Friday Estimates by Klady – Super

Once again, people who don

McLovin It!

Here’s a place to discuss the last discussable movie of the summer (except maybe Halloween), Superbad.
Is it super, bad, or somewhere in between?

Movie Mergers

Worth1000.com always seems to have some funny stuff…

Interesting Stat

In responding to a comment in another entry that was trying to make the case for agents – the unfortunate and self-serving source of most “news” in this town… as in “Both Limato and Morris CEO Jim Wiatt kept telling me this afternoon how “very, very” excited they are.” – not thinking more creatively about how to get their clients paid in the industry’s current Insider Recession, I noticed this…
Of the Top Ten grossers so far this year, only the top three

Box Office Hell – SuperAug

Updated, Fri Morning… first chart after the jump…

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The Crow T Poll

In the summer wrap-up entry, the following poll request was made by Crow T Robot… the responses were terrific, so I have decided to make a separate entry, so those not reading the comments might chime in…
Summer wrap up poll time. Give me your choice for…
1) Best movie
2) Worst movie
3) Biggest creative winner
4) Biggest creative loser
5) Most overrated
6) Most underrated
7) Biggest surprise
8) Favorite scene
9) Breakout star
10) Most unfortunate success
My Personal Answers
1) Best movie – Ratatouille
2) Worst movie – Worst I saw was Hostel II.. and I barely saw that. Worst I saw in a theater was Sunshine.
3) Biggest creative winner – Has to be Ratatouille, a brutally tough story to make work
4) Biggest creative loser – Shrek The Third… for a great soulful idea, no soul
5) Most overrated – For me, Once. I like the film, but it has a ton of extra ivory tower cred
6) Most underrated – Ocean’s 13 was a goof, in the best way
7) Biggest surprise – The success of The Simpsons… a free TV show AND a mediocre film
8) Favorite scene – Marion Cottiard being painfully crazed Edith Piaf at a dinner party
9) Breakout star – Seth Rogen and his alter ego, Jonah Hill
10) Most unfortunate success – $890 million for Spider-Man 3 might force another bloated sequel when it is so clearly time for a new Spidey generation

More Nikki Trouble

The ongoing saga of Nikki Finke continues with today

20 Weeks Of Summer… That's A Wrap!

This summer being the biggest ever is just as insignificant a stat as The Slump stats were in 2005. To perceive this as a recovery by theatrical, you have to have bought into the absurdity of The Slump in the first place. And to sing to high heaven about two $250 million-plus productions and two $150 million-plus productions and none passing $350 million … that’s silly too.
Given the budgets of this summer and the security of the franchises – 8 of the current 13 $100 million grossers were sequels, two were based on TV cartoons, one was Adam Sandler, Ratatouille is part of the Pixar franchise and only Knocked Up really stood a unique, unfranchised, not-star-driven 9-figure films – we should have expected bigger numbers. Again, all five of the Top Five for this summer grossed $200 million in less than 12 days … and none cracked $340 million total.
Moreover, the only sequels to do under $97 million domestic were Hostel II, 28 Weeks Later, and the not-really-a-sequel sequel, Daddy Day Camp. Of the other nine sequels – the ones released by the majors – only Evan Almighty was under $110 million domestic or $250 million worldwide. So … does anyone want to ask the “Why do they make so many damned sequels” question again?
The Rest…

Sluggish As The Weather

Sorry… slow news week… slow heat stroke… slow…
Toronto is coming… but that’ll just piss some of you off, no?

More Stuff Sold By Profiles In History

Auctioned August 2-3…