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Leonard Klady

By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com

December 9, 2007

December 9, 2007
Weekend Estimates
International Grosses

Domestic Market Share

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Weekend Estimates – December 7-9, 2007

Title
Distributor
Gross (average)
% change
Theaters
Cume
The Golden Compass
New Line
26.2 (7,410)
3528
26.2
Enchanted
BV
10.8 (3,070)
-34%
3520
84
This Christmas
Sony
4.9 (2,610)
-38%
1879
42.7
Fred Claus
WB
4.6 (1,430)
-17%
3185
65.5
Beowulf
Par
4.5 (1,500)
-46%
2976
76.1
No Country for Old Men
Miramax
4.2 (3,150)
-5%
1324
28.8
August Rush
WB
3.4 (1,480)
-32%
2310
25
Hitman
Fox
3.3 (1,380)
-45%
2418
35.7
Awake
MGM
3.2 (1,590)
-45%
2023
10.6
The Mist
MGM
2.5 (1,080)
-45%
2336
23.4
Bee Movie
Par
2.5 (920)
-44%
2707
120.9
American Gangster
Uni
2.5 (1,180)
-41%
2132
125.4
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Fox
1.9 (810)
-42%
2341
28.9
Dan in Real Life
BV
1.0 (820)
-38%
1251
45.9
Atonement
Focus
.85 (26,470)
32
0.85
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
Thinkfilm
.55 (1,640)
-28%
335
5.3
Juno
Fox Searchlight
.41 (58,860)
7
0.52
Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films)
$76.90
% Change (Last Year)
-17%
% Change (Last Week)
-2%
Also debuting/expanding
I’m Not There
Weinstein Co.
.34 (2,320)
-31%
148
2.2
Margot at the Wedding
Par Vantage
.25 (3,080)
31%
82
1.2
Days of Darkness
Odeon
.17 (3,220)
54
0.17
Noelle
Gener8Xion
.17 (820)
203
0.17
The Savages
Searchlight
.15 (16,330)
-3%
9
0.39
Dus Kahaniyaan
Eros
78,800 (1,430)
55
0.08
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Miramax
58,700 (19,570)
-23%
3
0.17
Strength and Honor
Slow Hand
45,300 (420)
109
0.05
Revolver
IDP
34,200 (2,280)
15
0.03
Timber Falls
Slow Hand
28,600 (580)
49
0.03
Dirty Laundry
Code Black
16,900 (8,450)
2
0.02
The Walker
Thinkfilm
15,600 (3,200)
3
0.02
Grace is Gone
Weinstein Co.
14,400 (3,600)
4
0.01
The Amateurs
Peace Arch
9,600 (3,200)
3
0.01

International Grosses – To December 6, 2007*

Top International Grossers (Jan. 1 – Dec. 6) *
Title
Distributor
Gross
Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World’s
BV
652,780,159
Harry Potter
& the Order of the Phoe
WB
651,715,472
Spider-Man 3
Sony
554,341,323
Shrek the Third
Par
473,480,727
Ratatouille
BV
406,094,327
Transformers
Par
383,853,019
The Simpsons Movie
Fox
340,134,257
Night at the Museum *
Fox
259,790,751
300
WB
246,399,011
Live Free or Die Hard
Fox
246,225,223
The Bourne Ultimatum
Uni
210,566,876
Ocean’s Thirteen
WB
193,755,860
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Uni/Wk Title
191,424,440
Fantastic Four:
Rise of the Silver Su
Fox
154,591,633
The Pursuit of Happyness
Sony
143,621,805
Rush Hour 3
New Line
114,513,085
Ghost Rider
Sony
112,796,427
Blood Diamond
WB
112,662,348
Music and Lyrics
WB
96,436,418
Stardust
Par
94,989,135
*does not include 2006 box office

Domestic Market Share – December 6, 2007

Distributor (releases)
Gross (Millions)
Mkt Share
Paramount (20) 1457.1 16.60%
Sony (28) 1216.7 13.90%
Buena Vista (19) 1175.5 13.40%
Warner Bros. (29) 1170.4 13.30%
Universal (19) 1053.5 12.00%
Fox (21) 821.4 9.40%
New Line (13) 429.4 4.90%
Lions Gate (20) 368.9 4.20%
MGM (25) 339.1 3.90%
Focus (8) 108.8 1.20%
Miramax (10) 107.7 1.20%
Fox Searchlight (14) 102.9 1.20%
Picturehouse (7) 56.9 0.70%
Par Vantage (7) 52.2 0.60%
Other * (291) 305.7 3.50%
* none greater than 0.45% 8766.2 100.00%
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon