Posted on 12/03/2004 10:32:14 PM PST by churchillbuff
Maybe it's all that Thanksgiving tryptophan, but Hollywood executives don't seem to have the energy to put out any new wide releases this weekend, which will likely lead to a carbon-copy of last week's box office chart.
After claiming the No. 1 position for two weeks in a row, Nicolas Cage's thriller National Treasure should see a 55 percent drop to $14 million this weekend, but should still cross the $100 million mark in its third week of release.
Two family-friendly successes, The Incredibles and Christmas with the Kranks, will battle for the runner-up position with about $12 million each, while The Polar Express and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie should complete the top five with $10 million and $7 million, respectively.
This weekend will see the release of the new ensemble drama Closer, with Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen, but with a theater count of about 450, even a per-theater gross of $14,000 would mean a weekend tally of $6 million.
I don't want to sound like some high-brow, elitist cineaste, but that is probably one of Cage's best performances since Leaving Las Vegas.
Good. Julia Roberts is enough to make a repugnant reptile ralph.
I saw Adaptation in film school last year, I think he was very good in Matchstick men too.
She's one of those amazing women actors who is plain looking but has somehow gotten critics to talk of her as if she's attractive. Very odd. She's also a vicious leftist
From "Raising Arizona" to "Viva Las Vegas", to just about any comedic or dramatic work he's attempted, which I've probably enjoyed watching.
I take it from the title you added to this story that you are happy Julia Roberts's film will get clobbered. Did you actually read the story and see that it will only be in 450 theaters across the country, as opposed to National Treasure being in over 3,000 theaters? It's called wide release vs. limited release. It isn't likely that a film like Closer will ever come close to making as much money as National Treasure, but at least understand why the difference in this week's box office.
That being said, I can't think of one reason why anyone in their right minds would consider this woman even mildly good-looking today.
Hollywood dementia strikes again!
Right. It's called a movie that makes money vs a movie that doesn't., or a movie that clobbers another movie. If the Roberts film can't draw crowds -- which is why they're only showing it in a few movie houses -- then that's another way of saying it's going to get clobbered -
Windtalkers and Con Air. Now those were his best movies.
"ADAPTATION
I don't want to sound like some high-brow, elitist cineaste, but that is probably one of Cage's best performances since Leaving Las Vegas."
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I'll go along with that, the twin brother characters he played seemed so totally different in manner it seemed all the easier to believe he was really two people. That and the neurotic brother seemed painfully easy to relate to.
Yes, she's one of those hyped-up "beauties," an attractive woman who has been pumped up by the press as being (wrongly) one of cinema's greatest, legendary beauties on par with a Liz Taylor or Ava Gardner. She was convincingly attractive in "Pretty Woman," but if you ask me she's gone downhill from there. I never did find her horse-faced, sharp-nosed, rubber-mouth type of beauty appealing, but to each his own, I guess. I must admit that she had one of the most gorgeous manes of hair, tho'.
As for her leftist politics, did that play a part in her split from Lovett?
I think National Treasure is simply a prelude to being a ride at Disney World ...as a movie it is silly
There aren't too many films starring Meryl Streep that I can endure for longer than ten minutes, let alone watch for over two hours and come out of the experience with a smile on my face.
"I saw Adaptation in film school last year, I think he was very good in Matchstick men too."
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I got a kick out of "Matchstick Men" also. Especially the happy ending where his conman character, having been ripped off by his own colleagues, leaves the grift, becomes a carpet salesman and marries the supermarket cashier. We realize that it must have been his troubled conscience that had been making him so screwy all along.
My family enjoyed National Treasure very much.
this is probably why they dont pay me to review movies
> "What's the BFD about Julia Roberts?" <
Shes got a big eff'in mouth, literally...
Closer is the wrong title for this movie. It should be Closed. The same way Julia's mouth SHOULD be when talking about politics.
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