Posted on 12/17/2007 10:55:37 AM PST by icwhatudo
“I Am Legend” (distributed by Warner Brothers), starring Will Smith, right, in a postapocalyptic vision of a zombie-infested Manhattan, hauled in an estimated $76.5 million in its debut to capture first place in the weekend box-office rankings compiled by the tracking company Media by Numbers. Second place went to another newcomer, “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (Fox), a resurrection of the musical-cartoon franchise, which took in $45 million. Dropping to third place from second last week, the fantasy “The Golden Compass” (New Line) had $9 million in sales. “Enchanted,” Disney’s revisionist fairy tale, took in $6 million, bringing its total gross to $92.2 million in its fourth week in release, and the Coen brothers’ latter-day western, “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax), finished fifth, with $3 million in its sixth weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I know its such a small meaningless thing, but I have a feeling the fall of a movie from #1 to #3 would get reported correctly if it went againt the liberal leanings of the times.
And in only its second weekend in release, the bottom fell out of costly domestic flop The Golden Compass from New Line, which forked over $200+ million to make it. I know, I know, the pic is doing OK overseas after earning $50.9 mil from 27 territories December 7th-9th. But the fantasy epic is so lost domestically it earned only an anemic $2.6 million Friday and $3.7 million Saturday from 3,528 nearly empty runs for 3rd place and a new cume of just $40.5 mil. I hear studio topper Bob Shaye once again is blaming everyone but himself -- including the movie's director Chris Weitz, and also New Line's own prez of production Toby Emmerich.
Times would be usefull, if you had a parakeet.
Or fish...
When people start raising themselves above God; there will be trouble to follow.
I need the Times like a fish needs a bicycle.
Puppy training . . .
or young puppy...
You got me by 3 stinking seconds!!!!
GMTA
I loved the earlier version of this movie, “The Omega Man” with Charleton Heston.
*Post* apocalyptic? I was in Manhattan a few months ago and saw plenty of zombies...most of them on the Upper West Side.
Nah, those are just Democrats.....
I actually like Will Smith, but I hope “Legend” isn’t another “I Robot”, in which Smith was just annoying. They should have called “I Robot” the “Will Smith Show”.
Rent ‘The Omega Man’, of which ‘Legend’ is a poor pastiche of a remake. Much better film.
I saw this at an IMAX theater. It was excellent. Even though it was not flawless it was still outstanding.
It was an excellent thriller.
I loved Heston’s version as well. This new version is familiar, but with enough differences to make it well worth watching.
Good catch.
I usually parse things pretty closely, but I probably would have missed that bit of revisionist history if you hadn’t highlighted it.
The original version, “The Last Man on Earth” with Vincent Price was better.
I was told that this was a remake of “The Omega Man”.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.