Saturday numbers
Enchanted‘s five-day projection keeps falling, falling…it’s now dropped to under $50 million for five days. $49,198,000, to be precise, with $34,398,000 for the three-day weekend. This Christmas is looking at $27,296,000 for 5 days and $18,800,000 for the weekend. Beowulf will end up with a 5-day tally of $23,399,000. This will bring Robert Zemeckis‘ 3-D fantasy up to a $56,445,000 cume — it’ll be a push to hit $100 million. Hitman keeps on dropping..$20,800,000 for the weekend.
Other 5-day totals: Bee Movie — $15,700,000. Fred Claus — $14,600,000. August Rush — $13,800,000. American Gangster — $13 million even.
The Mist is looking at $12,300,000 for 5 days and $8 million for weekend…dead. No Country or Old Men will earn about $10,700,000 for the five-day holiday for a cume of $16.3 million. It’ll probably pull down $35 to $40 million by the end of the run, although a Best Picture nomination will push it along further. Todd Haynes‘ I’m Not There is will make $955,000 over five days, $720,000 for the weekend — a little over $5000 a print.
I’m going to see Margot at the Wedding at the Arclight soon. Wish me luck. I’ve heard it’s uninspiring misery. On the other hand, I saw Into the Wild again yesterday. It was about three times as powerful the second time and I noticed details I missed the first time (Emile disappearing into the cornfield to match Jena’s narration, William Hurt’s shoes without socks during his collapse). If INTO THE WILD isn’t one of the best films of the year, than fuck the Oscars. It’s not easy to make such a haunting film. No Country For Old Men can’t hold a candle to it in terms of devestation and catharsis.
Enchanted is probably underperforming for the following reasons: 1)Shrek already did the fairy tale parody thing first; 2)The economy blows; 3) The “fish-out-of-water heads to NYC” gimmick was done to death in the 80s[Think Tarzan and Crocodile Dundee.]; 4) It’s a chick flick.
Enchanted is not ‘underperforming’. Are you paying attention? $49 million in five days is a substantial hit; This movie was made because of Shrek’s success, not in spite of it; Our economy is rocky right now but we’re hardly in a depression (and I’m certain you don’t know anything about economics) ‘Fish out of water’ movies from 20 years ago are irrelevant to this discussion (that’s like saying ‘gangster movies were done to death in the 1930s which is why American Gangster hasn’t made more money); ‘Chick flicks’ often make lots of money, plus I don’t think this movie counts as a ‘chick flick’ anyway. Every point you just made is incorrect. Why did you even write that post?
This has to be one of the deadest Thanksgiving weekends ever for moviegoing. At least No Country seems to have found a niche.
It made 14.4 yesterday, maybe I am dumb but it seems like it will make a lot more then 34 for the three day weekend.
Back on Thanksgiving Day, a certain EDouglas characterized Jeff’s projections as wildly inept, and had this to say about Enchanted: “Based on a $6 million opening day, I’d see it doing more like $45 – 50 million over the five days, maybe slightly more.” Get this guy his own blog!
The Mist cost $15 Million or less to make, is sure to make a profit. Not what I’d call “dead”.
I fucking loved Margot at the Wedding.
THE MIST for 15 million? Impressive. It will easily make a profit. I just wish the money would have been spent on physical spfx.
Yeah, certain of the digital FX are lame, but the movie as a whole is enjoyable. But a $30m final for it is too bad when horrible horror movies like the Saw sequels can open to that much.
I never thought a long-running-in-geekdom-development movie such as THE MIST would do such weak numbers.
Just goes to show you never highlight a trailer featuring Andre Bragher dying for the upteenth time at the movies.
I thought THE MIST worked. It could stand to be leaner and meaner (like any Darabont movie) but its a solid, well crafted little creature feature. I also wish King could get over the plot device of “insane relgious zealot”, and Darabont is a little too proud of his bleak new ending (he overplays it). But still, you know its been a terrific year at the movies when you get not one but two passable King adaptations (the other being 1408.)
Come to think of it, Darabont (in this mode, I’m not too taken with his prior work) is probably the perfect King adapter, he’s not a virtuso, so he doesn’t overpower the folksy yarn quality of King’s writing, but he’s not incompetent like a Mick Garris either.
D.Z. wrote: “2)The economy blows”
Do you have any numbers to back this up, or are you merely regurgitaing the media-driven pessimism that manifests anytime we have a Repbulican president? Yeah, the guy’s at 27% approval, maybe less, but this old saw about a terrible economy hasn’t been true for six years. What’s unemployment at now — 4.7%? Ugh — how HORRIBLE.
I know, I know: We’re all suffering and falling behind, assigned forever to lower-class status because of the reckless GOP, etc, etc, ad nauseam, adfinitum.
Puh-leeezzeee!
Oh, and when “Enchanted” crosses the $100 million mark sometime in mid-December, I expect you to post again, heralding the “thriving” Bush economy. See you then!
Let me save the complainers a post:
“Anyone who thinks this economy is good must be a dolt — can’t even spell ‘Republican’ or ‘ad infinitum.’”
There. Better now?
I was with the THE MIST until the sci-fi channel fx. I mean, they were objectively bad. When seen in shadow in the mist, it worked fine. But the leathery repulsive critters King viscerally described are not here. And it pulled me out of the film when charactersare attacked by cartoons not physical elements. It wouldn’t have cost any more or less to use a Bottin or Giger or KNB.
Discman: “Do you have any numbers to back this up, or are you merely regurgitaing the media-driven pessimism that manifests anytime we have a Repbulican president?”
Don’t blame the media that the Republiscum haven’t been able to do anything useful for the economy since Ike…
“Yeah, the guy’s at 27% approval, maybe less, but this old saw about a terrible economy hasn’t been true for six years.”
Yeah, our declining dollar, the stock market crashing twice in five years, and our country shifting from high-paying manufacturing jobs to low-paying service jobs is just coincidence…
“I know, I know: We’re all suffering and falling behind, assigned forever to lower-class status because of the reckless GOP, etc, etc, ad nauseam, adfinitum.”
It’s nice to know we can agree on something.
“Oh, and when “Enchanted” crosses the $100 million mark sometime in mid-December, I expect you to post again, heralding the “thriving” Bush economy. See you then!”
Even if Enchanted makes that dough, it won’t make the economy better.