Corey31

Crossing Over only did $455,000 in North America and $3 million in total but it was extremely limited run (42 theatres is the largest it got domestically).

In 2010 he also had two movies that had opening weekends under $10 million and ended up around $30 million total domestically, Extraordinary Measures and Morning Glory.

Paranoia is definitely his worst opening ever though just based on marketing (I've seen a ton of commercials for it and a lot of the actors/actresses have been promoting it on all the late night talk shows), quality (see reviews) and performance. It will need some solid overseas grosses to make up for it's $35 million budget.

islandclaws

It looks like PR will just limp past $100mm by next weekend. Counting in overseas grosses, it's made close to $400mm.

Great hold for Millers. I like to see Sudeikis succeed. He's hilarious.

"It's the #1 superhero action comedy in the world!"

Troy Stiffler

I don't know. But there's a lot of hate for this Millar fellow. I never knew who he was before a couple weeks ago. Now I'm seeing people hating on him all over this forum.

PenguinJoe

Grown Ups 2 is going to end in the 130 Million dollar range.

arminius

Were Maryland Theatergoers Forced To Watch ‘The Butler’ In Front Of Armed Guards?

It’s a situation that will soon inspire a million hacky late-night jokes: “I know I said Lee Daniels’ The Butler was as pleasurable as a hole in the head, but this is ridiculous.” Tiffany, who tweets as @MsFlowersTweets, went to see The Butler last night in Silver Springs, Maryland. Upon arriving at the Regal Cinemas theater, she and everyone else in the nearly all-back audience were allegedly greeted by armed guards watching them as they watched Oprah.

Oh boy. Here’s the full string of tweets.



Read more: http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/201...#ixzz2cLyjccBG



They saw there were no white-hispanics in the crowd and were worried that if violence broke out there would be no one to blame it on.

Help me lawanda brawley you're our only hope.

joe_b

Shannon Nutt

Yep, it's going to wind up turning a profit - which is more than can be said for most movies this summer.

joe_b

True. I just hope that if there is another film (which seems unlikely at this point) Universal doesn't go the DTV route like they've done with sequels to their more modest hits (Death Race, Smokin' Aces). This seems like the kind of property they would exploit in that way. Without Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl, I wouldn't bother seeing a third installment.

In this case, I believe the studio only handled distribution and do not own the actual rights -- or at least that was true of the first film.

dan30oly

I predicted it would do double that.

Guess I was wrong.

RichC2

I like Jennifer Aniston these days. She does well in the sexy bitch role.

resinrats

They should have just made Hit-Girl and not Kick-Ass 2. She was the best part of KA2 & her & Nick Cage were the best parts of part 1.

majorjoe23

It'll earn more when they re-release it for awards season.

dan30oly

true

MoviePage

Well done.

Matthew Chmiel

Anyone who was expecting Kick-Ass 2 to be a hit is fucking delusional. I'm sorry, but I saw the writing on the wall based upon these facts:

1. The original film did less than $100M worldwide.
2. The original film dld less than $25M domestically in video sales.
3. The original film's creative team (Vaughn and Goldman) were absent for the sequel.
4. The man responsible for Cry_Wolf and Never Back Down got the gig to write and direct the sequel. If that's not a lack of faith, I don't know what is.
5. The film's biggest star started bad mouthing the flick before release.

I'm honestly surprised it opened to more than $10M. I plan on seeing the sequel as I adore the first film, but I'm expecting the absolute worst. I get the sequel was put together for slightly less than the original film, but a sequel should've probably never been green lit in the first place.

I'm assuming the people who thought Kick-Ass 2 are the same who thought Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters would be a hit too? Right? If history has taught us anything, unless it becomes a cultural phenomenon on video, you don't make a sequel to film that underperformed.

I'm genuinely surprised Paranoia did more than $1M this weekend. I don't watch much TV, but I access various forms of media daily and go to the movies multiple times a week. The only thing I knew about Paranoia was a gigantic poster hanging in only one of the theaters I visit. This asks the better question, what will come first? Relativity Media putting together a film that's actually good or putting together a film that actually makes a profit domestically?

I'm glad We're the Millers has a solid hold. I enjoyed it and I want Sudeikis to succeed if only for participating in an amusing film. You know, unlike someone like Melissa McCarthy who's filmography is a steaming pile of shit, but continues to have a $100M+ hit with each go-around.

I'm also glad that everything else is underperforming or tanking. That's what happens when you have a summer movie season full of fucking garbage.

RichC2

Where'd you get $25m on DVD/Blu number from? Seems low considering it sold 1.4m copies its first week, which was impressive since it was the #2 most pirated movie of 2010 (behind Avatar).

bluetoast

I'll give you Identity Thief but The Heat was actually not bad, despite having the worst trailer I've seen this year. I liked it better than We're the Millers. Identity Thief and Horrible Bosses can cancel each other out.

DonnachaOne

We're The Millers is a funny flick, and it's the first film I've enjoyed Jason Sudeikis in. I've not seen much of his work on Saturday Night Live, but his film work has just seen him play an insufferable douche in awful comedies over and over.

He's not bad in Drinking Buddies either, but his role's small in that. His fiancee gets to be the funniest person in that movie.

Ash Ketchum

Yeah, but you like every movie with "2" in the title!

dan30oly

Just the good ones.

PhantomStranger

He is widely vilified by comic book fans, the medium from which he sprang. Most of the comics he writes these days are nothing more than thinly-veiled movie pitches, in the hopes it gets optioned by Hollywood.

clappj

Oh, get a Clue.

Hokeyboy

I mean honestly, who doesn't "get" 'The Butler did it'? That's as commonplace as "23 Skiddoo" or '"Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow".

Tom Creo

The Heat>We are the Millers and MCarthy>Sudeikis. Both actors take a lot of swings and misses but McCarthy in Bridesmaids and The Heat had me rollin'. 'Millers' is the best I've seen Sudeikis.

RichC2

For some reason I read this as "Final" but these are still estimates, my bad:



So raise your hand if you expected a Jennifer Aniston comedy to outgross Elysium