Weekend Box Office Report

[bob_barron 0]

Most studios treat Labour Day as a 4-day weekend, so I'll post the 4-day estimates tomorrow as well.

 

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #

1 1 Tropic Thunder P/DW $11,500,000 -29.3% 3,473 +121 $3,311 $83,834,000 $92 3

2 N Babylon A.D. Fox $9,700,000 - 3,390 - $2,861 $9,700,000 $70 1

3 4 The Dark Knight WB $8,750,000 -17.0% 2,750 -413 $3,181 $502,421,000 $185 7

4 2 The House Bunny Sony $8,300,000 -42.9% 2,714 - $3,058 $27,851,000 $25 2

5 N Traitor Over. $7,900,000 - 2,054 - $3,846 $9,401,000 $22 1

6 3 Death Race Uni. $6,228,000 -50.7% 2,537 +5 $2,454 $23,078,000 $45 2

7 N Disaster Movie LGF $6,170,000 - 2,642 - $2,335 $6,170,000 $20 1

8 8 Mamma Mia! Uni. $4,418,000 +2.4% 1,968 -358 $2,244 $131,509,000 $52 7

9 6 Pineapple Express Sony $3,390,000 -37.8% 2,047 -573 $1,656 $79,773,000 $27 4

10 11 Vicky Cristina Barcelona MGM/W $3,003,000 -0.1% 692 - $4,339 $12,787,000 - 3

11 5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars WB $2,900,000 -48.8% 2,444 -1,008 $1,186 $29,808,000 - 3

12 7 Mirrors Fox $2,825,000 -43.6% 1,820 -844 $1,552 $24,893,000 - 3

 

[RedJed 0]

Is Labor Day weekend numbers usually this small?

 

I'm going to check out Babylon probably later tonight, we'll see how that is.

[bob_barron 0]

Yes, Labour Day weekend has historically been a dumping ground for movies that studios know have minimal box office prospects.

[Epic Reine 0]

The director of Babylon A.D. has now disowned the movie calling it crap. Like I needed another reason to avoid it.

[bob_barron 0]

The minute I heard that, it made me want to see it.

 

I love troubled productions

[BUTT 0]

Good to see Disaster Movie bombed.

[bob_barron 0]

I know Disaster Movie got some heat from critics for being released the weekend of the third year anniversary of Katrina. And now there's an actual disaster heading to NO again!

 

Oh, spoof movies.

[RedJed 0]

I hope that with Disaster Movie bombing, they stop doing those absolutely pointless spoof films, or at least cut down in them. Is there anymore similar ones like that coming out soon? I sure hope not.

[At Home 0]

I saw Babylon last night, and it ranked among the worst movies I've ever seen. Every aspect of it was just utter shit. I had a good time laughing at everything, but don't expect even to be slightly entertained by this movie.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

So where is "College"?

[bob_barron 0]

15 N College MGM $2,105,000 - 2,123 - $991 $2,105,000 $7 1

[King Kamala 0]

Wow...that's even worse than I expected. Like I said last week the small fanbases of Drake and Chicken Little are mostly in elementary or middle school---why would they think they would make any money doing an R rated movie with those two?

[RedJed 0]

15 N College MGM $2,105,000 - 2,123 - $991 $2,105,000 $7 1

 

Well at least they can still tout it as a "cult movie" I guess.....it looked, from the previews, like something that you see every other week on DVD from the National Lampoon brandname.

[Slayer 0]

I hope that with Disaster Movie bombing, they stop doing those absolutely pointless spoof films, or at least cut down in them. Is there anymore similar ones like that coming out soon? I sure hope not.

Rumor has it they're working on "Spy Movie" now

 

To think, somewhere there's a perfectly good blacklist lacking Friedberg and Seltzer's names

[At Home 0]

There are jews behind those movies?

[Boner Kawanger 0]

The Dark Knight made less but actually moved up a spot. So that's probably another record you can add to it.

 

I've heard Sci-Fi Movie was next but they might as well start filming six of these pieces of shit at once now.

[Anakin Flair 0]

On behalf of my fellow Jew's everywhere, I'd like to apologize.

 

From Wikipedia regarding Babylon A.D.:

Director Mathieu Kassovitz has expressed outright disgust with the distributors, 20th Century Fox, for removing the movie from his control and altering it significantly. He described the film as "pure violence and stupidity" and that "parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24." [15]

 

Early reviews on Rotten Tomatoes give the film a 5% positive rating.

 

You know, I see in a few years this movie being released as a Directors Cut a'la Blade Runner.

 

[Gary Floyd 0]

7 N Disaster Movie LGF $6,170,000 - 2,642 - $2,335 $6,170,000 $20 1

This is the best summer ever.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

7 N Disaster Movie LGF $6,170,000 - 2,642 - $2,335 $6,170,000 $20 1

This is the best summer ever.

 

The Dark Knight WB $8,750,000 -17.0% 2,750 -413 $3,181 $502,421,000 $185

 

I agree.

[Guest Smues]

So how long until we get 'Parody Movie' and the universe collapses on itself?

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

They should just title them all something like "Pop Culture Movie" or "Celebrity Movie" and give up the pretense that they are actually making parodies of a genre or specific film.

 

Parody-type movies have really gone downhill quickly from the days of Hot Shots, Hot Shots: Part Deux, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and so on. I think the last one I actually enjoyed was "Not Another Teen Movie", which was cheesy but at least did a good job of parodying its chosen genre.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I gave up on "Not Another Teen Movie" when the teacher was ranting about the fecal humor and he got sprayed with shit.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Who wants to bet that "Spy Movie" goes in the completely illogical direction of including a "parody" of Austin Powers?

 

I'm surprised they haven't done "Comic Book Movie" although I'm sure that's in the works somewhere.

[Ravenbomb 0]

What about Superhero Movie?

[Slayer 0]

There was Superhero Movie, but that was a Zucker production and not those two clowns

 

Though why Zucker chose to follow the leader on the wonderfully creative "(Genre) Movie" film title is beyond me

[Black Lushus 0]

Video Game Movie

[King Kamala 0]

Well at least if they did that, they'd be parodying movies that nobody really likes.

[DarKnight 0]

Why do video game movie since Uwe Boll pretty much parodies those anyway? About Babylon A.D. I knew that movie wouldn't make any money because Vin Diesel sucks. I think he is one of the worst guys hollywood tried to make a star out of. The dude has no charisma, and XXX was just awful. Have no idea why anyone likes that movie. Hell, I thought the sequel with Ice Cube was better!

[Ravenbomb 0]

Art House Movie

[King Kamala 0]

Well there was My Big Fat Independent Movie but given it's relative obscurity, it wouldn't be completely unreasonable for Friedberg and Seltzer to take on indie movies at some point *shudders*.