Weekend Box Office Thread - April 6th - 8th, 2007
04-08-07, 07:30 PM
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but doesn't anybody think it might grow some legs in the next week or 2? I mean, maybe once word of mouth spreads to joe public as to what the hell it is, it's numbers might improve.
I doubt anybody but fanboys saw it this weekend.
I doubt anybody but fanboys saw it this weekend.
04-08-07, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Perkinsun Dzees
A little failure is good.
No more double-feature ideas.
No more faux trailers/ads.
No demand of re-releases of vintage Grindhouse material on DVD.
Perhaps a slight decline for Gore/Action movies.
And no great fun at a movie theater (For a cult-nut like me) anymore.
04-08-07, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
there really must be a curse or something against Kurt Russell because the man just cannot catch a freakin' break...Every movie he is in bombs...He is box office poison for some reason that i find sad...
04-08-07, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMovieman
It matters because if it had made money then studios would be more willing to take chances in the future, but now we're going to get even more 'safe' movies.
Isn't that how the system works?
04-08-07, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
First Zodiac bombs and now Grindhouse which cost over $100 million to make will not even make back $30 million in the U.S....This makes me even more disgusted with America...
04-08-07, 08:12 PM
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plus on easter weekend,people visiting family for easter dinner etc. to go to an adult only 3 hour + movie. I think it will have smaller drops then the reaping, are we done yet etc. Should stay in the top 10 longer then those films
04-08-07, 08:15 PM
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Movie-goers clearly were in the mood for something lighter. "Blades of Glory," starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as skating rivals who team up as the sport's first men's pair, raised its 10-day total to $68.4 million, its receipts dropping a slim 30 percent from opening weekend.
"There's a real hunger out there for something that you can go to and say, 'Hey, let me get away from the terrible things we have to watch and read every day,"' said Marvin Levy, spokesman for DreamWorks, one of the studios behind "Blades of Glory."
"Meet the Robinsons," the animated adventure of a time-traveling orphan boy, also held strongly in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $52.2 million.
"There's a real hunger out there for something that you can go to and say, 'Hey, let me get away from the terrible things we have to watch and read every day,"' said Marvin Levy, spokesman for DreamWorks, one of the studios behind "Blades of Glory."
"Meet the Robinsons," the animated adventure of a time-traveling orphan boy, also held strongly in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $52.2 million.
04-08-07, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
First Zodiac bombs and now Grindhouse which cost over $100 million to make will not even make back $30 million in the U.S....This makes me even more disgusted with America...
Oh well I saw Grindhouse twice this weekend and will see it prob at least twice more in theatres if i can....
there really must be a curse or something against Kurt Russell because the man just cannot catch a freakin' break...Every movie he is in bombs...He is box office poison for some reason that i find sad...
Oh well I saw Grindhouse twice this weekend and will see it prob at least twice more in theatres if i can....
there really must be a curse or something against Kurt Russell because the man just cannot catch a freakin' break...Every movie he is in bombs...He is box office poison for some reason that i find sad...
Poseidon WB $60,674,817
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story DW $32,751,093
Sky High BV $63,946,815
Miracle BV $64,378,093
Dark Blue UA $9,250,301
Vanilla Sky Par. $100,618,344
3000 Miles to Graceland WB $15,749,959
Soldier WB $14,594,226
Breakdown Par. $50,159,144
Those are his US grosses for the last ten years, a couple of bad box office but not everyone by any means no worse than an other actor who has had his ups and downs. Give the budgets for Dreamer and Miracle and Sky High those I would consider successful.
But his last two look like bombs not really his fault though as he is part of a large cast in both of them.
04-08-07, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
First Zodiac bombs and now Grindhouse which cost over $100 million to make will not even make back $30 million in the U.S....This makes me even more disgusted with America...
04-08-07, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by resinrats
Looks like Grindhouse should have been called Serenity 2 due to all the excuses being said to hide the fact it failed to be a hit.
Well said.
04-08-07, 09:47 PM
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I love the QT/RR apologists. I truly do, since I'm a fan of both directors, but I won't be watching this in protest of the Weinstein/Blockbuster "win-win-win" deal. It's the only movie on the Wienstein release schedule that I'll truly miss. That being said, while I can enjoy this sort of movie and I don't believe the average movie goer will. It's a vanity project for both directors with limited appeal. I didn't think it would do that well. It sure looks like fun, though. A helluva ride.
04-08-07, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Drexl
Cheer up. In a year, Blades of Glory and Are We Done Yet will be forgotten, while Grindhouse will be remembered.
And what makes you think that Grindhouse will be any more remembered than those other two? I mean.. do most folks even remember Jackie Brown?
04-09-07, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
And what makes you think that Grindhouse will be any more remembered than those other two? I mean.. do most folks even remember Jackie Brown?
04-09-07, 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
Well (Filmmakers' talent aside) looks like there will be no franchise.
No more double-feature ideas.
No more faux trailers/ads.
No demand of re-releases of vintage Grindhouse material on DVD.
Perhaps a slight decline for Gore/Action movies.
And no great fun at a movie theater (For a cult-nut like me) anymore.
No more double-feature ideas.
No more faux trailers/ads.
No demand of re-releases of vintage Grindhouse material on DVD.
Perhaps a slight decline for Gore/Action movies.
And no great fun at a movie theater (For a cult-nut like me) anymore.
Remember that after PULP FICTION was a sleeper hit at the boxoffice so many films came out that tried to ape the same formula. And so many of them were a huge f'ing waste of time.
Besides, if GRINDHOUSE had been a huge hit, it might have convinced Tarantino that audiences enjoy his movie acting. And I don't wanna see another f'ing DESTINY TURNS ON THE RADIO ever again.
04-09-07, 02:02 AM
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Originally Posted by resinrats
Looks like Grindhouse should have been called Serenity 2 due to all the excuses being said to hide the fact it failed to be a hit.
04-09-07, 11:28 AM
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Also the grainy,scratchy fillm look may not appeal to today's 15 to 24 market.
This age group does not like watching black&white movies or 20th century movies no matter how great. This is why Hollywood has remakes , because this crowd has not seen these movies.
This age group does not like watching black&white movies or 20th century movies no matter how great. This is why Hollywood has remakes , because this crowd has not seen these movies.
04-09-07, 12:11 PM
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Which is why Sin City did so well, because everybody hates black and white.
04-09-07, 02:06 PM
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I'm still a bit confused as to why this movie cost $53 million (let alone $100 million, if that's the real figure). You're trying to replicate movies that probably cost $100 grand at most. Granted there's inflation but if Saw can be made for $1.2 mil and Hostel can be made for $4.8 mil...
04-09-07, 02:08 PM
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that's the thing, they were more tributes than replications.
Had they been replications, the movies likely would have been bad as many Grindhouse features tended to be.
Had they been replications, the movies likely would have been bad as many Grindhouse features tended to be.
04-09-07, 06:19 PM
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I'm still a bit confused as to why this movie cost $53 million (let alone $100 million, if that's the real figure). You're trying to replicate movies that probably cost $100 grand at most. Granted there's inflation but if Saw can be made for $1.2 mil and Hostel can be made for $4.8 mil...
I'd say Planet Terror had the bigger budget. The only big sequences that would cost money in Death Proof were
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04-09-07, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
But SIN CITY had a comic book following where GRINDHOUSE does not.
You go, Tank Girl!