Posted on 07/09/2007 4:22:39 PM PDT by AnnaZ
Opening weekend numbers:
JUNE 2007
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 Rank Daily Gross Change Y/L* Theaters / Average Gross-to-date |
22 10 $1,207,775 - / - 1,355 / $891 $1,207,775 / 1 |
23 10 $1,641,759 35.9% / - 1,355 / $1,212 $2,849,534 / 2 |
| 24 10 $1,099,329 -33% / - 1,355 / $811 $3,948,863 / 3 |
25 10 $397,391 -63.9% / - 1,355 / $293 |
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JULY 2007
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 14 $467,405 -28.3% / -57.5% 1,350 / $346 $7,005,463 / 10 |
2 15 $192,840 -58.7% / -51.5% 1,350 / $143 $7,198,303 / 11 |
3 16 $163,496 -15.2% / -60.9% 720 / $227 $7,361,799 / 12 |
4 16 $256,382 56.8% / -25.3% 720 / $356 $7,618,181 / 13 |
5 16 $139,428 -45.6% / -55.1% 720 / $194 $7,757,609 / 14 |
6 - $188,735 35.4% / -59.7% 651 / $290 $7,946,344 / 15 |
7 - $268,267 42.1% / -58.8% 651 / $412 $8,214,611 / 16 |
| 8 - $190,286 -29.1% / -59.3% 651 / $292 $8,404,897 / 17 |
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why would I want to go see such a depressing story? And when these actresses and actors create such a Personna politically it is hard to see them in any role and believe they are the character on the screen.
And what movie is this???
Good. The thought of making a movie to celebrate the people who murdered Daniel Pearl is so disgusting I can’t find words for it.
Still... it reallyreally bombed. It must've been reallyreally bad.
One should keep in mind that this was basically an art house movie with slight delusions of grandeur. I don’t think anyone was expecting block buster numbers on a movie with a $16 million budget with an initial release to 1300 theaters. Of course it’s not on a pace to even break even on the domestic release so that’s bad no matter what the budget, but it hasn’t been released abroad yet so there’s a good chance it’ll break even then.
That's how I'm figuring it too... from what I read in reviews they didn't really call spades spades.
she will get an oscar nomination tho.....watch...lol
Maybe if they called it "A mighty Boob" it might have done better.
I think that was part of their error. It’s definitely too wide a release for an art house movie, yet it’s from Paramount Vantage which is their art house sub-studio (here’s their Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Vantage I’m a movie nerd and I haven’t even heard of 1/3 of their movies). Going for that large a release probably meant leaving the art house, which is a sure fire way of turning off an art house crowd (and staring a big boobed sex pot probably didn’t bring in the art house dweebs either). But it never got anywhere near a true major release or even semi-major release (Clerks 2, with the typical Mirimax/ Weinstein sub $6 million budget, hit 2100 theaters for it’s widest release).
Which brings up the interesting question of which idiot decided to spend $16 million making an art house movie? Really I count this movie as poorly considered more than a flop. If they’d spent the proper art house budget ($2 to $5 million) the money it’s made would be considered a success, but they over spent, and possibly over released too.
You're probably right, although there have been serious rumblings about the un-PC nature of Ms. Jolie having to darken her skin for the flick, instead of just hiring a less melanin-challenged actress ("Not since Mickey Rooney played Yunioshi....!" LOL).
Decisions, decisions...
Somebody higher than that had to green light that budget though. Unless Brad blew his budget while getting (initiate ban avoidance dots)...
That is what happens when you ban Fox News from the press junket. Does that idiot realize they are the top rated news, and local stations across the country?
Angelina Jolie’s true colors came out Wednesday as she promoted a film about freedom of the press and then tried to censor all her interviews.
Jolie is touting press freedom these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called “A Mighty Heart.”
But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her, and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.
Ironically, Wednesday night’s premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders. Jolie, however, did everything she could to clamp down on the press and control it.
Reporters from most major media outlets balked Wednesday when they were presented with an agreement drawn up by Jolie’s Hollywood lawyer Robert Offer. The contract closely dictated the terms of all interviews.
Reporters were asked to agree to “not ask Ms. Jolie any questions regarding her personal relationships. In the event Interviewer does ask Ms. Jolie any questions regarding her personal relationships, Ms. Jolie will have the right to immediately terminate the interview and leave.”
The agreement also required that “the interview may only be used to promote the Picture. In no event may Interviewer or Media Outlet be entitled to run all or any portion of the interview in connection with any other story. ... The interview will not be used in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning, or derogatory to Ms. Jolie.”
If that wasn’t enough, Jolie also requires that if any of these things happen, “the tape of the interview will not be released to Interviewer.” Such a violation, the signatory thus agrees, would “cause Jolie irreparable harm” and make it possible for her to sue the interviewer and seek a restraining order.
I am told that USA Today and the Associated Press were among those that canceled interviews, and eventually Jolie scotched all print interviews when she heard the reaction.
“I wouldn’t sign it,” a reporter for a major outlet said. “Who does she think she is?”
A call to Offer was apparently one that could be refused. He didn’t return calls. An associate, Lindsay Strasberg, said, before hanging up: “You’re a reporter? I can’t talk to reporters. Goodbye.”
So much for reporters without borders.
That’s not all: Jolie told Paramount Pictures publicists to ban FOX News Channel and all FOX News affiliates from covering the “Mighty Heart” premiere on the red carpet. It was only with the intervention of mortified Paramount staff that an FNC camera crew was allowed to be present.
Apparently, no one told Jolie of the highly positive review FOX News had given “A Mighty Heart” from Cannes.
Jolie is famous by now for directing press and selling rights to her photos. She has long been in business with People magazine, orchestrating photo shoots of her children. The money, she says, goes to charity.
This column reported a year ago, on June 8, 2006, about how Jolie and Pitt were responsible for the expulsion of journalists in Namibia where the couple went to have their child, Shiloh. Their bodyguards regularly got into fights with local photographers hoping to make some money from the couple’s colonial residency in their country.
After Shiloh was born, Jolie and Pitt gave a news conference, but limited it only to Namibian journalists. No reporters from neighboring countries were allowed.
The couple sat on the dais with Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first president, aka dictator, who ruled for 15 years.
In 2002, Nujoma abruptly appointed himself minister of information and broadcasting. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Nujoma has routinely attacked reporters from his country calling them “unpatriotic” and “the enemy.”
During the time Pitt and Jolie were in the country, a former photographer for the Namibian, the daily newspaper, was arrested twice for trying to get a picture of the couple.
South African John Liebenberg was arrested on municipal property during the Jolie-Pitt stay and pronounced guilty of trespassing. His passport and camera equipment were confiscated as well.
Treatment of the press is so bad in Namibia, in fact, that an organization called the National Society for Human Rights was formed several years ago to protect reporters’ rights.
The NSHR, which is usually busy with more important matters, issued a statement on April 24 strongly condemning the deportation of foreign journalists from Namibia who wanted to cover the Pitt-Jolie visit.
“As the principal human rights monitoring and advocacy organization in this country, we strongly repudiate this unprecedented and blatant violation of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and expression, which includes freedom of the press and other media,” the statement read.
It’s a little unclear how Mariane Pearl, whom Jolie plays in “A Mighty Heart,” feels about her portrayer’s position on freedom of press for some, but not all. On Wednesday, I spoke to Jeff Julliard, the editorial director of Reporters Without Borders in Paris.
“Paparazzi should be allowed to do their job,” he said, adding that he condemned Jolie’s banning of FOX News and actions taken on her behalf in Namibia.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,282173,00.html
that reminds me of a comedian ,I forget who, who was mad at Charlise Thison for playing the dyke murdering ho who died on death row. He said, why a pretty women in tons of makeup...He allowed she was taking a job away from a really ugly actress
Short of Mr and Mrs Smith, has the lovely Angelina ever made a movie that made a profit?
LOL!
Gee. Why would people stay away from a muslim love note, anti-Semitic, anti-American piece of crap movie? People are just so strange...
I saw this movie.
I’m pretty easily offended by PC b.s. and I didn’t think this movie was over the top in the PC area.
It had little to do with the terrorists and was more on the wife’s reaction to having her husband kidnapped.
The fact that it wasn’t that great a movie probably explains the poor box office.
He has to be joking. That's what Martin does.
True, but they were involved and the movie is based on her book...
I saw a trailer for Sicko at the local megaplex (coworkers talked me into going to my first ‘real’ movie in 5 years, sorry I did). The trailer made me Sicko. Almost couldn’t eat the popcorn. But anyway, this was no ‘art house,’ it was a BIG theater showing lots of current top-line movies.
The Sicko schlock was followed by a trailer for “I am Legend” (???) which had so much violence, car crashes, and insanity in it I felt I’d been assaulted. I spent the whole 20 minutes of trailers muttering. What I really wanted to do is jump up and scream WAKE UP YOU IDIOTS, WHY ARE YOU WATCHING THIS?
But coward that I am, I just sat there. Didn’t want my coworkers to shun me for being wierd the next day...
Oceans 13. Which wasn’t as bad as I expected.
It was a ‘bonding’ event for my department.
One lady made a huge shopping-bag full of popcorn.
With REAL BUTTER.
I could NOT say no!
(between the butter... and my boss!)
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