Weekend Box Office Report: 2/27/04 - 2/29/04

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

New Releases:

 

Opened Wednesday: "The Passion Of The Christ" (James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci)

"Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" (Romola Garai, Diego Luna )

"Twisted" (Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson, Andy Garcia)

 

Box Office Top 10:

 

1 - The Passion of The Christ - $76,200,576/$117,538,465

 

2 - 50 First Dates - $12,600,000/$88,718,000

3 - Twisted - $9,100,000/$9,100,000

4 - Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - $6,100,000/$16,700,000

5 - Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights - $5,900,000/$5,900,000

6 - Miracle - $4,400,000/$56,300,000

7 - Eurotrip - $4,100,000/$12,800,000

8 - Welcome to Mooseport - $3,350,000/$11,610,099

9 - Barbershop 2: Back in Business - $3,100,000/$57,550,000

10 - Broken Lizard's Club Dread - $3,025,000/$3,025,000

 

Opening Friday:

 

"Starsky & Hutch" (Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg)

"Hidalgo" (Viggo Mortensen)

[Youth N Asia 0]

Bah! My gimmick!

 

11 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $2,150,000/ $364,091,000

 

12 Mystic River $2,075,000/$82,224,000

 

Mystic River and ROTK were only on 1,100 screens. Where as Club Dread was on 1,800

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Good for Mel...

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Yes! For once a truly great movie makes truly great money! Go Mel!

[Max Danger 0]

Has it been mentioned yet that Return of the King is over the $1 billion mark worldwide? I think it went over two weeks ago, maybe. Shrug. It's still over $800,000,000 shy of Titanic's all-time worldwide record though.

 

The Passion of The Christ should also enter into the Top 10 in biggest weekend box offices. Number seven actually between Star Wars Episode II($4 million short) and Austin Powers in Goldmember($3 million more). It's opening day total gave it the highest one day total for the month of February, too.

[Guest Choken One]

I never got how they can release these things Sunday Mornings...

 

Don't people see movies on Sundays?

[Mik 0]

They are estimates. They often change.

[Downhome 0]

Someone sent this to me, and I don't know if it's true or not, and I'm tool lazy to check it out myself right now, but here you go anyway.

 

Passion $76,201,000 first weekend

Return of the King $72,629,713 first weekend

 

Passion $117,538,000 in 5 days

Return of the King $124,100,534 in 5 days

 

Passion $30 production, $15 million marketing

Return of the King $94 million production $50 million marketing

[Guest Choken One]

The $15 Million Marketing isn't really fair...

 

It was the HOT BUTTON issue in Mags, TV and Internet colums all week, thus getting free publicity.

[Downhome 0]

The $15 Million Marketing isn't really fair...

 

It was the HOT BUTTON issue in Mags, TV and Internet colums all week, thus getting free publicity.

What isn't fair here? We're talking about the cost of the films and how much was spent on production, not the free promotion itself. Just to make apoint about how much money this movie is making overall.

[Youth N Asia 0]

It's not that it's not fair...it's that they got hundreds of millions worth of advertising without really paying for it. It was promoted far more than the numbers reflect

[Downhome 0]

It's not that it's not fair...it's that they got hundreds of millions worth of advertising without really paying for it. It was promoted far more than the numbers reflect

I wont disagree with that, it's obvious. Every news type show and everything else has been talking about this movie for weeks.

 

I'm just saying that the $$$ total is right on. It's all about how much both films cost to produce and to market, and how much they made.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Well considering The Passion >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ROTK, all is right in the world.

[Guest El Satanico]

fuck Jesus...Wizards and Hobbits own his skinny ass

[Youth N Asia 0]

Not to start a holy war...but I'd much rather watch Hobbits and Elves then Jesus Christ

[treble 0]

I don't think spending that much in marketing really helped ROTK's ticket sales all that much, anyway, as it got a shitload of free advertising, too. Not as much as the Jesus movie, but still a lot.

[Damaramu 0]

Club Dread was ranked 10? Bah! I thought it was funny. Not as funny as Super Troopers...but funny.

[the pinjockey 0]

In essence, ROTK also had 2 years worth of advertising beforehand with the first two films.

 

I am surprised Club Dread was that low. The screen I saw it at, while there wasn't a big crowd, gave me the sense it would at least be in the 6-8 mil range.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I'm suprised Club Dread did as well as it did. The previews give you nothing to work with...you can tell it's a horror of sorts but there's nothing really to indicate that it's a funny movie

[Ravenbomb 0]

the whole Jesus thing has been done to death. If they're going to do ANOTHER movie, they could at least change the ending or add wire-fighting or explosions or SOMETHING. They got a guy to play Jesus who can do movie swordfighting, and from what I hear they did NOTHING with it. Tsk Tsk @ Mel

[tpww7 0]

Club Dread was horrible. Eurotrip was much better.

 

And Passion of Christ was the shit.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

ANYWAY... How about that Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights ?

 

Next Week:

 

1. The Passion Of The Christ (Seeing as it was sold out everywhere, I'm sure there's a large amount of people who hasn't seen it)

 

2. Starsky & Hutch (IMO, It'll open to a good amount and strong word of mouth will keep it on top. Come on now, Ben Stiller + Owen Wilson X Snoop Dogg + Vince Vaughn + Will Ferrell + The director of "Old School" and "Road Trip" THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL THAT THIS WILL BOMB)

 

3. Hildago

 

4. 50 First Dates

 

5. Twisted

[Mole 0]

S&H will make atleast $100million all together.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I'm suprised that Twisted did as well as it did. It just looks like every other crappy crime thriller out there

[Damaramu 0]

Club Dread was horrible. Eurotrip was much better.

 

And Passion of Christ was the shit.

I disagree. I thought Club Dread was funny.

[pochorenella 0]

Has it been mentioned yet that Return of the King is over the $1 billion mark worldwide? I think it went over two weeks ago, maybe. Shrug. It's still over $800,000,000 shy of Titanic's all-time worldwide record though

 

They should do the adjusted money gross for the Worldwide numbers, because it's no longer accurate anymore. Star Wars alone has 1 billion or so from US gross, way better than Titanic. If you add worldwide numbers then I'm sure it'll be at least #2. Gone With the Wind is the actual top-grossing movie ever in the US, with adjusted figures.