Friday's Numbers (3/11)

[MadsenOMC]

1) Robots - $9.9 million
2) The Pacifier - $4.7 million
3) Be Cool - $3.5 million
4) Hostage - $3.1 million
5) Hitch - $2.5 million
6) Diary of a Mad Black Woman - $1.38 million
7) Million Dollar Baby - $1.32 million
8) Constantine - $1 million
9) Man of the House - $500,000
10) Cursed - $492,000

[MadsenOMC]

According to my brilliant mathematical abilities, The Pacifier held much better than Be Cool. About a 45% Friday-to-Friday drop for the former and a 57% drop for the latter. I assume Robots will increase drastically on Saturday and do well over the weekend. Hostage might make it into double digits.

[max]

Much further down the list is Passion Recut's $70,000 take. Thank God. Who would want to see that piece of crap again, anyway?

[brodeurnumber1]

Passion made an amazing 73 dollars per theatre. Although I didn't really want to see the Jacket drop out, I knew it was bound to happen. Nice to see Million Dollar Baby is holding up strong.

[Lazy Boy]

I guess Mel's attempt to make this a yearly cultural event didn't work out.

In my best Nelson voice: "Haw haw!"

[max]

Mel supposedly wanted to widen the movie's appeal by softening it. What an idiot. The main reason the movie was so popular was because audiences secretly wanted to see Jesus get beat up pretty bad. Besides, take away the brutality and there isn't much left.

[NightStalkerGtx]

Robots only made 9 mil! What a fucking flop theres no way it will reach 40 million this week witch is sad. The highest it will get tomorrow is 15 mil if it reaches 20 damn its good, but i doudt it and by the end of the week it will have 35 million if its lucky.
The pacifier is doing good business should make a decent profit.
Be Cool is also doing cool business should make a little profit should end around 55-60 million and pass its 53 million budget and then make a more profit on dvd.
As for hostage i can see it making 10-12 million this weekend.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by NightStalkerGtx
Robots only made 9 mil! What a fucking flop theres no way it will reach 40 million this week witch is sad. The highest it will get tomorrow is 15 mil if it reaches 20 damn its good, but i doudt it and by the end of the week it will have 35 million if its lucky.

"What a fucking flop"? You're kidding, right? It disappointed a little, but there's no way it's a flop.

Unless it has really mammoth costs.

[MadsenOMC]

Robots must have cost quite a lot. It may not be a flop, especially after you consider what it will make on video, but it does look like the opening weekend will disappoint at least a little.

[dellamorte dellamore]

Mad , you're prob right , Rob should see a big increase today , Saturday's are traditionallly a big day for family films , so in no way is it a flop , but i thought it would do a little better , at least 50 mil or so , it's still not going to be a flop , jus a bit underwhelming considering all the hype and publicity it's been getting . Slap Pixar's name on it instead of the maker's of Ice Age , and it prob does close to double the business , because i really don't see too much diff between the films they make and the other major CGI animation studios , they are all the same too me , a bunch of pretty colors and tons of pop references . That's not to say Robots doesn't look good , because i think it does , and i like the voice talent behind it , but these all CGI creations are all the same now , pretty much .

[MadsenOMC]

Shark Tale, for example, jumped from under $13 million to over $21 million from Friday to Saturday its opening weekend. Robots should make somewhere between $15-$18 million today.

[Shockwave]

Slap Pixar's name on it instead of the maker's of Ice Age , and it prob does close to double the business , because i really don't see too much diff between the films they make and the other major CGI animation studios ,

See, the difference is that Pixar makes movies that are actualy really good instead of having to blair the voice talent to make up for the underwhelming movie,which tends to help alot.

Sharks Tale(5/10), Robots(5/10), and even Ice Age(6/10) just all felt kinda flat...and empty.

Shrek 1& 2 are still hella funny tho.:)

[dellamorte dellamore]

I'm not so sure about that , remember the Donkey , damn, Murphy almost singlehandedly brought both Shrek films down with his voicework , but that goes with the territory , it seems most actors don't from moderation when they are voicing a character in front of a microphone , that's the one thing i can't stand about these films , it brings out the worst emoting imaginable in the talent involved , and i still can't warm up to the look of these films , give me animation , or a combo of animation and cgi any day .

[brodeurnumber1]

Robots finished with 36 and a half million. A really good Saturday with 26 million and change.

[CMAGUS]

Mel Gibson is justmilking his film for money he doesn't deserve to make anything on this re-release Pathetic.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by CMAGUS
Mel Gibson is justmilking his film for money he doesn't deserve to make anything on this re-release Pathetic.

Fortunately he's not making anything off of it. What looked like a sure moneygrab backfired.

[ddoughboy1978]

even thought I dont really understand why Mel would re release The Passion but I feel obligated to scorn the people who are mocking his film. I give you these reasons:

1. Nobody in Hollywood has the balls to make a film like this.
2. People who do not have religion in their life often ridicule others that do.
3. If this movie is such a flop, why did it make $ 370,274,604 in America thats not including other countries. Also that doesnt include DVD sales.(IMDB)
4. This film was backed totally bye Mel and it FLOURISHED! where the rest of Hollywood snubbed it.


I do agree that re releasing this for profit only is in very poor taste but if there is still somewhat of an audiance who wants to see it, dont scorn it... People like me dont scorn you because promote films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and call people like Chris Rock and Whoopie Goldberg funny.

[dellamorte dellamore]

Originally posted by brodeurnumber1
Robots finished with 36 and a half million. A really good Saturday with 26 million and change.

It made 15 mil on Saturday , around 26 mil for the entire weekend .


Thousand dollar infant looks just about dead , what a joke that film is anyway , wow , what an Oscar bounce that one got , it will be collecting dust in the bargain bin a year from now where it belongs .


Hostage tanked , Bruce Willis as a tough guy is old , has been old for awhile , time for him to make another horror film or get into politics like Arnold . The director , Florent Siri , should go back to making French action films , he hit a homerun with The Nest , he should stay away from this formulatic Hwood nonsense with over the hill action stars .

The best one is Passion recut , doesn't Gibson know , if you're going to release another cut of a film , you give peep the unrated director's cut , you don't give them the cut version , he did it backwards , Passion recut , bwahahahahahahah, guess his greed was exposed , wonder if he had a vision from the beyond to re release an edited version of his film . At least the people didn't bite this time , so thank god we won't be subjected to a release every year , i hope .

[Jon Lyrik]

>>1. Nobody in Hollywood has the balls to make a film like this.<<

Yup.

>>2. People who do not have religion in their life often ridicule others that do.<<

The same can be said about people who do have religion in their life vs. those who don't. Atheists get far more scorn than theists.

>>3. If this movie is such a flop, why did it make $ 370,274,604 in America thats not including other countries. Also that doesnt include DVD sales.(IMDB)<<

Nobody said it was a flop, just that the rerelease didn't work at all.

>>4. This film was backed totally bye Mel and it FLOURISHED! where the rest of Hollywood snubbed it.<<

Yup.

>>I do agree that re releasing this for profit only is in very poor taste but if there is still somewhat of an audiance who wants to see it, dont scorn it...<<

That's the thing, there is no audience who wants to see it in theaters now. It's been out on DVD for like seven months already.

>>People like me dont scorn you because promote films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and call people like Chris Rock and Whoopie Goldberg funny.<<

WTF does that mean? Is anyone praising F9/11, Rock or Goldberg here?

[brodeurnumber1]

Originally posted by dellamorte dellamore
It made 15 mil on Saturday , around 26 mil for the entire weekend .



Where did you get 26 million? Everywhere I've read it's 36 million.

[Lynn7]

I saw Gibson on lots of interview shows this week (promoting his movie) and he said it could very well not do that good this time around. He siad he was releasing it for people who were too squeamish the first time around. If he was motivated by money he would've made a more marketable film to begin with and he never would have put up so much of his own money for something that could have absolutely flopped.

I for one and glad he released the recut version casue I plan to take my 12 year old to see it this time around. A few of the scenes (the ones he cut) i felt were too graphic for him but now the film should be OK IMO. Also, I would not be suprised if the film does a bit better as it gets closer to Easter. I'm sure they will pull it immediately after Easter though.

[MadsenOMC]

According to boxofficemojo, Robots made $10 million on Friday, $15.5 million on Saturday and $11 million on Sunday, for a total of $36.5 million for the weekend. That is only an estimate, of course.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by Lynn7
If he was motivated by money he would've made a more marketable film to begin with and he never would have put up so much of his own money for something that could have absolutely flopped.

You're kidding, right? Do you really think he planned to re-release it before it went on to be one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the new millenium?

[Lynn7]

No, I think he rereleased it cause it's Easter time and it is recut and some people might've thought that people would like to see it (sanitized a bit) for spiritual reasons. Easter is a time of contemplation for many in the faith (just as the Passover is the same for the Jews). Some will go to see the movie to contemplate the sacrfice that will be spoken of in all churches during this season. As I said, I plan to see it again on the big screen (with my youngest son, tommorrow). Hey, don't they replay Christmas movies each year and the Ten Commandments was just playing the other night. I'm sure we will see many bible epics in the next week or so and this one will join all of those.

I don't think he needs the money- he is filthy rich. When I see him on talk shows he seems pretty down to earth. I think he already lived through his screw up years and now he is more grounded in his life.

[MadsenOMC]

He is pretty down to earth for a homophobic mysoginist piece of shit. And they don't re-release X-mas movies into theaters every year. They play them on TV. Big difference.

[The Heart Collector]

LOL. You have a way with words, Madsen.

[MadsenOMC]

Thank you. Truthfully, I don't want to start debating The Passion and Gibson all over again. But I think he's a sack of crap and I could not resist.

[max]

But I think he's a sack of crap and I could not resist.

Neither could I...resist agreeing with you for a change. Haven't been to the show the past few weeks. CONSTANTINE may have killed whatever passion I had left for movies. It was fun, though, to hear Keanu say "Whoa" in Latin. ;)

Oh, I've been watching a lot of porn lately.

[Lynn7]

Originally posted by MadsenOMC
He is pretty down to earth for a homophobic mysoginist piece of shit. And they don't re-release X-mas movies into theaters every year. They play them on TV. Big difference.

If they could play those movies at Christmas in the theatres, they would. I remember Spielberg tried to rerelease ET a year after it did such great numbers- that movie did not do well either. I'm sure if they rereleased Titanic it would not have done well either. These movies are part good movies, part phenomena.

Look at Wizard of Oz- that was on TV every single year and it always did well. But not if it was released at theatres. Hey, what about the rerlease of Star Wars???? No one condemend that but when I went to see it I did not think it was worth rereleasing for the new stuff they put in.

I guess I just like Gibson and I don't believe all the bad press he's gotten. He seems nice enough to me and I see that he has gay friends and women friends who speak well of him. No debater here just a difference of opinion. There are celebs I don't care for either so I respect your right to your opinion.

[The Heart Collector]

Star Wars hadn't been in theaters for like 20 years. The Passion hadn't been in theaters for less than one. There was no new audience.

[MadsenOMC]

Exactly. The Passion is barely a year old and the changes were not significant. My understanding is that it would still be rated R. And like The Heart Collector said, the Star Wars rerelease came after 20 years. Big difference.