Klady's Weekend Estimates
And other Oscar nominated films still in release…
The Queen | Miramax | 2.6 (1,400) | -35% | 1850 | 45.4
The Departed | WB | 2.4 (1,630) | -30% | 1453 | 128.7
Letter from Iwo Jima | WB | 1.7 (2,400) | -7% | 720 | 7.5
Babel | Par Vantage | 1.7 (1,530) | -35% | 1090 | 29.7
Notes on a Scandal | Fox Searchlight | 1.7 (2,430) | -36% | 682 | 11.7
The Last King of Scotland | Fox Searchlight | 1.3 (2,410) | -24% | 528 | 9.6
Children of Men | Uni | 1.2 (1,410) | -46% | 829 | 32.8
Blood Diamond | WB | .91 (1,430) | -26% | 635 | 54
Volver | Sony Class/Seville | .66 (1,020) | -43% | 644 | 10.8
Happy Feet | WB | .55 (960) | -40% | 575 | 192.7
Venus | Miramax | .37 (3,820) | 7% | 96 | 1.2
DG’s postmortem – well, the people coming to see it now are not the ‘core’ audience, they are the ones who are coming to see what the fuss is all about. the core audience left the theater a long time ago.
And isn’t it strange that Jennifer Hudson is the ONLY one out there promoting DG? and giving Bill Condon support – maybe I’m a cynic…anyway about the other Oscar noms, from the beginning except for the Departed, the American audience wasn’t interested in seeing them. Queen, Letters & Pan’s are in our local art house theaters. The Last King was released summer 2006 and left in 3 weeks, now returned so it might make its money back since it cost $8Mil to make.
Notes of Scandal is the surprise because Dench and Blanchett are well liked by the American public and have a following.
Wow, I never expect Museum to be this successful.
Go Colts!