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Saturday Sum-ups
Iron Man did $37.9 million yesterday, and is on track to finish Sunday night with $93.9 million. (This presumably includes Thursday night's business.) Made of Honor is projecting $15.5 million for the weekend, and Baby Mama will come in third with $10.3 million -- off 41%, a not-great-but-decent hold. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo will be fourth with $6.4 million. And Forgetting Sarah Marshall with come in fifth with $6.2 million.
Forbidden Kingdom will make almost $4 million. Nim's Island will be seventh with $2.7 million. Prom Night will finish with $2.4 million, 21 will make $2 million even. 88 Minutes, the Al Pacino embarassment, will make $1.7 million, but it'll also have a cume of $15.4 million by Sunday night. There are many superior indie films out there that would be delighted to make one third of that amount, all in.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM
comment #1
romeoisbleeding
says ...
Great for Iron Man!! I am hoping if this continues this indicates ithere will be a sequel? does anyone know if they had to make a certain amount to assure this??
Posted by romeoisbleeding
at May 3, 2008 9:12 AM
comment #2
actionman
says ...
yeah, GTA really affected the box office...
Romeo--there will most assuredly be a sequel
Posted by actionman
at May 3, 2008 9:31 AM
comment #3
MASON
says ...
Somewhere Don Murphy screams and David "it's a niche film" Poland spins.
Posted by MASON
at May 3, 2008 9:48 AM
comment #4
iamwhoiam
says ...
Way to go, Tony Stark.
Posted by iamwhoiam
at May 3, 2008 10:14 AM
comment #5
Mjs
says ...
Couldn't be happier for Downey.
Posted by Mjs
at May 3, 2008 10:43 AM
comment #6
jbf81
says ...
Couldn't be happier for Downey.==============================
Exaclty what I tought, so happy for Robert
Posted by jbf81
at May 3, 2008 11:20 AM
comment #7
JckNapier2
says ...
Obviously, the saturation marketing roped along everyone, even the very women who weren't even officially targeted. I'm dying to hear idiots blabbing about how women went soft for the love story between Pepper Potts and Tony Stark, that they approved of the 'stand by your man' element or whatever such nonsense.
Nevermind that there was no hint of romance in the trailers and it's barely in the movie for that matter (one of several underdeveloped threads that should be dealt with in the sequel). Women went for three reasons. They either went because they were dragged along by their boyfriends and husbands, they have prurient interests in Robert Downey Jr, or they went because some of them like shiny toys, manly men, comic book adventure, and explosions as much as boys do (just like they went to see 300 last year because they enjoy handsome, barely clothed muscle men wielding swords and hacking at each other as much as boys do).
Scott Mendelson
http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/
(two pieces now up on Iron Man numbers, including a long-ass bit on May openers vs mid-May frontrunners for those who give a crap).
Posted by JckNapier2
at May 3, 2008 12:47 PM
comment #8
Circumvrent
says ...
IRON MAN 2
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From the director of IRON MAN
Posted by Circumvrent
at May 3, 2008 12:47 PM
comment #9
TheJeff
says ...
Ugh. There is nothing studios hate more than critically acclaimed blockbusters with $90+ million opening weekends. Guess they won't be hiring that hack Favreau again!
Posted by TheJeff
at May 3, 2008 4:38 PM
comment #10
D.Z.
says ...
TheJeff: You never know. Look what happened to Donner after Superman.
Posted by D.Z.
at May 3, 2008 5:33 PM
comment #11
hcat
says ...
Yes, we all know Donner never worked again and the studio would never trust him to helm another franchise.
Posted by hcat
at May 5, 2008 11:52 AM
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