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HE's weekend projection for Horton Hears a Who, the animated Dr. Seuss film from 20th Century Fox, is $45,878,000. Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) will be off 57% from last weekend's debut for a Sunday-night tally of $15,720,000. Never Back Down (Summit) will wind up with $9,386,000. The repulsively low-grade College Road Trip (Disney) will rake in $8,946,000 for a fourth-place finish. Vantage Point will come in fifth with a $5,592,000 weekend total.

The weekend's best hold will come from Roger Donaldson's The Bank Job, off a mere 21% for a weekend total of $4,679,000 and a $9.600,000 cume. (People obviously like it, arre telling their friends, etc.) Michael Haneke's Funny Games (Warner Independent) has opened disastrously with a projected weekend haul of $516,000 at $1700 a print. One might surmise that all those split-decision reviews -- a thoughtful first-rate exercise that also ranks as one of the most agonizing films to sit through in human history -- had something to do with this, but people don't read reviews so maybe not.

comment #1

MDOC says ...

This will come as a huge suprise to no one but 10,000 BC is awful. I saw it Thurday and I was hoping for some fun dumb action but there was really none to be had.

comment #2

Pinko Punko says ...

The "Funny Games" trailer made it absolutely clear that the film would be agonizingly painful to watch. Why anyone would choose to see it outside of films being their job or their major hobby is impossible to surmise. This is a film with no audience to speak of whatsoever.

comment #3

D.Z. says ...

Wow, 10,000 B.C.'s already a dud, and Horton's Friday numbers appear kind of small. [They didn't exactly explain wtf was going on in the trailer of the latter film, so I'm not entirely surprised.]
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2008-03-14&p=.htm

Pinko: Maybe they're hoping it'll have crossover appeal with tthe TCM or Lambs crowd.

comment #4

actionman says ...

Even though it will be only a small/modest success in the theaters, I am very pleased to see the great hold for The Bank Job. Best movie of the year so far. That and In Bruges.

comment #5

Don Murphy says ...

FUNNY GAMES now joins THE VANISHING.
Why remake a perfectly fine film?

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IRON MAN
from the director of ZATHURA

comment #6

D.Z. says ...

I like how the studios are touting 3-d as a sure thing, when there's only been one hit with it so far, and that's due to its fanbase. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982444.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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mutinyco says ...

If you've seen anything in digital 3D you'd understand the buzz...

comment #8

K. Bowen says ...

The Bank Job is a really solid piece of work.

comment #9

K. Bowen says ...

As far as Funny Games .... Hey, I want to spend two hours watching a family get brutally tortured so that a European can make an obvious point that's been made many times in the past. Sounds like a wonderful Saturday afternoon.

comment #10

ZayTonday says ...

Doomsday was AWESOME in spite of what all the reviewers said. Yes, it wears its influences on its sleeve, but so do the Indiana Jones movies.

comment #11

D.Z. says ...

mutiny: I'm sure it's nice, but I want to be entertained, too.

comment #12

Jeffrey Easter says ...

K. Bowen:
Agree wholeheartedly about Doomsday. I and the packed crowd of younger people really had a ball. This movie was a complete homage to 80's mindless B-scifi action movies. The music, the gore and of course the apocalyptic cannibal punks. Lotsa fun.

comment #13

Jeffrey Easter says ...

Sorry, meant ZAY not KBowen.

comment #14

Pinko Punko says ...

actionman,

I know this sounds extreme, but there have been plenty of Oscars awarded for a lot less that what Colin Farrell did in In Bruges. I'm not saying he should be nominated. I'm just saying he was great.

comment #15

actionman says ...

Totally agree with you Pinko Punko. That was probably his best work. I loved his performances in Phone Booth, Miami Vice, Ask the Dust, and The New World. He's very underrated. He gave it his all in Alexander but he was miscast in the end. If somehow, and it will never happen, he could get a supporting actor nod for his work in In Bruges, I'd be extremely pleased. But it will never happen.

comment #16

moviemaniac2002 says ...

Major problem with 10,000 B.C. - a movie this
idiotic should be much more fun to watch.
Why isn't Camille Belle in a skimpy leather
bikini? Come to think of it, why aren't there at
least ten more girls in skimpy leather bikinis?
Film's only saving grace - the too-hip-for-the-room
sabre tooth tiger. He's just too cool to eat anybody, a feline Steve McQueen.

I've already posted about the nightmarish experience of watching 'College Road Trip'
With time and therapy, I hope the nightmares will
subside. When it comes to nausea and revulsion,
no J-Horror, wall-walking stringy haired ghost
can match the utter fear and loathing generated
by Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone.

comment #17

jasonvang says ...

i don't care these things, however, i like girls.
months ago a friend told me a online dating site WEALTHYLOVES.c o m where people can find their perfect matches or quality friendships. ....maybe we can keep in touch and make friends on this site.

comment #18

George Prager says ...

Remaking FUNNY GAMES is as pointless as doing a shot-by-shot remake of SALESMAN (talk about agonizing).

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