‘I Am Legend’ Has a Healthy Start (NY Times Error On Golden Compass Slide)

NY Times ^ | December 17, 2007 | staff

[icwhatudo]

Is this the same NY Times who said: "With no other big-budget movies released over the weekend, “The Golden Compass” was No. 1."

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.

[icwhatudo]

And in case you missed it from the other threads:

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.

Freeper thread here

[carumba]

Times would be usefull, if you had a parakeet.

[17th Miss Regt]

Or fish...

[freekitty]

When people start raising themselves above God; there will be trouble to follow.

[NeoCaveman]

I need the Times like a fish needs a bicycle.

[donna]

Puppy training . . .

[RedRightReturn]

or young puppy...

[RedRightReturn]

You got me by 3 stinking seconds!!!!

GMTA

[Soliton]

I loved the earlier version of this movie, “The Omega Man” with Charleton Heston.

[Gay State Conservative]

....starring Will Smith, right, in a postapocalyptic vision of a zombie-infested Manhattan...

*Post* apocalyptic? I was in Manhattan a few months ago and saw plenty of zombies...most of them on the Upper West Side.

[Rummyfan]

Saw LEGEND over the weekend. It was pretty good.

[Rummyfan]

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.....

[GOP_Party_Animal]

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”.

[SAJ]

Rent ‘The Omega Man’, of which ‘Legend’ is a poor pastiche of a remake. Much better film.

[13foxtrot]

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.

[Oratam]

What about The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price?

[PAR35]

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.

[catman67]

The original version, “The Last Man on Earth” with Vincent Price was better.

[George Smiley]

I was told that this was a remake of “The Omega Man”.