Quick and early estimate from Deadline Hollywood Daily:

- Hangover's estimate is $10 million for Friday, looking at $32 million total for it's second weekend (30% drop from it's first weekend).

- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3's estimate is $9 million for Friday, looking at $24 million total for it's opening weekend.

- Imagine That is dead on arrival. Murphy's fifth big-budget bomb this decade (following Meet Dave, I Spy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Showtime) and is just another notch in his belt on the shit the man will appear in for a paycheck.

How dare you forget The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

I tend to believe that movie never existed.

Hangover certainly deserves to be number one again.

Maybe after this, Meet Dave, and Pluto Nash, Murphy will realize that sanitized comedy isn't always the sure bet.

I'm sure there are many, like me, that want to see the R-rated Murphy of yesteryear. I mean, how awesome was it to see him in a real like movie like Dreamgirls?

Oh Eddie....

EXCLUSIVE STEVE MASON EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. The Hangover (Warner Bros) - $10.2M Fri - $82.17M cume
2. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sony) - $9M Fri - $9M cume
3. Pixar's UP (Disney) - $8.3M Fri - $164.96M cume
4. Land of the Lost (Universal) - $2.9M Fri - $28,72M cume
5. Night at the Museum 2 (Fox) - $2.8M Fri - $136.64M cume
*Imagine That (Paramount) -$1.9M Fri - $1.9M cume
*Star Trek (Paramount) -$1.5M Fri - $227.92M cume

I'm glad Imagine That is tanking - looked fucking terrible and hopefully will teach Eddie a lesson - but big budget? That movie couldn't have cost more than $25/$30 million which isn't on par with the $100mil bomb that was Pluto Nash or $70mil bomb I Spy....

I still laugh thinking about when I worked at a movie theatre, Dennis Quaid was in town shooting a movie - he came to see The Adventures of Pluto Nash on opening weekend (Randy Quaid is in it) and Dennis & co. were LITERALLY the only people in the theatre. Too funny.

Eddie Murphy had a new movie out this week? Was I the only one not aware of this? I haven't seen a single ad for it on TV.

I really need to go see The Hangover.

Hopefully this latest bomb will expedite the release of his long-rumored Richard Pryor bio-pic, but I doubt it.

I actually think The Hangover will end up with more than $32m.

I usually side with harmless kids/family entertainment as being "fine, I'm just not the target audience", but I agree, Imagine That just looked absolutely terrible.

From what I'm reading Imagine That looks like a decent family movie. Nothing great, but a decent, entertaining family movie.


http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stori...ine/?uniontrib

http://online.wsj.com/article/film_review.html

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/I...74386-sun.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...le_family.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061103962.html

With the positive reviews it's getting (there are more negative ones than positive, but not by a huge margin) it certainly doesn't seem to be a crapfest like Pluto Nash. I don't think it deserves all the hate it's getting from people who haven't even seen it.

Awesome, indeed. My biggest complaint about DREAMGIRLS was...too much Beyonce, not enough Eddie. I'd pay to see him in another musical. Or, hell, even a solid Denzel-style drama. My favorite mid-career Eddie movies remain BOOMERANG and THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, neither of which was stupid.
I think DREAMGIRLS is the only one I've seen since then.

It's really, really poorly advertised.

As somebody that actually thought Meet Dave was pretty good, Imagine That looks like a huge miscalculation. I'm still not sure who thought that Eddie Murphy would pull in the kids demo.

Daddy Day Care did make $104 million.

Not to mention the Haunted Mansion and both Doctor Doolittle films. Throw in his PG-13 movies, such as Norbit and the Nutty Professor movies, along with his voice work, and I think he generally does okay with the younger demographic.


Of course, he does have such a fine record in edgier rated R fare over the last fifteen years, so I can understand the complaint.

Good point on Daddy Day Care, forgot about that one. But I think Haunted Mansion pulled in as much from the pop-culture aspect as Murphy's involvement (and I thought that one was pretty good as well).

Still, with a lot of the recent bad choices he's had out there, there didn't seem like enough of a kid's "hook" with Imagine That to crossover just on his name anymore.

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Rank* Title (Click to view chart) Friday 6/12 (Estimates) Saturday 6/13 Sunday 6/14 Monday 6/15 1 THE HANGOVER Warner Bros. 3,355 $10,435,000 +71.3% / $3,110 <nobr>$82,409,000 / 8</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 2 UP Buena Vista 3,886 $8,850,000 +72.7% / $2,277 <nobr>$165,514,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 3 THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 Sony / Columbia 3,074 $8,250,000 -- / $2,684 <nobr>$8,250,000 / 1</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 4 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN Fox 3,365 $2,975,000 +63.3% / $884 <nobr>$136,822,000 / 22</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 5 LAND OF THE LOST Universal 3,534 $2,916,000 +74.4% / $825 <nobr>$28,743,000 / 8</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 6 IMAGINE THAT Paramount 3,008 $1,825,000 -- / $607 <nobr>$1,825,000 / 1</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 7 STAR TREK Paramount 2,638 $1,575,000 +65% / $597 <nobr>$228,003,000 / 36</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 8 TERMINATOR SALVATION Warner Bros. 2,650 $1,385,000 +59.9% / $523 <nobr>$110,521,000 / 23</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 9 DRAG ME TO HELL Universal 2,273 $1,375,000 +85.7% / $605 <nobr>$32,657,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 10 ANGELS & DEMONS Sony / Columbia 2,436 $1,200,000 +65.3% / $493 <nobr>$120,300,000 / 29</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 11 MY LIFE IN RUINS Fox Searchlight 1,165 $560,000 +60.4% / $481 <nobr>$5,221,000 / 8</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 12 X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE Fox 799 $280,000 +27.6% / $350 <nobr>$175,497,000 / 43</nobr> N/A N/A N/A - - N/A N/A N/A N/A
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Eddie Murphy hasn't headlined a hit movie in so long that if he were white I'd swear he was Kevin Costner. Shrek is the only thing people will pay to see (or hear) Murphy in. Maybe Costner should try doing animation.

That has to be the only time I've ever heard Eddie Murphy compared to Kevin Costner.

Norbit was a hit, that was a year-and-a-half ago. Granted, it wasn't HUGE BLOCKBUSTER, but the film cleared 90 million domestically.

Also, don't forget the blockbuster-drought he went through for eight years between 1988 and 1996:

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Boomerang (1992)
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Harlem Nights (1989)

The only one in there I even remotely like is BOOMERANG... actually, I like BOOMERANG quite a bit. Anyway, Eddie's had his learn years before, but even a turd like NORBIT proves that people WANT to like his films.

Harlem Nights was a bomb? I love that movie.

And you probably never will again except if the conversation is about has been actors.

Costner's too high and mighty and full of himself to do that. The man won't even co-star in another film now. He needs to be the headlining actor. I've never seen an actor so God-damn full of himself. I really despise Costner, but man I always have a good laugh watching some of his turds since he really just takes himself so fucking serious.

Is Beverly Hills Cop 4 still a go? I mean I'm sure that'll be a tuned-down PG-13 crapfest but why doesn't Eddie still do R-rated features?