Weekend Box Office Report

[bob_barron]

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

1 N Bangkok Dangerous LGF $7,800,000 - 2,650 - $2,943 $7,800,000 $45 1

2 1 Tropic Thunder P/DW $7,500,000 -34.9% 3,446 -27 $2,176 $96,811,000 $92 4

3 4 The House Bunny Sony $5,900,000 -29.1% 2,736 +22 $2,156 $36,999,000 $25 3

4 3 The Dark Knight WB $5,715,000 -33.7% 2,575 -175 $2,219 $512,198,000 $185 8

5 5 Traitor Over. $4,660,000 -40.8% 2,108 +54 $2,210 $17,652,000 $22 2

6 2 Babylon A.D. Fox $4,000,000 -57.8% 3,425 +35 $1,167 $17,198,000 $70 2

7 6 Death Race Uni. $3,595,000 -43.0% 2,586 +49 $1,390 $29,793,000 $45 3

8 7 Disaster Movie LGF $3,300,000 -43.5% 2,642 - $1,249 $10,871,000 $20 2

9 8 Mamma Mia! Uni. $2,713,000 -35.6% 1,904 -64 $1,424 $136,297,000 $52 8

10 9 Pineapple Express Sony $2,400,000 -32.1% 1,802 -245 $1,331 $84,158,000 $27 5

11 10 Vicky Cristina Barcelona MGM/W $2,202,000 -21.8% 718 +26 $3,066 $16,113,000 - 4

12 11 Mirrors Fox $1,825,000 -33.7% 1,559 -261 $1,170 $27,769,000 - 4

 

[King Kamala]

Isn't the weekend after Labor Day generally the worst box office weekend of the year? I'm hard pressed to think of another contender. Perhaps Super Bowl Weekend.

[bob_barron]

Yes, the weekend after Labour Day is generally a black hole of box office suck

[Craig Th]

I'd much rather watch new TV shows then a movie.

[Lil' Bitch]

When's Nicolas Cage going to make GOOD movies again?

[chuck415]

When's Nicolas Cage going to make GOOD movies again?

Whenever they make Con Air II.

[Youth N Asia]

I like Cage, he just hasn't done anything in forever that I've wanted to see

 

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins]

Bangkok Dangerous? Seriously?

[Lord of The Curry]

I liked National Treasure though haven't seen the sequel.

[Youth N Asia]

Bangkok Dangerous? Seriously?

 

It was the only new movie to open to a wide release this weekend. No shock there really

[Brocklock]

2005 was a good year for Cage with The Weather Man and Lord Of War both being damn good. He just hasn't made anything I've liked since then.

[Craig Th]

FUCCCKKK THATTT. The Weather Man was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

[the max]

The Weather Man was a great movie. I enjoyed it.

[bob_barron]

2005 was a good year for Cage with The Weather Man and Lord Of War both being damn good. He just hasn't made anything I've liked since then.

 

Since both movies tanked, I wouldn't call it a good year for him.

[Youth N Asia]

I guess it's a matter of opinion. Weatherman and Lord of War were good enough stories, but both bored me near to death

[Lord of The Curry]

I thought The Family Man was slept on, actually.

[DarKnight]

I liked National Treasure though haven't seen the sequel.

 

The sequel sucks. I liked the first movie, but thought the second one was boring, and also has an unecessary plot.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin]

I actually liked Bangkok Dangerous a lot. It's a lot better than it looks/

[CBright7831]

Let's celebrate Nicholas Cage's victory with a fan made trailer for The Wicker Man:

 

[Lil' Bitch]

^ Priceless.

[2GOLD]

Now see, I would have paid to see THAT version of the movie. Course then I might have lost the classic "KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY!"

[DarKnight]

OH NOOOO! NOT THE BEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Slayer]

HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!

HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!

HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!

HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!

HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!

HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!

 

[ant_7000]

YOU BITCHES!! OWWWWW MY LEGS!!!!!!!!!!

[bobobrazil1984]

Nicholas Cage is going to be in in Mark Millar's "Kick Ass" directed by Matthew Vaughan. Vaughan btw is the director of Layer Cake and Stardust (ridiculously underrated movie by the way), and the guy who was going to do X-Men 3 until he backed out because he thought the script sucked (though he put it much more politely than that). As you might gather, I'm a Vaughan fan. But I'm straying from my original point, which is Cage is going to be in the movie, and it might be good. So maybe he'll have a movie that doesn't suck. We can hope.

[cabbageboy]

The Wicker Man with Cage is seriously one of the worst movies ever made. It's even worse once you actually watch the original.

 

Another amusing moment in that one was Cage's bizarre dream and then waking up to say "GOD DAMMIT!"

[King Kamala]

I don't buy The Wicker Man being one of the worst movies ever made. The first hour or so is just plain boring but not spectacularly bad and the last half hour is spectacularly bad but wildly entertaining. Bad movie but nowhere near one of the worst.

 

And I might catch some flak for it but it's not like The Wicker Man was one of those untouchable movies that just shouldn't have been remade. They just really, really bungled it with the incredibly unneccessary alterations to the plot.

 

Hey, apparently they're planning a sequel to the original with Christopher Lee and Britt Ecklund returning. Odd. What decades old movie will they do an unneccessary sequel to next?

[mfn]

I don't buy The Wicker Man being one of the worst movies ever made. The first hour or so is just plain boring but not spectacularly bad and the last half hour is spectacularly bad but wildly entertaining. Bad movie but nowhere near one of the worst.

 

And I might catch some flak for it but it's not like The Wicker Man was one of those untouchable movies that just shouldn't have been remade. They just really, really bungled it with the incredibly unneccessary alterations to the plot.

 

Hey, apparently they're planning a sequel to the original with Christopher Lee and Britt Ecklund returning. Odd. What decades old movie will they do an unneccessary sequel to next?

 

Back To The Future.

 

[cabbageboy]

Kamala, I agree with your assessment that the newer Wicker Man is really dull for the first half and then builds to a riotously bad crescendo. I wish the whole movie had been so over the top. That said, it's still one of the worst major studio films I've ever seen. I say that because the director of the newer version literally missed the entire point of the original on every possible level.

 

As far as Wicker Man being untouchable, it depends. Talk to someone British and they'll be deeply offended at it being remade. It's a mega classic there, not so much in the USA.

[King Kamala]

My view to remakes is pretty similar to Milkhawk's. I just find it hard to get up in arms about them anymore. As bad as they might be, they don't really ruin the appeal of the original. Obviously, there are some movies that absolutely under no circumstances should be remade but those are really a small percentage. And really, if you don't like the idea of someone remaking one of your favorites, then just don't watch it.

 

*rant over*

 

Hey bob, how's Righteous Kill projected to do? DeNiro and Pacino aren't really box office draws on their own (were they ever really?) but I wonder what the appeal is of seeing them together for more than a couple of scenes. I'm also a bit wary of it given its release date.