Weekend Box Office

[Gary Floyd 0]

1 1 Spider-Man 3 Sony Pictures Releasing $60,000,000 $242,071,000 2 4252

2 - 28 Weeks Later 20th Century Fox Distribution $10,000,000 $10,000,000 1 2303

3 - Georgia Rule Universal Pictures Distribution $5,879,000 $5,879,000 1 2523

4 2 Disturbia Paramount Pictures $4,807,000 $66,295,000 5 3106

5 - Delta Farce Lionsgate $3,500,000 $3,500,000 1 1931

6 3 Fracture New Line Cinema $2,900,000 $30,980,000 4 2202

7 4 The Invisible Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $2,202,000 $15,546,000 3 1943

8 9 Hot Fuzz Rogue Pictures (Focus) $1,655,000 $18,930,000 4 1236

9 5 Next Paramount Pictures $1,604,000 $14,604,000 3 2017

10 7 Meet the Robinsons Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $1,600,000 $94,094,000 7 1640

11 8 Blades of Glory Paramount Pictures $1,415,000 $113,839,000 7 1436

12 - The Ex The Weinstein Company , MGM Distribution Company $1,355,000 $1,355,000 1 1009

 

I knew "28 Weeks Later" it would make some money, but I didn't think it would take second place.

[Hoff 0]

Look at Disturbia! The little movie that could. Good for it. Disney guy has to be happy.

 

How does SM3's $60mil stack up with what was expected?

 

Also, I'm proud to say I contributed $6 to Delta Farce's total. It's pretty bad, but if you like really stupid comedy it's worth a matinee.

[King Kamala 0]

Glad to see Hot Fuzz is still in the Top 10. I'm going to see it on Tuesday ($5 all showings baby!)

[Pegasus Kid 0]

Sony has to be thrilled with Spiderman's drop off. Another week and the film will have been paid for in domestic gross alone. They're basically in gravy from this point forward and they haven't even touched the DVD market yet. What a cash cow this thing is going to be when it's all said and done.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Going to see 28 Weeks later this week.

 

I sincerly hope that studios come to realize that money is not to be made with Larry the fucking Cable guy.

 

And even though I've not seen it, I'm glad Next is eating it hard at the box office, just looked bad

[Gary Floyd 0]

I sincerly hope that studios come to realize that money is not to be made with Larry the fucking Cable guy.

Lions Gate is really going to need a hit this year (maybe it will be "Hostel II", but I doubt it) since a lot of their movies so far ("The Condemned", "Delta Farce", etc.) have been financial and critical bombs. Also, "28 Weeks Later" making the number 2 spot is what Fox Atomic needed. "Hills Have Eyes 2" and "Turistas" tanked with both audiences anc critics, so this is the hit (not a huge hit, but still) that they needed.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

How is Disturbia doing so well?

[2GOLD 0]

I sincerly hope that studios come to realize that money is not to be made with Larry the fucking Cable guy.

Lions Gate is really going to need a hit this year (maybe it will be "Hostel II", but I doubt it) since a lot of their movies so far ("The Condemned", "Delta Farce", etc.) have been financial and critical bombs. Also, "28 Weeks Later" making the number 2 spot is what Fox Atomic needed. "Hills Have Eyes 2" and "Turistas" tanked with both audiences anc critics, so this is the hit (not a huge hit, but still) that they needed.

 

They got Hostel 2 and SAW 4, I think Lions Gate will be ok. I think LGF knew they would take a hit with Delta Farce and The Condemned, and if they didn't then they are run by morons.

 

They still have BUG although I think it'll bomb out. ROGUE (or WAR) with Jet Li and Jason Staham is going to be fun as hell, BRATZ will sadly do well I bet, THE EYE with Jessica Alba might pull a GRUDGE though I think it gets pushed back so they don't hurt SAW 4 with their own film, and PUNISHER 2 last I heard is still scheduled to see the light of day in 2007.

[spman 0]

How is Disturbia doing so well?

 

Paramount just lucked out by having the Only PG-13 film marketed towards a mainstream teenage audience in a sea of R Rated films.

[Hoff 0]

Yeah, but in its fifth week, with the PG-13 Spider-Man 3 on the market, it still took in nearly $5 million. There's gotta be something there, with those numbers. If you look at the reviews, they're not glowing or anything, but nobody really panned it, either. I dunno, it looks to me like it's just better than everyone expected, and word-of-mouth has traveled.

[AmericanDragon 0]

Spiderman 3 made ~58 million over the weekend and it's now 18 million behind Dead Man's Chest.

[cabbageboy 0]

Anyone want to predict what Shrek the Third will do next week? I'm thinking it might have a really good opening but then POTC 3 will come out and destroy it on the 25th. From the sound of it Shred the Third is getting lukewarm reviews and (more troubling) lukewarm audience reactions to screenings and trailers.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Shrek is going to be the movie of the big 3 this month that tanks because I dont see Pirates tanking.

[AmericanDragon 0]

Another ~75% drop for Spiderman 3 with a 3.59 million Monday. It's never going to make 400 domestic and it might take its entire box office run just to reach 300 now.

[cabbageboy 0]

Well, X-Men: The Last Stand made about 102 million in its opening week and ended up with 234 million domestic.

 

The only reservation I have about POTC 3 is that it's 167m long. It's tougher to really rake in that huge money with a nearly 3 hour run time, though I guess it never hurt Titanic or LOTR.

 

That said, I think it's naive to think that Spider-Man 3 is going to end up making more than Shrek or POTC. It might end up with POTC #1, Shrek #2, and Spidey #3.

[Brett Favre 0]

I don't think POTC will do as well as expected. There haven't been that many commercials or advertisements for it. They just started running commercials like a week or two ago. I see it being Spiderman 1, POTC 2, and Shrek 3, with POTC around the 200 million range.

[AmericanDragon 0]

I don't think POTC will do as well as expected. There haven't been that many commercials or advertisements for it. They just started running commercials like a week or two ago. I see it being Spiderman 1, POTC 2, and Shrek 3, with POTC around the 200 million range.

 

...Let me get this straight. You think that POTC3 will only make 200 domestic and that Shrek 3 will make even less? Also, Spiderman 3 has already lost this race with its horrible weekday grosses for its two free weeks. Do you honestly think that it can outgross either POTC3 or Shrek 3 when it's already 23 million behind POTC2?

[Brett Favre 0]

Yes.

[AmericanDragon 0]

Yes.

 

There's no chance of POTC3 only making 200 domestic. That's a laughable number. The three blockbusters this summer are guaranteed at least 200 (more realistically 300) million domestic each and probably one of them will win with 400+ . I guess you're a Spiderman fan judging by your avatar and sig but I don't think you realize this: Spiderman 3 isn't doing well at the box office. It broke the opening day and weekend records but it's falling extremely quickly. So since you think Spiderman 3 is going to win, I guess you're assuming both Shrek 3 and POTC3 fail horribly at the box office because that's the only way it's going to happen.

[Brett Favre 0]

Whatever. It's a gut falling helped by the fact that the advertising has been underwhelming. The movie is also like 500 hours long.

 

Spiderman is doing fine really. They have enough here and around the world, without DVD sales to go on with a sequel. No reason to take a shot at me.

[bob_barron 0]

I don't think POTC will do as well as expected. There haven't been that many commercials or advertisements for it. They just started running commercials like a week or two ago. I see it being Spiderman 1, POTC 2, and Shrek 3, with POTC around the 200 million range.

 

 

Absolutely not. To think Pirates is only going to makw 200 million is absurd.

 

The opening WEEKEND for Pirates of the Carribean: DMC was 141 million. With the 4-day Memorial Day weekend, Pirates should rake in 140-150 million alone.

 

Yes.

 

Ugh, we should just delete one word posts like this.

 

It's a gut falling helped by the fact that the advertising has been underwhelming. The movie is also like 500 hours long.

 

It's Pirates of the Carribbean! Everyone knows about it!

 

Length is not an issue when a movie is playing on multiple screens.

 

Spiderman 3 isn't doing well at the box office.

 

Spider-Man is doing fine. The 60% fall was better then X-Men: The Last Stand and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The midweek numbers aren't too much to worry about since most kids are still in school. It should still make at least 350 million.

 

It's killing worldwide as well.

[AmericanDragon 0]

Spider-Man is doing fine. The 60% fall was better then X-Men: The Last Stand and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The midweek numbers aren't too much to worry about since most kids are still in school. It should still make at least 350 million.

 

It's killing worldwide as well.

 

Although they haven't been released, I'm comparing Spiderman 3 to my estimates of Shrek 3 and POTC3 at the box office when I say it isn't doing well. It was supposed jump start the summer box office and it was off to a good start with record breaking numbers but now it's falling way too fast. It's going to be pretty hard for Spiderman 3 to reach 350 million while also competing with Shrek 3 and POTC3 and even if it does make it there, that's still less than the previous two movies. I'm pretty sure POTC3 has won it.

 

edit: About the school thing: When the kids get out, they'll have the option of seeing Spiderman 3, Shrek 3 (5/18), and POTC3 (5/25). I doubt Spiderman 3 will see much of an increase in the upcoming weeks when it has to compete with those monsters.

[spman 0]

I see Pirates 3 suffering the same fate as Matrix 3. While the second film printed money for Disney, most of the people I spoke with at least, were not satisfied with the film. It lacked the wit and humor of the first, and was overly long with numerous pointless, unnecessary sequences that could have easily cut the film down to 2 hours or less. It also lucked out with a perfect release date where it was the only film out at the time people wanted to see, and there was nothing else on the horizon for the rest of the summer.

 

Although I do like the trailer for this movie, it hasn't convinced me that it has fixed the problems from part 2. This movie is even longer than part 2, clocking in at nearly 3 hours. If they can keep the pace up for that long, then great, but I really don't think they will. So in short: It'll make money, but not the kind of money last years movie made.