Only roughly 5M on Friday? This film was predicted to make nearly 40M for the weekend. Can it possibly make 35M the rest of the weekend?
The Top Movies of Friday, February 27, 2009
Movie Distributor Genre Gross Change Thtrs. Per Thtr. Total Gross Days
1 (new) Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Buena Vista Concert/Performance $4,959,000 1,271 $3,902 $4,959,000 1
2 (1) Madea Goes To Jail Lionsgate Comedy $4,480,000 +217.51% 2,052 $2,183 $52,830,000 8
3 (2) Slumdog Millionaire Fox Searchlight Drama $3,014,000 +172.08% 2,943 $1,024 $106,012,000 108
4 (3) Taken 20th Century Fox Thriller/Suspense $2,776,000 +279.29% 3,089 $899 $100,708,000 29
5 (4) He's Just Not That Into You Warner Bros. Romantic Comedy $1,900,000 +179.74% 2,858 $665 $74,550,000 22
6 (new) Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 20th Century Fox Action $1,538,000 1,136 $1,354 $1,538,000 1
7 (6) Confessions of a Shopaholic Buena Vista Romantic Comedy $1,429,000 +208.75% 2,534 $564 $30,601,000 15
8 (9) Paul Blart: Mall Cop Sony Pictures Comedy $1,364,000 +311.02% 2,698 $506 $123,870,000 43
9 (5) Coraline Focus Features Adventure $1,303,000 +149.90% 2,063 $632 $57,155,000 22
10 (13) Fired Up Sony Pictures Comedy $1,286,000 +494.19% 1,811 $710 $7,623,000 8
chris_sc77
02-28-09, 01:40 PM
Great to see that utter shit under perform. And Im referring to the 3D thing along with Street FIghter. ANd damn you SLumdog yet again. You better not Pass Benjamin Button in Box office! Oh well maybe this'll let Danny Boyle make anything he wants. ANd hopefully this time it'll be alot better than SLumdog.
Cant wait to see Watchmen next Week. I hope that will make some serious $.
tonymontana313
02-28-09, 02:30 PM
Great to see that utter shit under perform. And Im referring to the 3D thing along with Street FIghter. ANd damn you SLumdog yet again. You better not Pass Benjamin Button in Box office! Oh well maybe this'll let Danny Boyle make anything he wants. ANd hopefully this time it'll be alot better than SLumdog.
Cant wait to see Watchmen next Week. I hope that will make some serious $.
Trust me, Slumdog will continue to make more dough and pass Benjamin Button. To each his own, but I really liked Slumdog so hope it does well all they way till the Blu-ray release.
Lateralus
02-28-09, 03:42 PM
I can't believe the Jonas Brothers actually made 5M on Friday... who watches this shit?
Ronnie Dobbs
02-28-09, 03:44 PM
I liked Slumdog better than Benjamin Button. Button was basically Forrest Gump again. Paul Blart's been in the top ten for a long time.
NoirFan
02-28-09, 04:04 PM
I can't believe the Jonas Brothers actually made 5M on Friday... who watches this shit?
The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
LickTheABCs
02-28-09, 04:06 PM
Glad to see Taken is still bringing in the dough. I can care less about anything else on the list (other than Caroline, which I have still yet to see)..
raven56706
02-28-09, 04:08 PM
glad to see Taken crossing the 100 mil line
Zen Peckinpah
02-28-09, 04:33 PM
Jonas Fuckers underperforming + Taken crosses $100m = me happy.
Mr. Cinema
02-28-09, 05:35 PM
Great to see that utter shit under perform. And Im referring to the 3D thing along with Street FIghter. ANd damn you SLumdog yet again. You better not Pass Benjamin Button in Box office! Oh well maybe this'll let Danny Boyle make anything he wants. ANd hopefully this time it'll be alot better than SLumdog.
Cant wait to see Watchmen next Week. I hope that will make some serious $.
Button has still done pretty well. $277 mil worldwide ($124+ here, $153+ overseas).
Mr. Cinema
02-28-09, 05:37 PM
Great to see Madea drop almost 70% on Friday. That's expected though. Perry's films usually have an enormous drop during weekend 2. However, his films are cheap to make and his audience is apparently very easy to entertain.
Brack
02-28-09, 05:39 PM
I bet Jonas goes up a bit over the weekend, maybe make $20m overall. not terrible but well below expectations. no, I'm not planing on seeing it.
ReduxGuy
02-28-09, 05:41 PM
The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
I actually saw a guy in his late 20s/early 30s buy a ticket to Jonas Brothers and there was no girl with him. And he'd be in line for about five minutes.
I myself went to see Waltz with Bashir, but the print broke at 40 minutes. I'll try again on Thursday before Watchmen.
Matthew Chmiel
02-28-09, 06:28 PM
The Hannah Montana concert succeeded for two reasons:
1) Released during Super Bowl weekend with no competition at all.
2) It was touted as a ONE WEEK ONLY event.
Granted that Jonas Brothers 3D has no competition, but it didn't have the stigma that it was going to be a one week only event (or unless you're a twelve-year-old girl who loves IMAX 3D).
There's a chance that it could still have an opening weekend gross of $17-18 million, but Disney is probably disappointed as Hannah Montana did double on half the screens.
EDIT: So my rough estimate is based upon the fact that Hannah Montana had a 50% jump on Saturday followed by a 28% decrease on Sunday.
mhg83
02-28-09, 07:04 PM
On the radio this morning they were talking about the Jonahs Brothers movie and the critics that gave it poor reviews. He made a good point that these kind of movies aren't geared towards the critics and they should review it from the perspective of the target demographic. All of the callers were kids ranging in ages of 7-16. They all enjoyed it. So to them it was a good movie. Based on their reviews it's a well done movie. Roger Ebert has reviewed movies in the past that weren't his cup of tea but saw past that and gave it a good rating saying it's a movie he knew the audience that it was made for would like it.
RyoHazuki
02-28-09, 07:20 PM
Hey Jonas bros! Thanks for killing Coraline!
Mr.Briggs
02-28-09, 07:21 PM
Jonas is going to bomb BIG TIME. I was in the mall yesterday & checked. They didn't sell a single ticket for the 9am 11am or 1pm showing (it's showing every 2 hours). I went to it at 11 am today (Don't flame me as I merely went to pick up ticket stubs for the Disney Movie Rewards program & extras to ebay).
The little tweeners weren't in school today yet once again 9am no tickets sold, 11am I went to had 6 people & (I stayed grinding my teeth the whole time) for the 1pm showing only 15. Usually I can get 40-50 ticket stubs from people on their way out. I only got 9 stubs (& I need 12 for the 3 DMR accounts). I kept the 3D glasses though (even though they asked everybody for them on the way out). I went out just before they came in to grab them. At least the ticket was a free pass (good even for No pass events). What a horrible experience having to sit through it twice & not even to get enough stubs for my Disney Rewards.
BJacks
02-28-09, 08:07 PM
20 is about right. I don't know anyone who realistically thought it would do 40. Considering it cost nothing to make, it'll be a huge success when said and done. I've seen Jonas mania up close and it's rivaled only by Twilight fans so I wouldn't be surprised if this has legs with repeat viewings.
PopcornTreeCt
02-28-09, 08:20 PM
Wow, Oscars did a lot for Slumdog Millionaire. Paul Blart -- Amazing. Never would've expected that.
Ranger
02-28-09, 08:35 PM
I thought $5 million for one day was pretty good for Jonas.
Street fighter bombing as expected. Has anyone even seen an ad for it? Only movie ad I keep seeing on tv is watchmen.
rexinnih
02-28-09, 08:38 PM
The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
:up:
SkipKassidy
02-28-09, 08:48 PM
With the regards to the Jonas total you have to figure in the markup for tickets. Near me, individual tickets are $15 a piece.
Dean Kousoulas
02-28-09, 08:55 PM
Aside from a movie poster, I never saw an ad for Street Fighter.
BravesMG
02-28-09, 10:46 PM
With the regards to the Jonas total you have to figure in the markup for tickets. Near me, individual tickets are $15 a piece.There's a big sign at my ticket window that says all Jonas Bros showtimes are $15, which is just about double the price of a normal non-matinee show here.
Daytripper
03-01-09, 12:22 AM
With the regards to the Jonas total you have to figure in the markup for tickets. Near me, individual tickets are $15 a piece.
I don't know where "near you" is, but are they fucking crazy? In this terrible economy, who would pay that much to see the Jonas Sisters on the screen!? And if I had kids, I'd tell them "No way. You can wait for Netflix. Or the Disney channel". $15.00 my ass.
Solid Snake PAC
03-01-09, 12:29 AM
Jonas Fuckers underperforming + Taken crosses $100m = me happy.
indeed.
resinrats
03-01-09, 12:30 AM
Not that I want to see Jonas Bros, but why so much hate towards it? It isn't made for adults. It is made for teen girls. Why is it so bad for them to get a movie aimed at them? Like you never saw and enjoyed movies at their age that were aimed at your age. "Sorry Billy, no Goonies for you, you'd better enjoy Ghandi." Just ignore it & wait a week so you can see Watchmen.
LickTheABCs
03-01-09, 12:31 AM
^ the same reason people rag on Miley Cyrus, even though it isn't marketed towards them.
because they can.
wm lopez
03-01-09, 02:31 AM
^ the same reason people rag on Miley Cyrus, even though it isn't marketed towards them.
because they can.
Because they are clean cut teens.
Suprmallet
03-01-09, 02:53 AM
Because their music sucks.
And $15 is the price for Jonas Bros. everywhere.
Matthew Chmiel
03-01-09, 02:55 AM
20 is about right. I don't know anyone who realistically thought it would do 40.
Most people were expecting it do 40 based off the fact that Hannah Montana was able to pull close to that on half the screens on a weekend when movie going is usually down.
Looking at http://boxoffice.com/numbers/
JB played in 1,271 loctations with average $16,522.
I'm not hearing that much similarities with the first 2 songs, but the last one does sound close to Fallout Boy... however, both the Jonas and Fallout Boy songs sound like a ripoff of My Sharona.
Coral
03-01-09, 10:54 AM
I'm more shocked this movie has done so well than the Jonas boys underperforming.
If anything, I was surprised Paul Blart didn't do even better. The first time I saw the trailer I thought that it was gonna do very well based on the lead in the movie and the type of comedy it was. The opening weekend I heard many people (mostly women for some reason) state they wanted to see that. People like crap I guess.
DthRdrX
03-01-09, 10:59 AM
I'm just glad Street Fighter is tanking. I knew it would be a mess of a film when I heard the initial casting.
Groucho
03-01-09, 11:37 AM
I can't believe the Jonas Brothers actually made 5M on Friday... who watches this shit?You, apparently.
Ash Ketchum
03-01-09, 01:27 PM
In a New York Times article today, "Americans Flock to the Movies, Seeking a Silver Screen Lining," it says that on Friday, "'Jonas Brothers' sold out more than 800 theaters, according to MovieTickets.com, and was expected to sell a powerful $25 million or more in tickets." It doesn't say whether the expected "$25 million" was for Friday or the whole weekend.
The point of the article is that movie attendance is going way up during this period of economic downturn and the beneficiaries are movies intended to entertain an audience rather than get them to think. The ones cited, in addition to the Jonas Bros. concert movie, are PAUL BLART MALL COP, TAKEN, MADEA GOES TO JAIL, and MARLEY AND ME. The article also expresses high B.O. hopes for WATCHMEN and MONSTERS VS. ALIENS.
Mr. Cinema
03-01-09, 01:43 PM
1 1 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail LGF $16,500,000 -59.8% 2,052 +20 $8,041 $64,850,000 - 2
2 N Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience BV $12,700,000 - 1,271 - $9,992 $12,700,000 - 1
3 5 Slumdog Millionaire FoxS $12,150,000 +44.9% 2,943 +699 $4,128 $115,148,000 $15 16
4 3 Taken Fox $9,950,000 -11.8% 3,089 -13 $3,221 $107,882,000 - 5
5 4 He's Just Not That Into You WB (NL) $5,875,000 -31.4% 2,858 -192 $2,056 $78,525,000 - 4
6 7 Paul Blart: Mall Cop Sony $5,600,000 -17.9% 2,698 -137 $2,076 $128,106,000 $26 7
7 2 Coraline Focus $5,252,000 -54.1% 2,063 -92 $2,546 $61,145,000 - 4
8 N Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Fox $4,650,000 - 1,136 - $4,093 $4,650,000 - 1
9 8 Confessions of a Shopaholic BV $4,490,000 -33.4% 2,534 +27 $1,772 $33,662,000 - 3
10 9 Fired Up SGem $3,800,000 -30.7% 1,811 +1 $2,098 $10,137,000 $20 2
11 6 Friday the 13th (2009) WB (NL) $3,705,000 -53.4% 2,760 -345 $1,342 $60,717,000 $19 3
12 12 Gran Torino WB $2,975,000 -19.1% 1,750 -280 $1,700 $138,585,000 $33 12
13 14 The Reader Wein. $2,918,000 +10.4% 1,203 +241 $2,426 $27,007,000 $32 12
mcfly
03-01-09, 01:53 PM
I'm just glad Street Fighter is tanking. I knew it would be a mess of a film when I heard the initial casting.There's no way it even stood a chance. No marketing and it only opened up in a small handful of theaters.
I also don't think the Jonas. Bros movie really tanked since it's only opening in IMAX theaters.
If anything, I was surprised Paul Blart didn't do even better.I don't think anyone anticipated it to break $100mill, and here it is almost 2 months since it came out and it's still in the Top 10 pushing $130.
Lateralus
03-01-09, 01:56 PM
You, apparently.
Damn right, I'm one of the guys that flung his underwear up on stage.
Lateralus
03-01-09, 01:58 PM
I also don't think the Jonas. Bros movie really tanked since it's only opening in IMAX theaters.
If the studio expected 40 mill opening weekend and it only brought in 13 mill, I would call that tanking.
mcfly
03-01-09, 01:59 PM
If the studio expected 30 mill opening weekend and it only brought in 13 mill, I would call that tanking.Then they over-estimated. How could you expect a $30 mill opening for something like this only opening in select theaters.
A lot of towns aren't even equipped with an IMAX theater.
Daytripper
03-01-09, 02:02 PM
If the studio expected 40 mill opening weekend and it only brought in 13 mill, I would call that tanking.
Not even 13M, try 12.7M. And that's just a guess. It'll probably be much lower. And, sites like boxoffice.com predicted a 39M weekend.
The O
03-01-09, 02:17 PM
I also don't think the Jonas. Bros movie really tanked since it's only opening in IMAX theaters.
It didn't open exclusively on IMAX screens.
Hokeyboy
03-01-09, 04:16 PM
You, apparently.
Struck a bit too close to home, did he?
gmanca
03-01-09, 04:55 PM
What's pretty funny, or sad if you are part of the production crew, is that Street Fighter has had these "Producer's Thoughts" segments on Fox Movie Channel, talking up how much work was put into the film and making sure it was good.
fumanstan
03-01-09, 05:32 PM
But but but... Orndorf recommends the Jonas brothers!
I can't believe no one has mentioned Friday the 13th is already out of the top ten, but at 60 million thats hardly a bomb for a horror movie.
RyoHazuki
03-01-09, 07:13 PM
But but but... Orndorf recommends the Jonas brothers!
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/36443/jonas-brothers-the-3d-concert-experience/ The man is like a Groucho who writes reviews.
Sorraffy
03-02-09, 01:25 AM
It didn't open exclusively on IMAX screens.
Nope it didn't considering it's playing at my non-imax theater. And with 5 showings at that, second only to Tyler Perry's 6 showings (with everything else playing either 3 or fewer times).
Suprmallet
03-02-09, 02:28 AM
Jonas Bros. opened on virtually every Digital 3D screen in the country. This is why Coraline can now only be found at one or two theaters, possibly only in Southern California. This is a massive bomb for Disney. Hopefully they pull the plug on the trio after this. It's sad to see the thing that beat it was a Tyler Perry movie, though. That man is truly a blight on American cinema.
Edit: Or any kind of cinema.
Matthew Chmiel
03-02-09, 05:38 AM
The film is not a massive bomb. It cost nothing to produce. It just severely underperformed. This film was tagged to do anywhere from $25 to $40 million during this opening weekend and could barely scrape up $12 million. It also doesn't help that it was #2 to a film that dropped 60% since it's opening weekend.
I'm more shocked that Street Fighter was able to pull in $4 million. Hell, I'm surprised it made it into seven digit territory.
DRG
03-02-09, 10:06 AM
Here's where I think Disney dropped the ball on the Jonas movie. When the Hannah Montana movie came out, her concerts were selling out everywhere. Her concert movie was positioned as a 'special event' for people who couldn't get tickets to her concert. It was supposed to be for one week only, etc. So Disney got away with their 'premium pricing' strategy. Of course, after that week Disney extended it from one week, and it was soon put out on tv and DVD... just like any other movie. I think it was a mistake to try the 'event' strategy again, because the parents know better now and know this movie will be on Disney Channel in just four months or whatever like HM one was. They probably would've sold a lot more tickets at the normal 3D movie rate.
DthRdrX
03-02-09, 10:35 AM
What's pretty funny, or sad if you are part of the production crew, is that Street Fighter has had these "Producer's Thoughts" segments on Fox Movie Channel, talking up how much work was put into the film and making sure it was good.
Yea, I saw those. They just gave me more reason to stay away from it.
Sonny Corinthos
03-02-09, 11:07 AM
Because their music sucks.
And $15 is the price for Jonas Bros. everywhere.
Why were ticket prices 15 bucks?
KillerCannibal
03-02-09, 11:10 AM
I can't believe no one has mentioned Friday the 13th is already out of the top ten, but at 60 million thats hardly a bomb for a horror movie.
Luckily they made the budget back in one day, but with a final gross that will probably be less than 50% of the opening weekend is pretty bad. I'm sure the sequel will open well if they can stick to the Friday August 13th, 2010 date.
Taken deserves to do well.
Paul Blart proves many things about what America watches.
I'm still wondering just how good/bad Watchmen is going to do next weekend.
Steve Phillips
03-02-09, 11:19 AM
[QUOTE=Suprmallet;9299494]Jonas Bros. opened on virtually every Digital 3D screen in the country. This is why Coraline can now only be found at one or two theaters, possibly only in Southern California.
CORALINE is still playing in 3-D at several venues in Las Vegas, but then we have more digital 3-D capable screens than most markets.
I'm sure the economy didn't help the Jonas movie, with the ticket prices being so much higher than even the normal 3-D rate.
Maybe they should put CORALINE back in a few of those theaters around the country this weekend; they have until the end of the month before the next big 3-D movie is released (MONSTERS VS. ALIENS)...
As for FRIDAY; $76 million worldwide so far is a huge gross for a slasher film, I'm sure a few sequels will be made.
What's with these Tyler Perry movies? It seems like he does one every three months. It's like a license to print money for this guy.
BravesMG
03-02-09, 11:52 AM
I still don't get the Paul Blart hate. Have any of you bashing it actually seen it, let alone with any kids? It was a harmless and fun movie that most kids love and it entertained the adults as well. This whole decline of American society bullshit gets really old, I'm glad it's doing well.
Giles
03-02-09, 12:10 PM
Why were ticket prices 15 bucks?
beats me, but even theatres that have cheaper matinee prices were denied discount tickets to moviegoers - 15 bucks flat price.
Suprmallet
03-02-09, 05:03 PM
Tickets were $15 because Disney said make them $15, the theaters weren't in charge of the pricing on it.
GizmoDVD
03-02-09, 07:33 PM
Jonas Bros. opened on virtually every Digital 3D screen in the country. This is why Coraline can now only be found at one or two theaters, possibly only in Southern California. This is a massive bomb for Disney. Hopefully they pull the plug on the trio after this. It's sad to see the thing that beat it was a Tyler Perry movie, though. That man is truly a blight on American cinema.
Edit: Or any kind of cinema.
100% agree. I can't imagine Disney is happy about this yet at the same time they won't be dropping them anytime soon.
JeffTheAlpaca
03-03-09, 06:02 PM
Jeffrey Lyons must be pissed.
He said the Jonas Bros movie was good and entertaining and he hated the U2 in 3D movie.
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