Amph The Box Office Thread

It wasn't Citizen Kane but I was shocked at how good a movie it was. I dont go into B movies thinking they are going to be something more but this one was. Jackman was great, the kid was great, the story was actually well done, and the f/x were sick.

 

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Real Steel KOs Footloose

 

PA3 has a $26 million opening day. That was unexpected, a further humiliation to The Thing. I assume it has a more than decent shot of taking the opening weekend record for Octobers.

 

You showed a lot of restraint typing a post that long without noting whether the movie was any good.

 

One caveat I hadn't realized those Friday numbers included $8 million in Thursday night showings. Given that, there's a small chance it won't break the all time October opening weekend record, but I think it will do it anyway.

Edit, nevermind, Gitesh Pandya reports $54M opening for PA3 breaks records for best October debut & best horror debut of all-time.

 

Paranormal 3 takes the biggest October box office opening ever

 

This must be one of the most profitable film franchises in history

PA - $15,000 production budget, $193 million worldwide
PA2 - $3 million production budget, $177 million worldwide
PA3 - $5 million production budget, ~$200 million worldwide??


I know the advertising budgets were a lot higher for the last two, but still.

 

No kidding! The expense to profit ratio is off the charts. James Cameron, eat your heart out. Avatar and Titanic made far more money, but the investment, proportionally, is much smaller, and far less risk.

 

"Puss in Boots" kicks "The Rum Diary" and "In Time"

 

It may have won the weekend but $34M for Puss in Boots is a bit on the weak side (especially considering how much all the Shrek films made).

 

"Puss in Boots" stays at the top of the box office.

 

"The Immortals" takes the weekend

 

New Year's Eve tops a disappointing weekend

 

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is in first place

 

I saw this today. Good fun, great action, several genuine "GASP!" moments for me.

Also, Simon Pegg speaks Russian much better than Tom Cruise - I still can't believe the guard didn't see through Ethan's disguise, his accent was miles off!

 

Lucasfilm's Red Tails had a 19 million dollar opening weekend. Not bad for a movie no Hollywood studio wanted to distribute because it wasn't commercial. Fox agreed to distribute the film for a fee, but Lucas had to pay for prints and advertising after having already paid for the film's production which was 58 million. I guess 20th Century Fox didn't want to jeopardize their business relationship with him.

Spielberg's War Horse crossed 100 million world-wide.

Tintin has made 351 million world-wide.

 

MI: Ghost Protocol will end up the 7th most successful film of 2011, with something approaching $600 million worldwide. That means Tom Cruise is officially back, I guess, and Brad Bird has established himself as a live action director.

I suppose Brad Bird will go back to animated films at some point. But first, maybe this means we'll someday actually get to see that San Francisco earthquake movie?

 

The earthquake movie definitely seems to be Brad's passion project. Every director has one, I wonder how much it will cost?

 

http://collider.com/brad-bird-here-there-be-monsters/142432/

He might be moving onto Here There Be Monsters instead. There's no great urgency for him to do 1906 - if he builds up his portfolio enough, he'll have unlimited leeway to do said passion project, perhaps even with final cut. Like Nolan with Inception.

 

"Chronicle" and "Woman in Black" Doing Better Than Expected

 

I wasn't aware that three successful movies over the span of one and a half decades was a "craze."