Weekend Boxoffice Report, April 22-24

[Youth N Asia]

1. The Interpreter $22,809,000/$22,809,000

 

2. The Amityville Horror $14,200,000/$43,809,000

 

3. Sahara $9,000,000/$48,919,000

 

4. A Lot Like Love $7,743,000/$7,743,000

 

5. Kung Fu Hustle $7,297,000/$8,031,000

 

6. Fever Pitch $5,450,000/$31,451,000

 

7. Sin City $3,730,000/$67,267,000

 

8. Guess Who $3,500,000/$62,375,000

 

9. Robots $3,300,000/$120,168,000

 

10. King's Ransom $2,275,000/$2,275,000

 

11. The Pacifier $2,049,000/$106,510,000

 

12. Beauty Shop $1,900,000/$33,981,000

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The Interpreter was only on a little over 2,700 screens. That's 600 less than Amityville.

 

Kung Fu Hustle went from #21 to #5 with its wide release (2,500 screens)

 

King's Ransom was a nice bomb.

 

OPENING APRIL 29

-XXX: State of the Union

-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[The Fett]

Kung Fu Hustle should have made at least $10 mil.

[Mole]

Ha.

 

A Lot Live Love isn't doing well. That is what you get for having TWO Ashton movies released close to each other.

[MooreMark]

Not to mention "A Lot Like Love" sucked horribly.

[Gary Floyd]

I have to see "Kung Fu Justle". I just have to.

[Mole]

Not to mention "A Lot Like Love" sucked horribly.

YOU SAW IT???

 

Please tell me you saw it with your significant other. And got some bomb head afterwards. If not, then well, you must never talk again.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin]

"King's Ransom was a nice bomb."

 

What the fuck is King's Ransom? Haven't even heard of it.

[strummer]

"King's Ransom was a nice bomb."

 

What the fuck is King's Ransom? Haven't even heard of it.

a "Star Vehicle" for Anthony Anderson LOL Jay Mohr is also in it.

[Mole]

"King's Ransom was a nice bomb."

 

What the fuck is King's Ransom? Haven't even heard of it.

a "Star Vehicle" for Anthony Anderson LOL Jay Mohr is also in it.

Don't be hatin on Anthony Anderson.

 

He rules on the Shield.

[Guest Mosaicv2]

The Interpreter looks like a good movie. Any see it?

[algrim]

The Interpreter looks like a good movie. Any see it?

 

 

It was okay. The only flaw I found in the movie was that the ending dragged a little bit. Yoou kind of knew what was going to happen.

[razazteca]

Not to mention "A Lot Like Love" sucked horribly.

But isnt it the same thing as Guess Who? TWO~ romantic comedy's featuring Aston Kutner in a month is just too much for the public.

[chirs3]

The Interpreter looks like a good movie. Any see it?

The movie is 128 minutes long.

 

The first 115 are brilliant.

 

The last 13 are preachy cliched nonsense you've seen a thousand times before.

[bob_barron]

Not to mention "A Lot Like Love" sucked horribly.

But isnt it the same thing as Guess Who? TWO~ romantic comedy's featuring Aston Kutner in a month is just too much for the public.

Guess Who is more of a sitcomish style movie.

 

A Lot Like Love is more romance

[RedJed]

I just saw Kung Fu Hustle today and definately recommend checking it out. Lots of great action with and without CGI influence, but overall a really great story on top and heaps of laughs. Reminded me of Shaun of the Dead only with the fung fu genre as a backdrop instead of zombie horror.

 

Glad to see it crack the top 5 for sure...

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

I wasn't interested in The Interpreter, King's Ransom, or A Lot Like Love, so I could care less.

 

Next week:

 

1. XXX: State Of The Union - $37-45 million

 

2. The Interpreter

 

3. The Amityville Horror

 

4. Hitchhiker's Guide - $9 million

 

5. Sahara

[razazteca]

If Kung Fu Hustle had an english language dub would it done better business? Looney Toons style action scenes had to be the highlight of the movie.

[Ted the Poster]

Not to mention "A Lot Like Love" sucked horribly.

But isnt it the same thing as Guess Who? TWO~ romantic comedy's featuring Aston Kutner in a month is just too much for the public.

Guess Who is more of a sitcomish style movie.

 

A Lot Like Love is more romance

You saw BOTH?? What is WRONG with you?!

[bob_barron]

I didnt see A Lot Like Love- I just read the reviews for it.

 

I did see Guess Who though. It was okay, but ran out of gas before the ending. Bernie Mac and Ashton were hilarious together though

[MarvinisaLunatic]

Im guessing we'll hear the same thing in box office reports..

 

"OH NO..the box office is down XX % from last year.."

 

Theres not a decent movie (in my opinion) worth paying $10 to see on that list. Sin City would be the closest, but I decided to wait for the DVD. And neither new movie for next week has me running to the theatre next weekend either.

[cabbageboy]

At this point you could just wait for Sin City to go to the cheap 2nd run theaters. I think it is apparent that these vicious Tarantino/Rodriguez films have a glass ceiling around 70 million. Rodriguez has had 100 million films but those were Spy Kids movies.

[genius33]

I wasn't interested in The Interpreter, King's Ransom, or A Lot Like Love, so I could care less.

 

Next week:

 

1. XXX: State Of The Union - $37-45 million

 

2. The Interpreter

 

3. The Amityville Horror

 

4. Hitchhiker's Guide - $9 million

 

5. Sahara

you're WAY overestimating xxx

 

xxx without vin diesel = 20 mil at the MOST

[ragingfear79]

I went to see Kung Fu Hustle, what a great movie that was. The most fun i have had in the movies in the longest time, every1 in the theater was laughing histerically.

[cabbageboy]

Genius, 2 Fast 2 Furious without Vin Diesel made as much or more the opening weekend, though it finished a little less overall. Besides, I think Ice Cube has more consistent box office appeal than Diesel anyway.

[Ripper]

I wasn't interested in The Interpreter, King's Ransom, or A Lot Like Love, so I could care less.

 

Next week:

 

1. XXX: State Of The Union - $37-45 million

 

2. The Interpreter

 

3. The Amityville Horror

 

4. Hitchhiker's Guide - $9 million

 

5. Sahara

you're WAY overestimating xxx

 

xxx without vin diesel = 20 mil at the MOST

You are underestimating the drawing power of a crazy mutha fucka named Ice Cube.

 

*points to Are we there yet*

[RedJed]

If Kung Fu Hustle had an english language dub would it done better business? Looney Toons style action scenes had to be the highlight of the movie.

It might have, but there wasnt a large amount of speaking in the film in that it might not have mattered. So most might have assumed it was going to be in english. Hell, I didnt even know it was going to be subtitled at all going into it myself - the previews just showed the over the top action primarily and I was hooked.

[SuperJerk]

I wasn't interested in The Interpreter, King's Ransom, or A Lot Like Love, so I could care less.

 

Next week:

 

4. Hitchhiker's Guide - $9 million

The only way "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" will make $9 million is if everyone who knows that its coming out goes and sees it 3 times.

 

Terrible marketing campaign.

[The Fett]

If Kung Fu Hustle had an english language dub would it done better business?

I think the R rating is what hurt. It might have given the impression that the movie would be really gory and scared people away. I don't know how this movie got an R rating though. I've seen PG-13 movies with much worse violence. Even with the R rating and the subtitles, the movie should have made much more money than it did. It broke all box office records in China and critics have absolutely loved the movie (88% RottenTomatoes rating).

[Guest DVD Spree]

I went to see Kung Fu Hustle, what a great movie that was. The most fun i have had in the movies in the longest time, every1 in the theater was laughing histerically.

And it's not even close to being Chow's funniest flick.

[Art Sandusky]

Kung Fu Hustle was rated R? But why? They said "fucking" once maybe, that's all I can think of that might have been objectionable.

 

(by the way, it gets my highest recommendation as a tremendous comedy that simultaneously makes you care about all of the characters, with no one having a vestigial role out of a cast of roughly ten regulars you saw throughout. I thought it was a play converted into a film at first)