Weekend (3/11 - 3/13) Box Office Results
03-13-05, 02:01 PM
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Weekend (3/11 - 3/13) Box Office Results
Since we've had two threads already on The Passion: Recut tanking at the box office, why not start up a thread about how everything else did this weekend? So far, here are the estimates...
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03-13-05, 02:33 PM
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I can't imagine Fox is thrilled with that ROBOTS opening. I'm sure they had $$$ in their eyes Friday morning. A good amount of money, but it didn't really kick down the doors.
03-13-05, 02:38 PM
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Yeah..although I expected Robots to be #1, the money it took is not impressive. And hostage under $10 million? Wasn't this movie supposed to be "better than Die Hard"?
03-13-05, 02:49 PM
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I can't imagine Fox is thrilled with that ROBOTS opening. I'm sure they had $$$ in their eyes Friday morning. A good amount of money, but it didn't really kick down the doors.
I'd suggest that the film might make a 40%+ drop next weekend due to the film's negative word of mouth. However, I said the same for Shark Tale, and look how well that film did. However, when it comes to family friendly films, Robots nor The Pacifier don't have any SOLID competition when it comes to next weekend. Unless you count Ice Princess as competition. But I have a feeling it's not going to do The Pacifier type business. In all honesty, I'll be surprised if Ice Princess makes more than $10 million at the box office in it's opening weekend. Disney hasn't been putting that much advertising into the flick and as of now, it's still pretty much flying under the radar for most people.
However, we all know what will be number one next weekend (The Ring Two). If The Grudge can make $40 million it's opening weekend, I'm expecting The Ring Two to open up with $50 million.
03-13-05, 03:46 PM
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Wasn't Fox's last CG movie 'Ice Age' not that much of a hit either? Fox should just stop making CG movies and leave it up to Dreamworks/Disney since those companies' movies get the business.
03-13-05, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by resinrats
Wasn't Fox's last CG movie 'Ice Age' not that much of a hit either? Fox should just stop making CG movies and leave it up to Dreamworks/Disney since those companies' movies get the business.
So expect this movie to do somewhere around those numbers aswell since it is only 10 million off what Ice Age pulled and is family friendly so the decline in business may be slower than most second week drop off averages. If we allow fewer and fewer companies to make animation then people will start making stupid threads with titles such as "Is animation dead?".
Ice age was a pretty big success worth a sequel. Fox's animation department is growing. The biggest failure was Titan A.E. but we don't like to think of that.
03-13-05, 06:09 PM
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Hostage was much better than it's box office take. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
03-13-05, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by resinrats
Wasn't Fox's last CG movie 'Ice Age' not that much of a hit either? Fox should just stop making CG movies and leave it up to Dreamworks/Pixar since those companies' movies get the business.
03-13-05, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
Yeah, totally dude. I mean Ice age only costed them around 60 million and another 35 for makerting and brought in a simple Worldwide gross of $382,687,405. Not to mention that the opening weekend for that was around 46 million. Not all that much more than Robots first week.
So expect this movie to do somewhere around those numbers aswell since it is only 10 million off what Ice Age pulled and is family friendly so the decline in business may be slower than most second week drop off averages. If we allow fewer and fewer companies to make animation then people will start making stupid threads with titles such as "Is animation dead?".
Ice age was a pretty big success worth a sequel. Fox's animation department is growing. The biggest failure was Titan A.E. but we don't like to think of that.
So expect this movie to do somewhere around those numbers aswell since it is only 10 million off what Ice Age pulled and is family friendly so the decline in business may be slower than most second week drop off averages. If we allow fewer and fewer companies to make animation then people will start making stupid threads with titles such as "Is animation dead?".
Ice age was a pretty big success worth a sequel. Fox's animation department is growing. The biggest failure was Titan A.E. but we don't like to think of that.
I don't wish for them to stop making animation, but I would like for them to stop playing it safe and make a true family movie, instead of just putting in the minimum effort of playing to the kids.
03-13-05, 07:44 PM
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Besides a $10M headstart, Ice Age also had better word of mouth and (based on the reviews I've seen of Robots) more adult appeal. Ice Age did very very well financially, but even it wasn't up there with the Pixar or Dreamworks hits.
03-13-05, 09:11 PM
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I wouldn't call Shark Tale a hit either, at least not in the league of Toy Story/2, Shrek/2, Monsters inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, etc. It wasn't a financial flop by any stretch, but I think CG animation is judged by a different ruler than regular movies, since they take 2-4x the production time and are generally high budget affairs. Plus the bar is set pretty high for the genre.
03-13-05, 10:26 PM
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It wasn't a financial flop by any stretch, but I think CG animation is judged by a different ruler than regular movies, since they take 2-4x the production time and are generally high budget affairs.
