The Antipodean

There's no way around it, that's a huge bomb for Charlie's Angels. Sometimes the audience surprises -- with all the ads along, I'd have figured this would break $50 million. Maybe people thought it looked too dumb from the trailers?

And Hulk is off 70% from last weekend? Hulk smashed.

jasonbird

Bringing this to the second page for reference.

PJsig08

That may mark the end of Charlies Angels movies...unless the flick does ridiculously well overseas. I have a lot more faith in the public now, but still, this movie was being talked about EVERYWHERE, maybe the over-exposure backfired? Either way, this is a huge dissapointment for them.

I'm not God, but either way damn I'm good!

Why in the hell are they going to make a Hulk sequel now? There is virtually no interest.

Matthew Chmiel

GOOD:
- 28 Days Later made almost $10 million and had the 2nd highest PSA in the top 10 this weekend. Hopefully the positive word of mouth spreads on this film.
- Hulk got smashed (and hopefully Ang Lee's carreer will be smashed too in the process).

BAD:
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle didn't do as well as everybody was expecting. I haven't seen it yet, so I have no room to comment. But could this mean that Legally Blonde 2 might not do so hot at the box office too? (God could only hope.)

Hokeyboy

I'd rather spend an afternoon snorting crank off of a hunting knife with Gary Busey than watch either CA2 or LB2...

PixyJunket

Go Nemo!! Claim your #1 sopt!!

Shilex

Man, everyone sure is happy that the Hulk did so bad this weekend. Yaaaay, Hulk doing bad....me happy now. Makes....life...worth...living. I sure am glad I invested in that "Hulk Does Bad At the Boxoffice" stock.

CitizenKaneRBud

Why do you wish career death on Ang Lee? Sure, he's bad sometimes, but when he's good, he's great

Wazootyman

You short sold Hulk on the Hollywood Stock Exchange as well?!?? It's made me about 2.5 million so far!

fumanstan

I agree, not sure why anyone would cheer for his faliure.

Daytripper

Boxofficemojo.com predicted that "CA:FT" would make 57 million. Can't believe anyone thought that. That's pretty high. I mean, the first made 40 million. And the sequel did just 2 million less. Sure, "FT" cost more to make, but is there anyone out there (other than Hollywood) that thought it would do better?

fumanstan

I think a lot of people, if not most, felt it would do better. Go look for the Summer Box Office predictions thread. The first movie was well recieved as a fun film and the second was hyped as more of the same. In fact, i thought just the opposite... i thought just about everyone expected Full Throttle to do better.

matome

Well it looks like two franchises are coming to an end.

Rypro 525

If you thought the Hulk did bad with its 70% drop

From Justin to Kelly Fox $600,000 -77.9%

Matthew Chmiel

While his earlier work was good (Eat Drink, Man Woman and Sense and Sensibility), his later work has been crap. All of his previous films (Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and now Hulk) have had so much potential, but when watching the film, "something" is missing.

I wouldn't put all the blame on Ang Lee, I'd put more blame on James Schamus for writing those films as Sense and Sensibility is Lee's best picture (IMO) and Schamus had no help in writing it.

I thought it would do better. While the first film is not one of the "greatest films of all time," it is enjoyable as a popcorn flick. And most sequels do usually gross more their opening weekend then the film that came before it. I guess with "FT" that really wasn't the case. And as I already mentioned, the same could happen to LB2 on Wednesday.

Yes, cause when one stays up till midnight paying $9.00 waiting to see what one hopes to be one of the greatest comic book films of all time and ends up really devistated after watching what is one awful film, one could be happy that Hulk is doing bad. This is a case where a film with bad word-of-mouth will ruin it's box office take.

But Universal's new adveritising campaign to get people in the theaters to see Hulk is very interesting by mentioning "people are arguing about it, now see it for yourself." Just look at DVD Talk, HTF, Fark.com, Aint It Cool News, or any other website with a message board when Hulk is mentioned. There will be the people saying it's good, and people saying it sucks.

At least Universal has 2 Fast 2 Furious and Bruce Almighty to fall back on as at this rate The Hulk might barely make it's $130 million budget back. If it continues it's 70% drop next weekend, it'll have a third weekend of $5-6 million. But with the July 4th weekend, it might make a bit more than that.

GmoneyOwnsYou

Im so glad CA:FT is bombing. Just a few more flops for Sony till they revive a certain franchise that I wont mention just yet.

This may be mean, but I hope Bad Boys 2 and Spiderman 2 flop. I dont wanna see more sequels of these films. And thinkfully Hulk is bombing too. I want to see more old franchise brought back.

caiman

Took the words right out of my mouth...

Matthew Chmiel

But last time I checked, to get said franchise up and running again, they'd have to get the people involved with the first two back and last time I checked, they really don't want to do it.

And if more films flop for Sony, then they can always rely on Revolution Studios which have made like 6 successful films so far out of like 20 or so.

Now I hate Michael Bay just as much as the next guy, but his films are entertaining and I am going to see Bad Boys 2 and I don't want Spider-man 2 to bomb as it has Sam Raimi directing and Bruce Campbell in a minor role.

isamu

Looks like Matrix Reloaded is the winner after all

Rypro 525

I think it's still too early in the summer to decide that. Were you going on overall or just of action movies.

matome

Not sure Nemo will agree with that, but in defense of MR there will be a very large gap between the second and third place finishers this summer.

A-Ming

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Matthew Chmiel

I agree. I still think Finding Nemo has a chance of defeating Matrix Reloaded. It made almost $14 million this weekend and only needs $15 million or so to catch up to Matrix Reloaded.

Troy Stiffler

Yea, I'm really awaiting Predator 3, Lethal Weapon 5, Die Hard 4, and The French Connection 3. Well, maybe I am waiting for Die Hard 4, but I don't see it working well.

I couldn't care less about Spiderman. I like to see Raimi suceed, but Spiderman doesn't really hold anything dear to me. On the other hand, don't mess with Bad Boys. I've been waiting for a sequel since 1999 when I first heard about it, and Tom Dey was attached. I'm glad that he dropped out of it, and Michael Bay came back in.

I haven't seen an action film so well done since Bad Boys. The original just knew when to act serious. In comparison, Charlies Angels had potnetial to be really cool. Throughout the whole movie, I was waiting for it to just change it's tune a little. But it didn't. It just stayed unbearably silly, and had really crappy dance-techno songs in the background, with camerawork that eventually made me just look away from the screen.

Back to Bad Boys. I think the action choreography, while sometimes terribly cliche, was excellent. There's a few roll-your-eyes parts. But the action was very entergetic and engrossing.

Now that I've seen the Cowboy Bebop Movie and 28 Days Later, Bad Boys 2 and Return of the King are "the two" movies for me this year. I'm sure there will be more in the Nov-Dec timeframe that I'll be looking forward to later. But as of right now, those two are the only ones that I'm looking forward to.

jarofclay73

I'll get started for next week:

I hope T3 bombs because it'll never be the masterpiece that Terminator or T2 was. If it doesn't beat T2's opening weekend it'll be a huge disappointment.


Seriously...

I actually am hoping for the best for T3. I'll watch it with an open mind (as much as possible). Actually, T2 didn't have great numbers when it opened on a Tuesday ($2.4m opening day; $31.7m on its first weekend). So, with a lot of movies opening in over 3,000 theaters nowadays, it should do better than T2. Still, it may not beat T2's overall domestic take of $204m.