April 29, 2024
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Review: Little Women (no spoilers)
Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree
Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
Review: Marriage Story (spoilers only in the broadest sense)
| 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 |
Review: Little Women (no spoilers) - The Hot Blog
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Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree - The Hot Blog
The last four weeks have been “SLUMP SLUMP SLUMP SLUMP” at Deadline, but today: “Any worries about a Summer 2012 domestic box office slump are officially gone.”
Glad we got that sorted out.
Nice to see hunger games cracked 400 domestic. Very impressive.
Not to mention this gem from Deadline: “As for holdovers, Universal’s Snow White And The Huntsman follows last weekend’s strong opening with another fierce finish while Sony/Columbia’s Men In Black 3 starts its third weekend still in double-digits. I’m told that each film should end their domestic runs with $160M-$165M all-in.”
Since when is a 59% drop a “fierce finish?”
And MIB3 was at $111m after the 2nd weekend, so unless SWATH has some remarkable holds going forward, especially with direct competition for females from Rock of Ages next week, I doubt these two films will end up within $5m of each other.
Y’all can’t see the forest for the trees. “Prometheus” got hurt by Saturday-night TV sports, in particular Boston-Miami in the basketball Playoffs and Los Angeles-New Jersey in the Stanley Cup Final.
Don’t go dissing a competitor’s website just to score brownie points with the mouth-breathers who dominate moviegoing.
While Chucky has a point about the Playoffs, Prometheus is also going for an older audience that does not always make it opening weekend, and should probably have some pretty good legs.
In the absence of a new BYOB thread, I’ll post this here. The announcement that Sony is making a Tonka truck movie feels to me like a ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ moment. Maybe I’m wrong, but they’re just toy trucks, right? No characters or storylines or anything like that? But we’ve all heard of the brand, so now it’s gonna be a movie.
Maybe this from the press release hints at how they’ll pull a story out of this thing: “Giving children real-life, relatable experiences, TONKA trucks help kids learn the confidence to get the job done.”
I know this may be grasping at straws Yancy, but Pixar did do two movies simply named Cars, and raked in the bucks.
I don’t know if this would be animated or not, and it is an obvious cash grab. But every movie studio is looking at Transformers and the comic book genre and the Chipmunks and everything else based on every brand known to man and thinking, “how do I make this into a movie?”
Even mediocre success, if they don’t go all Carter and Battleship on the cost, would be worth it to them.
Yancy, I thought Battleship was the straw. Turns out it’s a mighty strong camel. Maybe if they make a Rubik’s Cube movie…
I know! Log: The Movie.
I love how Deadline always uses “I’m told…” or “my sources say…” It either means I’m making crap up or I read it on someone else’s website.
Lego is an upcoming movie isn’t it? And aren’t they still threatening to make Ouija? And don’t forget this: http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/06/17/hot-wheels-movie/
LEGO is a real movie from really smart people, though.
At least HOT WHEELS was an animated series in the late 60s/early 70s, and it had characters and whatnot. Don’t know if the movie version will be derived from that though.
The CARS movies featured anthropomorphized automobiles. I suppose that’s what they’ll do with the Tonka trucks movie, too.
I guess some day we’ll get anthropomorphized Pick Up Sticks. And surely someone’s developing Silly Putty: The Movie.
Anybody see Safety Not Guaranteed? I was kinda interested in it but just found out it’s another Sundance movie. Nothing screams overrated like little Sundance sunshine blown up everyone’s arse.
Bulldog: You’re missing a key point. CARS had John Lasseter. TONKA has Adam Sandler. Worlds of difference.