Weekend Boxoffice report

[Guest Youth N Asia]

1 Phone Booth $15,025,000/$15,025,000

 

2 What a Girl Wants $12,060,000/$12,060,000

 

3 A Man Apart $11,150,000/$11,150,000

 

4 Head of State $8,800,000/$25,300,000

 

5 Bringing Down the House $8,500,000/$111,300,000

 

6 The Core $6,300,000/$20,921,000

 

7 Basic $5,400,000/$20,036,000

 

8 Chicago $5,314,000/$152,182,159

 

9 Agent Cody Banks $3,700,000/$40,078,000

 

10 Piglet's Big Movie $3,000,000/$17,000,000

 

11 Dreamcatcher $2,630,000/$30,151,000

 

12 The Pianist $2,148,000/$26,622,000

[Guest Mole]

I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot.

 

Phone Booth will be a steady sleeper and stay hight because of word of mouth.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I would have posted but I've been without internet for about 5 days. I'm only on now cause I'm at a friends house.

[Guest Zero_Cool]

I'm going to have to go see Phone Booth. People say it's badass, and Forest Whitaker rocks the body that..you know..

 

Speaking of Forest, who here has seen Vision Quest? I don't even think he had a line, he was just there, due to it being an 80s teen sports movie and all.

[Guest bob_barron]

I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot.

 

Phone Booth will be a steady sleeper and stay hight because of word of mouth.

No it won't. It only got a C+ from CinemaScore which doesn't bode well for long term prospects

[Guest Youth N Asia]

My buddy downloaded Phonebooth a week ago. It was pretty good, but a little on the short side. I think it's only about an hour and fifteen minutes.

[Guest Polish_Rifle]

Vin Diesel has a flop! I hope this is the beginning of a trend.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Vin Diesel has a flop! I hope this is the beginning of a trend.

I don't know if I'd call $11.5 million opening weekend a flop.

 

And to tell you the truth, the previews they showed with LOTRL Two Towers and the one with Final Destination 2 actually made the movie look good. But the one they're showing on tv doesn't do anything for me.

 

But hey, I'm all about Diesel hate. I still say the guy has some retardation in him...he talks a little too slow to be normal.

[Guest HBK16]

Phone Booth was awesome. I saw it twice opening weekend.

[Guest Crucifixio Jones]

The knock on Phone Booth seems to be that it's just average and it's only 80 minutes.

[Guest El Satanico]

Uh...yeah 3rd place and 11.5 mill isn't even close to being a flop.

 

Besides Knockaround Guys bombed last year so there goes your "Omg a Diesel film flopped" exclamation out the window.

 

And like Knockaround Guys, A Man Apart is a film the studio shelved and forgot about until Diesel became a star. Both were probably movies that wouldn't have been released if Diesel didn't hit it big.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Safe to say The Core is a flop?...

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Safe to say The Core is a flop?...

Dunno, I'd like to know how much they had into it before I call it a flop. An A-List name in the movie could've helped though. They might as well went with nobodies then 2nd or 3rd rate names.

 

I do love the quote they show in trailers "The movie Armageddon wished it was"...or something like that. Funny how that one made all the money, and this thing won't touch 1/3 of that kind of cash

[Guest Ravenbomb]

good to see another great movie gets the #1 spot. Hopefully it has a nice long stay there

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Anger Management opens next week...so don't count on it