Posted on 05/30/2004 11:13:40 AM PDT by wagglebee
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Shrek 2" overpowered the new disaster picture "The Day After Tomorrow" to retain the crown at the North American box office during the first three days of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, the cartoon sequel sold about $73.1 million worth of tickets, while "The Day After Tomorrow" opened with $70 million.
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with a 70M opening, DAT will come in around 125 -- a small loser, probably a break-even when worldwide receipts are all totalled.
Thats probably the best we could hope for for this stupid movie.
OTOH Shreck 2 is a rocket -- probably looking at 450 before it finishes, making the franchise in the Billion range (before factoring toys and the like).
I'm not one to normally cheer for Disney, but this moveon.org "sponsored" horror film has gotten way to much media praise. It was supposed to break $100 million this weekend, so $70 million basically makes it a flop.
Too funny! Gore-bal warming loses to the more lovable ogre.
Shrek had the sqame number last week.
You see, in recent years what studios have done is make really bad movies but hype them up so they have a huge opening weekend. As a result all the negative word of mouth wouldn't matter since they'd already have made a profit after oepning weekend.
Shrek is good so it held on. TDAT will fall because it isn't.
btw I posted this elsewhere...
My premise for a new movie
This movie will be called 'The Day After Yesterday'. In it we'll have a president by the name of James McKinny (who'll actually be a Cohen but his grandfather was so shamed of his jewishness that he changed his name) that advocates higher higher taxes on everyone making more than 30,000$ a year. His vice president will be a lying manipulative woman by the name of Jill Clintock.
The general outline will be that the inept waffler will combine an unfeasible economic policy with strict import restrictions (much like during the Great Depression). His VP will use his weakness to consoldate power and lessen the rule of law across the land. Eventually one day the flow of money ceases. People who have it stop buying, instead opting to leave the country to economic friendlier locales. As a result there a drastic socio-economic shift causing everyone in America to be poor despite they're new economic equality.
There are many who stay and try to keep the money flowing, like Geoff Siras, but he fails miserably because his whole knowlege of monetary policy is based off bilking money from the bottom and transferring it to himself. In a climactic scene Geoff Siras is seen trying to climb into his private gulfstream to flee to higher ground as a wave of poor people descend upon him. His last words as his shoes and gold watches are stripped from his body by the unwashed masses is "But I tried to help you!!!!!!"
We'll have side dialogue outlining how stupid the economic policy was and how the president's bumbling led to it. We'll have the president at one point talking to an economic professor at Harvard who chides him how "...everyone knew this was going to happen."
It had a budget of 125, so it is definitely a wash -- which is a big bomb in the movie biz --- tons of hidden costs there.
That makes the 3rd flop of the season: Troy, Van Helsing and now DAT. Total budget around 500 million, total gate around 450.
Its hard not to like Shrek, even if it is linked to the Evil Mouse Empire.
Given what happened with "the Passion" and these incredible blockbuster flops, you think Hollywood would get the message that Middle America doesn't care for the drek they are peddling.
Starring Patrick SAwayze, Shrew Sarandon and of course Mr. Sarandon as the VP.
I think I saw a commercial on tv that said "It's not as clean as you think". Has anyone else seen that ad for Shrek 2?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Shrek 2" overpowered the new box office disaster picture "The Day After Tomorrow"
Shrek is a "dreamworks" (Spielburg, etc.) picture, not Disney.
Of course, Spielburg's no prize either.
It's hard to tell which one--Grandpa or grandson --enjoyed the movies the most!
You're right, I don't know why I thought it was Disney. Same leftist ideals though.
DAT had a $ 24million opening, I think, which by my scorecard means a 60-70million opening weekend, definietly a letdown which will fall further with poor word of mouth and stiffer competition.
Shrek 2 is doing gangbusters, as will Spider-Man 2 and Harry Potter.
Which is ironic, in that Al IS the ultimate leftist wacko cartoon.
Just saw Shrek 2 with the kids. News flash, it's the ultimate Hollywood insider movie.
I have not seen the ad. I can tell you that I am stunned at the lack of comment about a cross-dressing "ugly step sister" who drools over Prince Charming and later jumps on him, as well as Pinocchio being portrayed as a wearer of women's thong underwear and does crotch-grabbing, Michael Jackson style daning. Am I the only one who thinks this is inappropriate for 6-year-olds anymore?
Grandpa didn't mind Pinocchio wearing women's underwear or the cross-dresser ugly step "sister" who had the hots for Prince Charming?
Yeah, it's an ad for Lysol, or something. Of course, the same line should have been used on Monica Lewinsky.
make the president a computer programed hologram. he wouldnt have a past for newspaper reporters to look into, which would be a plus for democrats and he would be the ultimate "empty suit"
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