Super X

Actually, they're competing for different audiences and Star Trek has had stiffer competition for the type of audience it was going after than The Hangover, which has been competing against a pretty weak batch of comedies this summer.

Also, while I enjoyed The Hangover, I don't foresee it being a classic in 20 years.

Hokeyboy

raven56706

seriously .. i didnt get it either

huh?

exactly

Matthew Chmiel

Quick notes based off the estimates:

- HP6 was $40 million shy of studio hopes the film would be able to gross $200 million in five days. However, despite that, the film is $20 million ahead in it's current five day total from HP5 (which also opened on a Wednesday).

- Bruno is one of the biggest drops we've seen from what was a number one film since February's Friday the 13th.

- The Hangover, at the rate it's going, will most likely sick around the top ten until near the end of the summer.

- I'm surprised that I Love You Beth Cooper only had a -45.8% drop. I thought it would be the one with the -72.7% drop, not Bruno.

The Antipodean

Guess mainstream America wasn't quite ready for the Bruno Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt.

cranberries fan

Why are you guys a bunch sour puss's, I am bad I guess everyone here went to Harvard University and studied the fine arts of literature.



^^My post is commonly know as Creative Writing!^^

Ash Ketchum

Ummm, I think you mean creative spelling. Big difference.

invisiblegt

I'll be quite honest; I did not study the fine arts of literature. I can, however, assure you that my credentials are top-notch, as I’ve just graduated from Harvard College Yale. I aced every semester, and I got an ‘A.’

Does English happen to be your first language? If not, and you paid for your course, well... I'd ask for my money back.

JumpCutz

NoirFan

Why is there a picture of Terrell Owens in this thread?

Supermallet

Why? Because ever since The Hangover came out you've littered threads with massively oversized promo pics from the movie and progressively less interesting comments. I'd expect that sort of behavior from a studio shill.

Blu Man

Suck it Harry Potter!!! You don't fuck with The Dark Knight!! Shove that wand up your ass Harry, you can't beat Batman!!!

Daytripper

It's all subjective. But word of mouth also carried "Star Trek" to 250M and counting. No one expected it to earn that much. And the only reason it too won't be considered a classic in 20 years is because it's a franchise and will get lost amongst it's predecessors and sequels. "Star Trek" also has a higher user rating on IMDB. It's at #100, "The Hangover" is at #154. And "Trek" as a 95% RT rating and "Hangover" is at 79%.

HN

dude, decaf

mdc3000

I'm hoping word gets out on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER - from those per screen averages it seems to be... I saw a packed matinee this afternoon and after a second viewing it's still one of my favourite movies of 2009 - I also saw THE HURT LOCKER this afternoon and I'd rank it as my favourite of the year so far - they need to expand that shit now.

Mr.Briggs

According to an article on the front page of comcast.net Half Blood Prince set the all time record by $15 Million (passing Spider-Man 3) for worldwide box office taking in $237 Million outside of the US & Canada for a total of $396.7. This could be the first Potter movie to take in a $Billion (Sorcerer's Stone did $975 Million worldwide).

rexinnih

Good for Potter!

Solid Snake

Even better for WB!

Shilex

Yay money for studios!

RichC2

Strong per theater avg. as it may be, it's the next week or so that determines if "(good) word got out".

The Proposal officially outgrossed Terminator Salvation (domestic) this weekend.

Wonder how many people had that one down in their Summer BO Predictions

Daytripper

No kidding! I'm raving about "The Hurt Locker" so much to anyone and everyone, that it's studio should pay me for PR. Thing is, the people I'm telling said it's not playing anywhere near them. Yet.

Giles

now everyone go see 'Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg' what a great documentary film

Giles

good!

The Bus

You mean like 1989's top-grossing (and now-classic) comedy, Look Who's Talking?