Box Office Report...

[EricMM 0]

Dude, he tried to get a good episode or two of South Park yanked.

 

AND he tried to have a Katie Holmes sex scene removed.

 

Nothing he does could equal the entertainment in those things.

 

(Collateral was still good tho)

[bob_barron 0]

No he didn't, and

 

No he didn't.

[Mole 0]

Tom has been great in TONS of movies.

 

Top Gun

Rain Man

Born on the 4th of July

Mission Impossible

The Firm

Minority Report

Magnolia

The Color of Money

Vanilla Sky(I think he was great in this)

 

Just because he is crazy, doesn't make him a bad actor.

[Mole 0]

1 - Mission: Impossible III Paramount Pictures $48,025,000 $48,025,000 1 4054

I'm no expert, but $48 million is a lot of fucking money. What's with all the "bomb" talk?

 

I fucking hate Tom Cruise, but I'm not deluded enough to think the guy isn't the biggest single box office draw in the world.

 

48 million is a bomb when you look at previous Tom Cruise openings, previous MI openings, previous openings for the first weekend in May and previous openings for movies of this genre.

 

I love Tom Cruise, but this opening is a big dissapointment.

Err, I don't know if it is that big of a dissapointment.

 

The War of the Worlds $64,878,725

Collateral $24,701,458

The Last Samurai $24,271,354

Minority Report $35,677,125

Vanilla Sky $25,015,518

Mission: Impossible 2 $57,845,29

Magnolia $193,604

Eyes Wide Shut $21,706,163

Jerry Maguire $17,084,296

Mission: Impossible $45,436,830

Interview with the Vampire $36,389,705

The Firm $32,476,785

 

Not including Magnolia, he averages $35 million an opening weekend since 1993. It is above average for him.

[bob_barron 0]

Look at the openings for the previous two Mission: Impossible movies.

 

It's a dissapointment

[Mole 0]

If you look at any franchises, the opening weekends go up and down all the time.

[bob_barron 0]

They don't go down from 57.8 to 47.8 without it being called a dissapointment.

 

M:I2 opened on less screens, when ticket prices were less, and on a Wednesday.

 

I'm a big Cruise fan, but he couldn't even beat the Bourne Supremacy.

 

When Paramount is hoping for 65-70 and you get 45, that's dissapointing.

[Dangerous A 0]

And Tom Cruise's opening for MI:3 effects us all how again?

[Mole 0]

They don't go down from 57.8 to 47.8 without it being called a dissapointment.

 

M:I2 opened on less screens, when ticket prices were less, and on a Wednesday.

 

I'm a big Cruise fan, but he couldn't even beat the Bourne Supremacy.

 

When Paramount is hoping for 65-70 and you get 45, that's dissapointing.

But it isn't a disapointment for a TC movie. Maybe for the MI series, but not for TC movies.

[bob_barron 0]

It's got to be a dissapointment for him.

 

This was hyped as an action movie where guys could go and see Tom Cruise kick ass, and girls could swoon over Tom Cruise kicking ass and macking the girl from Boston Public.

 

Looking at his previous movies, only Minority Report, the MI films and WOTW were blockbuster popcorn flicks, not films that would do better then 35 mil.

 

And if you adjust for inflation Interview with the Vampire and the Firm, you get around 47-50 mil.

[Mole 0]

Err, actually $54.

 

I still don't think it is a disapointment for TC.

[cabbageboy 0]

I hardly think Cruise will be up at night over this. The Last Samurai opened with 24 million on its way to 111 million domestic and ended up with about 456 million worldwide. This latest Mission: Impossible will likely do similar or even better.

 

Besides, MI3 is the best of the 3 and certainly a lot better than the 2nd.

[Mole 0]

Yeah, he is still making a shit load of money.