Box Office Thread

[Boner Kawanger 0]

USA Weekend Box-Office Estimates

1/23-1/25

Rank Title Weekend Total Gross

1 Butterfly Effect, The (2004) 17.1m 17.1m

2 Along Came Polly (2004) 16.6m 53.5m

3 Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) 7.5m 7.5m

4 Big Fish (2003) 7.3m 49.1m

5 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 6.9m 337.0m

6 Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) 6.6m 122.0m

7 Cold Mountain (2003) 5.3m 72.9m

8 Torque (2004) 4.4m 17.2m

9 Something's Gotta Give (2003) 4.1m 107.0m

10 Mystic River (2003) 3.1m 58.5m

 

The Butterfly Effect barely edges out the competition and ROTK hangs on to its spot in the top ten. Discuss if necessary.

[MrRant 0]

WTF is Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!?

[Downhome 0]

I would just like to say once again, that I can't believe that so many people thought RotK would actually beat Titanic's record.

[razazteca 0]

Go see Big Fish! The date movie is some chick flick with Topher from the 70's Show.

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13349,00.html

 

 

Ashton's Soaring "Butterfly Effect"

 

by Bridget Byrne

 

Score one for Kelso. In a big-screen showdown of That '70s Show stars Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace, Kutcher's The Butterfly Effect walloped Grace's Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! to win the weekend box-office derby.

 

Kutcher's memory-tripping thriller, costarring Amy Smart as his ill-fated love, was something of a surprise victor, raking in $17.1 million according to preliminary studio estimates Sunday.

 

Not only did Effect win, it won in impressive fashion. Kutcher's time-bending flick , in which he tries to alter the course of fate with terrible consequences, ousted Along Came Polly, which features two presumably more bankable stars, Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston, and finished in second place in its second week with $16.6 million, and it also did more than twice the business of Grace's Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, which debuted dismally in third place with just $7.5 million.

 

Flitting into 2,605 sites, New Line's R-rated Butterfly Effect overcame mostly negative reviews, drawing nearly equal numbers of males and females and averaged a flashy $6,564 per screen.

 

David Tuckerman, head of distribution for New Line, told the Associated Press this was the first movie where Kutcher "had to act in" and "there was great curiousity to see how he'd handle a mature role."

 

In contrast, nobody much seem to care a tad who won the girl in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! The PG-13 DreamWorks release, featuring Grace and Las Vegas's Josh Duhamel vying for the delights of Kate Bosworth, averaged just $2,767 per its 2,711 sites.

 

While that other Ben and Jen calling it quits last week, audience interest in Stiller and Aniston's Along Came Polly remained strong. It was down just 40 percent from last weekend and averaged $5,543 at 2,995 sites (up 11 theaters from last week). It has now grossed $53.5 million.

 

Torque stalled in its second week, crashing down 56 percent to eighth place with $4.4 million and a per-screen average of just $1,797 average. The biker flick has only revved up $17.2 million.

 

Expanding wide to 1,327 sites in its 16th week, as the awards season run up to the Oscars quickens, the critically praised Mystic River, starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins and directed by Clint Eastwood, gained 851 percent, moving into the last slot on the top 10 list. There it earned $3.1 million from a $2,355 per-screen average. The R-rated Warner Bros. release has now reached a $58.5 million gross.

 

Also gaining from broader release was Monster, in which Charlize Theron gives an awards-bait performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Gaining 33 percent, the based-on-a-true-story drama earned $2 million at 330 sites, averaging $6,066. The R-rated New Market release has now earned $5.9 million in five weeks.

 

Two other movies with Oscar hopes also continued to ring the registers. Big Fish earned $7.3 million in fourth place to take its total to $49 million, while The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King took in $6.9 million in fifth place to bring its six-week haul to $338 million.

 

Overall, the top 12 movies tallied an estimated $83.4 million, a drop of 12 percent from last weekend, but a gain of 4 percent from this time last year.

 

Box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations will release final figures on Monday; meantime, this is how the top 10 shapes up:

 

1. The Butterfly Effect, $17.1 million

2. Along Came Polly, $16.6 million

3. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, $7.5 million

4. Big Fish, $7.3 million

5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, $6.8 million

6. Cheaper by the Dozen, $6.6 million

7. Cold Mountain, $5.3 million

8. Torque, $4.4 million

9. Something's Gotta Give, $4.1 million

10. Mystic River, $3.1 million

[razazteca 0]

Will that SAT movie make more than $8 million?

[Guest Urine Sane]

I would just like to say once again, that I can't believe that so many people thought RotK would actually beat Titanic's record.

 

I don't think it is possible to get those numbers anymore, since most movies make it to video within 3 months or so of release, they have no chance of going on a 30 or so week run in theaters, people would rather watch the DVD at home. The business has changed, is Lord of the Rings a better movie? Definately. Titanic had good timing.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

In a big-screen showdown of That '70s Show stars Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace, Kutcher's The Butterfly Effect walloped Grace's Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! to win the weekend box-office derby.

 

Good God, what a stupid lead.

 

Maybe perhaps nobody has heard of WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON.

 

Estimated production/marketing budgets of both movies, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com

 

Butterfly: $13(?)/$20 million

Date: $24/$25million

 

Huh?...

[Mik 0]

Next week, first Owen Wilson movie in almost a year...Big Bounce! Straight to number one (perhaps in a dream world)

[Mole 0]

RoTK might not even get $400.

 

If it wins Best Picture, its numbers will inscrease some more.