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SUNDAY AM: It wasn’t just my imagination — this turned out to be the slowest box office weekend of the entire year, and the worst weekend in 5 years. The overall weekend was expected to generate around $66 million in box-office when all the final figures are tallied on Monday, according to Media By Numbers. The last time a weekend was lower was the post-Labor Day weekend in 2003 (start date of 9/5/03) when the overall weekend generated $66.7 million. Of course, the bad weather in big parts of the country had to be a factor, too. But even with no competition since it was the only new wide release, Nicolas Cage in Lionsgate’s predictable hit man action pic Bangkok Dangerous still couldn’t attract an audience. It barely opened in 2,650 theaters for just a $7.8 million weekend — much less than the tracking showed, or about what his film Next debuted to in 2007. Clearly the only reason anyone wants to see Cage is if he’s starring in a Marvel comic book movie like Ghost Rider (and Sony is making the sequel, Ghost Rider 2) or Disney’s National Treasure franchise. Other than those, he hasn’t starred in a movie that’s made money since, like, forever. Really, Cage needs to take a long, hard look at his career since constantly appearing in bad pics like this is a price quote killer. (And he needs to pay his taxes, too.)
DreamWork/Paramount’s moviemaking spoof Tropic Thunder took 2nd place with $7.5 million from 3,446 venues and finished the weekend with a new cume of $96.8M. Sony’s Playboy-meets-college comedy The House Bunny was No. 3 Friday with $5.9 million from 2,736 dates and new cume of $36.9 million. In the 4th spot was Warner Bros’ mega-blockbuster The Dark Knight which eked out another $5.7 million from 2,575 plays a new cume of $512.1M. And in 5th place for the second week (-31%) is Overture’s Traitor starring Don Cheadle which made $4.6 million from 2,066 runs for a new cume of $17.6 million.
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Truth is NICK CAGE better wake up and do the following:
1.) LEAVE CAA – they don’t care what you do, as long as you’re helping them pay off their building.
2.) STOP WORKING WITH AMATEUR PRODUCERS. The guys who did this movie don’t know what they’re doing. BLUESTAR ENT is a bogus company set up by one of their daddys who USED to be someone. They’re blowhard producers whose credits are all mediocre movies that have bombed at the box office.
3.) TRY TAKING AN ACTING ROLE ONCE IN A WHILE – we all know you’ve got the chops, maybe you forgot you had them.
great actor cruddy scrips. his best movies are action flicks. the rock, ghost rider, 2 nationals(but the 2nd was a joke). other than those he has always done wierd charecters that most people dont like. as a male actor top 5 in fans. henneds more movies like bruchammer makes. but i do like his acting
I purposely avoid Hollywood movies.
Bunch of rich communists.
Rainy Friday and Saturday nights are ideal for going to thee movies.
Bush’s fault!
Maybe he could go on the Oprah show to promote it!
The Hollywood morons still don’t get it. The public has had it with their liberal message movies about how evil the USA is. The empty theaters is the public’s message to them
I wonder if this may be blowback against the media elite and hollywood types attacking the Palins and traditional family values ? Just a thought.
Nikki says he has to pay taxes too. LOL. Since when does Hollywood people actually pay taxes. They talk about liking Liberal candidates who preach nothing more than tax increases but then again they don’t pay any so why wouldn’t they like tax increases. As to the movies I saw “traitor” this weekend and found it to be a taut intelligent suspense thriller. I can understand why some Liberal thinking film critics didn’t like it. Think “the Kingdom”. Cheadle and Guy Pierce give fine performances, again. Worth a look.
I don’t know, I thought ‘Family Man’ was a nice little movie…
Never has nepotism given Hollywood such a bad name, as witness the career of the downright repulsive, supremely untalented Nicolas Cage. He (and his adenoids) virtually ruined one of my favorite movies, the luminous “Peggy Sue Got Married”. His boorish on-the-set behavior was recently chronicled in her memoirs by the fearly outspoken Kathleen Turner (who was pressured to settle out-of-court since the idiot’s lawsuit threatened to delay the publication of her memoirs). His Oscar was one of the jokes of the Academy’s history. I’ve worked as a publicist on the set with many of the top actors of the day, and NONE of them (except the gracious Jane Fonda, who needed a bodyguard because of serious death threats) employed body guards. For the past several years, Cage’s career has been a take-the-millions-and-run spectacle of lousy action flicks, most of which tanked because of his off-putting presence-sporting an assortment of laughable hair pieces that, for sheer hilarity, even outdo Burt Reynolds’ in his heyday. By now, you must realize I am not a fan of this Coppola-spawned creep!
The problem is quite simple: the movie industry has priced itself out of the market with its high ticket prices. These are tough times and people can barely feed their families so they are not willing to shell out $10 to see one movie. During the Depression movie tickets were five and ten cents. Even with inflation that would be three dollars today. Hollywood better wake up and stop paying those actors all those high salarie which most of them do not deserve.
Ten dollars for a new release movie is a bit too much for me in these tough economic times. I wait a couple of months and catch the flick for $2 at the discount theaters.
Maybe people are waking up and realizing its unhealthy to worship celebs. On the subject of actors, Edward Norton doesn’t jump at every script but he doesn’t have tax problems.
I watched Face Off the other day. Hollywood puts out too much filth to be honest and the sales show it.
You guys forgot Face Off and Con Air (where he plays a mentally retarded special forces ranger)
I liked the Lord of War and wanted to see the Wicker Man and The Third Man. Both are remakes. The latter one will be especially hard to outdo. I agree Raising Arizona was a good movie with the Cohen Bros.
He needs a body guard because there are a lot of crazies floating around.
The Weather Man was decent, and relatively recent.It was not the best movie ever but an interesting choice and Cage was very solid.He can act.
I went to the movies today, and withing 15 minutes I wished I had gone for a walk or stayed home. Tropical Thunder’s best moments are seen in the previews, the rest of the movie is garbage.
I am avoiding as much Hollywood as I can…magazines like EW I just cancelled after 13 years of a subscription and haven’t been to a movie in over a year. It’s little but I feel good about it. Until they stop with the Christian bashing they can suck it. Isn’t it funny how Hollywood avoids the M word? You know muslims. They’re afraid to say anything negative for fear those nitwits will do something to Hollywood. Wait till Obama loses on November 4th, talk about meltdown. And i’ll be enjoying every moment of it.
The Family Man is another good movie. A sort-of remake of Its a Wonderful Life, where he’s very Jimmy Stewart-like.
I agree with most of the posts here. He’s a really good actor who makes some lousy choices, but then again, this is the same man who asked Patricia Arquette to marry him within minutes of meeting her, married Lisa Marie Presley, and filed for divorce three months later, and then married a 20-year-old sushi bar waitress as soon as the divorce was final.
A newspaper story also pointed out Cage is king of the bad remakes, having starred in Kiss of Death, City of Angels, The Wicker Man and now Bangkok Dangerous.
“So does anyone still think TDK has a shot at 600 million?
It has been an absolutely spectacular run…but it’s pretty much over at this point.”
Comment by milo — September 6, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
Yeah, Milo, I think it still has a good shot at it.
It hit $500 million last Sunday 8/31 and made another 12 million this week.
Sure, its dropping out of the top 5 grossers for the weekends, but at 8 – 12 million a week it needs 9 weeks or less to break $600 million.
It’s only been out for 7.5 weeks. Warner brothers can afford to leave it in theaters — they opened up the schedule when they moved HP to the summer.
If it doesn’t make it by Christmas — it’ll get the bump it needs when Heath Ledger gets an Oscar nod or worse when he doesn’t get an Oscar nod.
I like Nicholas Cage, probably don’t like his politics. I know for sure I don’t like your’s. You should that Matt Drudge he brings in hits and revenue that you would not ordinarily bring in. For instance I would not be here if not for his link. So kiss off leftist beeach.
Nic Cage needs to do more movies in the style of 8mm.
GREAT PIC!
I’m with Steve; there’s no way I’m going to support a bunch of Hollywood elites who are trying to force our country into socialism/communism.
There’s a good reason why Hollywood profits are down – these aren’t very good films. They’re either preachy, poorly written or both. They certainly aren’t entertaining.
You also have a bunch of loudmouthed actors telling us how to live when they should be paying attention to their own miserable excuses for lives. I expect a certain amount of poor behavior from these performing monkeys, but in the case of some (Cloony, Penn, Afleck, etc.), I won’t subsidize it.
I like Nic Cage, and I also like Vin Diesel and Jason Statham, but the films they put these people in get worse and worse – grim, clanking, gloomy pieces of crap that only erode the box-office value of three really good actors. I saw Death Race and Vicky Barcelona this weekend, and for as much as I like Statham, Woody Allen’s intellectual b.s. was by far the better player. They need to put these guys in small, cheap but solid art films (like Ed Harris’ upcoming beauty, “Touching Hme”) when the producers haven’t got the dough to make a blockbuster so these actors can keep their rates up. I’d go to see any of them in something cool, but I hate this clanky, grim killer-goes-wild crap. And it hurts my ears. Javier Bardem was terrific in this small Allen film, and it will do nicely until another big role comes along. I hope someone’s going to be interested in Brad Pitt as a bumbling idiot in “Burn After Reading,” but Hello! I don’t think so! as those twits in Hollywood say.