Weekend boxoffice report

[Guest Youth N Asia]

1 Bringing Down the House $22,400,000/$61,600,000

 

2 Agent Cody Banks $15,000,000/$15,000,000

 

3 Hunted, The $13,500,000/$13,500,000

 

4 Tears of the Sun $8,800,000/$30,816,000

 

5 Chicago $7,712,000/$125,451,861

 

6 Old School $6,800,000/$60,900,000

 

7 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days $4,830,000/$93,868,000

 

8 Willard $4,025,000/$4,025,000

 

9 Daredevil $3,040,000/$96,050,000

 

10 Cradle 2 the Grave $3,003,000/$31,717,000

 

11 The Jungle Book 2 $2,600,000/$43,800,000

 

12 Shanghai Knights $1,600,000/$57,300,000

 

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Movies opening in wide release next week:

 

"Dreamcatcher"

"View From The Top"

"Boat Trip"

"Piglet's Big Movie"

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Did anyone really think that Old School would have a $60+ million run? I haven't seen it yet, everyone says it's great. But it just doesn't look like the kind of movie that would do that. And who thought Bringing Down the House would do that much...IN TWO WEEKS!

 

I also thought Daredevil would be at $100 million by now.

 

Think Willard will even be in the top 12 next week?

[Guest Retro Rob]

Based on all the advertisements, I expected Willard to do much better. Although, the concept does sound dumb, it was heavily plugged on TV.

[Guest Mole]

I think any movie that Todd Phillips directs, it will do well.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Damn people. You need to get out and see the Hunted. I told you 2 months ago when I saw a screening...and I liked it so much I went and paid to see it again. You go now.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

YES!! Bringing Down the House so deserves number one again. Hilarious movie and ifnally Steve Martin is appreciated.

 

Willard looks like not osmething people would see. And I expected Hunter to do better.

[Guest Lethargic]

Last week I defended Bringing Down the House. Not this week. Two weeks in a row? MADNESS! I can not believe Hunted didn't beat that movie.

[Guest Bosstones Fan]

I wanna know who the retards that went to watch Agent Cody Banks are. Jesus f'n Christ, why would anyone go watch that shit?

[Guest Downhome]

I wanna know who the retards that went to watch Agent Cody Banks are. Jesus f'n Christ, why would anyone go watch that shit?

It's called the millions of young people who like Frankie and Hilary. It's a kids flick, everyone should have expected this one to do pretty good.

[Guest Choken One]

Movies like Cody Banks appeal to the 10-14 year olds and because of the "As long as it isn't Disney, I'll take my 6 year to this movie" Parental Demographic.

 

BDTH is shocking me here...Martin made better movies that BOMBED and yet this one...good but not 60 Mil in Two weeks good.

 

Hunted was indeed kick ass so says my good movie freak friend...

 

I hope Cuba and Boat Trip sink (pun intended)...

[Guest Crucifixio Jones]

"The Hunted" (admittedly, just by the trailers) - People probably didn't run out and see this because everyone's already seen "Rambo" before.

 

"Bringing Down the House" - I won't be seeing it but you gotta admit...Queen Latifah = critically-acclaimed performances nearly every time out the gate: Set It Off, Living Out Loud and now an Oscar nomination for Chicago.

 

Give it to'em, Queen.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I hate Rambo with a passion.

 

And yet Hunted was a great film.

[Guest El Satanico]

Damnit...I was hoping that Willard would've done better than that.

 

I mean shit Ghost Ship had shitty trailers and made something like 14 mill...so you'd think Willard which had great trailers would've at least broke 10 mill.

 

Willard is the only recently released movie which i'd bother going to a theater to see. I want to see Hunted because I love Benicio Del Toro, but It'll be a ppv/rental/kazaa movie for me.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

I desperately need to see Willard. It just looks like such a cool movie.

[Guest wwF1587]

at least agent cody banks wasnt number one... taht movie just sounds too bad to be true

[Guest ant_7000]

Hunted=Fugative 3 w/lil Rambo in there.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

I don't get it. Why would audiences flock to horror films like Ghost Ship & Darkness Falls, yet totally ignore something like Willard that actually looks good? Did it look to dark and not cool/MTVish enough for the teen horror fans? People are so lame.

[Guest Retro Rob]

I thought Ghost Ship bombed.

[Guest Lethargic]

I thought Ghost Ship bombed.

It made over 30 million. Covered it's budget but not the advertising. I guess it depends on if you take that into account to determine it's a bomb or not. But it had a good opening week. Opened in third place. Willard didn't even get that one weekend.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Ah Hell, figured i'd post this here.

 

Due to Cody Banks "massive" opening, Production on Cody Banks 2 will begin in 6 WEEKS!

 

Wow, I hope this tanks next weekend.

[Guest Downhome]

Willard is a smart and brilliant type of film, I'm in awe that it's doing so badly.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Willard is a smart and brilliant type of film, I'm in awe that it's doing so badly.

Do horror remakes ever really do good?

[Guest Michael Joel Benoit]

I guess Willard's too intellegent for the average American filmgoer or something.

 

Brining Down The House appeals to a bigger audience than it would two years ago because hip-hop is more mainstream now. Boy bands are dead and teenagers of all races are into hip-hop. It gets played on Top 40 radio and rappers Eminem, Nelly, Jay-Z, and Ja Rule are all household names. Plus, New York and Los Angles have big rap-loving audiences. I'm not saying that's the MAIN reason BDTH is still #1 because there have been other hip-hop targeted movies that have bombed since last year (like Nelly's movie) but it's one of the reasons. Add to the fact that Queen Latifiah is on a roll with her performance in Chicago and Oscar nomination and Steve Martin and I can understand why it's #1.

 

As for Agent Cody Banks being #2. I'm not suprised. The people who went to see it are the 10-14 year old audience who love Frankie Muniz and Hilary Duff (although I think Christy Carlson Romano is a talented actress and hotter than Hilary). So, yeah I'm not suprised.

[Guest Downhome]

Willard is a smart and brilliant type of film, I'm in awe that it's doing so badly.

Do horror remakes ever really do good?

No, but I thought of this one as different. I would be willing to bet that a LOT of people do not know that this is a remake anyhow, and besides that, there are many differences between the new version, and the original. It just pains me to see such a smart film, with GREAT performances by the way, to just be pushed to the side, it really pisses me off.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I guess Willard's too intellegent for the average American filmgoer or something.

Is the average American filmgoer suppose to see how intellegent it is based on the previews they're show? Based on the previews it looks like another bad horror remake.

 

Now if it's as smart as everyone says, then that's the studio's fault for putting the trailers together to show otherwise. You can't blame people for not wanting to see a movie that just doesn't really look that good.

 

The trailers show it as a boring horror movie, how are people suppose to know how smart it is?

[Guest El Satanico]

Nothing in the trailers for Willard made it look bad or cheesy so where's this "it looks like a bad horror movie remake" coming from.

 

First of all, how does a movie LOOK like a remake? No one is going to see the trailers for a movie and say "hey that's a remake" without prior knowledge of the original movie. I'm sure some people believed that the Psycho remake was a new movie.

 

Secondly, If a movie about a lunatic killing people with rats looks boring something's wrong with you people.

 

 

Oh yeah...the Willard trailer that plays the Michael Jackson song "Ben" rules. The song of course was used for Ben the sequel to Willard.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

What's everyones hard-on for Willard?

[Guest Lethargic]

To me, that trailer didn't even look like a horror movie. I thought it almost made Willard look like some rat controlling superhero type character.

[Guest subliminal_animal]

He's a rip-off of the Rat King from the Ninja Turtles. People probably saw that and decided they didnt want to support some TMNT rip-off. That's why Samurai Pizza Cats never made it as big as the rip-off artist producers hoped.

 

Damnit...I was hoping that Willard would've done better than that.

 

I mean shit Ghost Ship had shitty trailers and made something like 14 mill...so you'd think Willard which had great trailers would've at least broke 10 mill.

 

Me, too. I think it could be a word-of-mouth movie, though. But maybe not ... that's why I said, "I think."

 

I hate Rambo with a passion.

 

And yet Hunted was a great film.

"The Hunted" was a movie, not a film. TING!

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

The trailers show it as a boring horror movie, how are people suppose to know how smart it is?

What trailers did you see? The trailers I saw made it look liked a fucked up Crispin Glover freakfest, which it was.