Wow. $26 million opening day for SATC. Obviously, this movie is gonna have a lot of upfront business and not strong legs, but it's still gonna make $60-70 million this weekend. Wow.
And "The Strangers" is gonna deliver a $20 million opening. It made as much on Friday as some were predicting it would make all weekend.
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Box Office Mojo is estimating a Friday take of $26.1 million.
I knew it was being underestimated from the get-go. Nearly all of the 2 or 3 dozen showings in Boston were sold out last night. I estimate a slight decline on Saturday to $24 million and another slight decline on Sunday to about $21 million, for a total of about $71 million over the weekend, surely breaking records for both the genre and a female-driven pic. It might even go higher.
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Originally posted by Mr. America: $26 million? Then it's really $13 million. Half the audience was dragged in with the promise of gettin' fellated later that night.
That's the only reason I went to see those yammerin' yuppies. Missus America knows how to negotiate.
'Scuse me. Her debt ain't fully paid off yet. Bye.
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SatC earned 55.7 million this weekend, enough for first. Indy 4 came in second with 46 million and The Strangers came in third with 20.7 million. Iron Man and Narina made around 13 million. Overall very strong weekend, the top 3 performed very well, SatC and The Strangers doing particularly strong.
"Sex and the City," the long-awaited romantic comedy based on the HBO series of the same name, opened in the top spot at the box office in North America with better-than-expected weekend sales of $55.7 million, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday
Originally posted by GH: I think Cate is taking the Julianne Moore approach to her career. Balancing commercial movies with art movies.
Only that Cate Blanchett had succeeded in doing it.
You're right. I wish movies like "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" or "The Forgotten" or "Hannibal" had made some money.
Um....
It's opening weekend, 'The Forgotten' opened at number 1, with a haul of $21 million, and ended with a total gross of $66 million -- not bad for a female driven horror flick that wasn't a sequel, and for a film that had an estimated $42 million budget.
'The Lost World' had an opening weekend of $90 million, and grossed a total of $229 million, on an estimated $73 million budget.
'Hannibal' opened to the tune of $58 million and grossed at total of $165 million, on an estimated $87 million budget.
So, I would say that Julianne Moore has been QUITE successful in being in movies that "made some money."
Originally posted by GH: I think Cate is taking the Julianne Moore approach to her career. Balancing commercial movies with art movies.
Only that Cate Blanchett had succeeded in doing it.
You're right. I wish movies like "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" or "The Forgotten" or "Hannibal" had made some money.
Um....
It's opening weekend, 'The Forgotten' opened at number 1, with a haul of $21 million, and ended with a total gross of $66 million -- not bad for a female driven horror flick that wasn't a sequel, and for a film that had an estimated $42 million budget.
'The Lost World' had an opening weekend of $90 million, and grossed a total of $229 million, on an estimated $73 million budget.
'Hannibal' opened to the tune of $58 million and grossed at total of $165 million, on an estimated $87 million budget.
So, I would say that Julianne Moore has been QUITE successful in being in movies that "made some money."
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I would like to introduce you to the concept of sarcasm. Apparently the icon of a man hitting himself over the head isn't enough for you to make you realize I was being sarcastic.
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Don't get me wrong...this $55 million opening for SATC is absolutely amazing (how fast are we gonna see big screen versions of "The Sopranos", "24", "Alias", "Buffy", etc. now?), but considering it made half of its weekend gross on friday, this thing is gonna drop FAST.
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I agree. I am very happy that the film made what it did, it shows how popular the series was. I see it having a great shelf life on video as well. As for the other shows, if there is a Sopranos movie I will be very upset and will have lost all respect for David Chase, who ended the series perfectly. Thankfully, no conformations on that yet.
Originally posted by GH: Don't get me wrong...this $55 million opening for SATC is absolutely amazing (how fast are we gonna see big screen versions of "The Sopranos", "24", "Alias", "Buffy", etc. now?), but considering it made half of its weekend gross on friday, this thing is gonna drop FAST.
Who cares?
The film was made for $60 million. Almost everything from here on out will be profit.
Originally posted by GH: Don't get me wrong...this $55 million opening for SATC is absolutely amazing (how fast are we gonna see big screen versions of "The Sopranos", "24", "Alias", "Buffy", etc. now?), but considering it made half of its weekend gross on friday, this thing is gonna drop FAST.
It already is; $26.9m on Friday, then $17.7m Saturday, a 35% dip. $10.9m projected for today; that's a 60% decline from Friday alone. It'll go past 100 million, but is going to fizzle almost as much as Speed Racer did.
Fare thee well, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, from the top 10. Kristen Bell's most successful motion picture - but not her last. $60.5 million domestically, and will break $85 million worldwide by the end of the coming week. Not bad for a $30 million romcom.
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Originally posted by PaulHan: Fare thee well, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, from the top 10. Kristen Bell's most successful motion picture - but not her last. $60.5 million domestically, and will break $85 million worldwide by the end of the coming week. Not bad for a $30 million romcom.
It outgrossed the movie that opened higher in the opening weekend (Forbidden Kingdom.) Uni's two comedies FSM & Baby Mama have both had decent legs. FSM could do an additional $70 million in dvd rentals & sales ($40 million sales, $30m rental.)
At least according to The-Numbers.com's sales chart & Box Office Mojo's rental charts, that's what FSM could do.
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Originally posted by GH: Don't get me wrong...this $55 million opening for SATC is absolutely amazing (how fast are we gonna see big screen versions of "The Sopranos", "24", "Alias", "Buffy", etc. now?), but considering it made half of its weekend gross on friday, this thing is gonna drop FAST.
It already is; $26.9m on Friday, then $17.7m Saturday, a 35% dip. $10.9m projected for today; that's a 60% decline from Friday alone. It'll go past 100 million, but is going to fizzle almost as much as Speed Racer did.
Fare thee well, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, from the top 10. Kristen Bell's most successful motion picture - but not her last. $60.5 million domestically, and will break $85 million worldwide by the end of the coming week. Not bad for a $30 million romcom.
I don't think "Sex and thee City" and "Speed Racer" make for an apt comparison. "Speed" was a big disappointment right from its first weekend out the gate, it wasn't even the #1 movie of its weekend, and is going to lose bundles. It is very possible that the majority of the ladies who've been salivating for the "Sex" movie went opening weekend but it will be profitable. Maybe eveb highly profitable. And as I think most of those fans of the show liked the film, the audience was pretty raucous in the show I attended, it will probably be a big seller on DVD.
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