1. Hanc.ock $66,000,000 ($107,321,000 since Tuesday) 2. Wall-E 33,417,000 (128,132,000) 3. Wanted 20,607,000 (90,775,000) 4. Get Smart 11,125,000 (98,115,000) 5. Kung Fu Panda 7,500,000 (193,395,000) 6. The Incredible Hulk 4,975,000 (124,917,000) 7. Indiana Jones/Kingdom... 3,940,000 (306,590,000) 8. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 3,600,000 (6,128,000) 9. Sex and the City 2,340,000 (144,864,000) 10 You Don't Mess With the Zohan 2,000,000 (94,780,000) 11. The Love Guru 1,700,000 (29,331,000) 12. Iron Man 1,500,000 (311,758,000) 13. The Happening 1,450,000 (62,077,000) 14. Mongol 883,000 (3,586,000) 15. Narnia: Prince Caspian 573,000 (138,780,000) 16. The Visitor 355,000 (8,150,000) 17. The Strangers 232,000 (51,990,000) 18. What Happens in Vegas 215,000 (78,746,000) 19. Gonzo 190,000 (same) 20. The Wackness 145,000 (179,000)
21-25; Baby Mama, When Did You Last See Your Father, Brick Lane, The Fall, Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($62,885,000 so far; three months out and it's still in the top 25)
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Posts: 3084 | Location: SE Pennsylvania | Registered: May 27, 2005
Obviously, those aren't bad numbers for "Han****," but I was hearing much bigger expectations. I think it was actually the bad reviews/word-of-mouth that got to it. Even Will Smith can't be completely invincible to quality.
Does anyone know why box office reports are based on grosses and not on attendance figures? Has it always been this way? What was the case in the '50s and '60s?
This whole situation is so weird. Every week there are reports about how many copies an album sold, how many viewers watched a particular television program or how many tickets were sold for the various Broadway shows. The box office numbers are certainly impressive but it is so hard to place them in historical context. The latest "Indiana Jones" is among the 25 highest-grossing films in history, but how does it compare to the franchise's previous installments?
Why is the emphasis put on grosses? Ticket prices vary across different areas, theater chains, showtimes or formats (like 3D). Can these numbers tell the true story of a film's success when everybody doesn't charge the same and prices keep getting higher?
Because every film wants to be bigger and better than it's predescesors and every studio in Hollywood knows that if they calculate film success by attendance they have absolutely no chance of ever passing the likes of Gone With The Wind ot The Sound of Music.
it's cheap ploy to convince people that we are living in some kind of Golden Age when clearly nothing of the sort is true.
Posts: 1145 | Location: London | Registered: April 06, 2002
Han**** seems to have done pretty ok considering the competition. And Zohan can still take heart that it's done way better than Love Guru. The most dismal shocker was Eddie Murphy's Meet Dave. It has not even passed $10 million. Is this an all-time low for Eddie or did Pluto Nash do even worse?
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Posts: 618 | Location: Singapore | Registered: February 22, 2005
Originally posted by Vinny: The most dismal shocker was Eddie Murphy's Meet Dave. It has not even passed $10 million. Is this an all-time low for Eddie or did Pluto Nash do even worse?
As for Meet Dave, it ended its US run with $11,499,834 and is still, I believe on life support internationally with $3,430,383. 20% on Rotten Tomatoes is at least triple what he got when Pluto Nash came out.
As Philadelphia Weekly, an independent newspaper said, "Remember when Eddie Murphy was funny when he was in the movies they couldn't get Richard Pryor for? This is the movie they couldn't get Robin Williams for."
Ouch.
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1 Titanic $600,788,188 1997 2 The Dark Knight $471,493,000 2008 3 Star Wars $460,998,007 1977 4 Shrek 2 $441,226,247 2004 5 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $435,110,554 1982 6 Star Wars: Ep I - The Phantom Menace $431,088,301 1999 7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423,315,812 2006 8 Spider-Man $403,706,375 2002 9 Star Wars: Ep III - Revenge of the Sith $380,270,577 2005 10 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $377,027,325 2003
Star Wars and ET had re-releases.
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And while I'm at it, the top 30 movies of 2008 so far, with Pineapple Express set to enter it this week:
1 The Dark Knight $471,493,000 2 Iron Man $317,044,000 3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $315,684,000 4 Hanc.ock $225,102,000 5 Wall-E $214,134,000 6 Kung Fu Panda $211,936,000 7 Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! $154,498,977 8 Sex and the City $151,897,416 9 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian $141,224,612 10 The Incredible Hulk $134,183,000 11 Wanted $133,327,000 12 Get Smart $127,757,167 13 Mamma Mia! $116,415,000 14 You Don't Mess with the Zohan $99,115,252 15 10,000 B.C. $94,784,201 16 Step Brothers $90,888,000 17 Journey to the Center of the Earth $88,110,000 18 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor $86,649,000 19 21 $81,159,365 20 Jumper $80,172,128 21 What Happens in Vegas $80,164,213 22 Cloverfield $80,048,433 23 27 Dresses $76,808,654 24 Hellboy II: The Golden Army $74,639,000 25 Vantage Point $72,266,306 26 The Spiderwick Chronicles $71,195,053 27 Fool's Gold $70,231,041 28 Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds $65,281,781 29 The Happening $64,323,512 30 Forgetting Sarah Marshall $62,932,375 (now at $101,033,774 worldwide per a Canadian boxoffice site called The Numbers.com)
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Posts: 3084 | Location: SE Pennsylvania | Registered: May 27, 2005
Really? That one snuck up on me...looked like a huge stinker. Fell asleep on that one!
O really? What about #28: Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds @ $65,281,781? Who is paying all that for something they can see free on TV?
"As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up ways to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?"
Really? That one snuck up on me...looked like a huge stinker. Fell asleep on that one!
O really? What about #28: Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds @ $65,281,781? Who is paying all that for something they can see free on TV?
Good point...I guess my decision not to have children has left me ignorant in the tastes of tween boys (10,000 BC) and girls (Miley Spears...er...Cyrus) and the parents who indulge them!
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Posts: 441 | Location: Phoenix, AZ | Registered: February 03, 2003
1) The House Bunny- 5.85 million 2) Tropic Thunder- 4.825 million (54.39 million total) 3) Death Race- 4.57 million 4) The Dark Knight- 3 million (481.87 million total) 5) Pineapple Express- 1.675 million (70 million total)
OTHER NOTABLES:
The Longshots- 1.325 million The Rocker- .94 million (1.99 million total)
EMMY FYCS:
Drama Series- Damages Drama Actor- Hugh Laurie Drama Actress- Glenn Close Drama Supporting Actor- Michael Emerson Drama Supporting Actress- Chandra Wilson
Comedy Series- 30 Rock Comedy Actor- Alec Baldwin Comedy Actress- Tina Fey Comedy Supporting Actor- Neil Patrick Harris Comedy Supporting Actress- Kristen Chenoweth
1. Tropic Thunder $16.1m ($65.7m) 2. The House Bunny $15.1m 3. Death Race $12.3m 4. The Dark Knight $10.3m ($489.2m) 5. Star Wars: The Clone Wars $5.66m ($25m) 6. Pineapple Express $5.6m ($73.9m) 7. Mirrors $4.875m ($20m) 8. The Longshots $4.304m 9. Mamma Mia! $4.303m ($124.5m) 10. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor $4.07m ($93.8m) 11. Vicky Cristina Barcelona $3m ($8.57m) 12. The Rocker $2.75m ($3.8m) 13. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 $2.75m($38.3m) 14. Step Brothers $2.3m ($95.6m) 15. Journey to the Center of the Earth $2.2m ($91.9m) 16. Fly Me to the Moon 3D $1.44m ($4.2m) 17. Wall-E $905,000 ($216.2m) 18. Bottle Shock $720,000 (-80% vs. last weekend - $1.74m) 19. Hanc.ock $630,000 ($226.3m) 20. Kung Fu Panda $561,000 ($212.6m)
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Posts: 762 | Location: In class | Registered: August 14, 2003
Drama Series- Damages Drama Actor- Hugh Laurie Drama Actress- Glenn Close Drama Supporting Actor- Michael Emerson Drama Supporting Actress- Chandra Wilson
Comedy Series- 30 Rock Comedy Actor- Alec Baldwin Comedy Actress- Tina Fey Comedy Supporting Actor- Neil Patrick Harris Comedy Supporting Actress- Kristen Chenoweth
1. Tropic Thunder $11,500,000/$83,834,000 2. Babylon A.D. $9,700,000 3. The Dark Knight $8,750,000/$502,421,000 4. The House Bunny $8,300,000/$27,851,000 5. Traitor $7,900,000/$9,401,000 6. Death Race $6,228,000/$23,078,000 7. Disaster Movie $6,170,000 8. Mamma Mia! $4,418,000/$131,509,000 9. Pineapple Express $3,390,000/$79,773,000 10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona $3,003,000/$12,787,000 11. Star Wars: The Clone Wars $2,900,000/$29,808,000 12. Mirrors $2,825,000/$24,893,000 13. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor $2,595,000/$97,824,000 14. The Longshots $2,406,000/$7,556,000 15. College $2,105,000 16. Journey to the Center of the Earth $1,800,000/$94,579,000 17. Hamlet 2 $1,680,000/$2,686,000 18. Fly Me to the Moon $1,600,000/$6,333,000 19. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 $1,450,000/$41,122,000 20. Step Brothers $1,255,000/$97,824,000
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