Box Office Report...

[Craig Th 0]

1 N Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Fox $57,400,000 - 3,959 - $14,498 $57,400,000 - 1

2 1 Ocean's Thirteen WB $19,105,000 -47.1% 3,565 - $5,359 $69,810,000 - 2

3 3 Knocked Up Uni. $14,535,000 -26.0% 2,907 +31 $5,000 $90,482,000 $30 3

4 2 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End BV $12,024,000 -43.1% 3,329 -673 $3,611 $273,757,000 $300 4

5 4 Surf's Up Sony $9,300,000 -47.3% 3,531 +3 $2,633 $34,671,000 - 2

6 5 Shrek the Third P/DW $9,007,000 -41.2% 3,505 -420 $2,569 $297,249,000 $160 5

7 N Nancy Drew WB $7,135,000 - 2,612 - $2,731 $7,135,000 - 1

8 6 Hostel Part II LGF $3,000,000 -63.4% 2,350 - $1,276 $14,182,000 $10.20 2

9 7 Mr. Brooks MGM $2,820,000 -42.6% 1,923 -530 $1,466 $23,441,000 $20 3

10 8 Spider-Man 3 Sony $2,500,000 -41.9% 1,822 -748 $1,372 $330,016,000 $258 7

11 9 Waitress FoxS $1,270,000 -20.7% 615 -92 $2,065 $14,083,000 - 7

12 20 La Vie en Rose PicH $669,000 +272.0% 78 +70 $8,576 $2,815,000 - 2

13 12 Once FoxS $538,000 +8.8% 120 +25 $4,483 $2,498,000 $0.15 5

14 13 Paris, je t'aime First $501,000 +13.5% 200 +64 $2,505 $2,796,000 - 7

[Canadian Brandon 0]

I'm glad "Knocked Up" is still in the top 3.

[Red Baron 0]

So much for people thinking Nancy Drew was going to do so well.

[2GOLD 0]

Looks like Spider-man 3 will hold the summer lead overall. It obviously has a strong grip on the US lead but the overall lead was down to 40 million. I just don't think Pirates can make that up.

 

So unless The Simpsons or Transformers does some major league surprising on both stages, Spider-man will win the summer.

[bob_barron 0]

DOA did embarassing business. I guess Jaime Pressly kicking Kevin Nash's ass isn't the draw people thought it would be.

 

Not a good week for the Roberts family. Poor Eric and Emma

[DangerousDamon 0]

DOA did embarassing business. I guess Jaime Pressly kicking Kevin Nash's ass isn't the draw people thought it would be.

 

Not a good week for the Roberts family. Poor Eric and Emma

The DOA movie wasn't straight to DVD?!

[Youth N Asia 0]

Good for knocked up.

 

Was it Bob that put Nancy Drew over $100 million in the summer blockbuster thread? I thought it would do better then $7 million, but I figured it was too late for it to be released...do kids still read Nancy Drew?

[Gary Floyd 0]

DOA did embarassing business. I guess Jaime Pressly kicking Kevin Nash's ass isn't the draw people thought it would be.

 

Not a good week for the Roberts family. Poor Eric and Emma

The DOA movie wasn't straight to DVD?!

I remember seeing the trailer for it with "28 Weeks Later." The whole audience shit on it.

 

Also, it got leaked a while back, and the reaction wasn't good.

[bob_barron 0]

It was mole, not me, who predicted that. I thought Nancy Drew might do around 50 million. I didnt expect it to do that poorly.

[Craig Th 0]

Yeah, I thought it was going to do well.

[Black Lushus 0]

Emma Roberts is following in her dad's footsteps?

[bob_barron 0]

Emma Roberts is following in her dad's footsteps?

 

Yes. Well hopefully not with the drugs and alcohol problems that Eric's had.

[Black Lushus 0]

I've only seen her in Aquamarine...and you could tell she inherited her father's acting gene.

[Atticus Chaos 0]

Part of DOA's problem (apart from the fact it was crap) was that it was released months ago in other countries so you had all these bootleg qualities going around. Anyone mildly curious to see it would watch it for free rather than waiting months and paying for it.

[bob_barron 0]

I've only seen her in Aquamarine...and you could tell she inherited her father's acting gene.

 

I would say her aunt's ugly gene, but I don't think Julia is ugly. Emma sure is

[Craig Th 0]

Part of DOA's problem (apart from the fact it was crap) was that it was released months ago in other countries so you had all these bootleg qualities going around. Anyone mildly curious to see it would watch it for free rather than waiting months and paying for it.

I could be wrong here, but I don't think that many people watch bootlegs. I'd say about 5% of America does.

[bob_barron 0]

DOA's problem was that it had no starpower, no ad campaign, no screens and Kevin Nash.

[2GOLD 0]

DOA's problem was that it had no starpower, no ad campaign, no screens and Kevin Nash.

 

And it just didn't look like it justified a 7 to 10 dollar movie ticket price. It's going to be one of those guilty pleasure rentals and buys I bet for a lot of people. It'll do really well on DVD I'm sure.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I don't see many people atcually paying for this untill it makes its way to Target's $5.50 rack

[cabbageboy 0]

Bear in mind one thing about Nancy Drew. The original movie series from the 30s was little more than a series of B grade programmers, so why would the character suddenly draw huge money years after the books were at a peak?

 

Isn't Harry Potter coming out in the summer as well? I think that might end up doing the most business worldwide, but Spidey might keep #1 in the USA. POTC 3 has to be considered a slight disappointment, but really there's a shortage of truly satisfying payoffs in that movie. It's not Matrix Revolutions level lame as a payoff, but I don't think people quite got what they wanted out of At World's End.

[2GOLD 0]

About the Pirates film:

It felt more like to me that they were setting up a Jack Sparrow spin-off then ending the trilogy. It was only closure to the Will/Elizabeth storyline but who really gave a flying hell about that? And the way they ended the storyline was incredibly depressing and horribly lame.

 

So it wasn't much of a surprise when Pirates just didn't do too well at the Box Office. Too long, very unsatisfying, boring storyline we didn't really care about becomes the focus and the one we thought we were getting just gets glossed over.