Box-Office Wrap-Up: Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2009
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Liam Neeson whupped everything in site on Super Bowl Weekend.
Give it up for Liam. He broke on through, dominating the Mall Cop by a healthy $10m. It was the second highest Super Bowl weekend opener ever, only Hannah Montana did better. Let's break this thing down.
#1 movie predicted correctly: 1 Week In A Row
1. Taken
The last five years have provided the strongest openings on Super Bowl weekend. Is the difference between sports fan and movies fan widening? The odd part is there are more movie commercials than ever during the Super Bowl… though it seems like movie fans see them before the actual broadcast.
Result: 24.6 million (My rank: #1, $10.5m off)
I think it's going to make $100 million. Which means it will beat Rogen's R Rated Observe and Report. I guess that's just the way it is.
Result: 14.0 million (My rank: #2, $0.6m off)
Gran Torino let me down. Or Uninvited defied my will. Either way, Asian horror remakes are the easiest way to make a quick buck this side of porn.
Result: 10.5 million (My rank: #5, $2.5m off)
I keep underrating it. It keeps slapping me around. For some reason I dream of a world where the domestic box office isn't based on kids and fat security guys. Call me a dreamer.
Result: 8.7 million (My rank: #7, $1.6m off)
5. Gran Torino
A lot of movies bunched up here. Gran Torino is at $111m on a production budget of $33m which makes all the rest gravy.
Result: 8.6 million (My rank: #3, $2.2m off)
Will the protests derail the Best Picture hopes? I say no, but it's getting closer on the buzzmeter.
Result: 7.6 million (My rank: #6, $0.4m off)
It looks as though this is going to be a financial loser. It did fair on the weekend but really died during the weekdays. So I might be taking back that Underworld IV prediction.
Result: 7.2 million (My rank: #4, $1.3m off)
8. New in Town
Good Lord, how hot is that prediction? I picked a new release to finish 8th – and it did! I'm just going to bask in that for a second. It makes logical sense though, it was marketed as the romantic comedy for families. Which clearly doesn't make any sense.
Result: 6.7 million (My rank: #8, $0.4m off)
Back on track, and you gotta believe. I'm looking forward to watching that Monsters vs. Aliens commercial in 3-D during the Super Bowl, if only because I don't understand why it hasn't been done before.
Result: 4.2 million (My rank: #9, $0.5m off)
10. Inkheart
Button missed out by 90k. Bride Wars was only 40k behind that. But Inkheart came out on top, and it sits at $31m overall. Too bad the listed budget was $60m.
Result: 3.7 million (My rank: #10, $0.1m off)
I can already tell you I'm taking He's Just Not That Into You next weekend. But if you like Pink Panther 2, Push, or Coraline here's your chance to sound off.
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i'm not sure how it will do at the box office, but I am really excited about Coraline, as are a lot of people i know.
I hope that Coraline does really well for Neil Gaiman's sake. Stardust was a great movie but sadly it had poor marketing and people weren't interested. Hopefully the same thing doesn't happen with Coraline.
I actually really liked Stardust too. But Coraline looks a little odd to gain much traction in the marketplace.
Pink Panther 2 will take the box-office next weekend.
I saw Inkheart tonight. It was meh.
Money's really tight for me right now, but there are two movies that will actually get me into the theatres in the next few months: Coraline and Watchmen. Everything else can wait for Netflix.
Coraline's not going to take the weekend, but I think I'd weep for joy if it did.
I bought Taken ex-Rental DVD here in NZ, why do they release movies like this? Any way, VERY good movie, I really wanted the bad guys to get what's comminf to them and Mr Neeson delivers it fast and without mercy, high body count that never seems unrealistic, very Bourne type fighting and action, tight filming. I love it when movies deliver more than you were expecting. His threat to the kidnappers at the start is classic and sets the whole tone of the flick.
I don't know; I still see Underworld IV happening in more ways than one.
First, making this prequel, despite being a good movie (not as good as first and not even close to the 2nd though), wasn't really needed.
And loosing both Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman wasn't the best move.
They could've at least adapted the Selene parts from the book "Underworld: Blood Enemy," which practically half the movie is taken from.
And I'm sorry, without the guns it's not as good either.
I'm hoping they'll learn from this mistake that they should've either waited to do this one when Kate and Scott were sick of this franchise.
Bringing them back and making a sequel to Evolution would be a wise move, because giving up on this medium budgeted franchise wouldn't be wise.
And plus this one will make it's money back by the time the box office numbers are done (It's only been a week!) and with DVD sales they'll make a good profit.
If that wouldn't happen, then they wouldn't be making a sequel to Jumper.