Weekend Boxoffice for 10-14

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USA Weekend Box-Office Summary

14 October 2005 (Sunday Estimates)

Rank Title Weekend Gross

1. The Fog (2005) $12.2M $12.2M

2. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) $11.7M $33.3M

3. Elizabethtown (2005) $11M $11M

4. Flightplan (2005) $6.47M $70.8M

5. In Her Shoes (2005) $6.1M $20.1M

6. Domino (2005) $4.67M $4.67M

7. Two for the Money (2005) $4.6M $16.5M

8. A History of Violence (2005) $3.6M $22.4M

9. Corpse Bride (2005) $3.46M $47.7M

10. The Gospel (2005) $3.2M $12.2M

 

credit: imdb.com

[Guest JMA]

Ouch. Those are some terrible numbers for Domino.

[SuperJerk 0]

They should've pimped the hell out of the fact that it was based on the true story of someone who just recently died.

[2GOLD 0]

People who went to see THE FOG should be stabbed in the nuts.

I'm sorry, they should.

[2GOLD 0]

Double posts are evil.

Why it double posted I have no idea. I'm surprised that Corpse Bride didn't do better. I thought it would have cleaned up with the Hot Topic crowd.

[Placebo Effect 0]

What the hell are these movies?

[Youth N Asia 0]

11 Waiting $2,900,000/$11,584,000

 

12 Serenity $2,282,000/$22,144,000

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Waiting > Serenity on an entertainment level.

[Vampiro69 0]

Elizabethtown bombs, and hopefully Orlando Bloom drifts further away from hollywood.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Waiting > Serenity on an entertainment level.

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I've seen both, and I disagree

[Gary Floyd 0]

The fact that this shitty looking remake of "The Fog" is the top in the box office pisses me off.

[Guest JMA]

The fact that this shitty looking remake of "The Fog" is the top in the box office pisses me off.

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It's things like this that make me dislike the majority of casual moviegoers. I will give them credit for not seeing Domino, though.

[cabbageboy 0]

Domino tanking doesn't shock me since the trailer was totally confusing. It didn't explain what the movie was about, who it was about, anything much of note about the story other than "My name is Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter." Also, just because Keira Knightley was the hot chick in Pirates of the Caribbean doesn't mean people want to see her in her own vehicles.

 

Elizabethtown doing bleh business isn't shocking either, though I did go to see it due to the local connection (quite a bit was filmed in Louisville). That said, if you aren't from the Louisville or E-Town areas a lot of stuff will be lost on you.

[Fökai 0]

Domino may just be the worst promoted movie for a story that couldn't miss. Based on the reviews, I wouldn't have seen it anyway, but the premise was too interesting for it to be botched like it was leading into the premiere.

 

Like cabbage said, the trailer and teasers were just mind-numbing. Literally thirty seconds of dead air.

[Slayer 0]

I didn't know until this thread that there was a true story behind Domino, which I decided to look into.

 

So, yeah, Hollywood dun fucked up this one. The previews just made it look like a generic action flick with a chick lead...

[Youth N Asia 0]

There is nothing from the previews in Domino that make me want to see it

[Guest fanofcoils]

I watched the new Wallace and Gromit movie today. It was very Emeka Okafor, undersized with back problems. I gave it 3 or 4 out of 10 stars. The problem with it is like Serenity, it failed to tell a story. I had no idea what was going on in the movie other than the main jist of it that was pretty obvious about some garden contest and the were rabbit. Then again, I for the most part understood LOTR (except for a few boring parts which unconnect you with what is going on), so therefore I don't think I have a problem understanding movies. I gave it 3 or 4 stars out of 10 instead of 0 or 1 out of 10 because it was a prety unoffensive movie and the environment of the movie was pretty good.

 

I wonder if anyone punished Jodie Foster by not seeing her movies including Flight Plan after she no sold the Silence of the Lambs sequels/prequels/whatever. Flight Plan seems like a very generic/type cast role after Panic Room for her.

 

Domino seeming to be a generic action flick with a chick lead in a tough guy or "tough girl" role, I thought it would do better.

 

Two for the Money seems too much like Any Given Sunday, that tier 2 football movie, which is why I think Two for the Money isn't doing that strong in the box office.

[Mole 0]

Wow, Serenity is doing shittty.

 

I'm seeing it tonight, so they'll get some money.

[bob_barron 0]

It was very Emeka Okafor

 

STOP THIS.

[SuperJerk 0]

There is nothing from the previews in Domino that make me want to see it

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But...but...but...her name is Domino Harvey! And she's a bounty hunter!

[Guest fanofcoils]

It was very Emeka Okafor

 

STOP THIS.

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I will try to, but I'll say in this case, the new Wallace and Gromit movie was very Andruw Bogut, no name with eye problems. Just like Kendra Todd in the Apprentice, people who don't follow college basketball but read the big headlines about it on espn.com and that is about it, didn't know who Andruw Bogut was until 2-3 weeks before the draft, and that is just pathetic. Andrew or Andruw Bogut will likely be a solid player but who cares, for him being the first pick of the draft outweighs his "solidness", and therefore he is a huge disappointment just like the new Wallace and Gromit movie in my opinion. The Okafor example was the same thing as the Bogut example more or less, I don't see why it isn't useful when talking about things. And I mentioned Kendra Todd for anyone who cares because she more or less didn't exist until midseason on the Apprentice.

[bob_barron 0]

Wallace and Gromit have been well known since 1993.

[Guest fanofcoils]

I was saying how Wallace and Gromit was a disappointment, not how it "didn't exist". I don't see what is unclear.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Theres just 1 movie (Corpse Bride) in the top 12 that I even would want to rent when it comes out on DVD.

[razazteca 0]

There is nothing from the previews in Domino that make me want to see it

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But...but...but...her name is Domino Harvey! And she's a bounty hunter!

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And she has a sexy british accent.

[cabbageboy 0]

And she's Laurence Harvey's daughter. I just read an article about the real life Domino and it sounds like a can't miss film prospect. I'd almost entirely blame the shitty trailer for this tanking.

[SuperJerk 0]

It was very Emeka Okafor

 

STOP THIS.

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I will try to, but I'll say in this case, the new Wallace and Gromit movie was very Andruw Bogut, no name with eye problems. Just like Kendra Todd in the Apprentice, people who don't follow college basketball but read the big headlines about it on espn.com and that is about it, didn't know who Andruw Bogut was until 2-3 weeks before the draft, and that is just pathetic. Andrew or Andruw Bogut will likely be a solid player but who cares, for him being the first pick of the draft outweighs his "solidness", and therefore he is a huge disappointment just like the new Wallace and Gromit movie in my opinion. The Okafor example was the same thing as the Bogut example more or less, I don't see why it isn't useful when talking about things. And I mentioned Kendra Todd for anyone who cares because she more or less didn't exist until midseason on the Apprentice.

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I'm so absolutely confused by this post that it automatically makes me want to take back everything bad I've ever said about you, for now I fear you.

[Golgo 13 0]

We know there's a way to keep people out of the WWE folder, but in fanofcoils's case, is there a way to just lock them in there?

[Guest JMA]

We know there's a way to keep people out of the WWE folder, but in fanofcoils's case, is there a way to just lock them in there?

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I'd prefer it if there was a "Gulag" type folder.

[Golgo 13 0]

WWE folder is a harsher punishment.