialty front, Summit's critically acclaimed Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker opened with strength in New York and Los Angeles with an estimated $144,000 from just four sites for a potent $36,000 average. Pic expands on July 10. Miramax debuted its Michelle Pfeiffer period romance Cheri wider in 76 locations and grossed an estimated $408,000 for a mild $5,368 average. Reviews were mixed.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $192.7M which was up 9% from last year when WALL•E opened in the top spot with $63.1M; and up 36% from 2007 when Pixar also ruled when Ratatouille debuted at number one with $47M.

[thepaulo]

Shia Lebouf....the biggest star in the universe.

[thepaulo]

Global numbers are already in....even with a huge drop-off (which is unlikely but lets say it drops 70%) it should still be the movie of the year.
Bring on Harry Potter.


"Transformers" sequel earns $387 million globally

* North American haul is $201 million in first 5 days

* Outpaces first "Transformers" in every market (Recasts first paragraph, updates with foreign sales data)

LOS ANGELES, June 28 (Reuters) - The new "Transformers" sequel trampled all over the worldwide box office at the weekend, quickly racking up sales of $387 million with Britain and China leading the international charge.

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" already ranks as the third-biggest movie of the year in North America, after earning $201.2 million since it blasted into theaters on Wednesday, distributor Paramount Pictures said on Sunday.

The haul handily beat industry expectations, and falls just short of the five-day opening record of $203.8 million set last year by "The Dark Knight," the second-biggest film of all time in North America before adjusting for inflation.

The overseas contribution stands at $186.1 million. The film opened in 58 markets on Wednesday after getting an early start last weekend in Britain and Japan. The British total stands at $27 million. Paramount did not have the Japan total.

The biggest of the new markets was China, which chipped in $21.9 million, a record for an English-language film, the Viacom Inc (VIAb.N)-owned studio said. Other notable openings included South Korea ($14.9 million), Australia ($13 million) and Russia ($11.8 million). In those markets, the film surpassed its 2007 predecessor in local currency terms, Paramount said.

The first "Transformers" earned $708 million worldwide in 2007, the fifth-biggest film of the year. It ranked at No. 3 in North America with sales of $319 million. The new film should pass that tally next week, with business boosted by the July 4 Independence Day holiday in the United States.

Both films were directed by Michael Bay, and feature young stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. The storylines were similar: robots rampage across the landscape, and things explode. The sequel reportedly cost about $200 million to make.

'THREE STRONG WEEKS'

Earlier in the week, Paramount had conservatively forecast a five-day North American haul in the $130 million to $150 million range. But industry pundits said a tally of at least $175 million was more likely. The biggest movies of the year so far are "Up" with $250 million and "Star Trek" with $246 million.

"We should have three really strong weeks before 'Harry Potter (and the Half-Blood Prince)' comes in" on July 15, said Don Harris, executive vice-president of distribution at Paramount.

Harris said women accounted for 46 percent of moviegoers, up from 40 percent for the first movie, an indication of the franchise's expanding appeal.

Exit surveys indicated that 91 percent of moviegoers considered the film as good as or better than the first one, Harris said. Critics, on the other hand, were mildly favorable toward the first film, but mostly appalled by the sequel, according to Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), a website that analyzes reviews.

The movie's $112 million tally for the traditional three-day period beginning Friday easily eclipsed the combined tallies of the rest of the movies in the top 10

[Gerald]

Exit surveys indicated that 91 percent of moviegoers considered the film as good as or better than the first one

That's astounding. Not that the first one was necessarily that good or anything, but at least it had a storyline that could be coherently summarized. I guess this proves the core audience for this property was just satisfied by the fact that were more robots rendered with better computer effects. It's kind of disappointing coming off the heels of the Dark Knight triumph that people would be so accepting of a splashy summer release where the story went far below taking a backseat to the spectacle by being hogtied in a burlap sack in the trunk with duct tape around its mouth.

[thepaulo]

That's astounding. Not that the first one was necessarily that good or anything, but at least it had a storyline that could be coherently summarized. I guess this proves the core audience for this property was just satisfied by the fact that were more robots rendered with better computer effects. It's kind of disappointing coming off the heels of the Dark Knight triumph that people would be so accepting of a splashy summer release where the story went far below taking a backseat to the spectacle by being hogtied in a burlap sack in the trunk with duct tape around its mouth.

As we all know,there is no comparison between Batman Reboot Two and Transformers Two.
One is a highly lauded almost masterpiece. The other is a really giant turd that none the less is making bargefuls of cash.
There is no ability in my mind to make sense of this dialectic.

[Gerald]

Public Enemies seems like good counter-programming against Ice Age and Bayformers. Nobody is expecting Jack Sparrow dollars but the reviews are generally good and it appears to be a safe bet to amass a healthy chunk of change.

I've never been head over heels in love with anything from the Michael Mann canon so I won't be approaching it with rabid enthusiasm. I've actually generally believed his body of work to be somewhat of a mixed bag in totality:

:flush: - Manhunter, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice

:thumbup: - Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider

PE is going to tip the scales one way or the other for me. My dislike for Manhunter and Collateral is probably controversial, but I thought the former was horribly dated with listless execution of crackling source material, and the latter was totally ruined by a disastrous third act which sabotaged tone by suddenly trying to be an action-chase movie. If I ever see his little-seen horror movie about nazis battling supernatural forces called The Keep, it's possible those scales could be rebalanced again and in my estimation he'll go back to being a nondescript filmmaker.

[thepaulo]

Public Enemies seems like good counter-programming against Ice Age and Bayformers. Nobody is expecting Jack Sparrow dollars but the reviews are generally good and it appears to be a safe bet to amass a healthy chunk of change.

I've never been head over heels in love with anything from the Michael Mann canon so I won't be approaching it with rabid enthusiasm. I've actually generally believed his body of work to be somewhat of a mixed bag in totality:

:flush: - Manhunter, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice

:thumbup: - Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider

PE is going to tip the scales one way or the other for me. My dislike for Manhunter and Collateral is probably controversial, but I thought the former was horribly dated with listless execution of crackling source material, and the latter was totally ruined by a disastrous third act which sabotaged tone by suddenly trying to be an action-chase movie. If I ever see his little-seen horror movie about nazis battling supernatural forces called The Keep, it's possible those scales could be rebalanced again and in my estimation he'll go back to being a nondescript filmmaker.

The ace in the hole is Last of the Mohicans which was brilliant and so different from his other work. It's good to see him do a period picture again.

[Pitdoc]

It's one of his BEST movies. It was made at the height of his "Miami Vice " days, which unfortunately, gives it that same oversaturated color scheme, and Casio soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. But it's MILES ahead of the mvie "red Dragon, with a truly creepy ( and almost pitiable ) serial killer played by Ton Noonan and William Peterson plaing hot before he went to "CSI".
But the BEST performance is the quiet, subdued performance by Brian Cox as Hannibal Lector . In the maybe 5 minutes he's in the film , he's miles ahead of Anthony Hopkins as the same character. Mind you, Johnathan Demme made him the new Dracula by always playing creepy music and having him use that accent (Watch Silence of The Lambs again and leave out the soundtrack & creepy voice and you'll see what I mean.Whereas Cox simply saying "Would you leave me your home phone number " so cooly scared the PISS out of me!!. I was SO angry he didnt play him in SOTL. He played Lector the way a teue serial kiler would be ..cool , calm , & collected .

[Slumbag]

It's one of his BEST movies. It was made at the height of his "Miami Vice " days, which unfortunately, gives it that same oversaturated color scheme, and Casio soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. But it's MILES ahead of the mvie "red Dragon, with a truly creepy ( and almost pitiable ) serial killer played by Ton Noonan and William Peterson plaing hot before he went to "CSI".
But the BEST performance is the quiet, subdued performance by Brian Cox as Hannibal Lector . In the maybe 5 minutes he's in the film , he's miles ahead of Anthony Hopkins as the same character. Mind you, Johnathan Demme made him the new Dracula by always playing creepy music and having him use that accent (Watch Silence of The Lambs again and leave out the soundtrack & creepy voice and you'll see what I mean.Whereas Cox simply saying "Would you leave me your home phone number " so cooly scared the PISS out of me!!. I was SO angry he didnt play him in SOTL. He played Lector the way a teue serial kiler would be ..cool , calm , & collected .

I was reading this thread from the top, and was about to ask the dude how he didn't like Manhunter. But it seems that you nailed it.

Great fucking movie. I never knew it was a Michael Mann picture.

[thepaulo]

I was reading this thread from the top, and was about to ask the dude how he didn't like Manhunter. But it seems that you nailed it.

Great fucking movie. I never knew it was a Michael Mann picture.

Manhunter is a little dated but clearly a much better movie than Red Dragon.
I'm not sure I would crap all over Silence of the Lambs.
I still think Anthony Hopkins would win in a game of Dueling Lectors.

[Gerald]

Brian Cox is brilliant. He should've been up for widespread award consideration for L.I.E. Probably the best living character actor.

Part of the problem might've been that I saw Manhunter after what felt like an eternity of hearing about how great and underrated it was and after my initial viewing I couldn't shake the feeling that it didn't measure up to those standards. That was a long time ago, and I saw it during a nauseating rebellious phase when I only liked obscure foreign art films, so I should probably give it another chance.

I don't think I'll be revisiting Ali, Collateral or Vice anytime soon, though. The biggest feat of his career might be that he was somehow able to suck the life, energy and vitality out of a Muhammed Ali biopic and make viewing it a total slog. I've heard some people do a good job of mounting a defense for Vice on the grounds of it being a gloriously messy guilty pleasure.

[Gerald]

the reviews [for Public Enemies] are generally good.

I stand corrected:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009526-public_enemies/

The summer of disappointment continues?

[TheMojoPin]

Brian Cox is brilliant. He should've been up for widespread award consideration for L.I.E. Probably the best living character actor.

Part of the problem might've been that I saw Manhunter after what felt like an eternity of hearing about how great and underrated it was and after my initial viewing I couldn't shake the feeling that it didn't measure up to those standards. That was a long time ago, and I saw it during a nauseating rebellious phase when I only liked obscure foreign art films, so I should probably give it another chance.

I don't think I'll be revisiting Ali, Collateral or Vice anytime soon, though. The biggest feat of his career might be that he was somehow able to suck the life, energy and vitality out of a Muhammed Ali biopic and make viewing it a total slog. I've heard some people do a good job of mounting a defense for Vice on the grounds of it being a gloriously messy guilty pleasure.

Collateral is worth watching again. I agree, the chase climax is all wrong, but the bulk of the film is damn good. If all the stuff with Jada Pinkett had been dropped it'd be great noir.

[hammersavage]

i can't stand the visuals in it. before i even see it

PE that is

[Gerald]

Collateral is worth watching again.

This will suffice:

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[Pitdoc]

Part of the problem might've been that I saw Manhunter after what felt like an eternity of hearing about how great and underrated it was and after my initial viewing I couldn't shake the feeling that it didn't measure up to those standards. That was a long time ago, and I saw it during a nauseating rebellious phase when I only liked obscure foreign art films, so I should probably give it another chance.


Thats the problem. Most people never SAW Manhunter originally. But that movie made me read Red Dragon, & when I heard they were going to film SOTL, I PRAYED Brian Cox would be in it as Lector. SOTL was good, but they went over the top with Lector, making him super creepy from the word go ( he reminds you of Bela Lugosi as Dracula) .And a true serial killer knows how to blend in.Thats why when Brian Cox talks calmly and succinctly about how " blood looks quite dark in the moonlight" , it just raises the hair on my neck, because he could be anybody.

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

130 + 340 = $470,000,000 Angels and Demons
244 + 222 = $466,000,000 Transformers 2
248 + 125 = $373,000,000 Star Trek
166 + 203 = $369,000,000 Night at the Museum 2
195 + 173 = $368,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
178 + 185 + $363,000,000 Wolverine
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
123 + 221 = $344,000,000 Terminator Salvation
257 + 48 = $305,000,000 Up
190 + 47 = $237,000,000 The Hangover
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into You

[lleeder]

How much did transformers and angels and demons cost to make?

[Gerald]

How much did transformers and angels and demons cost to make?

200 million and 150 million.

I think A&D did well enough worldwide to justify bringing the A-team back to round out a trilogy. I'm sure Hanks and Howard are secretly hoping this fall's new addition to the Dan Brown series has the most incendiary religious content yet so the grosses on the final chapter can be pushed back into the Da Vinci stratosphere.

[SP1!]

This is the greatest transformers review ever. (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1)

Why do people keep watching these kinds of shit films? It should be legal to stand outside the theater exits and kill everyone over 15 that doesnt walk out because they should know better.

[KnoxHarrington]

200 million and 150 million.

I think A&D did well enough worldwide to justify bringing the A-team back to round out a trilogy. I'm sure Hanks and Howard are secretly hoping this fall's new addition to the Dan Brown series has the most incendiary religious content yet so the grosses on the final chapter can be pushed back into the Da Vinci stratosphere.

If I'm Dan Brown, my next book is about the discovery of Jesus' diary, which describes in lurid detail the gay sex he had with Judas Iscariot.

[thepaulo]

If I'm Dan Brown, my next book is about the discovery of Jesus' diary, which describes in lurid detail the gay sex he had with Judas Iscariot.


You're just asking for trouble.

[hammersavage]

Tie for #1

The Independence Day holiday frame saw a rare tie for first place as Paramount and Fox both reported a $42.5M estimate for the Friday-to-Sunday span for their summer sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, respectively. Final grosses to be reported on Monday will determine the true box office champ. Universal's gangster drama Public Enemies opened in third with strong results as studios provided many different moviegoing options which ticket buyers were excited to see.

The robots of Transformers dropped a steep 61% in the second weekend giving Paramount an eye-popping $293.5M total after just 12 days. That puts Michael Bay's tentpole pic at number 30 on the all-time domestic blockbusters list tied with 1999's The Sixth Sense. Ticket prices, of course, were much lower a decade ago when Haley Joel Osment was seeing dead people. Fallen also leaped past Pixar's Up to become this year's largest grosser and will top the $300M mark on Monday or Tuesday.

Saturday's Fourth of July holiday hit Transformers and all movies hard since outdoor activities take people away from the multiplexes. With Friday being a day off for most people, ticket sales for the top ten surged to $63M. Saturday fell a sharp 36% to $40M while Sunday is expected to bounce back with a 23% jump to $50M. Compared to the Optimus Prime pic's daily grosses from last weekend, Friday dropped 51%, Saturday tumbled 73%, and Sunday is estimated to fall by 57%. Revenge of the Fallen could find its way to a jaw-dropping domestic final of $380-390M.

Fox also reported a $42.5M Friday-to-Sunday estimate for its new 3D animated picture Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs with a healthy $67.5M in ticket sales since opening on Wednesday. The PG-rated film averaged $10,368 from 4,099 sites over the three-day weekend period. Despite three years of ticket price increases and extra surcharges theaters are collecting for the 3D presentation, the toon basically needed five days to gross what its predecessor Ice Age: The Meltdown did in its first three days. That film bowed in March 2006 with $68M from 3,964 theaters on its way to $195.3M. Pixar's 3D flick Up grossed a similar $68.1M in its first three days.

Mature audiences spent some cash too this holiday weekend. Johnny Depp's gangster drama Public Enemies attracted a solid turnout opening in third place with an estimated $26.2M over the weekend and $41M over the five days since its Wednesday launch. The Universal release averaged a strong $7,850 from 3,334 locations over the weekend. The performance was on par with past R-rated star-driven summer dramas from director Michael Mann. Collateral bowed to $24.7M in 2004 while 2006's Miami Vice opened to $25.7M. Both launched on a Friday so comparisons are not exact. Final grosses for those two reached $100M and $63.5M, respectively.

Co-starring Christian Bale, Enemies earned good but not stellar reviews from critics. With so many films playing to kids and teens at the moment, the studio connected with older adults looking for serious fare over the holiday weekend. Men made up 53% of the audience while the CinemaScore grade was a so-so B.

Two comedies aimed at adult audiences followed with the best holds in the top ten. The Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds pic The Proposal dipped only 31% to an estimated $12.8M boosting the 17-day tally to $94.2M. The Hangover broke the $200M mark over the weekend. The raunchy comedy collected an estimated $10.4M, off only 39%, pushing its total to $204.2M.

Pixar's Up upped its total to a sensational $264.9M following its estimated $6.6M take in its sixth frame. With Ice Age marching into multiplexes and stealing away 3D screens, the flying house flick lost 831 playdates but dropped a reasonable 50%. The film became the second biggest hit ever for the animation leader and trails only Finding Nemo which banked $339.7M in 2003. Up also rose to number 40 on the all-time blockbusters list ranking just behind Shrek which grossed $267.7M in 2001.

The Cameron Diaz-Abigail Breslin tearjerker My Sister's Keeper fell 58% in its second weekend to an estimated $5.3M for seventh place. The Warner Bros. release has grossed $27M in ten days and could find its way to a decent $40M. Sony's hostage thriller The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 fell 54% to an estimated $2.5M lifting the cume to $58.5M.

Two comedies dabbling with history tied for ninth place with an estimated $2.1M each. Sony's Year One tumbled 65% and has taken in $38.1M to date while Fox's Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian dropped 42% for a $167.8M cume.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $152.9M which was up 2% from last year when Hancock opened in the top spot with $62.6M ($103.9M in 5 days); but down 5% from 2007 when Transformers debuted at number one with $70.5M ($155.4M over 6.5 days).

[thepaulo]

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US Intl total

285 + 302 = $597,000,000 Transformer 2
132 + 343 = $475,000,000 Angels and Demons
250 + 125 = $375,000,000 Star Trek
169 + 203 = $372,000,000 Night at the Museum 2
195 + 173 = $368,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
178 + 185 = $363,000,000 Wolverine
128 + 229 = $352,000,000 Terminator Salvation
155 + 195 = $350,000,000 Fast and Furious
266 + 51 = $317,000,000 Up
207 + 62 = $269,000,000 The Hangover
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into You

[realmenhatelife]

This is the greatest transformers review ever. (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1)

Why do people keep watching these kinds of shit films? It should be legal to stand outside the theater exits and kill everyone over 15 that doesnt walk out because they should know better.

That's really funny.

[hammersavage]

Bruno is numero uno

Sacha Baron Cohen scored another number one hit with his latest shockfest comedy Brüno which opened atop the North American box office bumping two-time champ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to third place. The hit toon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs remained in second while the new teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper was rejected and debuted in seventh. Overall ticket sales slipped from a year earlier.

Fans hit the multiplexes and drove Brüno to the top spot with an estimated $30.4M in tickets sold this weekend. Playing in 2,756 theaters, the fewest for a number one pic this summer, the R-rated film about the Austrian fashionista's quest for fame averaged a strong $11,040 per location. However, the daily breakdown signaled trouble ahead. Brüno banked an impressive $14.4M on its opening day on Friday, but collapsed by 39% on Saturday to $8.8M. Sequels and films with built-in audiences routinely suffer Friday-to-Saturday drops on opening weekend, but the Universal release plunged by an unusually hefty amount.

With a low CinemaScore grade of C, audiences probably spread negative word-of-mouth on the film once they had a chance to see it. Sunday's gross is estimated to dip by only 18% to $7.2M so it is possible that the final tally will be even lower. The controversial comedy will find out in the days ahead how much offensive humor (and male nudity) mainstream American moviegoers are willing to tolerate.

Comparing Brüno to Cohen's 2006 hit Borat makes for an apples-to-oranges comparison given the latter's more narrow November release. Fox opened the Kazakh reporter flick in only 837 theaters but still shot to number one grossing $26.5M for an incredible $31,607 average. Brüno's gross was 15% bigger, however it launched in more than three times as many theaters. Reviews were generally positive and studio research showed that the audience was 56% male and 54% age 25 or older.

Universal paid $42.5M for distribution rights in North America and eight overseas territories for Brüno which was financed by Media Rights Capital which has not disclosed the production budget of the film. Universal also spent heavily on a global marketing push as the studio controls the film in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, South Africa, Austria, and the United Kingdom. Lavish red carpet premieres were held in many of these countries. The international performance was strong as Brüno grossed an estimated $20M overseas from 1,435 sites in the eight markets that Universal launched the pic in. The film also opened this weekend in several other markets like Spain, Greece, Poland, Israel, and Scandinavia through other distributors and invades France, Russia, and Brazil later this month.

Holding steady in second place for the second straight weekend was the animated comedy Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs which played to a much different audience grossing an estimated $28.5M. Off only 32% from its opening weekend, the 3D toon boosted its 12-day cume to a robust $120.6M virtually matching the $120.9M that its predecessor Ice Age: The Meltdown collected in its first dozen days of play. Fox released the two films differently with Meltdown being a Friday opener in March 2006 while Dinosaurs bowed on a Wednesday in July when weekday grosses are stronger since kids are out of school. The new installment is also taking advantage of higher ticket prices at theaters presenting the pic in 3D and could find its way past the $195.3M of Meltdown in North America.

Still attracting summer moviegoers in its third weekend was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which dropped out of first place after a two-week reign to gross an estimated $24.2M sliding 43%. The tentpole smash surpassed the $319.1M of the first Transformers flick this weekend raising its cume to a stunning $339.2M in 19 days. The Autobots sequel climbed up to number 16 on the list of all-time domestic blockbusters ahead of the $336.5M of 2007's Spider-Man 3.

The new Transformers film is still on a trajectory to end its North American run at about the $400M mark allowing it to crack the all-time top ten. However, at today's admission prices that would amount to roughly 54 million tickets sold which would be equivalent to the number of stubs audiences purchased for Men in Black ($250.1M in 1997) and Twister ($241.9M in 1996). The average price of a movie ticket has soared 65% since 1996.

In its second hit, the gangster drama Public Enemies fell by 44% to an estimated $14.1M suffering the worst drop in the top ten. After 12 days, Universal has collected $66.5M and has a shot at reaching $100M. The fake engagement comedy The Proposal eased only 18% to an estimated $10.5M boosting the total to $113.8M for Buena Vista. Enjoying the best hold in the top ten was The Hangover which dipped only 12% to an estimated $9.9M. Warner Bros. has banked an incredible $222.4M to date and its R-rated raunchfest is still attracting large crowds despite the arrival of Brüno.

Moviegoers showed no love for the cheerleader this weekend. Fox's high school comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper bombed opening in seventh place with a measly $5M, according to estimates. Averaging a weak $2,691 from 1,858 sites, the PG-13 film tumbled 22% on Saturday after a dismal Friday bow and should fade quickly.

Toon titan Up slipped only 29% to an estimated $4.7M in its seventh frame to boost the cume to $273.8M for Disney. The tearjerker pic My Sister's Keeper followed with an estimated $4.2M, off just 28%, for a $35.8M total for Warner Bros. Rounding out the top ten with an estimated $1.6M was The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 which dropped 37%. Cume is $61.5M.

[thepaulo]

Potter mad $104 million worldwide first day.

[jlehane3]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a65/j3lehane/JoyceDeBoxxy4.jpg Let's think INSIDE the BOXXY :blink: :bye:

[thepaulo]

US Intl total


364 + 399 = $764,000,000 Transformers 2
132 + 349 = $481,000,000 Angels and Demons
152 + 328 = $480,000,000 Ice Age 2
239 + 160 = $399,000,000 Harry potter 6
172 + 208 = $380,000,000 Night ar the Museum 2
254 + 125 = $379,000,000 Star Trek
198 + 175 = $373,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
180 + 184 = $364,000,000 Wolverine
124 + 236 = 360,000,000 Terminator Salvation
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
280 + 55 = $335,000,000 Up
236 + 75 = $311,000,000 The Hangover
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop
94 + 72 = $166,000,000 He's Just Not That Into Yo

[thepaulo]

previous record for worldwide opening weekend Spiderman 3 -$381,660,892

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince hits $397million.

[SP1!]

Sucks that public enemies tanked, I think they really missed out on using bale to advertise, nobody gives a shit about his tirade.

[Gerald]

Sucks that public enemies tanked, I think they really missed out on using bale to advertise, nobody gives a shit about his tirade.

I wouldn't necessarily say it tanked. It's made 110 million worldwide. Believe it or not, the film actually cost much less than Miami Vice despite the expenses that went toward recreating the era. They're on their way to recouping production, advertising and distribution costs. True, the actual turned profit won't present itself until after it arrives on home video, but for now the studio should be content on knowing that having something in the catalogs of Michael Mann and Johnny Depp will almost certainly pay off in the long run.

I dunno if emphasizing Bale as much as Depp would've put it over the top, either. The guy has more or less solidified his status as a widely respected actor but not a surefire box office draw whom people will pay to see in anything. He was incidental to the development of TDK as a megahit even though I personally think his contributions to both Bat films have been unfairly devalued and underappreicated. The studio's decision to ignore him in the PE advertising shortly before the release was probably a kneejerk reaction to Terminator's underperformance, which I also don't think would be fair to pin on him since it was an ill-conceived project from the get-go where he was saddled with a thankless role.

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Harry Potter 12 completely fell off the map at the box office after its celebrated opening...vindicated! :clap:

What to glean from this...maybe only the hardcores came out in droves during its opening window of release and the casual fans decided to stay home and watch any of the other films from the series on dvd to more or less recreate the exact same experience.

[SP1!]

Well my point was that very few people even knew bale was in it, my GF wanted to see it and she was shocked when I told her on the way there that bale was in it, like it or not hes a good actor and would have drawn more people in, at least IMO.

It just goes to prove my point that american movie public just likes drivel.

[hammersavage]

The summer of Galafinakis.

Audiences shifted their attention from teen wizards to talking guinea pigs as Disney's 3D action film G-Force pulled an upset at the North American box office knocking Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince out of the top spot in its second weekend. The Hogwarts flick fell sharply but still pulled in a solid gross and continued its sensational run around the world. Mature audiences came out in impressive numbers for the Katherine Heigl-Gerard Butler comedy The Ugly Truth which opened well in third place.

Families rushed to multiplexes to see adorable talking animals as G-Force powered its way to the top spot with an estimated $32.2M from an ultrawide release in 3,697 theaters. Averaging a healthy $8,697 per theater, the PG-rated action-adventure about guinea pig government spies connected with family audiences and took advantage of higher-priced tickets from its 1,600 3D locations. With almost $500M spent this summer on 3D toons Up and Ice Age, kids and parents were ready to move on to a live-action film that still offered clean and fun entertainment for children of all ages. The Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer brand names also added some weight.

G-Force continued the studio's great summer following Up and The Proposal which also debuted at number one. The trio could end up grossing a powerful $550M or more combined.

Dropping to second place was the film most expected to top the charts, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which grossed an estimated $30M in its second weekend. The wizard sequel fell a steep 62% which was completely expected given the last film's 58% sophomore drop. After 12 days, the newest Potter has banked an impressive $221.8M putting it 7% ahead of the pace of 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which stood at $207.9M at the same point in its run. Factoring in ticket price increases, the two films have sold an identical amount of tickets over their first 12 days, although Prince did it with virtually no IMAX sales. Phoenix grossed a slightly better $32.5M in its second frame.

With the bulk of its IMAX run to start this Wednesday, Half-Blood Prince could be on its way to a domestic total of $300M or a bit more. Overseas, the new Hogwarts tale fell sharply but still led the international box office with a muscular $84.4M from over 16,000 screens in 64 markets boosting the overseas total to an eye-popping $405.3M and the worldwide tally to a stunning $627.1M. The dazzling performance this weekend led to two major milestones - Warner Bros. smashed the $1 billion mark in overseas box office for 2009 and the Harry Potter franchise shattered the $5 billion mark across its six films in eight years. The series has grossed $5.1 billion and counting and should reach at least $5.4 billion with two more installments still to come.

Sony targeted the date crowd and scored an impressive opening for its romantic comedy The Ugly Truth which bowed in the third slot with an estimated $27M from 2,882 theaters. The R-rated pic averaged a strong $9,368 which was tops among films in the top ten. It also underscored the growing box office clout of Katherine Heigl who enjoyed a $23M debut last year anchoring the comedy 27 Dresses. Studio research showed that 62% of the audience was female while 64% was over 25. Adult women and couples have had no new films specifically for them over the past month as most movies have targeted kids, teens, or the action crowd. The lack of competition helped the $38M production overcome horrible reviews from critics and last week's sneak previews helped to spread advance buzz.

The new horror title Orphan performed moderately in its debut grossing an estimated $12.8M from 2,750 locations this weekend. Bowing in fourth place with a decent $4,644 average, the R-rated thriller about a creepy girl adopted by unsuspecting parents performed much like past fright flicks like One Missed Call and The Eye which opened to $12.4M and $12.5M, respectively.

Fox's hit toon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs lost audiences and 3D screens to the guinea pigs this weekend and suffered its worst decline yet falling 53% to an estimated $8.2M. With a solid $171.3M in the bank, a final gross close to the $195.3M of Ice Age: The Meltdown and $197.8M of this spring's 3D flick Monsters vs. Aliens still seems likely. Overseas, Dawn shattered the half-billion mark with an estimated $40.6M this weekend from 102 markets for an international cume of $505.4M and a dizzying global tally of $676.7M.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen fell out of the top five in its fifth weekend, but it did climb into the All-Time Top 10 list. The robot sequel scored an estimated $8M, down 42%, boosting the total to $379.1M after 33 days of release. That puts Michael Bay's critically-panned testosterone flick at number 10 on the list of all-time domestic blockbusters bumping off Oscar champ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which took in $377M in 2003 and 2004. The Peter Jackson adventure sold more tickets though since ticket prices have increased since then. Reaching $400M should not be a problem for Transformers which will end up selling about as many tickets as 1997's Men in Black, another summer sci-fi smash executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

A week away from joining the All-Time Top 50, The Hangover enjoyed yet another solid frame grossing an estimated $6.5M, off just 21%, giving Warner Bros. a $247.1M total. A hair behind in eighth place was another successful summer comedy The Proposal which slipped only 23% to an estimated $6.4M for a $140.1M cume. This is the sixth straight weekend that the two comedies were side-by-side on the charts although Sandra Bullock spent the first five times on top.

Universal rounded out the top ten with the gangster drama Public Enemies with an estimated $4.2M and the fashionista pic Brüno with an estimated $2.7M. The Johnny Depp vehicle fell 46% raising the sum to $88.1M while the Sacha Baron Cohen pic tumbled 67% for a $56.5M cume.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $138M which was down 19% from last year when The Dark Knight stayed in the top spot with $75.2M; and also down 19% from 2007 when The Simpsons Movie debuted at number one with $74M.

[TheMojoPin]

It just goes to prove my point that american movie public just likes drivel.

Then they would have seen Public Enemy in droves.

[SP1!]

Then they would have seen Public Enemy in droves.

Very witty, the film was leaps and bounds ahead of the shit like transformers2 and the crap released last weekend and the harry potter films, it was a decent film with average action which made it tank.

Not every film has explosions to draw the wow, pretty 'splosions factor in and ignore the fact their film sucks.

[thepaulo]

Date Title (click to view) Studio Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters
8/21/09 Inglourious Basterds Wein. $37,602,000 3,165 $37,602,000 3,165
4/16/04 Kill Bill Vol. 2 Mira. $66,208,183 3,073 $25,104,949 2,971
10/10/03 Kill Bill Vol. 1 Mira. $70,099,045 3,102 $22,089,322 3,102
12/25/97 Jackie Brown Mira. $39,673,162 1,642 $9,292,248 1,370
1/19/96 From Dusk Till Dawn Mira. $25,836,616 2,007 $10,240,805 2,004
12/22/95 Four Rooms Mira. $4,257,354 319 $427,733 280
5/12/95 Crimson Tide BV $91,387,195 2,514 $18,612,190 2,382
10/14/94 Pulp Fiction Mira. $107,928,762 1,494 $9,311,882 1,338
8/26/94 Natural Born Killers WB $50,282,766 1,904 $11,166,687 1,510
9/10/93 True Romance WB $12,281,551 1,254 $4,023,420 1,254
10/23/92 Reservoir Dogs Mira. $2,832,029 61 $147,839 19
Note: Titles in grey are cameo or bit parts and not counted in totals and averages.

Lifetime Gross Total (8): $362,461,348
Average: $45,307,669
Opening Gross Average (7): $16,809,232 (Wide Releases Only)

[Willmore]

Reportedly, Basterds has top break 60-80 mil domestic for the Weinsteins to be in the black. It's going to be close. Harvey has always been a controversial figure in the film industry, but the guy does put money into good films that wouldn't otherwise get a backing.

[thepaulo]

Reportedly, Basterds has top break 60-80 mil domestic for the Weinsteins to be in the black. It's going to be close. Harvey has always been a controversial figure in the film industry, but the guy does put money into good films that wouldn't otherwise get a backing.Pulp Fiction was his most succesful but I see IB beating it(but not in adjusted dollars)

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

298 + 699 = $917,000,000 Harry Potter 6
195 + 658 = $853,000,000 Ice Age 3
401 + 429 = $830,000,000 Transformers 2
133 + 352 = $485,000,000 Angels and Demons
291 + 169 = $460,000,000 Up
272 + 169 = $441,000,000 The Hangover
177 + 235 = $412,000,000 Night ar the Museum 2
258 + 126 = $384,000,000 Star Trek
199 + 176 = $374,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
126 + 247 = $373,000,000 Terminator Salvation
180 + 185 = $365,000,000 Wolverine
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
162 + 125 = $287,000,000 The Proposal
142 + 141 = $283,000,000 GI Joe
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

301 + 628 = $929,000,000 Harry Potter 6
196 + 682 = $878,000,000 Ice Age 3
401 + 431 = $832,000,000 Transformers 2
216 + 293 = $509,000,000 Up
133 + 352 = $485,000,000 Angels and Demons
275 + 183 = $458,000,000 The Hangover
177 + 235 = $412,000,000 Night ar the Museum 2
258 + 126 = $384,000,000 Star Trek
199 + 176 = $374,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
194 + 179 = $373,000,000 Wolverine
126 + 247 = $373,000,000 Terminator Salvation
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
162 + 143 = $304,000,000 The Proposal
151 + 148 = $283,000,000 GI Joe
129 + 115 = $244,000,000 Inglorious Bastards
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop

[Gerald]

'Paranormal Activity' Gets Freakishly Good Gross Playing Only After Midnight


This doesn't happen that often, so I don't blame Paramount for crowing about its freakishly good numbers for Paranormal Activity, which will do $500K this weekend on 33 screens playing ONLY after midnight. That's a $15K screen average for midnight business. Yikes! It did $150K Thursday and took in another $200K on Friday after selling out every theater. The pic started last week in 12 college towns doing only midnight shows and did $80K business, then added 21 midnight screens this week including the ArcLight (which sold out its 15 midnight shows for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday combined). "It's a little movie that's scaring peoples brains out," a studio exec emailed me. Plus, it's got 93% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I gotta say, that TV ad campaign is effective, too. Next week, Paranormal Activity will expand to somewhere around 100 screens playing full day schedules. It will be interesting to see how big the overall fan base is after the college Facebook Twitter folks have really embraced this film and made it their own.


http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/freakishly-good-gross-for-paranormal-activity/

[thepaulo]

Date /Title / Studio /Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters
8/21/09 Inglourious Basterds Wein. $115,474,882 3,358 $38,054,676 3,165
4/16/04 Kill Bill Vol. 2 Mira. $66,208,183 3,073 $25,104,949 2,971
10/10/03 Kill Bill Vol. 1 Mira. $70,099,045 3,102 $22,089,322 3,102
12/25/97 Jackie Brown Mira. $39,673,162 1,642 $9,292,248 1,370
1/19/96 From Dusk Till Dawn Mira. $25,836,616 2,007 $10,240,805 2,004
12/22/95 Four Rooms Mira. $4,257,354 319 $427,733 280
5/12/95 Crimson Tide BV $91,387,195 2,514 $18,612,190 2,382
10/14/94 Pulp Fiction Mira. $107,928,762 1,494 $9,311,882 1,338
8/26/94 Natural Born Killers WB $50,282,766 1,904 $11,166,687 1,510
9/10/93 True Romance WB $12,281,551 1,254 $4,023,420 1,254
10/23/92 Reservoir Dogs Mira. $2,832,029 61 $147,839 19

[thepaulo]

'Paranormal Activity' Gets Freakishly Good Gross Playing Only After Midnight



http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/freakishly-good-gross-for-paranormal-activity/

PA is doing very well in considerably fewer theaters....impressive.

Where the Wild Things Are Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $32,470,000 $32,470,000 1 3735
2 - Law Abiding Citizen Overture Films $21,250,000 $21,250,000 1 2890
3 4 Paranormal Activity Paramount Pictures $20,163,000 $33,717,000 4 760
4 1 Couples Retreat Universal Pictures $17,949,000 $63,339,000 2 3009
5 - The Stepfather Sony Pictures Entertainment $12,300,000 $12,300,000 1 2734
6 3 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Sony Pictures Releasing $8,100,000 $108,284,000 5 3037
7 2 Zombieland Sony Pictures Releasing $7,800,000 $60,823,000 3 3171
8 5 Toy Story Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $3,011,000 $28,594,000 3 1489
9 6 Surrogates Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $1,922,000 $36,332,000 4 2326
10 7 The Invention of Lying Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $1,905,000 $15,495,000 3 1624
11 8 Whip It Fox Searchlight Pictures $1,525,000 $11,378,000 3 1482
12 9 Capitalism: A Love Story Overture Films, Paramount Vantage $1,433,000 $11,600,000 4 991

[TooLowBrow]

PA is doing very well in considerably fewer theaters....impressive.

Where the Wild Things Are Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $32,470,000 $32,470,000 1 3735
2 - Law Abiding Citizen Overture Films $21,250,000 $21,250,000 1 2890
3 4 Paranormal Activity Paramount Pictures $20,163,000 $33,717,000 4 760
4 1 Couples Retreat Universal Pictures $17,949,000 $63,339,000 2 3009
5 - The Stepfather Sony Pictures Entertainment $12,300,000 $12,300,000 1 2734
6 3 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Sony Pictures Releasing $8,100,000 $108,284,000 5 3037
7 2 Zombieland Sony Pictures Releasing $7,800,000 $60,823,000 3 3171
8 5 Toy Story Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $3,011,000 $28,594,000 3 1489
9 6 Surrogates Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $1,922,000 $36,332,000 4 2326
10 7 The Invention of Lying Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $1,905,000 $15,495,000 3 1624
11 8 Whip It Fox Searchlight Pictures $1,525,000 $11,378,000 3 1482
12 9 Capitalism: A Love Story Overture Films, Paramount Vantage $1,433,000 $11,600,000 4 991

so cost vs profit, is PA the most successful movie yet?

[thepaulo]

so cost vs profit, is PA the most successful movie yet?

that would still probably be Blair Witch Project

[Gerald]

So Twilight 2 broke every box office record known to man or something. That's astonishing considering the perception the series has of catering to young girls with questionable entertainment tastes who shop at Hot Topic. For the new entry in the saga to do this kind of business, the turnout must've ran the gamuts of both age and gender. Unless this is an L. Ron Hubbard situation where the Twilighters are buying tickets in bulk to inflate the figures.

[thepaulo]

I don't have the final totals for the weelend. We do know it set a record for one day sales of over $72 million.

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2626&p=.htm

[hammersavage]

Multiplex cash registers were overflowing as the hotly-anticipated vampire sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon opened to gargantuan numbers generating the third largest opening in box office history and led the overall marketplace to the second biggest weekend tally of all-time. Debuting far back in second, but also surging past industry expectations, was Sandra Bullock's new football pic The Blind Side which got off to a fantastic start. The two new female-driven films attracted over $175M in combined ticket sales leading the top ten to soar to a jaw-dropping $245M.

Audiences wanted monster love as The Twilight Saga: New Moon stunned the film industry by beating what were already sky-high expectations opening to an estimated $140.7M over the Friday-to-Sunday period. That gave Summit the third best opening weekend ever trailing the super hero duo of The Dark Knight ($158.4M in July 2008) and Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M in May 2007). However, New Moon did break the all-time records for highest post-midnight grosses on the night before opening day with $26.3M and the best opening day with $72.7M. The records were formerly held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Dark Knight with $22.2M and $67.2M, respectively. The Twilight sequel cost only $50M to produce while the others cost well over $200M each.

The Bella Swan love story grossed more in its first day than its predecessor Twilight did in its entire opening weekend. That film bowed this weekend with $69.6M on its way to $191.5M from North America and $384M worldwide. Following New Moon's record opening day, the PG-13 film tumbled 41% to $43.2M on Saturday and is estimated to drop another 43% to $24.8M on Sunday. The Friday-to-Saturday decline was identical to Twilight's which is quite remarkable given how the new installment had much more fan hysteria surrounding it and 605 more theaters leading one to think it would absorb more of its total business upfront on the first day. Both installments earned 52% of the total weekend gross on Friday.

yikes

[thepaulo]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/new-moon-wolfs-down-1407m-opening-weekend-ap

#3 opening of all time.....and both The Dark Knight and Spiderman 3 had the advantage of opening during the much busier Summer blockbuster season.

[hammersavage]

hey, there's really old spam.



anyway, $73 million for Avatar. 2nd biggest December ever. Almost exactly on industry estimations. Probably got hurt significantly with the weather in the bigger markets. Shouldn't have as big of a dropoff as other similar movies because of it. Still a long way from making money.

[KnoxHarrington]

hey, there's really old spam.



anyway, $73 million for Avatar. 2nd biggest December ever. Almost exactly on industry estimations. Probably got hurt significantly with the weather in the bigger markets. Shouldn't have as big of a dropoff as other similar movies because of it. Still a long way from making money.

It's going to be compared to Titanic, but I think it won't have the legs Titanic did. With Titanic, you had tons of 14-17 year old girls going over and over so they can cry when Jack dies. With Avatar, you'll have people go to see the 3D spectacle and jack it to the cat chick, but I doubt you'll have people going over and over. I think it's strong next weekend too, but drops off after that.

I do think it's going to make that budget back, though. I'm thinking US gross of $500-$600M or so, and about that much internationally.

[thepaulo]

It's time for a year end round up...some interesting things are happening.


http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-12-27-boxoffice_N.htm

[hammersavage]

holy shit. Cameron is a genius. And Sherlock Holmes did better than I thought it was going to do. RDJ is a star.

It was a memorable and merry Christmas in Hollywood as moviegoers shattered box-office records, responding in droves to a diverse array of high-profile releases over the holiday weekend.

The estimated $278 million in weekend box-office revenue broke the previous record of roughly $253 million set in July 2008, the weekend "The Dark Knight" was released.

A diverse group of films drew throngs to the multiplexes: James Cameron's "Avatar" pushed strongly into its second week while "Sherlock Holmes,""Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" and "It's Complicated" all opened.

"Avatar," the 3-D epic, topped them all, earning $75 million for 20th Century Fox, according to studio estimates Sunday. Remarkably, that was only a 3 percent drop from its opening weekend total of $77.4 million. (Blockbusters typically drop 30-50 percent in the second weekend.) In its 10 days of release, "Avatar" has made $212 million domestically - and could be on its way to a worldwide gross of over $1 billion.

"This thing is going to be playing and playing, I can tell you that," said Bert Livingston, 20th Century Fox distribution executive. "There's a lot of business out there. Everybody's got good movies out."

In second was "Sherlock Holmes," Guy Ritchie's reboot of the franchise with Robert Downey Jr. starring as Arthur Conan Doyle's detective. The Warner Bros. film opened with a weekend total of $65.4 million, including a record Christmas Day debut of $24.9 million.

It was a start that seemed sure to pave the way for sequels. Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., called the result "sensational."

If Avatar makes more than $1 billion, Cameron is a god.

[Gerald]

*new page*

[Gerald]

*new page*

[Gerald]

So, it looks like Avatar might have a realistic shot at dethroning Titanic. 800 million worldwide after only twelve days. The already sick numbers are only going to be boosted by the IMAX booking it has through March. If popular demand necessitates it I'm sure that deadline will be pushed back. The lesson to be learned here is that more IMAX screens need to be established.

I went into the film with drastically lowered expectations relative to my admiration for Cameron and I frankly thought it was astounding. I've seen it three times already.

[Gerald]

If Avatar makes more than $1 billion, Cameron is a god.

2 billion might not be out of the question.

[KnoxHarrington]

So, it looks like Avatar might have a realistic shot at dethroning Titanic. 800 million worldwide after only twelve days. The already sick numbers are only going to be boosted by the IMAX booking it has through March. If popular demand necessitates it I'm sure that deadline will be pushed back. The lesson to be learned here is that more IMAX screens need to be established.

I went into the film with drastically lowered expectations relative to my admiration for Cameron and I frankly thought it was astounding. I've seen it three times already.

More real IMAX screens, not more bullshit fake-IMAX screens where they just pull the screen forward about 20 feet in a regular cineplex.

[thepaulo]

More real IMAX screens, not more bullshit fake-IMAX screens where they just pull the screen forward about 20 feet in a regular cineplex.

I always fake Imax.

[disneyspy]

I always fake Imax.

what do you do? pull out and spit on his back?

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

302 + 628 = $930,000,000 Harry Potter 6
196 + 691 = $887,000,000 Ice Age 3
403 + 430 = $833,000,000 Transformers 2
285 + 525 = $810,000,000 Avatar
162 + 584 = $746,000,000 2012
293 + 410 = $703,000,000 Up
284 + 390 = $674,000,000 New Moon
134 + 353 = $487,000,000 Angels and Demons
278 + 185 = $463,000,000 The Hangover
178 + 236 = $414,000,000 Night ar the Museum 2
258 + 126 = $384,000,000 Star Trek
199 + 176 = $374,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
194 + 179 = $373,000,000 Wolverine
126 + 247 = $373,000,000 Terminator Salvation
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
121 + 199 = $320,000,000 Inglorious Basterds
164 + 151 = $315,000,000 The Proposal
151 + 151 = $302,000,000 GI Joe
143 + 75 = $221,000,000 Taken
108 + 75 = $183,000,000 Watchmen
147 + 35 = $182,000,000 Paul Blart: Mall Cop

[thepaulo]

So after all is said and done....after all of the Twilight/Harry Potter and Transformer mania it may be Avatar will be the movie of the year. Curse you James Cameron.

[thepaulo]

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/01/03/box-office-avatar-soars-past-1-billion-worldwide/

one billion dollars!

[thepaulo]

Avatar will soon be the #2 movie of all time....
curse you James Cameron

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9478174

[thepaulo]

Avatar will soon be the #2 movie of all time....
curse you James Cameron

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9478174


...is the #2 movie of all time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8447839.stm

[thepaulo]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-01-10-box-office10_N.htm

This punk Cameron is going after the king of the world.

[KnoxHarrington]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-01-10-box-office10_N.htm

This punk Cameron is going after the king of the world.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel continues to be a quiet powerhouse. It brought in $16.3 million, good for third place and an overall gross of $178.2 million.

We're fucking doomed

[thepaulo]

Titanic Par. $1,842.9 $600.8 32.6% $1,242.1 67.4% 1997
2 Avatar Fox $1,341.7 $430.8 32.1% $910.8 67.9% 2009
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $1,119.1 $377.0 33.7% $742.1 66.3% 2003
4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $1,066.2 $423.3 39.7% $642.9 60.3% 2006
5 The Dark Knight WB $1,001.9 $533.3 53.2% $468.6 46.8% 2008

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

We are doomed.

[thepaulo]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-boxoffice19-2010jan19,0,1610848.story


pigs will fly.

[KnoxHarrington]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-boxoffice19-2010jan19,0,1610848.story


pigs will fly.

Is "Titanic" really that much better of a movie than "Avatar"?

I'd actually say "Avatar" is better.

[Gerald]

Maybe Titanic will regain its crown after Cameron rereleases it in 3D.

I loved Dark Knight, but I have to confess to being glad on some level that it got financially surpassed by Avatar. Batman fanboys seemed to be the most unwilling group around in terms of taking a wait and see approach to Cameron's return project. According to them, it was a foregone conclusion that Avatar was going to be both a flop and a shitty movie. It will also sting them if Avatar wins best picture since they labeled Dark Knight's nomination exclusion as an injustice of holocaust proportions.

Even if you're a hater of the man you have to tip your hat to Cameron. He knows what sells, and he's savvy at being ahead of the technological curve.

[thepaulo]

Avatar is #26 on Box office adjusted for inflation.


1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,485,028,000 $198,676,459 1939^
2 Star Wars Fox $1,309,179,000 $460,998,007 1977^
3 The Sound of Music Fox $1,046,753,000 $158,671,368 1965
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $1,042,629,400 $435,110,554 1982^
5 The Ten Commandments Par. $962,850,000 $65,500,000 1956
6 Titanic Par. $943,342,300 $600,788,188 1997
7 Jaws Uni. $941,379,300 $260,000,000 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $912,395,600 $111,721,910 1965
9 The Exorcist WB $812,679,700 $232,671,011 1973^
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $801,150,000 $184,925,486 1937^
11 101 Dalmatians Dis. $734,391,800 $144,880,014 1961^
12 The Empire Strikes Back Fox $721,627,700 $290,475,067 1980^
13 Ben-Hur MGM $720,300,000 $74,000,000 1959
14 Return of the Jedi Fox $691,336,700 $309,306,177 1983^
15 The Sting Uni. $655,200,000 $156,000,000 1973
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark Par. $647,842,600 $242,374,454 1981^
17 Jurassic Park Uni. $633,612,900 $357,067,947 1993
18 The Graduate AVCO $628,949,700 $104,901,839 1967^
19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $623,469,700 $431,088,301 1999
20 Fantasia Dis. $610,369,600 $76,408,097 1941^
21 The Godfather Par. $580,080,900 $134,966,411 1972^
22 Forrest Gump Par. $577,310,300 $329,694,499 1994
23 Mary Poppins Dis. $574,636,400 $102,272,727 1964^
24 The Lion King BV $567,653,700 $328,541,776 1994^
25 Grease Par. $565,374,900 $188,389,888 1978^
26 Avatar Fox $558,456,800 $551,741,499 2009
27 Thunderball UA $549,780,000 $63,595,658 1965
28 The Dark Knight WB $545,973,300 $533,345,358 2008

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

553 +1290 =$1,843,000,000 Avatar
302 + 632 = $934,000,000 Harry Potter 6
196 + 692 = $888,000,000 Ice Age 3
403 + 433 = $836,000,000 Transformers 2
165 + 601 = $766,000,000 2012
293 + 430 = $723,000,000 Up
284 + 391 = $685,000,000 New Moon
134 + 353 = $487,000,000 Angels and Demons
278 + 185 = $463,000,000 The Hangover
178 + 236 = $414,000,000 Night ar the Museum 2
198 + 192 = $390,000.000 Sherlock Holmes
260 + 126 = $386,000,000 Star Trek
206 + 176 = $382,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
205 + 176 = $381,000,000 Alvin and the Chipmunks 2
196 + 179 = $375,000,000 Wolverine
126 + 247 = $373,000,000 Terminator Salvation
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
186 + 138 = $324,000,000 A Christmas Carol
121 + 199 = $320,000,000 Inglorious Basterds
164 + 151 = $315,000,000 The Proposal
151 + 151 = $302,000,000 GI Joe

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

707 +1845 =$2,552,000,000 Avatar
302 + 632 = $934,000,000 Harry Potter 6
196 + 692 = $888,000,000 Ice Age 3
403 + 433 = $836,000,000 Transformers 2
165 + 601 = $766,000,000 2012
293 + 430 = $723,000,000 Up
297 + 413 = $710,000,000 New Moon
134 + 353 = $487,000,000 Angels and Demons
206 + 274 = $480,000,000 Sherlock Holmes
278 + 190 = $468,000,000 The Hangover
217 + 220 = $437,000,000 Alvin and the chipmunks 2
178 + 236 = $414,000,000 Night ar the Museum 2
260 + 126 = $386,000,000 Star Trek
206 + 176 = $382,000,000 Monsters Vs Aliens
196 + 179 = $375,000,000 Wolverine
126 + 247 = $373,000,000 Terminator Salvation
154 + 194 = $348,000,000 Fast and Furious
186 + 138 = $324,000,000 A Christmas Carol
121 + 199 = $320,000,000 Inglorious Basterds
164 + 151 = $315,000,000 The Proposal
151 + 151 = $302,000,000 GI Joe

[thepaulo]

pretty much done with Avatar as it stomps it's way to 3 billion. So here is Kevin Smith's box office record with Cop Out his best weekend ever.....sorry everyone.

http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=kevinsmith.htm

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

120 + 105 = $225million Alice in Wonderland
108 + 98 = $206million Valentine's Day
80 + 112 = $192million Percy Jackson...
96 + 58 = $154million Shutter Island

I.m just starting to work on my 2010 list

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

330 + 549 = $889 million Alice in Wonderland
148 + 248 = $396 million Clash of the Titans
181 + 197 = $378 million How to Train your Dragon
127 + 161 = $288 million Shutter Island
88 + 138 = $226 million Percy Jackson....
108 + 98 = $206million Valentine's Day


Those are huge numbers for Alice.

[thepaulo]

pretty much done with Avatar as it stomps it's way to 3 billion. So here is Kevin Smith's box office record with Cop Out his best weekend ever.....sorry everyone.

http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=kevinsmith.htm

Cop Out is Kevin Smith's biggest movie

The Departed is still ahead of Shutter Island as Scorsese's biggest movie

http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=martinscorsese.htm

[IamFogHat]

Good for Kevin Smith. I remember on Smodcast him being really really bummed about the performance of Zack and Miri.

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

332 + 631 = $963 million Alice in Wonderland
159 + 297 = $457 million Clash of the Titans
203 + 214 = $417 million How to Train your Dragon
153 + 198 = $351 Iron Man 2
127 + 167 = $294 million Shutter Island
88 + 138 = $226 million Percy Jackson....
108 + 98 = $206million Valentine's Day

[thepaulo]

1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,606,254,800 $198,676,459 1939^
2 Star Wars Fox $1,416,050,800 $460,998,007 1977^
3 The Sound of Music Fox $1,132,202,200 $158,671,368 1965
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $1,127,742,000 $435,110,554 1982^
5 The Ten Commandments Par. $1,041,450,000 $65,500,000 1956
6 Titanic Par. $1,020,349,800 $600,788,188 1997
7 Jaws Uni. $1,018,226,600 $260,000,000 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $986,876,900 $111,721,910 1965
9 The Exorcist WB $879,020,900 $232,671,011 1973^
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $866,550,000 $184,925,486 1937^
11 101 Dalmatians Dis. $794,342,100 $144,880,014 1961^
12 The Empire Strikes Back Fox $780,536,100 $290,475,067 1980^
13 Ben-Hur MGM $779,100,000 $74,000,000 1959
14 Avatar Fox $760,755,600 $748,083,861 2009
15 Return of the Jedi Fox $747,772,300 $309,306,177 1983^
16 The Sting Uni. $708,685,700 $156,000,000 1973
17 Raiders of the Lost Ark Par. $700,727,700 $242,374,454 1981^
18 Jurassic Park Uni. $685,336,400 $357,067,947 1993
19 The Graduate AVCO $680,292,600 $104,901,839 1967^
20 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $674,365,200 $431,088,301 1999

US domestic adjusted grosses

[thepaulo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/movies/17boxoffice.html

Iron Man pierces Robin Hoods armor

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

332 + 650 = $982 million Alice in Wonderland
218 + 249 = 467 million Iron Man 2
160 + 305 = $465 million Clash of the Titans
208 + 214 = $424 million How to Train your Dragon
127 + 167 = $294 million Shutter Island
88 + 138 = $226 million Percy Jackson....
111 + 105 = $216 million Valentine's Day

[thepaulo]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i653c072dd63127c843933703067c74d6

Alice in Wonderland was surprisingly successful. Is passing the 0ne Billion mark.

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

334 + 684 = $1018 million Alice in Wonderland
300 + 296 = 596 million Iron Man 2
162 + 326 = $488 million Clash of the Titans
215 + 259 = $474 million How to Train your Dragon
127 + 167 = $294 million Shutter Island
100 + 184 = $284 million Robin Hood
74 + 192 = $266 million Prince of Persia
88 + 138 = $226 million Percy Jackson....
86 + 133 = $219 million Sex and the City 2
111 + 105 = $216 million Valentine's Day

[KEITHJAY]

US Intl total

332 + 650 = $982 million Alice in Wonderland
218 + 249 = 467 million Iron Man 2
160 + 305 = $465 million Clash of the Titans
208 + 214 = $424 million How to Train your Dragon
127 + 167 = $294 million Shutter Island
88 + 138 = $226 million Percy Jackson....
111 + 105 = $216 million Valentine's Day

I only wish I had your resolve to let shit roll off my back :wacko:

[thepaulo]

I only wish I had your resolve to let shit roll off my back :wacko:

That and knife throwing are some of my many skills.

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

335 + 688 = $1023 million Alice in Wonderland
307 + 303 = 610 million Iron Man 2
163 + 329 = $492 million Clash of the Titans
216 + 262 = $478 million How to Train your Dragon
229 + 101 = $330 million Toy Story 3
230 + 91 = $321 million Shrek forever after
87 + 227 = $314 million Prince of Persia
104 + 199 = $303n million Robin Hood
127 + 167 = $294 million Shutter Island
94 + 173 = $267 million Sex and the City 2

[thepaulo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/movies/05box.html

Twilight will probably make $181 million in 6 days.

[thepaulo]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gYtilnLICNB5040sgiC2wMkRmoegD9GR18100

no fucking surprise here

[Bowel]

Hey Paulo ... if you could make a 3D movie, what would it be about?

[thepaulo]

Hey Paulo ... if you could make a 3D movie, what would it be about?

dicks

[Bowel]

dicks



Do you think that their going to have a non-action or sci-fi movie in 3D? Would a drama like "Goodfellas" or "The Wrestler" be worth watching in 3D?

[thepaulo]

Do you think that their going to have a non-action or sci-fi movie in 3D? Would a drama like "Goodfellas" or "The Wrestler" be worth watching in 3D?

I'm willing to bet John Waters might try it.

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

335 + 688 = $1023 million Alice in Wonderland
310 + 305 = $615 million Iron Man 2
342 + 215 = $557 million Toy Story 3
163 + 329 = $492 million Clash of the Titans
216 + 262 = $478 million How to Train your Dragon
240 + 220 = $460 million Twilight Eclipse
234 + 211 = $445 million Shrek forever after
90 + 237 = $327 million Prince of Persia
104 + 203 = $307 million Robin Hood
127 + 168 = $295 million Shutter Island
95 + 185 = $280 million Sex and the City 2

[thepaulo]

So much for Inception being too smart to make money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072501129.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[KnoxHarrington]

So much for Inception being too smart to make money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072501129.html?hpid=moreheadlines

I'm really shocked it didn't drop off badly in the 2nd weekend. That means that it's still getting good word of mouth, that people aren't just saying "It was all confusing and there weren't enough fighting robots in it for me."

This is a very positive sign that summer movies dont' have to be some bullshit inspired by toys.

[torker]

Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2008019,00.html?xid=rss-topstories):

1. Inception, $27.5 million; $193.3 million, third week
2. Dinner for Schmucks, $23.3 million, first weekend
3. Salt, $19.25 million; $70.8 million, second week
4. Despicable Me, $15.5 million; $190.3 million, fourth week
5. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, $12.5 million, first weekend
6. Charlie St. Cloud, $12.1 million, first weekend
7. Toy Story 3, $5 million; $389.7 million, seventh week
8. Grown Ups, $4.5 million; $150.7 million, sixth week
9. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, $4.3 million; $51.9 million, third week
10. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, $4 million; $288.2 million, fifth week

[thepaulo]

something about Inception entering the zeitgeist
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/inception-outclasses-schmucks-box-office-ap

Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2008019,00.html?xid=rss-topstories):

1. Inception, $27.5 million; $193.3 million, third week
2. Dinner for Schmucks, $23.3 million, first weekend
3. Salt, $19.25 million; $70.8 million, second week
4. Despicable Me, $15.5 million; $190.3 million, fourth week
5. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, $12.5 million, first weekend
6. Charlie St. Cloud, $12.1 million, first weekend
7. Toy Story 3, $5 million; $389.7 million, seventh week
8. Grown Ups, $4.5 million; $150.7 million, sixth week
9. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, $4.3 million; $51.9 million, third week
10. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, $4 million; $288.2 million, fifth week

[thepaulo]

US Intl total

335 + 689 = $1024 million Alice in Wonderland
391 + 438 = $829 million Toy Story 3
289 + 358 = $647 million Twilight Eclipse
236 + 405 = $641 million Shrek Forever After
310 + 307 = $617 million Iron Man 2
163 + 329 = $492 million Clash of the Titans
216 + 264 = $480 million How to Train your Dragon
199 + 177 = $376 million Inception
90 + 237 = $327 million Prince of Persia
104 + 203 = $307 million Robin Hood
127 + 168 = $295 million Shutter Island
95 + 185 = $280 million Sex and the City 2

[thepaulo]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/ferrells-other-guys-tops-box-office-with-356m-ap

Inception has made $227 million so far not bad.....The Other Guys takes first place

[thepaulo]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/15/box.office.expendables.ew/

nerds and geeks lose
geezers win
cougars place second

[thepaulo]

http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/08/22/box-office-report-august-20-22/?icid=main%7Ccompaq-laptop%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%7C165353

Geezers win again....they are not expendable...they are indestructable

Stallone is now made out a hi tech polymer that is impervious to fire and cold

The full top 10:
1. 'The Expendables,' $16.5 million (3,270 screens), $64.9 million total
2. 'Vampires Suck,' $12.2 million (3,233), $18.6 million
3. 'Eat Pray Love,' $12.0 million (3,082), $47.1 million
4. 'Lottery Ticket,' $11.1 million (1,973), new release
5. 'The Other Guys,' $10.1 million (3,472 screens), $88.2 million
6. 'Piranha 3D,' $10.0 million (2,470), new release
7. 'Nanny McPhee Returns,' $8.3 million (2,784), new release
8. 'The Switch,' $8.1 million (2,012), new release
9. 'Inception,' $7.7 million (2,401), $261.8 million
10, 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,' $5.0 million (2,820), $20.7 million

Top 10 movies of summer 2010:
1. 'Toy Story 3,' $403.7 million
2. 'Iron Man 2,' $312.1 million
3. 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,' $297.2 million
4. 'Inception,' $261.8 million
5. 'Shrek Forever After,' $237.7 million
6. 'Despicable Me,' $230.7 million
7. 'The Karate Kid,' $174.9 million
8. 'Grown Ups,' $159.0 million
9. 'The Last Airbender,' $130.1 million
10. 'Salt,' $109.9 million

[Willmore]

http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/08/22/box-office-report-august-20-22/?icid=main%7Ccompaq-laptop%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%7C165353

Geezers win again....they are not expendable...they are indestructable

Stallone is now made out a hi tech polymer that is impervious to fire and cold

The full top 10:
1. 'The Expendables,' $16.5 million (3,270 screens), $64.9 million total
2. 'Vampires Suck,' $12.2 million (3,233), $18.6 million
3. 'Eat Pray Love,' $12.0 million (3,082), $47.1 million
4. 'Lottery Ticket,' $11.1 million (1,973), new release
5. 'The Other Guys,' $10.1 million (3,472 screens), $88.2 million
6. 'Piranha 3D,' $10.0 million (2,470), new release
7. 'Nanny McPhee Returns,' $8.3 million (2,784), new release
8. 'The Switch,' $8.1 million (2,012), new release
9. 'Inception,' $7.7 million (2,401), $261.8 million
10, 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,' $5.0 million (2,820), $20.7 million

Top 10 movies of summer 2010:
1. 'Toy Story 3,' $403.7 million
2. 'Iron Man 2,' $312.1 million
3. 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,' $297.2 million
4. 'Inception,' $261.8 million
5. 'Shrek Forever After,' $237.7 million
6. 'Despicable Me,' $230.7 million
7. 'The Karate Kid,' $174.9 million
8. 'Grown Ups,' $159.0 million
9. 'The Last Airbender,' $130.1 million
10. 'Salt,' $109.9 million


Judging by the box office, it's about time for a Friends reunion, ghe ghe ghe.