No I disagree because Michael Clayton did not to as good as many thought in the US box office and now Duplicity is having the same things written about it.
WILLIAM PETERSEN: Well, this is a shock. The only explanation for this is that somehow in the last year, every one of you tried to act with rubber gloves and tweezers.
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This is a shock. The Fast and the Furious sequel is heading toward over $25 million today, $60 million for the weekend, the best April opening (in 2009 dollars) ever.
Originally posted by seanflynn: This is a shock. The Fast and the Furious sequel is heading toward over $25 million today, $60 million for the weekend, the best April opening (in 2009 dollars) ever.
What's shocking is it doesn't matter if the movie is really good or not. What's even more shocking is that Vin Diesel makes a fortune working as an actor!
Though maybe the dying gasps on the fumes of the car fetish culture, which has enriched the warring and fundamentalist factions in the Middle East.
Originally posted by seanflynn: This is a shock. The Fast and the Furious sequel is heading toward over $25 million today, $60 million for the weekend, the best April opening (in 2009 dollars) ever.
Adventureland seems to be bombing.
How is it a shock that the FAF sequel is doing well? The other films in the series have done extremely well, even though each one has been dumber than dumb (IMO).
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Actually, a $30 million Friday, likely over $70 million weekend.
Nikki Finke's commentary:
The result today was a $30 million haul from 3,461 theaters for an unexpectedly humongous opening weekend of possibly $70M. (And that's not even counting the Thursday midnight showings which I'm told made $1.8M.) That's a whopping 1/3 more than the studio thought possible, and now the biggest April opening ever by a mile (previous best was Anger Management's $42M in 2003). This just doesn't happen like this, folks: Hollywood is in total shock tonight. Rival execs are guessing $75M for the weekend.
1 FAST AND FURIOUS Universal
3,461 $30,111,000
$8,700 $30,111,000
2 MONSTERS VS. ALIENS Paramount (DreamWorks)
4,109 $8,900,000
$2,166 $81,090,000
3 THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT Lionsgate
2,732 $3,675,000
$1,345 $31,365,000
4 I LOVE YOU, MAN Paramount (DreamWorks)
2,829 $2,735,000
$967 $44,172,000
5 KNOWING Summit Entertainment
3,323 $2,675,000
$805 $52,749,000
6 ADVENTURELAND Miramax
1,862 $2,175,000
$1,168 $2,175,000
7 DUPLICITY Universal
2,522 $1,400,000
$555 $29,476,000
8 RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN Buena Vista
2,825 $970,000
$343 $56,007,000
9 12 ROUNDS Fox
2,331 $850,000
$365 $7,572,000
10 SUNSHINE CLEANING Overture Films
479 $580,000
$1,211 $3,476,000
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I wonder if we'll see more high profile popcorn flicks released in April as a result of this huge opening. Could we be on the verge of the summer movie season having a month tacked onto the front of it now?
FYC: "Up" for Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director
If I were Sigourney Weaver's agent, I'd be asking about an Alien sequel.
Every "franchise" is going to be looking to go back to original actors.
This is the best Friday gross ever between January and April (beating 300, whose weekend gross it will also best). However, The Passion of the Christ will remain the best pre-May weekend ever most likely (it had a Wednesday opening).
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'Fast' wins box office checkered flag Universal pic makes history with $72.5 million By PAMELA MCCLINTOCKNew model plus original parts equals box office history for Universal’s “Fast & Furious,” the fourth outing in the action franchise. “Fast 4” grossed a boffo $72.5 million as it opened over the weekend in 4,109 theaters at the domestic box office in one of the biggest B.O. surprises in recent memory.
Pic also ran laps around the competish at the international box office, bowing to $30.1 million for a worldwide opening take of $102.6 million.
Domestically, it’s the best non-holiday, three-day opening in U’s history. It’s also the biggest opening of 2009, as well as the biggest April opening ever. Previous record-holder for best April bow was “Anger Management” ($42.2 million).
Reteaming Van Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster for the first time since the original film, “Fast 4” was predicted to open somewhere in the $40 million to $50 million range. Highest opening gross for a previous film in the franchise was the $50.5 million earned by “2 Fast 2 Furious.”
Some had questioned whether U was making the wrong move in trying to reactivate the franchise. Last film, “Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” only opened to $23.9 million.
Miramax’s dramedy “Adventureland,” the weekend’s other new wide release, grossed an estimated $6.2 from 1,862 locations, in line with expectations.
1 Fast and Furious $72,508,000 2 Monsters vs. Aliens $33,510,000 ($105,700,000) 3 The Haunting in Connecticut $9,550,000 ($37,240,000) 4 Knowing $8,130,000 ($58,204,000) 5 I Love You, Man $7,850,000 ($49,287,000) 6 Adventureland $6,010,000 7 Duplicity $4,300,000 ($32,376,000) 8 Race to Witch Mountain $3,351,000 ($58,388,000) 9 12 Rounds $2,300,000 ($9,022,000) 10 Sunshine Cleaning $1,879,000 ($4,775,000) 11 Taken $1,580,000 ($139,452,000) 12 Last House on the Left $1,312,000 ($30,726,000) 13 Watchmen $1,085,000 ($105,357,000) 14 Slumdog Millionaire $510,000 ($140,255,000)
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There's more to it than that. There was, shall we say, tension between Diesel and Walker that made the latter very reluctant to ever work with him again. Likely that is played off of in the new film.
Originally posted by movieman6: yea seanflynn wahat was the reason sexual tension
There's definitely been rumors surrounding those two for awhile, so I wouldn't be surprised either way.
I bet Paul Walker asked to see Vin Diesel's "guns", and Diesel wouldn't show them to him. Seriously, though I share loganX2's pain when I thought were finally done with Diesel forever. He's such a diva like the above "guns" thing going back all the way to Reindeer Games when he was a nobody. He should be lucky that he's still able to get work at all, but of course, right now I'm sure he's deluding himself into thinking that his movie is a hit only because of him because everyone loves him so much.
Pacifier 2 here we come.
