Dunno, but here's Hutton and a Gibson.
Posted on 12/17/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by dangus
A gross of $11,000 per screen is quite good. If you're an autumn Wide Release, opening on 3500 screens across the country. When a movie opens on only 69 of the nation's largest theaters in a few dozen of the largest cities, with almost all of your target audience within range of those theaters, it's pretty bad.
Brokeback Mountain played in fourteen times more theaters this Friday than last Friday, and made less than four times as much money, only $760,000. It looks like the movie will make considerably less than its $15 million budget before the Academy Awards come out. How many tens of millions of dollars in free promotion, reduced pay and credibility were spent on this film?
King Kong also appears to be a flop. I've seen this movie: Peter Jackson has mastered many movie-making techniques with the Lord of the Rings, and the movie is an amazing spectacle with much positive and true to say about human nature. But Jackson did not learn how to discipline his budgeting or story-telling. His movie is also bloated, over-long, too violent, very horrific and a bit tooo preposterous.
The early part of the movie centers around a movie director too obsessed with his story, prone to overkill, and swindling a movie company out of far more than they would have been willing to spend. Given that actor Jack Black even slightly resembles Peter Jackson, I can't help but to wonder if how consciously auto-biographical the film is. It will make many, many, many times more than Brokeback Mountain, and still become known as a flop. I sincerely hope Peter Jackson learns the right things from the experience; he is very talented, very passionate, and, from the messages of his movies, very decent. King Kong made $14 million last night... It will probably easily pass $100 million, but land short of its $200 million budget. On the other hand, it is precisely the sort of movie that translates well overseas, and does well on DVD. But it will not be the Box Office savior hoped for.
Chronicles of Narnia will apparently need a rebound in the Christmas vacations to be profitable. Except for a literally rushed ending, it's almost perfect, a purely magical delight. But it seems to have very weak legs; it's not surprising since everyone who wanted to see this movie knew they did so a long time ago, and most rushed out to see it immediately. Today's movie markets don't allow for the sort of excellent word of mouth that Narnia is getting.
That word of mouth means probably good DVD sales, and strong anticipation of a sequel, so Narnia's Box Office is by no means a failure... just it'll take some time to become profitable. Narnia sold about $9 million worth of tickets, down over 60% from last Friday.
But there doesn't seem to be any great challenger to Narnia for the Holiday season. The Family Stone opened weak ($4 million), Harry Potter is mostly played out ($1.5 million), as are Walk the Line ($1 million) and Yours Mine and Ours (under $1 million) Syriana also fell hard, too... ($1.6 million).
Don't look for any saviors at the box office next week either... Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Ringer, and Rumor Has It all open, but none look too strong
Regardless of the merits of this movie, the notion that 11k/screen is a bad showing is just ludicrous. That's an exceptionally high number - far higher than anything else in theaters today.
Put me down with the "Live and let live" crowd. The existence of that movie, and whether it succeeds or fails, doesn't affect me one whit.
Cowboys don't herd sheep. Sheep herders herd sheep. The majority of homosexuals are not happy. Call it what it is: a homosexual sheep herder movie.
I'm surprised that Peter Jackson even bothered to remake King Kong. Was anyone clamoring for a remake of King Kong? What a waste of talent.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN should have been titled BROKEBOX OFFICE.
Dunno, but here's Hutton and a Gibson.
That's Lauren Hutton? Funny, I never recognize her unless she's smiling.
Do the math on the movie. If you have 7 million people in the U.S. see the movie, then it's a huge success. Foreign rights, broadcast rights, DVD, etc. etc. are basically pure profit.
I'll wait for the sequel, "StumpBroke Hill"
That was Bill McCuddy...and, yeth, he is very good to his mother.
BUt we will have to endure movies about gay football players, gay action heros, gay cops, gay lawyers, gay mobsters, gay firemen, gay president, etc. It will take Hollyweird about a dozen more flops before it strikes them that maybe gay sex movies don't have broad appeal.
how many mistakes do you make a day, more than a dozen or just a handful?
Ah, Brokeback Mountain. Where the men aren't. And the sheep ain't nervous.
I bet it wins all Oscars for this year. Wanna bet? The prev's in Hollywood will be in line wanting to vote this pile of trash as this years best film.
prev's = PERV's
The producers of King Kong on the other hand, should be worried.
That's it. Who wants to see a story about a couple of butthole surfers at Christmastime? I will take that blown $15M and create a business and some jobs to go along with it.
A lot of people think rich people are smart and got that way because of their intelligence and hard work. Not in this case. There are flocks of rich and stupid people who flood our senses with their dementia.
Yeah! Wait until it goes overseas, and is dubbed in arabic!
The producers of King Kong on the other hand, should be worried.
There are something like 300 licenses for Kong. They were well on their way profitability before the movie was released.
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