Box-Office Wrap-Up: Dec. 5 – Dec. 7, 2008
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Four Christmases takes its second weekend in a row... everything else dies.
Box office receipts were down exactly 50%, which I called, but I was definitely a bit off on the order. Let's break this thing down.
#1 movie predicted correctly: 1 Week In A Row
The "winner" of the weekend. It's made $74m on a budget of $80m so it's still got a ton of work to do. I'm guessing those Christmas DVDs don't sell well in May either.
Result: 18.1 million (My rank: #1, $3.1m off)
2. Twilight
The problem was not my projection for Twilight, the problem was that Bolt and Solace died – almost the inverse of last weekend.
Result: 13.1 million (My rank: #4, $1.1The m off)
3. Bolt
Crushed. The kids were back at school and the parents were back at work. Still, if it can make $13m more it catches Beverly Hills Chihuahua. That's all I want for Christmas.
Result: 9.6 million (My rank: #2, $4.7m off)
4. Australia
There's still time for all you critics who praised it to come around. We won't judge you. You'll have come to your senses is all.
Result: 7.0 million (My rank: #7, $.3m off)
A 65% drop. This one is starting to feel like Mission Impossible 3 to me. A solid action film that gets bashed by 25% of those who see it for a myriad of reasons (no plot, not "Bondy" enough). But those 25% are killing this one with the crossover audiences.
Result: 6.6 million (My rank: #3, $7.2m off)
Still, $238m worldwide. This was one of the four films that dropped over 60% this weekend.
Result: 5.1 million (My rank: #5, $5.1m off)
I dream of a world where no one remembers this movie. So yeah, I guess I dream of a period like ten days from now.
Result: 4.5 million (My rank: #8, $1.2m off)
Lionsgate's hit for the year is still Saw V, coming in at 45th place in 2008. Sad. If they hand that studio over to me I promise a top 40 hit or I'll take no salary. That's how confident I am that I can greenlight projects not called Saw or Punisher.
Result: 4.0 million (My rank: #6, $6.0m off)
How about that prediction? Money. Perhaps it helped that I never saw the movie.
Result: 3.5 million (My rank: #9, $0.3m off)
10. Role Models
All ten in the top ten! Next week should be easy too, only one film opening at over 1800 theaters. And that film has Keanu in it.
Result: 2.6 million (My rank: #10, $0.9m off)
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Im sorta dissapointed that punisher made so little, its clearly not a very good movie, but damnit if there isnt some good action in it, I also think if your a punisher fan then the movie would probly be some good fun, just dissapointed becuase now we will probly not be seeing a 3rd movie for that guy.
i was hoping that punisher was gonna bomb but it barely made the top 10 so i'm farely happy but i'm surprised bolt did so pourly i saw it yesterday with my sister and at the end we both shed a few tears but congrats to new line for being number one for two weeks in a row because they haven't had a huge hit since lord of the rings and fox may not ever recover from what i call the decade of bombs hopefully day the earth stood still will bring some big bucks were pulling for you keanu
Bond just wasn't very good, period. My friends and family were pissed off by the jarring cinematography in it (much like me, the cinematography nerd), and it just wasn't nearly as up to par as Casino Royale. From my dad, the loyal Bond fan? Sucked. He doesn't want to see it again. He really liked Casino Royale, too.
Also, WHY do you hate Australia so much? I've seen it twice. I loved it.
I just felt like Australia was an exercise with no real plot. Weird slo-mo shots every five minutes, a serious conflict that was treated as hilarious and a silly conflict that was treated as important. Overall the vibe was just really weird.
But I"m glad you liked it at least. I never want people to pay money to be unhappy.