Weekend Box Office Report: 2/1/03

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

New Releases:

 

"The Recruit" (Al Pacino, Colin Farrell)

"Final Destination 2" (Ali Larter, A.J. Cook)

"Biker Boyz" (Lawrence Fishburne, Derek Luke)

 

Box Office Top 10:

 

1- The Recruit - $16,500,000/ $16,500,000

2- Final Destination 2 - $16,200,000/$16,200,000

3- Biker Boyz - $10,100,000/$10,100,000

4- Kangaroo Jack - $9,035,000/$45,873,000

5- Darkness Falls - $7,500,000/$22,284,000

6- Chicago - $7,140,000/$50,718,517

7- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - $5,000,000/$315,938,000

8- Just Married - $4,900,000/$49,800,000

9- Catch Me If You Can - $4,800,000/$151,900,000

10 - About Schmidt - $4,700,000/$44,378,000

 

This Week's New Releases:

 

"Deliver Us From Eva" (LL Cool J)

"Shanghai Knights" (Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson)

"How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days" (Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey)

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Oh! I almost forgot that I meant to see Biker Boyz. I know what I'm doing sometime this week now...

 

That How To Lose A Guy... movie looks like it'll be hilarious, but we all know how it'll turn out in the end of course... Also, how on Earth does a woman get into a position of being able to put things in the guy's house in a span of only ten days?

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Thank God National Security dropped off the list...yet, the Kangaroo still lives.

 

I'm going to see Final Destination 2 tonight with a couple friends...I'll report back.

[Guest Lethargic]

That may just be the worst top 10 movies in history.

[Guest razazteca]

so is Fast in the Furious on bikes anygood? or has it sunk into Cool as Ice lameness.

[Guest chirs3]

The Recruit was pretty good... wasn't expecting it to be #1, though.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

so is Fast in the Furious on bikes anygood? or has it sunk into Cool as Ice lameness.

Biker Boyz was an excellent movie, in my opinion. I enjoyed it.

 

Everyone is so quick to compare it to The Fast And The Furious, but forget that Paul Walker & Vin Diesel CAN'T act, Lawrence Fishburne & Derek Luke CAN.

[Guest pochorenella]

I think the general box office is very healthy all around, with some movies posting very low losses week after week, which allows them to stay within the top 10-25, like LOTR (no surprise there), Gangs of New York (almost $70 mil at #14) and Two Weeks Notice (at #15 will surely make $100 mil).

 

I think I may have to retract myself: Looks like LOTR will make $350 million at the pace it's going. It only lost 24% from last week.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

so is Fast in the Furious on bikes anygood? or has it sunk into Cool as Ice lameness.

Biker Boyz was an excellent movie, in my opinion. I enjoyed it.

 

Everyone is so quick to compare it to The Fast And The Furious, but forget that Paul Walker & Vin Diesel CAN'T act, Lawrence Fishburne & Derek Luke CAN.

If Kid Rock isn't in the movie that much I might go see it.......but I keep remembering his acting in Joe Dirt......yeah I know it wasn't supposed to be good, but it was so bad it even stuck out in that movie.

[Guest Lethargic]

It pisses me off that Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is no longer in the top 10 after 2 weeks but FD2, Biker Boyz, Kangaroo Jack, Darkness Falls and Just Married are all in there. Damn any of you losers that pay money to be subjected to the torture that is those movies.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

what's wrong with Darkness Falls?

[Guest Lethargic]

It's friggin faygo gay.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

It pisses me off that Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is no longer in the top 10 after 2 weeks but FD2, Biker Boyz, Kangaroo Jack, Darkness Falls and Just Married are all in there. Damn any of you losers that pay money to be subjected to the torture that is those movies.

You're taking this far too personal...but that's kind of what's great about the United States, you have these "freedoms" and "rights" that let you see the movies you want and don't have to see the ones people bitch about you having to see.

 

Did that make any sense? it sounded right in my head.

[Guest Lethargic]

It pisses me off that Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is no longer in the top 10 after 2 weeks but FD2, Biker Boyz, Kangaroo Jack, Darkness Falls and Just Married are all in there.  Damn any of you losers that pay money to be subjected to the torture that is those movies.

You're taking this far too personal...but that's kind of what's great about the United States, you have these "freedoms" and "rights" that let you see the movies you want and don't have to see the ones people bitch about you having to see.

 

Did that make any sense? it sounded right in my head.

I'm not really taking the movie's failure personal. That was more joke than anything. It's not my movie that ain't making money. I saw it and loved it. If nobody else wants to see it it's their loss, not mine. Hell, the quicker it leaves theaters the quicker I get to own the DVD and get rid of my bootleg. haha

 

Although, the only thing about box office results that I take very slightly personal is that when bad movies make money, that means we get subjected to more of them. Fast and the Furious makes money so some crap like Biker Boyz gets made. A crappy horror movie makes some money so more crappy horror movies like FD2 and Darkness Falls gets made. If the good movies made money, we'd be able to see more of those instead. Personally I'd rather see good movies made instead of tired ripoffs of bad movies and tired sequels to terrible movies. If more people took that kind of stuff a little more personal and quit giving these people money to watch this crap, they'd quit making them and we'd get better quality.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Although, the only thing about box office results that I take very slightly personal is that when bad movies make money, that means we get subjected to more of them.  Fast and the Furious makes money so some crap like Biker Boyz gets made.  A crappy horror movie makes some money so more crappy horror movies like FD2 and Darkness Falls gets made.  If the good movies made money, we'd be able to see more of those instead.  Personally I'd rather see good movies made instead of tired ripoffs of bad movies and tired sequels to terrible movies.  If more people took that kind of stuff a little more personal and quit giving these people money to watch this crap, they'd quit making them and we'd get better quality.

Of course, you haven't seen any these new movies you are bashing, so you can't really label them as crap. Sure, they look crappy, and most likely are, but you can never know for sure. I thought Darkness Falls would be total garbage, but it was actual decent.

 

With that said, it's pretty lame that Kangaroo Jack has almost made $50 million, and most of the masses haven't even heard of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Unfortunately, I don't think this trend of Americans flocking to every new, crappy looking movie will ever end.

[Guest Lethargic]

Of course, you haven't seen any these new movies you are bashing, so you can't really label them as crap.

I can label them as crap and I have and I will never see a one of them. I've seen the trailers, I've read the reviews, I have no interest in seeing any of this crap unless we watch them on bad movie night and even then it'll be under protest. I've had enough of watching crappy trailers for crappy movies and thinking, "well....it might not be as bad as it looks", only to watch it and find out it was even worse. No more 13 Ghosts or Final Destinations or Scream 3's or Valentines or Ubran Legends 2 for me. I have a thousand other movies that I actually want to see before wasting my time with those things.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Although, the only thing about box office results that I take very slightly personal is that when bad movies make money, that means we get subjected to more of them.  Fast and the Furious makes money so some crap like Biker Boyz gets made.  A crappy horror movie makes some money so more crappy horror movies like FD2 and Darkness Falls gets made.  If the good movies made money, we'd be able to see more of those instead.  Personally I'd rather see good movies made instead of tired ripoffs of bad movies and tired sequels to terrible movies.  If more people took that kind of stuff a little more personal and quit giving these people money to watch this crap, they'd quit making them and we'd get better quality.

Of course, you haven't seen any these new movies you are bashing, so you can't really label them as crap. Sure, they look crappy, and most likely are, but you can never know for sure. I thought Darkness Falls would be total garbage, but it was actual decent.

 

With that said, it's pretty lame that Kangaroo Jack has almost made $50 million, and most of the masses haven't even heard of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Unfortunately, I don't think this trend of Americans flocking to every new, crappy looking movie will ever end.

it also goes to say that Kangaroo Jack was marketed a hell of a lot better then Confessions...so it's not one's fault but their own really.

[Guest Lethargic]

it also goes to say that Kangaroo Jack was marketed a hell of a lot better then Confessions...so it's not one's fault but their own really.

I totally disagree. Besides commercial spots I saw very little hype for Jack. Confessions was adverstied all over the place. There was a Gong Show marathon on GSN. Clooney and Rockwell went on every single show that you can go on to hype up the movie. Even our local newspaper in friggin Nashville had about 5 stories on the movie leading up to it's release. It was expected to be such a hit that WB put a new Gong Show in development. The movie was pretty heavily hyped. And that's not even counting the years of hype the book has recieved and the last few years of hype that Kaufman's script got.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

it also goes to say that Kangaroo Jack was marketed a hell of a lot better then Confessions...so it's not one's fault but their own really.

I totally disagree. Besides commercial spots I saw very little hype for Jack. Confessions was adverstied all over the place. There was a Gong Show marathon on GSN. Clooney and Rockwell went on every single show that you can go on to hype up the movie. Even our local newspaper in friggin Nashville had about 5 stories on the movie leading up to it's release. It was expected to be such a hit that WB put a new Gong Show in development. The movie was pretty heavily hyped. And that's not even counting the years of hype the book has recieved and the last few years of hype that Kaufman's script got.

I think most people know about what movies are coming out based mostly on commercials. I think you have to put that before everything else...how else could a shitty looking movie like that make so much money

[Guest Lethargic]

it also goes to say that Kangaroo Jack was marketed a hell of a lot better then Confessions...so it's not one's fault but their own really.

I totally disagree. Besides commercial spots I saw very little hype for Jack. Confessions was adverstied all over the place. There was a Gong Show marathon on GSN. Clooney and Rockwell went on every single show that you can go on to hype up the movie. Even our local newspaper in friggin Nashville had about 5 stories on the movie leading up to it's release. It was expected to be such a hit that WB put a new Gong Show in development. The movie was pretty heavily hyped. And that's not even counting the years of hype the book has recieved and the last few years of hype that Kaufman's script got.

I think most people know about what movies are coming out based mostly on commercials. I think you have to put that before everything else...how else could a shitty looking movie like that make so much money

Like somebody else said, it made money because it was the only kids movie out there. It doesn't really have any competition on that front.