Sunday Numbers
Yesterday morning Jim Carrey's Yes Man was projected to pull in around $18,681,000. This morning's Steve Mason/Big Hollywood report says it'll do a tad less -- $18.1 million and change.
The second-place Seven Pounds was looking at a projected $15,500,000 yesterday morning. It's now expected to finish tonight with around $16 million -- a soft opener for a Will Smith film, and probably headed for a final tally that will be comparable to the grosses for Michael Mann's Ali.
The fourth-place Four Christmases will be just shy of a $100 million cume by late tonigh, the fifth-place Twilight will have about $158 in the till, and Bolt will be about $5 million shy of $100 million by late tonight.
Slumdog Millionaire expanded by 420 runs to about 600 runs total, and is expected to bring in about $2,500,000 or $4300 a print.
The new limited arrival was The Wrestler, which took in $200,000 in 4 runs.
The Reader held to the same eight runs it had last week and dropped around 48%. Bad sign.
Frost/Nixon stayed at 39 runs and dropped 43%, earning $9000 a print. Uni's strategy is to hang in there until the early January Golden Globe awards and Oscar noms.
Gran Torino, which apparently is going to expand somewhat next week, possibly adding some 300 odd runs, added 13 screens this weekend, up to 19 runs from last week's six, and made about $432,000. It held well with $22,700 a print.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM
comment #1
K. Bowen
says ...
Could someone explain to me the wisdom of the platform release?
Posted by K. Bowen
at December 21, 2008 2:08 PM
comment #2
Deathtongue_Groupie
says ...
In the next week or so, Twilight will pass Quantum of Solace in domestic gross. Think that pretty much sums up the disappointment with the first and hopefully only Bond sequel.
Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie
at December 21, 2008 3:02 PM
comment #3
Chase Kahn
says ...
Your kidding, right Deathtongue? It's right there with CASINO ROYALE in both foreign and domestic total -- I mean I didn't care for QUANTUM at all, but I fully expect there to be another Craig Bond in November of 2010...
Posted by Chase Kahn
at December 21, 2008 3:06 PM
comment #4
BurmaShave
says ...
Having just returned from SLUMDOG (fucking great indeed, sigh), I reiterate my earlier statement that Irrfan Khan needs to be the next James Bond villain. Actually they should probably have Freida Pinto as the lead Bond girl and have Danny Boyle direct also.
Posted by BurmaShave
at December 21, 2008 5:28 PM
comment #5
moviemaniac2002
says ...
Daniel Craig was quoted as wanting to have some
'fun' with the next one...maybe bringing back
Q and Miss Moneypenney. Whatever clout he has
accumulated (and with the combined grosses of
"Casino" and "Quantum", it should be considerable)...he should use it to coerce
Amy Asparagus into putting back some glamour, humor and entertainment into the next one...and not waste 200 million on making a stripped down
bad imitation of a Bourne film. (and yes! Danny
Boyle absolutely should direct it)
Meanwhile....nice to see that word-of-mouth
has hit "Day The Earth Stood Still" like one of
Gort's laser beams.
Posted by moviemaniac2002
at December 21, 2008 10:27 PM
comment #6
jodyr
says ...
Quantum of Solace rocked. And it out bourned-Bourne.
Posted by jodyr
at December 21, 2008 10:51 PM
comment #7
D.Z.
says ...
The suits are trying to blame the weak box office on the weather. http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/audiences-say-quotyesquot-jim-carrey-comedy-reuters I also find it ironic that anyone would revel in Twilight trumping QOS, since I thought the dumbing down of the Bond films to appeal to teen girls is what people were getting tired of seeing.
Posted by D.Z.
at December 22, 2008 2:04 AM
comment #8
btwnproductions
says ...
With $529 million in the bank internationally for Solace, James Bond will return.
(You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and Diamonds are Forever form a kind of trilogy, but the recasting of Bond was a factor in not tightening the linkage.)
Posted by btwnproductions
at December 22, 2008 9:03 AM
comment #9
janee
says ...
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Posted by janee
at May 19, 2011 5:14 AM