Box Office Report...

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1 N Evan Almighty Uni. $32,112,000 - 3,604 - $8,910 $32,112,000 - 1

2 N 1408 MGM/W $20,175,000 - 2,678 - $7,533 $20,175,000 $25 1

3 1 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Fox $20,150,000 -65.3% 3,963 +4 $5,084 $97,604,000 $130 2

4 2 Ocean's Thirteen WB $11,345,000 -42.5% 3,450 -115 $3,288 $91,013,000 - 3

5 3 Knocked Up Uni. $10,636,000 -24.4% 2,975 +68 $3,575 $108,982,000 $30 4

6 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End BV $7,215,000 -41.9% 2,802 -527 $2,574 $287,015,000 $300 5

7 5 Surf's Up Sony $6,700,000 -27.6% 3,309 -222 $2,024 $47,313,000 - 3

8 6 Shrek the Third P/DW $5,754,000 -36.1% 2,822 -683 $2,038 $307,908,000 $160 6

9 7 Nancy Drew WB $4,505,000 -34.1% 2,612 - $1,724 $16,193,000 - 2

10 N A Mighty Heart ParV $4,006,000 - 1,355 - $2,956 $4,006,000 - 1

11 9 Mr. Brooks MGM $1,528,000 -47.3% 1,290 -633 $1,184 $26,581,000 $20 4

12 10 Spider-Man 3 Sony $1,300,000 -48.1% 1,031 -791 $1,260 $332,548,000 $258 8

13 8 Hostel Part II LGF $1,000,000 -67.0% 1,048 -1,302 $954 $17,041,000 $10.20 3

14 11 Waitress FoxS $915,000 -27.3% 528 -87 $1,732 $15,737,000 - 8

15 12 La Vie en Rose PicH $737,000 +11.6% 118 +40 $6,245 $3,881,000 - 3

16 13 Once FoxS $483,000 -11.1% 127 +7 $3,803 $3,236,000 $0.15 6

17 15 Paris, je t'aime First $375,000 -23.1% 164 -36 $2,286 $3,418,000 - 8

[bob_barron 0]

Evan Almighty tanked. It looks like it's the first flop of the summer.

 

DOA had the largest second weekend drop of all time. Poor Big Kev.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

The conservative prediction for Evan was like $40 million. Yikes. I wanted to see it to support Steve, but man, it looked dreadfully unfunny.

[bob_barron 0]

Same here. I love Carell and Jonah....but this just looked so bad. What idiot thought to spend 175 million+ on that movie?

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

That's really good for 1408. I didn't expect half that much.

[2GOLD 0]

 

Well unless it bombs, LFODH will be in the top spot next week and I'd imagine 1408 will move ahead of Evan Almighty.

Course then all four of them will be slaughtered by Transformers.

[bob_barron 0]

Well unless it bombs, LFODH will be in the top spot next week and I'd imagine 1408 will move ahead of Evan Almighty.

Course then all four of them will be slaughtered by Transformers.

 

Ratatouille will be #1.

 

1408 fell from Friday to Saturday which is never a good sign.

[2GOLD 0]

Well unless it bombs, LFODH will be in the top spot next week and I'd imagine 1408 will move ahead of Evan Almighty.

Course then all four of them will be slaughtered by Transformers.

 

Ratatouille will be #1.

 

1408 fell from Friday to Saturday which is never a good sign.

 

That opens this upcoming weekend? Wow, I forgot.

I hope your right. Patton Oswalt needs to get himself a #1 picture under his belt. He'll never be box office draw in the lead role any other way.

 

Plus this will see once and for all if everything Pixar touches turns to gold.

 

[Jingus 0]

Ratatouille will be #1.

Yes, it will. The water cooler, er, juice box buzz on this one is deafening. I hear kids crying its name out in random public places. Plus, the online community of nerdy chicks who are obsessed with animated children's movies are eagerly awaiting it too.

[bob_barron 0]

Sicko will probably be #3. Or it might top Die Hard since Die Hard is opening on Wednesday, so it's three day BO will be lessened.

[Darthtiki 0]

Ratatouille will be #1.

Yes, it will. The water cooler, er, juice box buzz on this one is deafening. I hear kids crying its name out in random public places. Plus, the online community of nerdy chicks who are obsessed with animated children's movies are eagerly awaiting it too.

 

Whats wrong with liking animated children's movies?

 

I'm looking forward to Ratatouille, not because I'm a fan of Disney/Pixar fans but also it deals with cooking which I love. You know I'm surprised Disney didn't try and put something together with the Food Network.

[justsoyouknow 0]

Evan Almighty is already being heralded as a disappointment. $175 million to make, plus another $50 million in marketing = 225 million. They've got to not be pleased with this one.

 

But they must be satisfied with 1408. Smart scary movies are hard to come by, and when I saw it last night, the theatre was packed, with people coming in right up until the movie started. It's gotten good word of mouth around here, so I see it going strong for a few weeks. Hopefully it'll bring about some more movies of the type, as opposed to the "torture porn" genre we keep getting.

 

This is gonna be a huge weekend at the movies. Ratatouille, Live Free of Die Hard, plus Sicko, plus the current crop of good movies out? Good time of year to be in the film industry.

[Brett Favre 0]

I wish I worked at a movie theatre at the start of the year.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

Ratatouille will be #1.

Yes, it will. The water cooler, er, juice box buzz on this one is deafening. I hear kids crying its name out in random public places. Plus, the online community of nerdy chicks who are obsessed with animated children's movies are eagerly awaiting it too.

 

Whats wrong with liking animated children's movies?

 

I'm looking forward to Ratatouille, not because I'm a fan of Disney/Pixar fans but also it deals with cooking which I love. You know I'm surprised Disney didn't try and put something together with the Food Network.

 

My girlfriend is a chef and shes DYING to see this movie. So I'll be seeing it opening weekend.

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

I work at a theater these days (about to become a manager too) and I could see the Evan flop from Friday on. It had twice as many two screens compared to 1408's one, and it still only pulled in 20 more people that 1408 did. 1408 surprised me by having near sell-outs in all it's night shows in a 283 seat theater.

 

Mighty Heart just didn't exist to a lot of people.

 

Knocked Up is still getting a lot of love. Good for them cracking the 100 mil mark.

 

How much did DOA have this week? A thousand bucks?

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Ratatouille is opening this weekend? Wow. Does Pixar intentionally hope it bombs?

[2GOLD 0]

How much did DOA have this week? A thousand bucks?

 

22,000 on 98 screens, 400 less screens than last week. At this pace, it may not make half a million total at the American box office. It currently ranks as the lowest box office total for a video game film in history, even less than Pokemon: Heroes and Double Dragon.

 

It has made 6 million in the foreign markets though.

[bob_barron 0]

What's unusual about DOA is that most theatres are required to keep a movie for two weeks. Then they unload it. The fact that DOA was killed after one week shows just how badly it did.

 

I think Ratatouille will have great word of mouth that carries it throughout the summer. It's getting amazing reviews, and if Cars can make a shitload of money, so can Ratatouille.

[Atticus Chaos 0]

DOA wasn't a great movie by any means. But it wasn't the worst video game based movie I've ever seen either. At least, not enought to justify how appallingly it did.

 

I agree that it could have been helped by an A or even B list star in it. I can only assume that all of the big name actresses who were possibly sent the script (Jessica Alba, Eva Mendes..etc ) turned their noses up at it.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

"DOA had the largest second weekend drop of all time. Poor Big Kev."

 

The Volleyball game movie actually came out??? I can't wait for the DVD! Seriously. I didn't see one commercial or preview for this.

 

Evan Almighty's budget was $225 million? A sequel with less star power in the lead role than the original? Brilliant! From the trailer I saw, it seemed like it was more of a Learn Something Bible Story than a funny movie. Pass.

 

Transformers is gonna rock.

 

PG-13 Die Hard will probably suck. YIPEE KI YAY, MOTHER FRIGGER!

 

Surprised Fantastic Four is kicking ass after the horrible first one.

 

Knocked Up was so good. Only a little less funny than 40 Year Old Virgin but the drama was much better and it's still an upper echelon movie. Still gets an "A" from me for amazing writing and characterization.

 

I refuse to see Ocean's 13 because I found the last one to be awful, as did all my friends, who usually like everything, so no one would go see it with me anyway.

 

Shrek 1 and 2 were amazing, Shrek 3 felt unfresh, unfunny, and out of ideas. Didn't like it.

 

Hostel 2 was okay.

 

1408 is probably good, as Cusack is excellent and the previews reminded me of his work in "Identity", which was really good, so no surprise to see it doing so well.

 

 

[bob_barron 0]

I don't think the Weinstein Co. launched an advertising campaign for DOA, just a trailer.

 

They probably were contractually obligated to release it in theatres, so they just buried it on 500 screens and hoped for the best.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I wish Evan had done well cause I'm a big Steve fan, but there are so few PG moves out there that I'd care to actually see. Die Hard's coming out with a PG13 rating...that's not Die Hard to me

[Matt Young 0]

I thought the Dead or Alive movie was straight to DVD. It's been available to view online for months.