Weekend Boxoffice Report Oct 29-31

[Youth N Asia 0]

1 The Grudge $22,400,000/$71,267,000

 

2 Ray $20,100,000/$20,100,000

 

3 Saw $17,400,000/$17,400,000

 

4 Shark Tale $8,000,000/$147,400,000

 

5 Shall We Dance? $6,285,321/$33,939,477

 

6 Friday Night Lights $4,100,000/$52,990,000

 

7 Ladder 49 $3,330,000/$66,198,000

 

8 Team America: World Police $3,100,000/$27,261,000

 

9 Surviving Christmas $2,600,000/$8,100,000

 

10 Taxi $2,150,000/$32,744,215

 

11 Birth $1,700,000/$1,700,000

 

12 The Forgotten $1,650,000/$64,490,000

 

13 I Heart Huckabees $1,650,000/$8,385,094

 

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Pretty solid openings for Ray and Saw.

 

Birth only had a theater count of 550

[Vyce 0]

Wow, Grudge only lost about half its audience.....I have to believe that's because of this weekend being Halloween, because the movie isn't really that strong. Still, though, when it's all said and done the film could wind up making close to 100 million domestic - does that mean we'll be seeing "The Grudge 2"?

[razazteca 0]

With Surviving Christmas not making any $$$ what does this mean for the new Tim Allen Christmas movie? Will it bomb also or are Tim Allen & Christina Applegate > Ben Afflect & James Giandifini when it comes to box office draw.

[bob_barron 0]

Birth bombed. Only had a per screen average of $3,000.

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

The Tim Allen movie likely will have better reviews and will be promoted better then Surviving Christmas was.

 

Ray, was amazing and I have a feeling it'll get further word of mouth and have a healthy second week since it got hurt slightly by the Halloween crowd.

[franchise632 0]

How the hell do you expect a Christmas movie to do well if you release the friggin thing before Halloween???

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

I just hope Ben enjoys the sox WS that he gave his movie career up for when he made that deal with satan.

 

Ben Affleck has to be having the most trumatic free fall movie career ever. His last 4 movies (Surviving, Gigli, Jersey Girl, Paycheck) have been monster bombs, Daredevil and Sum of All Fear's succes can't really be attributed to him). Actually, I don't believe he has ever carried a hit movie on his own...

 

Changing Lanes-His best performence that went completely unnoticed.

Pearl Harbor-The star was the story and the special effects.

Bounce-Bomb.

Reindeer games-Tanked.

Armageddon-The sell was The movie and Willis not him.

Dogma-Wasn't a BO hit and movie's cult status is because of Smith.

 

The only movie you can argue he carried that didn't have a bigger name or bigger gimmick was Forces of Nature which he co-stared with Sandra Bullock whom was still meaningful at the time.

 

He basically needs to go back to being a supporting character like in Dogma and Good Will Hunting and Shakespere in Love. He does those movies well.

[AndrewTS 0]

The Tim Allen movie likely will have better reviews and will be promoted better then Surviving Christmas was.

Plus it's based on a book that's actually pretty solid and funny as-is. However, that book (Skipping Christmas)'s humor wasn't as...well, overt as what I'd expect a Tim Allen movie to be. I magined Mr. Krank (in the book) to be played totally straight. This version seems to rely more on sight gags (the frozen cat wasn't in the book, for instance).

 

Surviving Christmas was critically lambasted and hardly anybody has even heard of it. So it was pretty much doomed on all counts.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Who the hell considers Dogma a cult favorite...

 

It can't touch the original trilogy...it's pretty much not even in context either.

 

What, it's more popular than the uber-shitty JASBSB? So is lead based paint.

[Mole 0]

How the hell did The Grudge do decent numbers again? I would think that since the movie was so bad, the word of mouth would take it down.

 

So does this mean that SMG is a draw?

[Guest JMA]

How much money did Daredevil make, anyway?

[Stephen 0]

People wanted a scare so that's why the Grudge was no 1 this week anyways. I'm surprised it only made 5.3 million on halloween, as it made 8.8 million on saturday.

 

Next week will belong to The Incredibles.

[pochorenella 0]

How much money did Daredevil make, anyway?

It made over $110 million IIRC, so it was a success by any standard.