Weekend Box Office Report: 2/14/03-2/16/03

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

New Releases:

 

"Daredevil" (Ben Affleck Lopez, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clark Duncan)

 

"The Jungle Book 2" (John Goodman)

 

Box Office Top 10:

 

1 - Daredevil - $43,500,000/$43,500,000

 

2 - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - $19,000,000/$47,706,000

3 - Chicago - $12,600,000/$80,700,000

4 - The Jungle Book 2 - $11,900,000/$11,900,000

5 - Shanghai Knights - $11,400,000/$34,600,000

6 - The Recruit - $6,800,000/$38,800,000

7 - Final Destination 2 - $6,225,000/$36,130,000

8 - Deliver Us from Eva - $4,362,066/$12,228,147

9 - Kangaroo Jack - $4,015,000/$57,934,000

10 - About Schmidt - $3,550,000/$53,090,000

 

Next Week's New Releases:

 

"Dark Blue" (Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames)

"Old School" (Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson)

"The Life Of David Gale" (Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet)

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Son of a bitch top 10 Kangaroo!

 

Thought Daredevil would have done better really. I thought $50 million wouldn't be a problem.

 

That How To Lose A Guy still looks too annoying to go out and see. Sure Kate Hudson is cute and all, but she just bugs me in the previews.

 

Jungle Book would have done better had they actually promoted it.

 

And I'm shocked that FD2 has held on this long...I thought word of mouth about how much of a shitter this was would have buried it by now.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Go Old School!!

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Sneak Previews are Tonight.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

You know something? I've never been to a movie when they showed a sneak preview for something else. Ever.

[Guest Mole]

That's all Daredevil made? Wow, that HAS to be a disapointment.

[Guest Flyboy]

You know something? I've never been to a movie when they showed a sneak preview for something else. Ever.

Neither have I.

[Guest Lethargic]

That's all Daredevil made? Wow, that HAS to be a disapointment.

Why? It did better than they thought it would. Even the people making it didn't expect this big of an opening. They only expect to make maybe 70-80 million for it's entire run, so they got half of that already. Did pretty good as far as I'm concerned. Hell, I said this would happen didn't I? So far I've predicted Gangs, Daredevil and Kangaroo Jack's box office results accurately. One of these days I'll be wrong. Bwaaa ha ha ha. Maybe I'll be wrong next week cause I'm saying Old School will knock Daredevil off the top.

[Guest El Satanico]

You know something? I've never been to a movie when they showed a sneak preview for something else. Ever.

Neither have I.

I don't know what the hell you two are even talking about. Are you sure you two know what you're talking about?

[Guest razazteca]

Sneak Previews are usually given away by radio stations or as contest prizes.

[Guest Flyboy]

You know something? I've never been to a movie when they showed a sneak preview for something else. Ever.

Neither have I.

I don't know what the hell you two are even talking about. Are you sure you two know what you're talking about?

There's a difference between a sneak preview and a trailer....

 

 

 

I think.

[Guest El Satanico]

Yes...I know what Sneak Previews are.

 

It's just that i have no clue what kotz and flyboy are speaking of.

 

Unless they mean when you pay to see one movie and then after it's over you get to see a sneak preview of another movie. We had that here with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Chicago before Chicago was wide.

[Guest El Satanico]

You know something? I've never been to a movie when they showed a sneak preview for something else. Ever.

Neither have I.

I don't know what the hell you two are even talking about. Are you sure you two know what you're talking about?

There's a difference between a sneak preview and a trailer....

 

 

 

I think.

I thought that maybe you two were confusing sneak previews with trailors and were being sarcastic with "I've neveer seen that before".

[Guest teke184]

I went to a sneak preview of UHF in 1989... and was one of only about 50 people in the US to actually see it in the theater as a result.

 

My mom tried to bribe me into going to see Lethal Weapon 2 or ANYTHING else instead but, hey, I'm an Al fan.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

And just for shits and giggles...the #11 and #12 movies...

 

11 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers$3,450,000/$325,299,000

12 The Hours $3,300,000 $25,973,000

 

The Hours is one twice as many screens this week as it was last (1003)

 

Of the movies in the top 10, Deliver Us From Eva played on the least amount of screens (1139)

 

And as of last week My Big Fat Greek Wedding was on just under 1,000 screens and was just a hair under $240 million.

[Guest Downhome]

Am I the only person on the planet who is looking forward to The Life Of David Gale? I haven't heard ANYONE else say that besides myself, not a single person besides me.

[Guest Nevermortal]

Is Chicago worth seeing?

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Is Chicago worth seeing?

If your in for musicals. One of those movies the critics seem to love...but they also love Out of Africa and The English Patiant, which both sucked the life out of me with their boredom.

[Guest Downhome]

Is Chicago worth seeing?

Chicago has become one of my favorite films ever, period. Sure, I like musicals, but that isn't the only reason I enjoy it. The movie is just pure entertainment, it's great. It's quite possibly THE most pure entertaining film I've ever seen. There isn't much there in terms of plot or whatnot, but it's just so entertaining to me. I don't have to think when I watch it, I don't have to do anything, but sit there and be entertained. I also LOVE the way they laid out the musical numbers. Besides the, two I believe, times when someone was performing on an actual stage IN the film in terms of the actual story, all other performances are done differently.

 

Instead of people just breaking out singing where ever the hell they are, they use the musical numbers as an extension of their thoughts and feelings. At certain times, in certain situations in order to convey the thoughts of the character and the such, they appear on a broadway type stage, with a totally broadway type setting, and sing it there. It then cuts back and forth from that, and where they REALLY are in the movie's time. It's rather interesting, and it works out perfectly.

[Guest El Satanico]

Am I the only person on the planet who is looking forward to The Life Of David Gale? I haven't heard ANYONE else say that besides myself, not a single person besides me.

It looks like it could be good, but it's not something i'm rushing out to see at the theater.

 

Actually if Spacey wasn't in it I'd have little to no interest in it. But as we all know Spacey rules and he alone makes me want to see it.

[Guest El Satanico]

Is Chicago worth seeing?

I liked it alot, but don't even bother watching it if you're not open minded about musicals.

[Guest Nevermortal]

Well, I liked Grease....

[Guest Choken One]

I was thinking about 45-51 million...So it seems kinda low...but I wasn't expecting Spiderman...just Blade numbers...

 

Old School will be #1? I doubt it...

 

David Gale will be one of those GREAT Saturday night rentals that no one bothered to watch when it hit theaters and it really makes you go "Wow...That was good". and then you take it back and forget you watched it...

 

Dark Blue will bomb...

[Guest Youth N Asia]

David Gale will be one of those GREAT Saturday night rentals that no one bothered to watch when it hit theaters and it really makes you go "Wow...That was good". and then you take it back and forget you watched it...

 

Dark Blue will bomb...

David Gale looks like it could be great...but a rental.

 

Dark Blue? Bleh, I'd rather watch The Shield on FX for free.

[Guest El Satanico]

Dark Blue looks like Training Day with a white guy as the bad cop.

[Guest Lethargic]

David Gale does look pretty good, but like others said, it's not worth a theater viewing when there are so many other movies out I'd rather see. The movie I wanna see at theaters that it seems nobody else has any interest in is Gods and Generals. I usually don't go see movies like David Gale at the theater. I only go to the theater to see stuff like Daredevil. Action stuff. The popcorn stuff. Stuff I wanna hear loud and see big. For movies like Gale where it's mostly just going to be talking and be more serious, I wait for DVD so I can pay more attention to it. I was planning on seeing Chicago at the theater but now I just got a copy of the Oscar DVD screener so I don't have to pay for it anymore. woo hoo

 

Dark Blue does look like a complete Training Day ripoff. It makes me laugh everytime I see it.

 

Speaking of trailers. For those that saw Daredevil, what about the trailers for LXG and Xmen 2? I thought the new Xmen 2 trailer looked really good. Better than the first one. LXG is kinda scary to me. I think all the trailers they have for it are really bad, but for some reason I think the movie itself looks pretty good. Even though they're not really using the story from the comic, I'm still looking forward to it. Having all those characters together is still pretty cool even if it's going to be nothing like the comic. I have hope for it but it still scares me that it could wind up being a disaster.

[Guest Flyboy]

Dark Blue looks like Training Day with a white guy as the bad cop.

Holy shit.

 

I thought I was the only one who thought that.

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

1 - Daredevil - $43,500,000/$43,500,000

Looks interesting, I'll give it that.

 

2 - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - $19,000,000/$47,706,000

The usual comedy-romance filled with the same jokes, just told differently. Boring.

 

3 - Chicago - $12,600,000/$80,700,000

Don't know much about, so, no comment.

 

4 - The Jungle Book 2 - $11,900,000/$11,900,000

What has Disney been smoking lately? This movie will be filled with unfunny jokes that they've probably used a thousand times in their movies from the past few years. Pass.

 

5 - Shanghai Knights - $11,400,000/$34,600,000

Rental at best.

 

6 - The Recruit - $6,800,000/$38,800,000

Know nothing about, so no comment.

 

7 - Final Destination 2 - $6,225,000/$36,130,000

The usual survival movie that you pretty much know who will die and who won't. Many 'boo scares' probably, to coin a Steve Sommers phrase.

 

8 - Deliver Us from Eva - $4,362,066/$12,228,147

From what I can see, it's the black version of "How to lose a guy in 10 days"..with modifications, of course. The usual sappy comedy-romance that's only good for a $1 rental. Fuck that, I'll take 4WaF anyday.

 

9 - Kangaroo Jack - $4,015,000/$57,934,000

CGed kangaroo. Whiny fat black guy. Sucky plot. The only plus side to this movie is the kangaroo's accent. ()

 

10 - About Schmidt - $3,550,000/$53,090,000

Another no comment.

 

How any of these movies, minus the ones I don't know about and Daredevil, could make any money is beyond me.

[Guest pochorenella]

I was thinking about 45-51 million...So it seems kinda low...but I wasn't expecting Spiderman...just Blade numbers...

 

Blade opened with $17 mil and grossed $70+ mil. Blade II opened with $32 mil and grossed over $80 mil. So you see, DD actually out-grossed either Blade movie opening. And I'm pretty sure DD will cross the $100 million mark. Let's see...

 

And just for reference, X-Men opened with $55 million, so it's not that bad for DD to have opened with $42 million.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

How any of these movies, minus the ones I don't know about and Daredevil, could make any money is beyond me.

Well, to be honest Yuna, you don't really know much about movies if you don't know much about Chicago and The Recruit, two of the hottest and most talked about movies of the past few months.

 

Shanghai Knights is a rental as best? MAYBE if you don't like Owen Wilson, otherwise it's a must see comedy.

About Schmidt has what can arguably called the greatest actor alive (with obvious omissions of Pacino and Deniro) in a role that is so brilliant, you have to see it to believe it.

 

Kangaroo Jack is a kiddie movie, of course it's going to make money, there's always a market for them.

 

And for what everyone else was taking about...GO OLD SCHOOL! My friends caught a sneak in Philly two weeks ago and said it was the funniest movie they've seen in years. I can't wait. It's a good way to celebrate my day-after 21st bday-hangover day.