A Mighty Bomb (Angelina's PC Pearl does dismal B.O.)

Box Office Mojo ^ | 7/8/07

[AnnaZ]

Opening weekend numbers:

JUNE 2007

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
17	18	19	20	21 Rank  Daily Gross Change Y/L* Theaters / Average Gross-to-date	22 10  $1,207,775 - / - 1,355 / $891 $1,207,775 / 1	23 10  $1,641,759 35.9% / - 1,355 / $1,212 $2,849,534 / 2
24 10  $1,099,329 -33% / - 1,355 / $811 $3,948,863 / 3	25 10  $397,391 -63.9% / - 1,355 / $293

[AnnaZ]

Third weekend:

JULY 2007

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 14  $467,405 -28.3% / -57.5% 1,350 / $346 $7,005,463 / 10	2 15  $192,840 -58.7% / -51.5% 1,350 / $143 $7,198,303 / 11	3 16  $163,496 -15.2% / -60.9% 720 / $227 $7,361,799 / 12	4 16  $256,382 56.8% / -25.3% 720 / $356 $7,618,181 / 13	5 16  $139,428 -45.6% / -55.1% 720 / $194 $7,757,609 / 14	6 -  $188,735 35.4% / -59.7% 651 / $290 $7,946,344 / 15	7 -  $268,267 42.1% / -58.8% 651 / $412 $8,214,611 / 16
8 -  $190,286 -29.1% / -59.3% 651 / $292 $8,404,897 / 17	9

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

why would I want to go see such a depressing story? And when these actresses and actors create such a Personna politically it is hard to see them in any role and believe they are the character on the screen.

[technomage]

And what movie is this???

[martin_fierro]

The nude sex scene with Eason Jordan was really, really repulsive.

[AnnaZ]

Oops, sorry 'bout that... it's A Mighty Heart.

[AnnaZ]

Please, and feel free to, tell me that you just made that up.

[Cicero]

Good. The thought of making a movie to celebrate the people who murdered Daniel Pearl is so disgusting I can’t find words for it.

[AnnaZ]

why would I want to go see such a depressing story?

Still... it reallyreally bombed. It must've been reallyreally bad.

[discostu]

One should keep in mind that this was basically an art house movie with slight delusions of grandeur. I don’t think anyone was expecting block buster numbers on a movie with a $16 million budget with an initial release to 1300 theaters. Of course it’s not on a pace to even break even on the domestic release so that’s bad no matter what the budget, but it hasn’t been released abroad yet so there’s a good chance it’ll break even then.

[AnnaZ]

Good. The thought of making a movie to celebrate the people who murdered Daniel Pearl is so disgusting I can’t find words for it.

That's how I'm figuring it too... from what I read in reviews they didn't really call spades spades.

[theFIRMbss]

>And what movie is this???

This is the one where
Muslim nuts chop the head off
some reporter guy.

(As much as we hate
terrorists, it's hard to get
too worked up over

a reporter's death.
Sure, let's catch the scum killers,
but spare me the film!)

[advertising guy]

she will get an oscar nomination tho.....watch...lol

[AnnaZ]

1300 screens is not really "art house", though. It's not Spiderman 3, but Sicko started at 1, went to 440, and now plays on slightly over 600. That's art house.

[Popman]

A Mighty Bomb

Maybe if they called it "A mighty Boob" it might have done better.

[AnnaZ]

To be fair, the Pearl slaughter was huge news. We may be a little used to videos of Islamic atrocities now, but I believe that was the first publicized, videotaped beheading (sawing off).

Also, Daniel Pearl had to admit to his Jewishness before the hacking, so it was a stunning revelation of the beastliness and hatred of the enemy (even vis a vis a post-9/11 world).

It could have been a powerful film, but I guess cast and crew preferred to remain fatwa-free.

[discostu]

I think that was part of their error. It’s definitely too wide a release for an art house movie, yet it’s from Paramount Vantage which is their art house sub-studio (here’s their Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Vantage I’m a movie nerd and I haven’t even heard of 1/3 of their movies). Going for that large a release probably meant leaving the art house, which is a sure fire way of turning off an art house crowd (and staring a big boobed sex pot probably didn’t bring in the art house dweebs either). But it never got anywhere near a true major release or even semi-major release (Clerks 2, with the typical Mirimax/ Weinstein sub $6 million budget, hit 2100 theaters for it’s widest release).

Which brings up the interesting question of which idiot decided to spend $16 million making an art house movie? Really I count this movie as poorly considered more than a flop. If they’d spent the proper art house budget ($2 to $5 million) the money it’s made would be considered a success, but they over spent, and possibly over released too.

[AnnaZ]

she will get an oscar nomination tho.....watch...lol

You're probably right, although there have been serious rumblings about the un-PC nature of Ms. Jolie having to darken her skin for the flick, instead of just hiring a less melanin-challenged actress ("Not since Mickey Rooney played Yunioshi....!" LOL).

Decisions, decisions...

[AnnaZ]

Which brings up the interesting question of which idiot decided to spend $16 million making an art house movie?

Brad Pitt?

[discostu]

Somebody higher than that had to green light that budget though. Unless Brad blew his budget while getting (initiate ban avoidance dots)...

[BurbankKarl]

That is what happens when you ban Fox News from the press junket. Does that idiot realize they are the top rated news, and local stations across the country?