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'300' Smashes March Opening Record
Deadline Hollywood ^ | 03-12-07 | Nikki Finke

Posted on 03/12/2007 6:39:35 AM PDT by Bratch

It was a bloodbath at the U.S. box office this weekend because of 2007's first bonafide blockbuster. Warner Bros. told me this morning its 'R'-rated 300 about the epic Battle of Thermopylae shattered the record for the biggest March opening ever, and scored the 3rd biggest 'R'-rated movie debut ever, with its $70+ million. (Or, $70.025 mil to be exact, though the studio didn't provide a breakdown.)

Other studios say this 'Gladiator Gore-Fest' raked in $27.7 mil to $28 mil Friday and $24.3 mil to $24.8 mil Saturday and an estimated $16 mil to $17.2 mil Sunday from its 3,103 theaters.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadlinehollywooddaily.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 300; spartans; thermopylae; threehundred
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Bush's fault.
1 posted on 03/12/2007 6:39:36 AM PDT by Bratch
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And Jew-hating Iranian President Ahmagonnahaveajihad is ticked off over it! :-) Yes!

I originally had no plans to see this movie, but I might go just for the fun of it now!


2 posted on 03/12/2007 6:44:12 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: Bratch

Aided and abeted by lots of publicity from Drudge.


3 posted on 03/12/2007 6:45:46 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: Bratch
I'm going to try to convince my wife to watch it with me at the IMAX (yes, there is an IMAX version).

Wish me luck...neither of us like Gore, but she doesn't like gore

4 posted on 03/12/2007 6:45:55 AM PDT by M203M4 (Idealism: a religion where facts and logic hold no weight.)
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To: Bratch
I just enjoyed reading the reviews on the ad in the paper. It's "awesome" and a "landmark" film.
The quotes come from such notable institutions as "Maxim" and VH1. Even "Rolling Stone" weighed in, but I don't give them much weight really.

The one that got me was the "TWO THUMBS UP", which startled me until you read the fine print: Richard Roeper and a guest critic. I'd be surprised if ebert liked this mess.

I have no plans to see it or buy the inevitable videogame that it's actually a two-hour commercial for.

5 posted on 03/12/2007 6:47:23 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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To: Bratch
I said back on Tuesday that 300 was tracking huge -- even though most of its target audience fell asleep during that history lesson in school.

Fortunate for them since the Spartans were actually decimated at the battle of Thermopylae.

6 posted on 03/12/2007 6:47:23 AM PDT by evad
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To: Bratch
My wife and I were out and about yesterday when she said she wanted to see a movie. We stopped by the local theater and '300' was up next, so we went in to see it.

We were in the theater a half hour early, and I witnessed people trickling in. They were ALL twenty-somethings, and there were a LOT of them with all different hair lengths. Mainly guys, but 10-15% girls.

My wife hated the movie, but much to my surprise I liked it a lot. To me it was a thinly-disguised allegory of the current war against the Persians. "Freedom isn't free' was the main theme.

I'm glad it's doing well.

7 posted on 03/12/2007 6:47:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Bratch

cool.


8 posted on 03/12/2007 6:49:11 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Bratch

This movie is PRO war (WOT) and pits pre-Islam nations against the west.


9 posted on 03/12/2007 6:51:18 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rudy is a cross dresser, He is really a Liberal Democrat dresssed as a Conservative Republican.)
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REMEMBER FOLKS:


Leonidas selected those 300 Spartans because they were all FATHERS.


10 posted on 03/12/2007 6:51:36 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: M203M4

I saw that, but the IMAX theaters near here don't do R rated movies. I guess I'll just have to settle for going to the regular theater.


11 posted on 03/12/2007 6:52:05 AM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: Bratch

President Ahmadinejad is deeply saddened...


12 posted on 03/12/2007 6:52:53 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (No matter how PC you are, there's always somebody more PC than you, to condemn you as un-PC.)
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Movie Kicked much ass

Amawhathisname should only be worried if our "allies" in the larger Western World realize that we are a larger Western World.


13 posted on 03/12/2007 6:54:57 AM PDT by SShultz460
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
My wife hated the movie, but much to my surprise I liked it a lot.

That was the general intent of the filmmakers.

14 posted on 03/12/2007 6:55:56 AM PDT by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I greatly enjoyed it as well, and I think most FReepers would, if they don't mind the blood and gore. While the movie is a bit of a Rorshach test, it's hard not to see the parallel to W of a lone leader and his loyal followers taking a courageous stand against a Middle Eastern tyrant to protect their freedom.

[slight spoiler]
BTW, the oracles or elders or whatever they are--inbred, lecherous and corrupt--seem like stand-ins for the Mainstream Media. Not sure if it was intentional or not, but that was all I could think


15 posted on 03/12/2007 6:57:31 AM PDT by Schuck
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we went up to see it on friday, for an early afternoon showing. when we got there there was a big sign that said "IMAX: 300 sold out, all shows friday and saturday."
so we saw "wild hogs" instead.
i wonder how many other movies made extra in sales because 300 had sold out.


16 posted on 03/12/2007 7:03:02 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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To: longtermmemmory

Fathers of SONS


17 posted on 03/12/2007 7:09:02 AM PDT by brothers4thID (Hillary: "We are going to take from you.. to provide for the common good")
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To: longtermmemmory

"Come back with your shield. Or ON it!"


18 posted on 03/12/2007 7:17:31 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
My wife hated the movie

From the first scene (wherein a voice over is describing the rite of passage for all Spartan males, as an elderly man is standing at the edge of a cliff inspecting a new born to determine if he is worthy of being a Spartan- below him is a pit full of skeletal remains of those that didn't pass inspection) I was certain my wife would hate the movie. But to my surprise, she actually liked it. Citing lines such as "Only Spartan women give birth to real men", "Return with your shield or on it", "This will not be over quickly!", my wife laughed at how the Spartan women in the movie (particularly Queen Gorgo) were just as tough and unrelenting as the men.

19 posted on 03/12/2007 7:17:49 AM PDT by new cruelty
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"They were ALL twenty-somethings.."

Well, I'll give a plug for a broader audience. My wife and I are both on the far side of 50 and we both liked it. The film is "MTVed" to appeal to a younger audience, but the themes of honor, duty, and freedom are strong and drawn in a way for all to see. It is easy to place current politicians and governments in various roles in the film and it is obvious why leftists are pissed off.

20 posted on 03/12/2007 7:18:46 AM PDT by Truth29
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