Weekend Box Office Thread - Oct 3rd - 5th, 2008 - Chihuahua #1, Alienate alienates
10-05-08, 02:07 PM
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Blindness is getting absolutely dreadful PTA's. kinda sad seeing as how I thought it looked pretty good. How to lose friends...is looking to have one of the top 25 or 30 worst weekends ever if going by PTA's. Its pretty f'ed up when a movie opening on 1750 screens/locations ends up making what'll probably less than $5 million overall. Fprget about production and advertising/marketing cost; does $5 million even cover costs for the actual prints of the film?
10-05-08, 02:10 PM
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10-05-08, 03:24 PM
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I really wish Nick and Norah would have been #1 this weekend.
10-05-08, 04:17 PM
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I caught it on Friday and thought the same thing. Skillfully made, but amazing that it was that unbelievable, even by Hollywood standards.
10-05-08, 05:09 PM
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I'm not saying the drop isn't low, but I don't think it's keeping it up simply through word of mouth. There's just not a lot of glossy action competition for the teenage/young adult crowd and it's not actively horrible or anything.
10-05-08, 08:55 PM
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The Dark Knight has really dropped off the radar. Two weekends ago it wa in the top 10, then it dropped to 13, and now #21. I expected it to lingerin the lower end of the top 10 for a bit longer but now it's not even in the top 20. it has made $525 million though.
10-06-08, 12:34 AM
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10-06-08, 10:53 AM
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It's only on a couple of IMAX screens and a few regular cinemas. The fact that it's still playing in first run theaters in October is pretty remarkable.
