Weekend Boxoffice Report Aug 20-22

[Youth N Asia 0]

1 Exorcist, The: The Beginning $18,175,000/$18,175,000

 

2 Without a Paddle $13,700,000/$13,700,000

 

3 Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement $13,198,000/$61,364,000

 

4 Alien vs Predator $12,500,000/$63,052,611

 

5 Open Water $11,750,000/$14,830,000

 

6 Collateral $10,500,000/$70,100,000

 

7 The Bourne Supremacy $6,600,000/$150,600,000

 

8 The Manchurian Candidate $4,200,000/$54,726,000

 

9 The Village $3,677,000/$107,003,000

 

10 Garden State $3,200,000/$6,689,449

 

11 Yu-Gi-Oh! $2,870,000 /15,139,000

 

12 Spider-Man 2 $2,500,000/$365,252,000

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Exorcist opens #1 despite awful awful reviews.

Bourne goes over $150m

Garden State did great considering it was only on 652 screens

[2GOLD 0]

A weak opening for a weak set of movies.

 

AvP collapsed in on itself, Without a Paddle opened without an audience, Open Water continues to do well, and Spiderman 2 moves within 5 million of Passion for 8th and Shrek 2 will finish 3rd in the US overall.

 

Meanwhile Spiderman 2 looks to finish well behind Spiderman, unless the film can pull in another 38 million dollars.

[Downhome 0]

I love watching bad movies, go to shit at the box office.

[Der Kommissar 0]

I need to pay more attention. I don't think I have seen one commercial for the Exorcist or Without a Paddle, and I actually have been watching tv more than usual lately. Then again, from the sounds of it, this was a pretty terrible weekend for movies anyway.

[Exslade ZX 0]

I need to pay more attention. I don't think I have seen one commercial for the Exorcist or Without a Paddle, and I actually have been watching tv more than usual lately. Then again, from the sounds of it, this was a pretty terrible weekend for movies anyway.

That's odd...I know there are A LOT of Without a Paddle commercials. Especially on Spike TV if you watch RAW..they seem to have one on spike every other commercial.

 

And the Exorcist commercial..I've also seen a lot, I just never really realize it's the exorcist commercial..because the first set they had, had a bunch of scenes with a priest..and someone tomb raiding...but the newer commercials have some lady in a house..so for a minute I was thinking they were two different movies.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

::Waits for MoleLohan to get his words in::

 

Bah, but it didn't make $25 million.

[Guest Smues]

On one hand I'm sad that piece of shit Exorcist movie came in #1. On the other hand, since it meant keeping Without a Paddle out of the #1 spot, I'm ok.

[Placebo Effect 0]

On one hand I'm sad that piece of shit Exorcist movie came in #1. On the other hand, since it meant keeping Without a Paddle out of the #1 spot, I'm ok.

Meh. Without a Paddle is just a harmless, dumb comedy (and it knows it), while Exorcist is a boring piece of shit that was in development for over five years.

[Guest El Satanico]

Hero = #1 next week

 

Come on American movie going general public...restore some of my faith in you retards

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

I'd say chances of seeing Bourne Ultimatum are pretty good now.

[Mole 0]

::Waits for MoleLohan to get his words in::

 

Bah, but it didn't make $25 million.

But it was #1 and AVP wasn't.

 

[AndrewTS 0]

18 million--good, glad that shitty Exorcist bastardization did so poorly. Hopefully the lack of reviews and word of mouth warnings helped. Although it may have been the lack of commercials for it.

 

I need to pay more attention. I don't think I have seen one commercial for the Exorcist or Without a Paddle

 

Lucky you, I couldn't get away from WAP ads.

[AndrewTS 0]

On one hand I'm sad that piece of shit Exorcist movie came in #1. On the other hand, since it meant keeping Without a Paddle out of the #1 spot, I'm ok.

Meh. Without a Paddle is just a harmless, dumb comedy (and it knows it), while Exorcist is a boring piece of shit that was in development for over five years.

Not really--the "real" Exorcist: the Beginning has already been made. It's going to be released on DVD either with or at the same time as the current version.

 

The original version wasn't liked by WB because it was more psychological instead of a brainless gorefest, so they hated it.

 

You can read about the production history here:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/38/features-foundas.php

[Mole 0]

18 million--good, glad that shitty Exorcist bastardization did so poorly. Hopefully the lack of reviews and word of mouth warnings helped. Although it may have been the lack of commercials for it.

So poorly? That is a pretty decent opening night, especially for a rated R movie.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I believe the studio has $35 million into the first cut of The Exorcist: Beginning and $50 million into the cut that went onto the screens. So they're a long ways away from making money on this, #1 opening or not.

[Mole 0]

For more blood and guts, which is the main reason why this movie is so damn bad.