Saturday Numbers
Marley and Me did $13.8 million yesterday -- a very strong showing -- and is projected to earn $38.3 million for the three-day weekend. Benjamin Button did about $9 million yesterday with a projected $27.9 million for the three-day weekend. Since it did around $12 million on Xmas Day, a good hold would have been about a million or so more than that, so $9 million isn't all that terrific.
Adam Sandler 's Bedtime Stories did $9.7 million, $27.3 million projected. And the fourth-place Valkyrie made about $8.1 million yesterday with $22 million projected by Sunday night.
Jim Carrey's Yes Man did $5.9 million yesterday, projected to pull down $16.7 million for the weekend. Now sitting at close to a $50 million cume. Okay, not sensational. Will Smith's Seven Pounds did $4.7 million yesterday, projecting $13.8 million by Sunday night -- now approaching $40 million cume, not that great for a Will Smith film.
The limited release Doubt did 1.8 million, $5.8 million for the three-day weekend. Playing in1200 theatres, a little over $4 thousand a print...fair, so-so. Meryl Streep 's Best Actress Oscar nomination (along with Viola Davis's nom for Best Supporting Actress) will help matters in January.
Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino did $746,000 yesterday in about 84 situations and $28,000 a print. Projecting about $2.2 million. The film's wide break is right after the 1st of the year. The film plays, has legs, will do well in '09.
Milk is doing fair -- a weekend tally of $1.8 million, $5900 a print, in about 300 theatres. Frost/Nixon isn't doing much at all -- 200 theatres, projecting about $1.5 million for the weekend. Revolutionary Road opened well in three theatres -- about $213,000, $71,000 a print.
Last Chance Harvey will do about $15,000 a print and $94,000 for the weekend in six theatres. That's not much.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 27, 2008 at 9:22 AM
comment #1
KB
says ...
I've been wondering what film Wall-E might pick off for a BP nod. I'm guessing Frost/Nixon is the low-hanging fruit, huh? How long until we start seeing those articles?
A BP race of The Dark Knight, Wall-E, Ben Button, Milk and .... shudder ... Slumdog Millionaire would almost be respectable. Even if it consists of too much lesser work by a lot of good people.
Posted by KB
at December 27, 2008 10:00 AM
comment #2
h1000
says ...
The Wrestler is the best film of the year by far. The Reader was appalling Brit heritage goes to post war Germany. The Holocaust is grated in like nutmeg for a bit of cheap frisson. Truly terrible film. Benjamin Button as an excruciatingly boring film. Even Cate Blanchett was at sea, she seemed to reach for the Katherine Hepburn voice a lot which was annoying, and the uneducated black mama with a heart of gold???? Mind blowing. How do they talk themselves into this crap??? Frost/Nixon and Valkyrie are both much better than BB or The Reader. Milk was totally by the book, saved by stunning performance. Yet to see Revolutionary Road or Doubt or Gran Torino, but nothing yet comes remotely close to The Wrestler.
Posted by h1000
at December 27, 2008 10:50 AM
comment #3
h1000
says ...
Oh, and The Dark Knight???!!!!! That's surely a joke, no? That film ended three or maybe four times before finally, mercifully, it ended.
Posted by h1000
at December 27, 2008 10:51 AM
comment #4
h1000
says ...
Oh, and The Dark Knight???!!!!! That's surely a joke, no? That film ended three or maybe four times before finally, mercifully, it ended. I think Slumdog will take BP and BD but The Wrestler deserves both, and Mickey Rourke for actor although Langella would be a worthy winner too.
Posted by h1000
at December 27, 2008 10:53 AM
comment #5
Sabina E
says ...
I read the screenplay for THE READER, I would like to see it.
I saw Benjamin Button last night, and I'll say it again. What a great masterpiece film.
Posted by Sabina E
at December 27, 2008 1:46 PM
comment #6
fredderf
says ...
"Oh, and The Dark Knight???!!!!! That's surely a joke, no? That film ended three or maybe four times before finally, mercifully, it ended." -- THANK YOU!! I KNOW!
Benjamin Button is meh. overall, what a dismal year. But perhaps i'm not looking hard enough. Mr. Elsewhere, you should do a "movies that are ignored but are super awesome" list. Are we missing something?
Posted by fredderf
at December 27, 2008 3:29 PM
comment #7
Doug
says ...
"The Dark Knight" definitely deserves a Best Picture nomination. When a film has multiple storylines it's going to feel like it has more than one ending - because it does.
Posted by Doug
at December 27, 2008 8:55 PM
comment #8
janee
says ...
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