Get Smart vs Love Guru at the box office

[Reephdweller]

There was some talk this week on the show about which movie will draw more money opening this weekend, Steve Carell in Get Smart or Mike Myer's Love Guru. So far it doesn't look good at all for Love Guru while Get Smart is doing quite well.


EXCLUSIVE EARLY FRIDAY & 3-DAY ESTIMATES: 'Get Smart' grabs $15M Friday & headed for $40M opening; 'Hulk' stumbles to $7.25M & likely off 60% from opening weekend; No love for Myers' 'Guru' with $5M opening day & meager $14M 3-day!

by Steve Mason

FRIDAY 9:30 p.m. (Pacific): Warner Bros new action comedy Get Smart has easily won the battle of big studio comedies with $15M on Friday and a likely $40M opening weekend. The movie, adapted from the classic Mel Brooks-Buck Henry late 60’s TV classic received decent reviews (51% Fresh (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_smart/) on Rotten Tomatoes and 53% Positive (http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/getsmart) on MetaCritic), and it is well on its way to one of the all-time best openings for a live action television adaptation.
The world of television has meant big dollars for Warner Bros this summer, first with the mega-hit Sex & The City and now Get Smart, which becomes the all-time 4th-best live action TV adaptation (non-sequel).
ALL-TIME BEST OPENINGS FOR LIVE ACTION TV ADAPTATIONS
(excluding sequels)
1. Sex & The City - $57.03M
2. Mission Impossible - $45.43M
3. Charlie’s Angels - $40.12M
4. Get Smart - $40M (estimate)
5. S.W.A.T. - $37M
6. The Dukes of Hazard - $30.67M
7. The X-Files - $30.13M
8. Starsky & Hutch - $28.1M
9. Wild, Wild West - $27.68M
10. Addams Family - $24.23M
The Peter Segal-directed comedy will likely also mark the all-time best openings for stars Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway.

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ALL-TIME BEST STEVE CARELL LIVE ACTION OPENING WEEKENDS
1. Get Smart - $40M (estimate)
2. Evan Almighty - $31.19M
3. Anchorman - $28.41M
4. The 40-Year-Old Virgin - $21.42M
5. Dan in Real Life - $11.8M

ALL-TIME BEST ANNE HATHAWAY OPENING WEEKENDS
1. Get Smart - $40M (estimate)
2. The Devil Wears Prada - $27.53M
3. The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement - $22.95M
4. The Princess Diaries - $22.86M
5. Ella Enchanted - $6.16M

There was much less box office love for Mike Myers’ new comedy Love Guru (Paramount), which will likely finish #4 for the day and for the weekend. The film has limped out of the gate with a disappointing $5M, and, even with the help of recording superstar Justin Timberlake and Jessica Alba, the poorly reviewed comedy will manage only $14M on its opening weekend. After back-to-back-to-back $100M+, and most likely $200M+ grossing movies, this represents a setback for Paramount (although the Dreamworks comedy Tropic Thunder, set for August, has a chance to be the biggest hit of the late-Summer).

Myers’ first non-Shrek movie since 2003’s The Cat In the Hat will probably be only the 5th-best opening of his career.

ALL-TIME BEST LIVE ACTION MIKE MYERS OPENINGS
1. Austin Powers: Goldmember - $73M
2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - $54.91M
3. The Cat in the Hat - $38.32M
4. Wayne’s World - $18.12M
5. Love Guru - $14M (estimate)


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[docgoblin]

I'm more interested in seeing 'Love Guru'. I'm sick of people butchering classic 60s and 70s TV shows and characters. At least Myers has done something original. I know most of the reviews are bad, but Jeffrey Lyons and Alison Bailes (Reel Talk) both said there were some great laugh-out-loud moments. Lyons said there's enough "adult" humor to go along with the usual mindless slapstick and potty gags. I'm willing to give it a shot.

[KingGeno]

Box Office Battle Of The Bad Comedies: 'Get Smart' Beats 'Love Guru' By 3-To-1 (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/get-smart-over-love-guru-by-more-than-2-1/)

SATURDAY AM: The No. 1 movie was Warner Bros' mediocre laffer Get Smart, which opened Friday in 3,911 theaters to a better-than-expected $14 million for what should be close to a $40 million weekend. (The studio had been projecting only $35M.) Many Hollywood analysts had made much of the fact that the TV series retread -- starring Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 -- was competing head to head for North American box office gross against another even worse comedy, Paramount's moronic The Love Guru.

But it wasn't a fair fight. The vehicle for Mike Myers' return to the Big Screen after a long absence was filled with toilet humor, dick jokes and midget gags. It bombed badly, debuting at just No. 4 with only $5 million Friday from 3,012 venues for what should be an embarrassingly low $14 million. (As one studio insider described the situation succinctly, "Ugh.") But there's a big difference in the two pics' negative costs: $100M vs $60M, respectively. I'm also told that Warner Bros vastly outspent Paramount on marketing their comedy, $50M to $35M, which as Get Smart's release neared was advertised on the back of The Rock's popularity in order to draw non-Caucasians -- a strategy that seems to have worked. As for The Love Guru, it was aiming for a much younger audience aged 12 to 17 -- but even they could smell a stinker.

The No. 2 movie was holdover The Incredible Hunk self-financed by Marvel and distributed by Universal. It fell a hefty 71% from last Friday's opening to make $6.2M Friday from 3,508 runs and probably a $20M weekend. Paramount's Kung Fu Panda in 4,053 plays was #3 not far behind at $5.9M for what should be a $21M weekend and a move up a notch. thanks to the Saturday kiddie matinee bump. Fox's holdover horrow flick The Happening from M Night Shyamalan finished down a gargantuan 76% for No. 5, earning $3.1M Friday from 2,986 theaters for what's probably a $10M weekend.

[TheMojoPin]

No matter which one wins, we all lose.

[KnoxHarrington]

Asking "Which would you rather see, The Love Guru or Get Smart" is like asking "Would you rather be kicked in the balls or punched in the throat?"

They're both shit. In fact, pretty much every "popcorn movie" this year has been shit.

But I guess people don't give a fuck about "film" anymore; just give 'em some CGI so they can see shit blow up.

[sailor]

get smart looks funny, even though the original series was shit. and be quiet all you old folk.

[TheMojoPin]

Love the Pajiba review (http://www.pajiba.com/get-smart.htm)for GS:

I loathe reviewing movies like Get Smart because they give me so little to work with. It is not a movie that warrants our scathingness, but neither is it a film that should be lauded as the cinematic equivalent of the smell of a baby’s neck. It is amazingly unexceptional, but remarkably diverting. It’s a pretty bad action pic, but a pretty good comedy, making it a decent action-comedy. It has an atrocious script, but an exceptional cast. Indeed, it is to movies what Phoenix or Denver is to cities: A place you don’t mind being, but not exactly a city on your summer vacation calendar. Or what The Fray is to music: Very listenable if it’s on, but not something you call up on the ole’ iPod. It is what Raisinets are to candy, what Burger King is to fast food, what Olive Garden is to chain restaurants, what the seventh season of Scrubs is to television, what the Minnesota Twins are to baseball, what the Camry is to automobiles, what tomatoes are to a ham sandwich or a dollop of sour cream is to a nice burrito: You can give or take it, whichever. Ain’t nothing nobody is going to feel passionately about one way or another, but neither is Get Smart a movie you can get too down on. It is the missionary position with an old friend on a break between girlfriends: It kills the time. For everything good about it, there’s something just as bad.

It is: Even Steven.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

get smart looks funny, even though the original series was shit. and be quiet all you old folk.


LIES!!!!!

Im not old and love Get Smart the TV Show

this movie is whats crap


The over utilization of the "in" star is in affect

Recently

Will Ferrell
Jack Black

and now

Steve Carrell

They give them sub par scripts and hope that they can lure the Joe Rockhead viewer and make a decent score at the box office

It stinks and I don't like it

[TheMojoPin]

Im not old

LIES!!!!!

Fixed.

[sailor]

LIES!!!!!

Im not old and love Get Smart the TV Show

this movie is whats crap


The over utilization of the "in" star is in affect

Recently

Will Ferrell
Jack Black

and now

Steve Carrell

They give them sub par scripts and hope that they can lure the Joe Rockhead viewer and make a decent score at the box office

It stinks and I don't like it

so you quote a toby maguire flick?

the original get smart was hella boring.

[thepaulo]

The original Get Smart show by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry was something...not much but something....The movie Get Smart is nothing.
Frankly, between two movies that sucked, I'd go with the Love Guru. There were at least some laughs between the vomit.

[ChrisTheCop]

Although hearing Steve Carell saying Don Adams' famous lines in the commercials makes my skin crawl, I'd much rather give this a shot than another Mike Myers midget joke fest.

I liked Johnny English, and from what I've seen, the chemistry between Carell and Hathaway is similar to that of Atkinson and Imbruglia. Hell, Hathaway alone is a reason to see this movie, given there's so little else playing, at the theatre youre at, at the time you happen to be there, that doesnt look too crowded.

As for the tv show, Yes I'm old, and yes it was hilarious; especially for it's time.
Sadly, as Don Adams died 3 years ago, there's little chance of an "Uncle 86"

[StizerUK]

This trailer hit right before Get Smart this weekend. I was horrified when the music began.

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[ChrisTheCop]

Wow. First the Black Eyed Peas ruin Mas Que Nada. Now this.
Maybe theyll go back to ICP.

As for the trailer, when I first saw 'them' again, I rolled my eyes in disgust,
but I'm ashamed to admit I laughed several times by the end of it.

[bobrobot]

The original Get Smart show by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry was something...not much but something....

SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP IMMEDIATELY PAUL, THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE TELEVISION!!!


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Seriously Paul, If you were here rite now, I'd hitcha with my shoe phone!!!

[DiabloSammich]

I wish Zohan came out in the same weekend. What a spectacular shitstorm that would have been.

[thepaulo]

Bobo...I was trying to keep my love for the original series low key.....PM me and we'll share stories about the the good old days.

[sailor]

This trailer hit right before Get Smart this weekend. I was horrified when the music began.

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[Sue_Bender]

Asking "Which would you rather see, The Love Guru or Get Smart" is like asking "Would you rather be kicked in the balls or punched in the throat?"

They're both shit. In fact, pretty much every "popcorn movie" this year has been shit.

But I guess people don't give a fuck about "film" anymore; just give 'em some CGI so they can see shit blow up.

Stop being so snobby, Knox.

The "Love Guru" has a little person in it!

Hilarious! :lol:

[StizerUK]

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Hmm. Fixed:

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[scottinnj]

No matter which one wins, we all lose.

This movie weekend reminds me of the 2004 presidential election too.


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[RMPGP]

Didn't ESD say if Get Smart didn't break 50 million he'd get his left foot amputated?

[docgoblin]

The interesting thing this year is that nothing is holding on to 1st place for more than one week. The big movie of the week does it's 40-50 million in the first week, then it teeters off every week after, dropping spots each week. The only 'summer' blockbuster that stayed at the number 1 spot for two weeks was Iron Man, which had really no competition either week. The only other movie this year which stayed at #1 for two weeks was Horton Hears A Who, but it opened in March, so I guess that can't count as a 'summer' movie. No flick this year has stayed at #1 for three weeks. Is there any film this year that will have that kind of staying power? I think that Journey To The Center Of The Earth might have some meat to it, especially with the 3D effect. I saw the trailer in 3D and I have to admit it was technically amazing. If the effect is as good throughout the whole film, it could mean a long life with word-of-mouth... Whaddya think?

[thepaulo]

There are no dinosaurs in the center of the earth.

[bobrobot]

Bobo...I was trying to keep my love for the original series low key.....PM me and we'll share stories about the the good old days.

I think we should use the cone of silence!!!

http://www.meatheadshockey.ca/documents/cone_of_silence2.jpg

This would be heaven for Emetophiliacs!!!

[Gerald]

Love Guru is abysmal. I'm a big Myers guy - I even derived moderate enjoyment from So I Married an Axe Murderer AND The fucking Cat in the Hat - and I chuckled perfunctorily maybe twice. Total ego project for MM, who fused together the incompatible topics of hockey and cliff's notes eastern philosophism because they're two things that he's fascinated with in his persona llife. At this point the guy is probably surrounded with obsequious yes men who didn't have the balls to tell him that the movie he wrote was the antithesis of funny. The biggest problem is that the character never really materializes cohesively and it just deteriorates into a recurring dick and fart joke.

[Reephdweller]

The interesting thing this year is that nothing is holding on to 1st place for more than one week.

Didn't Ironman hold #1 for a few weeks when it first debuted?

[Sir_Incognito]

There are no dinosaurs in the center of the earth.

How do you know? Have you ever been there?

[docgoblin]

Didn't Ironman hold #1 for a few weeks when it first debuted?

Ironman held it for two weeks and Horton Hears A Who was the only other this year.

ACCORDING TO ROTTEN TOMATOES (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/iron_man/numbers.php)