I wouldn't worry. Harry Potter & Dodgeball have already made their money. The only competition Moore's film (term used loosely) had was White Chicks, which American audiences seem to be willing to forget. Who can blame them, it looks vapid.
Next week Spider-Man 2 opens. Fahrenheit 9/11 will seem like it came out a month ago.
Not just vapid, but downright insulting, in my opinion. If the same premise were reversed, and a film came out starring two white people putting on black face, the screaming from the professional race-baiting pimps would be deafening.
| Rank* | Title (Click to view chart) |
Friday 6/25 (Estimates) |
Saturday 6/26 (Estimates) |
Sunday 6/27 (Estimates) |
Monday 6/28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FAHRENHEIT 9/11 868 |
$8,200,000 10921.5% / $9,447 |
$7,800,000 -4.9% / $8,986 |
$5,800,000 -25.6% / $6,682 |
N/A |
If everyone wants to see something disgusting, go to slashdot and read the comments about the movie in the article about halfway down the page.
It's partly OUR fault that people are flocking to the opening. Trying to suppress the film, treating it as the coming as the Antichrist, created buzz publicity that Lumpy couldn't have bought with all the money on Madison Avenue. The real test is how popular f911 will continue to be after the true believers have seen it for the first time.