Weekend Box Office Thread August 3-5,2007-"Bourne Again" edition
 

Seeing that no one has started a thread on this yet...

Bourne Supremacy did $52.5 million its first weekend in July 2004, the positives this time: great reviews, and hardly any action movie competition. Also, according to boxofficeguru, Ultimatum is opening on 500 more screens than Supremacy. So is it going to beat Supremacy???

http://www.boxofficeguru.com/weekend.htm

Screen counts for other releases:
Underdog 2,800
Hot Rod 2,500
Bratz 1,500

Big screen losers(although oddly Simpsons is missing from the chart entirely)

http://boxofficemojo.com/counts/char...7&wk=31&p=.htm

Harry Potter -900
Transformers -900
Ratatouille -1000
License to Wed -1300

I see it doing $57m for the weekend. Simpsons should hold well for 2nd place.

Will we get any number from any of the midnight showings last night? I'm thinking the 55-60 range for Bourne.

My guess: $65m for Bourne.

Box Office Discussion 8/3-8/5 "Bourne to be #1"
 

Fantasy Mougels reports Bourne Ultimatum earned $25.5 million on Friday and is predicting a $72 million weekend, which tops Supremacy's $52 million opening in 2004. Showbizdata does not have full numbers up yet.

Also of note, The Simpsons earned $8 million on Friday and is on track for a $25 million weekend, which would translate to a 66% drop. OUCH. I thought everyone loved this movie?

Fantasy Mougels reports Bourne Ultimatum earned $25.5 million on Friday and is predicting a $72 million weekend, which tops Supremacy's $52 million opening in 2004. Showbizdata does not have full numbers up yet.

Also of note, The Simpsons earned $8 million on Friday and is on track for a $25 million weekend, which would translate to a 66% drop. OUCH. I thought everyone loved this movie?

didn't see that one. Normally they aren't created until actual numbers are in. I guess people are getting impatient nowadays.

my post is now in that thread. mods can close this one.

Friday's estimates:

1. BOURNE ULTIMATUM, THE UNIVERSAL 3,660 23,671,000 6,467 n/a 23,671,000
2. SIMPSONS MOVIE, THE 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,926 7,876,000 2,006 -73% 110,827,787
3. UNDERDOG BVI 3,013 4,123,000 1,368 n/a 4,123,000
4. I KNOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY UNIVERSAL 3,289 3,197,000 972 -47% 84,362,000
5. HAIRSPRAY NEW LINE 3,115 3,043,000 977 -40% 72,660,287
6. HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX WARNER BROS. 3,125 2,647,000 847 -47% 254,106,000
7. NO RESERVATIONS WARNER BROS. 2,425 2,100,000 866 -48% 19,689,357
8. HOT ROD PARAMOUNT 2,607 1,954,000 750 n/a 1,954,000
9. BRATZ LIONS GATE 1,509 1,725,000 1,143 n/a 1,725,000
10. TRANSFORMERS PARAMOUNT 2,419 1,587,000 656 -50% 291,819,134

:( to Hot Rod tanking.

It was also a movie with a lot of demand (Viewers waited a long time for it) and was enormously front loaded ($30m friday, $23m Saturday). Wouldn't be surprised if it held up a little better on Saturday though.


Not a movie I'd pay to resee on the big screen but one I'd rewatch at home.

Bourne looks like a $65 million opening which I'd say is pretty good.
I am very happy to see Bratz, Hot Rod, and Underdog bomb.

Did you even see any of those three films?

Does someone have to see a film in order to be happy that they're not doing well? I know in the past, I've been glad a movie tanked that had a star in it that I hated. Or a story that I thought was ridiculous. Regardless of the reviews.

^No, but they certainly sound and look absolutely terrible. Sometimes you dont need to to see a movie in order to have an opinion that it is indeed terrible.

Yea, I'm pretty sure no one here needs to see <i>Bratz</i> to wish it a timely demise at the BO.

OMG :lol:

Exactly...I wanted it to fail miserably since I first heard about it

I wouldn't cry. It's going to have a long life on DVD and pay cable. Theatrical means little here.

Jeez, someone wasnt kidding when they said Simpsons would be front loaded.
-73%? Ouch.

Doesn't seem too surprising to me. The ads just didn't seem funny. Each time I saw the trailer, the only response from the audience were "Oooooh"'s when Rod's stunts went wrong, but nobody was laughing.

Past few weeks these threads have been started 1-2 days in advance, which is silly. Seems like the first post should be about what Friday's numbers were.

$8m on Friday for simpsons is an increase over Thursday though.

Every movie increases from Thursday-to-Friday.

The other thing hurting Hot Rod is that it's core audience is veging in front of the TV watching the X-Games.

:p

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