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| Friday | Screens | % Chg | Cume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Gross | Thtr | % Chgn | Cume |
| Venom | 33 | 4250 | NEW | 33 |
| A Star is Born | 15.7 | 3686 | NEW | 15.7 |
| Smallfoot | 3.5 | 4131 | -46% | 31.3 |
| Night School | 3.5 | 3019 | -63% | 37.9 |
| The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls | 1.8 | 3463 | -43% | 49.5 |
| A Simple Favor | 1 | 2408 | -50% | 46.6 |
| The Nun | 0.75 | 2264 | -52% | 111.5 |
| Hell Fest | 0.6 | 2297 | -70% | 7.4 |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 0.6 | 1466 | -51% | 167.6 |
| The Predator | 0.25 | 1643 | -77% | 49.3 |
| Also Debuting | ||||
| The Hate U Give | 0.17 | 36 | ||
| Shine | 85,600 | 609 | ||
| Exes Baggage | 75,900 | 62 | ||
| NOTA | 71,300 | 138 | ||
| 96 | 61,600 | 62 | ||
| Andhadhun | 55,000 | 54 | ||
| Afsar | 45,400 | 33 | ||
| Project Gutenberg | 36,000 | 17 | ||
| Love Yatri | 22,300 | 41 | ||
| Hello, Mrs. Money | 22,200 | 37 | ||
| Studio 54 | 5,300 | 1 | ||
| Loving Pablo | 4,200 | 15 |
| 3-Day Estimates | Weekend | % Chg | Cume |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Good Dead | 24.4 (11,230) | NEW | 24.4 |
| Dolphin Tale 2 | 16.6 (4,540) | NEW | 16.6 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 7.9 (2,550) | -23% | 305.8 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 4.8 (1,630) | -26% | 181.1 |
| The Drop | 4.4 (5,480) | NEW | 4.4 |
| Let's Be Cops | 4.3 (1,570) | -22% | 73 |
| If I Stay | 4.0 (1,320) | -28% | 44.9 |
| The November Man | 2.8 (1,030) | -36% | 22.5 |
| The Giver | 2.5 (1,120) | -26% | 41.2 |
| The Hundred-Foot Journey | 2.5 (1,270) | -21% | 49.4 |
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Enough about Wolverine! Thursday brings Star Trek!
Is $80 million a good weekend number for Wolverine? Because that’s where it looks like it will be.
It’s still a respectable number but the true tests will be the % drop next week and, of course, the final gross.
My blind and uneducated guess: $140 mil.
i remember X3 having a ton of bad buzz and having an amazing opening. this won’t equal that but i don’t think the B.O. will be as dismal as the angry geeks are predicting. the worldwide number will be fantastic though. Folks love Jackman.
X3 only had bad buzz amongst movie geeks, that tiny fraction of the general population who actually can follow production news. To the vast bulk of the moviegoing populace it had goodwill based on how well-liked X2 was.
Having seen both Wolverine and Star Trek, my opinion is that the latter (and coming from only a moderate Star Trek fan in general) is a vastly better, more energetic and fun film that should inspire a lot of repeat business. I know I’m going to go see it again next weekend.
Wolverine on the other hand is so strangely inert, lifeless and unexciting that I had real trouble sitting through it once, let alone again. I believe it’ll have a similar (or even worse) multiplier to X3 which barely made 2x opening, so I foresee somewhere between 155 – 170m final gross for it domestic based on what looks like a 80-88m opening weekend. It’ll probably be a success based on worldwide and what I’ve read of the budget being kept substantially lower (and it shows, boy does it) this time around compared to X3.
$35 mil on opening day. It’s gonna have a big weekend but let’s see if this puppy has legs or if WOM decapitates it…
On a close note, I was really bummed to see Watchmen not find a bigger audience. I didn’t think it was so bad.
Big ol’ tip o’ the brim to the two idiots who ruined my Wolverine viewing, ensuring that it’ll make double the money from yours truly, as now I have to see it a second time.
I will never really understand the psychology of “theater hoppers.” I don’t mean you cheapskates out there who see double features by legitimately seeing something, then ducking into a second movie around start time. Personally I consider that kinda shady/bordering on theft, but if you can pull it off and not annoy anyone in the process? Be my guest.
I’m talking about the losers, usually either weird middle aged men or large families, who play WHITMAN’S SAMPLER all goddamn day at the local Pacific, drifting in and out of shit and taking in random 20 and 30 minute stretches of shit that COULDN’T POSSIBLY MAKE ANY GODDAMN SENSE OUT OF CONTEXT.
So I go see the first show of the day of Wolverine, enjoying it slightly in a pleasantly mediocre way, got my personal space within reason, away from the crowd, when two chattering, teeth-clucking doofuses amble in at the 48-minute mark (meaning an hour after posted start time), and plop down not just behind me but RIGHT NEXT to some other couple that had been having fun for an hour. Now they’ve got these two assholes sitting in their lap.
But again, it’s the first show of the day, and roughly everything started around the same time on this wing of the theater, so where could they have possibly come from>?
Did they show up at the box office and actively say, “Eh, we’ve only missed A FUCKING HOUR of the movie, two for Wolverine please!”
Or did they sit through like 45 minutes of “Soloist,” not like it, and say, “well, might as well get OUR MONEY’S WORTH. Let’s see how Wolverine ends!”
I realize to most common moviegoers, the experience isn’t some profound ritual, it’s more like what a Dodgers game is to me: Couple times a summer I’ll get free tickets and show up late/leave early.
But, really, what can you possibly get out of missing an entire hour of a movie then settling in for the finale? Granted, it’s fucking Wolverine and not There Will Be Blood (and I’m sure some mouth-breathers at some AMC screening surely ambled in around the time of the bowling alley scene there, too.)
But is this something relatable? You guys go see something, don’t like it, so you salvage your experience by catching the ending of some other random movie?
only if you’re trippin on shrooms or something
meaning people do random stuff when they’re high
(what is ‘teeth-clucking’?)
After having just seen it, “Wolverine” was the perfect choice for those two dofuses. I think they might have had a hand it writing it too.
I think, Leah-enzed, that teeth clucking is what we would call a “Tsk”
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Wolverine–the only impressive part of it is Hugh Jackman’s body and that Play Misty for Me Clint Eastwood cool.
Dullsville in a cerebral sense…like an animus in dungeons and dragons.
It think it would have been good as a serial, from X2 onward,no more blockbuster movies.
lex — maybe the new column will get you invites to press screenings…then you can REALLY get pissed off at an audience….
thanks ms. lota! i’m gonna try out some serious teeth-clucking
hallick, wolverine is one flick that actually might have been better if written by people trippin on shrooms (i can say one thing re: jackman and his hair, if anyone ever makes ‘the dirty harry story’, hugh is a shoe-in to play the steely-eyed one)
“I’m talking about the losers, usually either weird middle aged men or large families, who play WHITMAN’S SAMPLER all goddamn day at the local Pacific”
I personally hate it more when people have an actual Whitman’s Sampler box (or some other variety of noisy confectionary) and continue to rustle about through it throughout the entire screening. And, in my experience, if people do that they also tend to eat loudly with their mouth open too.
More proof of how Hollywood is desperate: Even the Spanish-language commercials for “Star Trek” feature a Legion of Doom soundtrack.
What? Should they change it to a mariachi band and an old Selena song? “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” perhaps? That’s always been my personal fave.
“And, in my experience, if people do that they also tend to eat loudly with their mouth open too.”
But however else are they supposed to breath, kam?
And everybody knows the spanish language ads should have had that banda/mexican polka music playing over them. It would have set an interesting tone, to say the least.
@Kami: I was clicking around during breaks in the Kentucky Derby telecast and the Mets game. That’s how I came across that “Star Trek” commercial (which was on Latino network Univision).
For the record I’d lay off the Latino stereotypes ’cause the last thing you want is a cap in the ass.
OMG Chucky, you’re insane. You either have zero sense of irony or you are such a master purveyor of it that you leave all of us in the dust.
As many of you know, I am a huge Gabe Kaplan fan.
Today I was leafing through my Maltin book, and happened upon a review of a 1981 opus du Kaplan entitled “Nobody’s Perfekt.” I’ve of course heard of it before, but have never seen it. (Of his three big-screen efforts from his heyday, I HAVE seen “Fast Break” but not “Tulips” in its entirety.)
Anyway, I’m reading this review, and the PLOT as described therein is something like: “Three misfits sue the city when their car is ruined by a pothole.” I can’t believe this is an actual plot of a movie that got green-lit in any era, so I consulted that OTHER video movie guide by that man and woman that nobody’s ever heard of.
Again, “Three guys hit a pothole with their car.”
This sounds AWESOME. I must make it my life’s mission to see this. Has anyone actually seen “Nobody’s Perfekt”? The other two misfits are Robert Klein and Alex Karras.
A review on IMDB states that the fun escalates once they can’t get their car fixed, so they threaten to blow a hole through their mayor’s mansion with mortar fire.
I am sensing a new candidate for EW’s REMAKE THIS! sidebar.
You know, what’s even odder than this plot is the fact that, for a while, Gabe Kaplan actually had a serious movie career. Don’t get me wrong: Liked the guy on Welcome Back, Kotter, enjoyed Fast Break. But it’s a bit like looking back and trying to understand (and/or, better still, trying to explain to people not yet alive at the time) how certain other ’70s and ’80s TV stars — Suzanne Somers, Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, Tony Danza — got their shots at movie careers.
HA! I’m imagining a young 1981 Joe Leydon sitting through back-to-back press screenings of Majors in The Last Chace (with Chris Makepeace!) and Danza in Goin’ Ape.
On that tip, I’ve got a rental copy of John Ritter in “They All Laughed” collecting dust on top of my TV for the second straight week.
You know, I actually DID review The Last Chase…
I almost added John Ritter to the list — remember Hero at Large? — but, to be honest, I’m a little surprised he didn’t make more of an impact in movies. Loved him — and Christopher Revve — in Noises Off, a movie I honest to God thought would jump-start Peter Bogdanovich’s career. And, yeah, I admit: Problem Child is a guilty, guilty pleasure.
Er, Christopher REEVE…
ritter is classic in ‘bad santa’. i was sort of hoping that movie might herald a new era of adult comedy film roles for ritter but i guess it wasn’t meant to be, i hope he’s making them laugh in the great beyond
“Today I was leafing through my Maltin book, and happened upon a review of a 1981 opus du Kaplan entitled ‘Nobody’s Perfekt.'”
Years back, before the internet made researching obscure films a breeze, my 2002 edition of Maltin’s book was part of my holy trinity of movie guides, along with Mick Martin and Marsha Porter’s 1992 Video Movie Guide and (begin muttering)the bare facts movie guide(end muttering).
“More proof of how Hollywood is desperate: Even the Spanish-language commercials for ‘Star Trek’ feature a Legion of Doom soundtrack.”
Legion of Doom? It isn’t “Ladies and Gentlemen” from Saliva like the English-language commercials?
Lex, I saw NP when it came out, mainly because I was acquainted with Tony Kenrick, who wrote the novel it was based on. Yes, it really is as bad as it sounds. And not in an Ed Wood way.
Hallick: For decades, the Maltin guide had just as revered a place on my bookshelf. Still does, actually. When Maltin asked me to contribute a few mini-reviews for the 2009 edition, I felt like God had asked me to do a few minor updates for The Bible. Talk about a humbling experience.
back in ’93/’94, maltin’s ‘movie encyclopedia’ was the single most important reference book i had…then i got a ‘puter….
that book was imdb before there was imdb……
i asked him once if he’d ever considered updating it and he said there was no any any publisher could pay him enough to do that much research again….
“For the record I’d lay off the Latino stereotypes ’cause the last thing you want is a cap in the ass.”
What are they gonna do? Fly over here, somehow get my address and shoot me with the gun they somehow smuggled onto the plane?
Besides, clearly you haven’t seen the equally stereotype-creating Crocodile Dundee. We walk around with giant knives, okay, and we can deflect stray bullets with akubra hats! We’re multi-talented like that.
Stray bullets or not, the fanboys on this board are sounding more and more like mouth-breathing assholes who are more bigoted than Rush Limbaugh.
@Hallick: I got the Legion of Doom phrase from an 80’s wrestling tag team.
chucky, you’re so ‘above ground swimming pool’ with your stray bullets and guns in the cinema and people getting capped and threatening to whack the projectionist when he threads the wrong film and shit like that, forget all that oscar whoring stuff and stick to copland
Chucky, the most bigoted thing on this particular thread was said by yourself.
John Ritter was so good in Sling Blade that I didn’t even realize it was him until halfway through.
I used to buy the Maltin guide every other year for about a decade. It was almost a religious ceremony.
My favorite Maltin review is for the 1948 Veronica Lake starrer “Isn’t It Romantic?”
Wrecktum: Yes! 🙂
Kami: Sarcasm appears to fly right over Chucky’s head.
Perm: Amen re Ritter’s perf in Sling Blade. Just brilliant. I guess he and Billy Bob must’ve really hit it off on that political sitcom they did together back in the day, which I’m too lazy to look up.
Wait, I’m a Star Wars fanboy now? Coulda fooled me (or maybe I just misunderstood… who am I kidding, it’s Chucky, he’s not meant to make sense.)
“mouth-breathing assholes”
Projecting any, Chucky?
I’m a little late for the Kaplan discussion but I have seen Nobody’s Perfekt and it is an incredibly terrible early eighties comedy, think “On the Right Track” with Gary Coleman. These guys aren’t misfits they are mental patients, though in a hollywood comedy way where they don’t have any real existing affliction but some ticks that make them act funny. Klein’s multiple personality disorder lets him through out all his hoary impersonations, Karras talks to the ghost of his mother, and Kaplan has selective amnesia (he stops at a stoplight and then turns to the others and state “oh no I’ve forgotten how to drive.” big laugh). There is not a single smile in the entire movie. Perhaps the out of control budgets of today are a good thing if they keep pieces of shit like this from being made.
On a side note. Susan Clark was the female lead in the movie (apparently looking for the ugliest lady possible and Karen Black being unavailable). So this might have been the film where Webster’s parents fell in love.
Hey, Susan Clark was pretty damn hot in her day.
http://www.mrskin.com/celebs/319/susan-clark
Hot AND smart. Never understood why she didn’t become a major star.
Hcat, THANK YOU for that awesome post. It is never too late to discuss Gabe Kaplan, and your hilarious description of the utterly mundane awfulness just makes me want to see NOBODY’S PERFEKT even more.
There’s one clip of it on YouTube, with Kaplan hawking some stain-remover in a department store, so he takes some customer’s coat and pours a variety of food items on it to create a huge stain… then after like four excruciating minutes of intentional staining, right before the spray-remover payoff, his short-term memory loss kicks in and he’s all, “Where did these stains come from? You need to take this to a dry cleaners.”
Not funny AT ALL and unbelievably lame, it’s as if times literally stands still just watching.
I must scour every used video store in L.A. for a copy of this gem.
Joe – that Porky’s photo did nothing for me, I don’t remember her in Coogan’s so she might have been cute and interesting then, but by the early eighties she had lost whatever hotness she once had. I will now drop the topic to avoid Karras finding me and pounding me into dust.
Lex- The VHS is 20 bucks used on Amazon which would be too much for me to pursue a terrible movie but I can promise you a sub “Fish that Saved Pittsburgh” “Rabbit Test” level of bad.
Worse than Rabbit Test AND Fish That Saved Pittsburgh? Sweet Jesus, do you need freakin’ tongs to handle the VHS tape?
Honestly the only film I have seen that was less funny than NP was Chantanooga Choo-Choo. And that wasn’t even put out by a real studio, Perfekt was a RASTAR production.