Posted on 12/09/2007 8:39:12 AM PST by keat
There was no Saturday miracle surge for New Line. The Golden Compass, an effects-laden family film starring Nicole Kidman with a reported budget of $200M, received a modest 16% increase from its opening day, posting an estimated $10.2M on Saturday. Assuming a Sunday drop of 33%, Compass will finish its opening weekend with a disastrous $25.84M. (For a comparison to other big budget, family-oriented films in this mold along with details about New Line’s dismal 2007 and Nicole Kidman’s box office cold streak, scroll down to my Friday Night report.)
Disney’s Enchanted blew past $80M domestic with a $4.9M Saturday, and the live action/animation hybrid with a sure-fire Oscar nomination for Amy Adams will cruise to an estimated $10.98M. This Christmas (Sony), Fred Claus (Warner Bros) and Beowulf (Dreamworks/Paramount) have finished 3-4-5 on Saturday and for the 3-day frame.
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“I think your energies would be better spent elsewhere, not to mention the fact that lobbying people to avoid a movie you haven’t seen yourself can be perceived as tactless and arrogant.”
Whine and cry if you must. But to call names at people who disagree with you is Big Babyism at its best.
Not only did we kill this film, more importantly, we killed the sequels.
“The trailer was visually stunning, but the message is evil.”
I was going to see that until I heard that in the movie each person has their own “animal demon.” Most anti-Christ films aren’t as open in their messages. This was an easy “avoid at all costs.”
Oh yeah -- I keep forgetting -- Hollywood libs can't do anything wrong. Like they never lose money or make wrong decisions. They're infallible and invisible, like God, or even better than God because God is Dead. What a joke!
The theatrical run is a warm up for the DVD release; that's where most films make their money. The controversy over it is likely to be leveraged to get people to buy and rent it.
The studio liberals aren't panicking yet. Although none of this matters; nothing is going to change Hollywood's attitude.
They are panicking considering it will take around $700 million world-wide box office numbers to break even on a $250 million dollar budgeted movie.
Whining and crying? Which one of us is caught up in the success or failure of a stupid movie? I didn't whine and cry when Fahrenheit 9/11 became the highest grossing documentary of all time, and I didn't cheer Narnia broke box office records. It doesn't matter; they're movies.
Send your condolences to the studio:
Robert K. Shaye, Co-Chairman, Co-CEO
scooter@newline.com
Michael Lynne, Co-Chairman, Co-CEO
michael.lynne@newline.com
Well, I'll agree with you on Redacted. But I wouldn't put the Golden Compass in the same territory.
This controversy seems a lot like the hubbub over the Harry Potter movies. Anybody that thinks a movie about fighting armored polar bears poses a serious threat to faith should re-examine their own.
Pornography isn’t massively targeted towards indoctrinating children. That’s a straw argument, and I’m fairly certain you know it too. There’s no ad-campaign by Coca-Cola or Burger King for anything Porn related.
But I’m also very happy that a terrible movie is bombing at the box office. Word of mouth is spreading that it’s not very well put together. Maybe because they tried removing a lot of the ‘anti-Christian messages’. Look at its score on RottenTomatoes. 43%. Narnia: 76%. Harry Potter (Sorcerer’s Stone): 79%
I was also happy when that stinker Gigli didn’t make money. And that wasn’t for political reasons. Just issues of taste.
atheistic and other liberal ideas can’t survive the marketplace of ideas on their own merits so they must be propped up by government public schools, PBS, government subsidized student loans to prop up liberal colleges and government research grants.
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“Whining and crying? Which one of us is caught up in the success or failure of a stupid movie? I didn’t whine and cry when Fahrenheit 9/11 became the highest grossing documentary of all time, and I didn’t cheer Narnia broke box office records. It doesn’t matter; they’re movies.”
YOU are the one labeling people as arrogant and tasteless.
YOU are the one calling efforts to boycott the movie stupid.
Methinks your sacred cow has been gored.
Embrace diversity.
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It saved many of us the price of a couple of tickets, which is nothing to sneeze at these days.
bingo. Imagine if brokeback mountain was about 2 boys falling in love. if that didn’t bomb, we’re in big trouble.
As for the kids that’s always a problem in mixed marriages and it only gets worse when the marriage breaks up. I don’t have any knowledge of how the children are being raised, outside of the fact they live in Australia. Therefore I have no idea of the religious instructions they are receiving. Maybe you do, but the problem is that parents can negotiate these things or they can turn the children into a battlefield.
I'm not upset about anything. I just think you're wasting your time with this, just like I thought the Harry Potter boycotters were wasting their time.
YOU are the one labeling people as arrogant and tasteless.
The word I used was tactless, meaning if someone says to me, "Don't see this movie, and it sucks" and yet they haven't seen it, its safe to say that person has little tact.
You can “return to the fold” you know.
Fantastic. So by all accounts its made 18 mil in the first 2 days and expected to fall hard from there. I love it.
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