Ted Surfs Mike Backwash
Magic Mike did around $18 million on Friday, and is forecasting $47 million by Sunday night — much higher than expected. And Seth McFarlane‘s Ted, the Mark Wahlberg teddy-bear movie which I saw tonight and was more or less okay with, is expected to do a little over $50 million by Sunday night. All the hot-dog-eating, ESPN-watching guys who wouldn’t be caught dead seeing Mike went to Ted — it’s that simple.
Mike got a B from CinemaScore respondents — i.e., it didn’t get an A because some felt that it would’ve been a little better if it had less character stuff and was glossier-looking (“What was up with the orange-y color?”) and cheaper and sillier with dumb jokes.
So $97M worth of people saw crap
The real shocker is that it’s got a 69% Fresh score. That, and how far a Pixar movie went down during its second weekend.
That’s a stunning success for Magic Mike. If Tatum wasn’t already considered a star, he certainly is now, especially since this was an original property sold on his name. Well done.
Wow, the majority of guys would rather watch Mila Kunis for an hour and a half than Channing Tatum wiggling his ass.
I’m shocked, shocked!
Hot-dog-eating, ESPN-watching guys, FTW!
So – regardless of quality – we’re going to have three movies derived from original scripts, two of them made on pretty low budgets – no remakes, sequels, reboots, or adaptations in sight – account for $132 million in box office between them? That’s pretty awesome, though I’m sure the only lesson Hollywood will take from this is, “We should greenlight the sequels ASAP.”
Young women got the rallying cry for MM all right. I was at the multiplex seeing Brave last night, and you would have thought Breaking Dawn part 2 was opening.
Hopefully the success of this film will give Soderbergh the interest in doing one of those “important” films he supposedly swore off.
I’m not talking about Awards Bait, per se, but some kind of passion project along the lines of Solaris or Che, but not as all-consuming as the latter.
Nice to see a Top 10 that supports the notion that small to midsize (budget wise) films with original concepts can still bring in the cash.
And yet: the same meatheaded fratboys who are terrified to see “Magic Mike” will watch UFC all nite long. Oh, irony.
Yes Mike, seeing Men strip for sexual enticement, is the same as seeing men punch each other and try to break their limbs.
Ted barely beats out magic mike..but Ted is also on 300 more screens..cost 75 million and they spent 50 + to market the film in the last 3 weeks.
Magic Mike cost under $7 million and WB spent 20 million to market the film…all that considered Magic Mike is the definite winner and more profitable film.
people just love to rag on soderbergh.
I really don’t get all these wacky broads going nuts over Magic Mike. I guarantee at least 90% of them would never be caught dead in a male strip joint, yet they flock to see some sanitized bullshit Hollywood version of the male stripping industry.
So fucking weird.
That said, Channing Tatum can still be out-acted by a piece of wood. Tons of chiseled good looking no name actors in Hollywood and this no talent is admitted entry? What gives? Was he a Geffen baby?
I don’t really get what’s so “original” about an R-rated Drop Dead Fred.
Come on Jeff, are you really angry that a decently reviewed mainstream comedy with quite a few stars toppled a male stripper movie. 47 million is a huge number for Tatum and Soderbergh and there is nothing wrong with the millions of American males that would rather watch Mark Wahlberg shittalk with a teddy bear and Mila Kunis than a bunch of dudes strip. Magic Mike will almost certainly hold over better with Spiderman coming too and looks poised to do 150+ million during its run, that is a ridiculous sum and I think topples the first Oceans.
Rashad: you’re still talking about two sweaty men wearing nothing but shorts.
It’s not as different as you think.
Mike actually had a better opening and rank than Striptease, the latter of which is the only movie which successfully does its damnedest to make Demi Moore less hot, in spite of its premise.
Lazarus: thank you.
Rashad: you do know that every gay bar in America shows UFC on a continuous loop, don’cha?
Rashad is a Jehovah’s Witness.
Somebody help me out here. (Please, not you, DZ. Somebody else PLEASE.) The two movies were only $800,000 apart on Friday but Ted is expected to finish the weekend with $11 million more than Magic Mike. How is that possible? Was Magic Mike really that frontloaded?
great scott: Not sure why you’re that shocked. Mark Wahlberg is still a bigger name than Tatum. And Family Guy’s the new Simpsons, or people wouldn’t be buying all those effing DTV Star Wars parodies.
Danny, thanks for chiming in after I pleaded with you not to. You didn’t understand the point of my question. How can two movies that were less than $1 milion apart on Friday be a whopping $11 million apart at weekend’s end. They should have been running neck and neck for the top spot.
Heheh Harry Warden, that’s terrible isn’t it.