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The Weekend Where Nobody Goes to the Movies: Weekend Box Office 8/19 - 8/21

Old 08-25-11, 08:17 AM
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Re: The Weekend Where Nobody Goes to the Movies: Weekend Box Office 8/19 - 8/21

Here's Boxoffice.com's predictions for this weekend:

The Help $15,000,000 $97,200,000

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark $12,000,000 $12,000,000

Colombiana $11,000,000 $11,000,000

Our Idiot Brother $9,500,000 $9,500,000

Rise of the Planet of the Apes $9,300,000 $149,000,000

Spy Kids: All The Time In The World $6,200,000 $22,000,000

The Smurfs $5,200,000 $126,300,000

Conan the Barbarian (2011) $4,000,000 $17,600,000

30 Minutes or Less $3,500,000 $32,700,000

Final Destination 5 $3,400,000 $38,800,000

Fright Night (2011) $3,300,000 $14,600,000
Old 08-28-11, 10:08 AM
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Re: The Weekend Where Nobody Goes to the Movies: Weekend Box Office 8/19 - 8/21

Originally Posted by Supermallet
All posters are promotion.
I didn't say it wasn't promotion, it is. I said I didn't consider it much of a promotion, as in very little. If that's the best they did in promoting Tennant, then I, personally, consider that a failure. Again, just my opinion.

Originally Posted by Pizza
Might have helped if they had made an attempt at promoting that David Tennant was in it. You'd never guess it from the trailers. He's probably got the biggest fanbase out of the cast.
Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
at thinking a Dr Who actor in trailers would boost US ticket sales.
Originally Posted by onebyone
In the states, I do not think most people would be able to pick David Tennant out of a line up even if he was standing by the tardis and wearing a name tag.
Originally Posted by fumanstan
I have no idea who that even is. Looking him up, I guess he would be most well known for Doctor Who. I'm going to guess that wouldn't have done a thing for the box office.
Originally Posted by resinrats
Count me in the group who has no idea who David Tennant is. Only Dr Who's I've seen is the Tom Baker one & the one that later went on to play Destro (don't even know his name offhand)
Wow. Guys, all I said was it "might have helped." I didn't say that it would make it the highest grossing movie of the summer or even number 1 for the week, or create the cure for cancer, but simply it might have sold a few more tickets. Certainly, not everyone knows him but the guy does have a fanbase here. I've read a few comments on other threads here complaining that if you blink, you don't see him in the trailer.
I can't believe my small comment elicited such responses. It was just a thought on what may have helped the flick do a little better since people were discussing how poorly "Fright Night" did.
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Re: The Weekend Where Nobody Goes to the Movies: Weekend Box Office 8/19 - 8/21

And it sounds like all we're saying is we disagree and don't think it would have helped at all. I don't see the big deal.

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