Weekend Box Office Report

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1. Fantastic Four (2005) $56M | $56M

2. War of the Worlds (2005) $31.3M | $166M

3. Batman Begins (2005) $10.2M | $172M

4. Dark Water (2005) $10.1M | $10.1M

5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) $7.85M | $159M

6. Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) $6.27M | $48.5M

7. Bewitched (2005) $5.5M | $50.9M

8. Madagascar (2005) $4.3M | $180M

9. Rebound (2005) $2.88M | $11.4M

10. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $2.6M | $371M

 

The slump is OVER!!!...for now.

 

http://imdb.com/chart/

 

For a more detailed look at this week's numbers.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Vic Mackey = Box Office Cake.

[Guest Retro Rob]

Vic Mackey and Christian Troy have reversed the Box Office curse.

[razazteca 0]

Who?

[Guest JMA]

It's good to know that the slump is finally over. I'm greatly looking forward to next week's numbers.

[Guest JMA]

Who?

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Julian McMahon plays Christian Troy on the FX show Nip/Tuck. Michael Chiklis plays Vic Macket on the FX show The Shield. The two actors are both in Fantastic Four.

[razazteca 0]

Who?

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Julian McMahon plays Christian Troy on the FX show Nip/Tuck. Michael Chiklis plays Vic Macket on the FX show The Shield. The two actors are both in Fantastic Four.

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So does this mean that Dennis Leary, Lenny Clark, Anthony Anderson will have a big box office film soon? FF4 making 56 million is a surprise but it made that much because Batman Begins raised the expectations of comicbook films.

[Guest Retro Rob]

I can only hope. Leary and Clark are amazingly funny.

[Mecha Mummy 0]

Wow. That's like sixteen million higher than I thought it would get. Impressive.

[haVoc 0]

Anyone see Dark Water? I've been tempted all weekend to see it.

 

I finally saw "Hide and Seek" on Friday and was left a bit disappointed so I haven't been in the mood to see another "scary" movie.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Anyone see Dark Water? I've been tempted all weekend to see it.

 

I finally saw "Hide and Seek" on Friday and was left a bit disappointed so I haven't been in the mood to see another "scary" movie.

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It's pretty good, but it's definately not that scary, though it does have atmosphere by the pound. Think of it as a drama instead of a horror film.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Vic Mackey and Christian Troy have reversed the Box Office curse.

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Damn Straight! Although I just got back from Fantastic Four...I was disapointed.

[CBright7831 0]

How neat. Your sig features two of the cast members of the Fantastic Four, and in the Rescue Me sig, there is a firetruck in the background, and in the FF,

The Thing stops a firetruck from going over a bridge

.

[Vyce 0]

Why are you saying the slump is over? I'm betting that next week the Wonka flick opens below expectations and Fantastic Four will have a very big drop off (at least 65%). Everything this year is still sluggish as hell.

[Guest Retro Rob]

The slump isn't over, but the streak is. This is only a bump in the road, but now Hollywood execs won't have to worry about breaking a new record every weekend.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

Why are you saying the slump is over?  I'm betting that next week the Wonka flick opens below expectations and Fantastic Four will have a very big drop off (at least 65%).  Everything this year is still sluggish as hell.

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Its because this summer is a terrible one for big movies outside of Batman & Star Wars and both had some problems with their fanbase over their previous installments. Last year there was stuff like Spidey 2, Harry Potter 3, Shrek 3 and the Bourne Supremacy that were big hits.

 

The slump will be over when Hollywood starts putting out more popular movies.

[SuperJerk 0]

I'm not sure much people are going to want to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory next week.

 

I'm not saying I don't think it'll be a good movie (although Tim Burton's made some real crap lately), I'm just wondering how many people will be turned off by the apparent differences between this and the 1971 version.

[bob_barron 0]

I do like that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is supposedly more faithful to the book then the original. That's why I really want to see it.

[Guest JMA]

I'm not really that interested in seeing Fantastic Four to be honest. I'll probably just see Batman Begins for the second time.

[Dangerous A 0]

I saw Bewitched on Friday and was saddened because it was the first time Will Ferrell's act didn't click for me on any level. He had zero chemistry with Nicole Kidman and the ending literally came out of nowhere, but then again I saw it was directed by Nora Ephron, who I consider to be hugely overrated.

 

A thumbs down for me and I can see why it dropped to #7 this last weekend.

[SuperJerk 0]

I do like that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is supposedly more faithful to the book then the original. That's why I really want to see it.

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Well, they *did* get the title right, this time.

 

I'm not aware that the 1971 was all that different than the book though.

[bob_barron 0]

In the movie, Charlie doesn't have a father and he has a TV, which they didn't have in the book.

 

Violet is offed differently, there's no singing by Wonka and there are more parents in the book. The book also shows the kids being led out with their new looks.

[SuperJerk 0]

In other words, most people won't care.

 

 

I feel sorry for the theater workers who will have to keep explaining to people the movie's not called "Willie Wonka".

 

Dumb Customer: I don't see the times for "Willie Wonka".

 

Theater Employee: It's called "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

 

Dumb Customer: But I wanna see "Willie Wonka!"

 

 

Repeat 100,00 times.

[Slayer 0]

What's this slump everyone's talking about? I must have not been paying attention somewhere

[SuperJerk 0]

Every week, box office numbers have been down a small percentage below the corresponding week last year.

 

 

(The only reason I care about how much money a movie makes is because it determines what kinds of movies will get made in the future.)

[bob_barron 0]

For the first 19 or 20 weeks of the year, the box office in 2005 was down v. what it was in 2004.

 

Of course the spring of 04 had the Passion of the Christ become one of the top 10 films of all time, making the whole slump business quite misleading.

 

I'm just happy we're getting a more faithful adaptation. Apparently in the movie, they actually show Wonka's visit to Loompa Land which isn't in Willy Wonka. The book also spent a lot of time focusing on Charlie beeing poor, but I doubt that will make it in the movie.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

there were quite a few more very significant differences between the book and the movie.

 

For one the entire Slugworth subplot, about stealing the everlasting gobstopper fromt he factory, it being a Wonka test, etc, was never in the books. IN general the book is more mysterious and a bit sinister in tone.

[bob_barron 0]

Yea, I remember being confused by the stuff with Slugworth since it's only mentioned in passing in the book as Wonka's employees sold all his secrets to them.

 

I hope they mention Mr. Buckets job as screwing the toothpaste caps on toothpaste.

 

Wonka is much more of an asshole in the book. I heard that snozberrys is actually a slang term for penis, though I don't know if that's the truth.

 

In the book, couldn't you only take one parent? Or in the movie, did they only have one parent?

[SuperJerk 0]

I'm just happy we're getting a more faithful adaptation.

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Its not like the 1971 film was an I, Robot-level adaptation. It got 95% of the book right.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I, Robot was never really an actual work to begin with. It was a mishmash of Asimov writings and other sources.