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Weekend Predictions: 12-19-08
Well it’s finally the big, huge pre-Christmas weekend. It’s also the weekend where they shoehorn in the movies that couldn’t hang with the big boys in November but are too big to dump in January.
Snatch up a copy of my spreadsheet before they’re all gone.
The biggest release this weekend is Yes Man, in 3,434 theaters. It looks to be Jim Carrey’s return to inane comedy. He hasn’t gotten to run around flapping his arms and making faces much since Bruce Almighty. You could argue that Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events were big successes for Carrey, but seeing as how there’s someone else’s name in titles, it might not have really mattered who was in his role. When Carrey has been the sole big name in a movie where
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Tags: book, box office, Harry Potter, opening, prediction, weekend
This Date In Movie History: December 17th
December 17th, what more can I say? Maybe it’s because it’s near the end of the year, but there’s all kinds of good stuff about December 17th.
First, the birthdays:
Milla Jovovich, the first lady of zombie movies, was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1975
Giovanni Ribisi, whose father’s name is Gay, was born in 1974
Writer/director/producer/editor/cinematographer Gregg Araki was born in 1959
Rhode Island-obsessed director Peter Farrelly was born in 1956
Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione was born in 1930
Prolific supporting-actor Ernie Hudson was born in 1945
Cherokee actor Wes Studi was born in 1947
Bill Pullman, who is somehow often confused with Bill Paxton, was born in 1953
There were a slew of older movies released on this date that have especially dirty
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Tags: box office, classic, Disney, history, release, Smurfs
Assessing The Weekend: Punisher Punishes The Box Office
What do you get when you have one new wide release and the previous five week’s picked over corpses? You get the fourth smallest weekend of the year at $76,677,578- a 50% decrease from the previous weekend.
The only new release of any size was Punisher: War Zone. Even though 2004’s The Punisher didn’t do much even with John Travolta’s name, Lionsgate felt it was wise to give the franchise a makeover without having any recognizable names. When Dominic West, Ray Stevenson, and Wayne Knight are the biggest names, you better have a damned good movie if you expect to make any money. But Punisher: War Zone is not a good movie. It pulled in just $4,271,451 with the only competition coming from movies released up to five weeks ago. War Zone’s weekend total equates to about
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Tags: box office, competition, franchise, weekend
Assessing The Weekend: I Was A Teenage Emo Vampire
I guess my prediction of the second biggest weekend of the year was wrong. Overall, $156,677,936 was spent at the box office this weekend, making the it eight biggest of the year.
Tags: audience, box office, budget, competition, estimate, marketing, opening, prediction, vampire, weekend
Weekend Predictions: 11-21-08
I think we’re in for the second biggest movie weekend of the year, with Bolt and Twilight opening and Madagascar 2 and Quantum of Solace still out there.
Tags: box office, budget, business, Harry Potter, opening, prediction, release, screens, vampire, WALL-E, weekend
Assessing The Weekend: Quantum Of Box Office
For the first time since the middle of August, moviegoers spent more than $100 million at the movies on back-to-back weekends.
Tags: box office, James Bond, opening, prediction, release, screens, series, ticket, weekend
Assessing The Weekend: The Formula Breaks Down
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa crushed my $42 million prediction with a $63,106,589 weekend and Role Models bested me by almost $5 million.
Tags: box office, competition, experience, formula, opening, performance, prediction, production, release, weekend
Assessing The Weekend: High School Musical Still Rules
Once again, High School Musical 3 was tops at the box office. But it was a down weekend overall, actually the smallest weekend of the year.
Tags: box office, budget, Halloween, opening, prediction, release, screens, weekend
Assessing The Weekend: How Long Until High School Musical 4?
The weekend proved to be a two horse race. Outside of High School Musical 3 and Saw V, the only movie that cracked $2,500 per screen was The Secret Life of Bees.
Tags: box office, formula, installment, Musical, numbers, performance, production, series, success, weekend
Weekend Predictions: 10-24-08
This weekend looks to be a two horse race to the bank between High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Saw V.
Tags: box office, debut, Disney, franchise, Halloween, marketing, prediction, release, screens, weekend
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