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SATURDAY PM: Here’s first look at early North American box office numbers for today…
1. G-Force 3-D (Disney) $11.7 million Saturday & $32M this weekend. Jerry Bruckheimer attempted his first 3-D foray featuring secret agent guinea pigs. Which just goes to show that sometimes moviegoers will watch anything. But this CGI family fare was incredibly expensive so the pic’s profitability is a real question mark.
2. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (Warner Bros) $11.2M & $29M weekend. It continues to drop harder than the last one. Cume is now $221M.
3. The Ugly Truth (Sony) $9.7M & about $27.5M weekend. This Katherine Heigl-Gerard Butler pic, directed by Legally Blonde‘s Robert Luketic, barely received 15% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and The New York Times‘ Manola Dargis stuck it to Sony’s Amy Pascal for making such anti-feminist crap. But audiences liked it, judging by the surprising “A-” CinemaScore.
4. Orphan (Dark Castle/Warner Bros) $4.7M; $12.7M weekend. (OK, I hoped this would bomb. It didn’t. But Joel Silver still should be ashamed both for making this revolting movie and then marketing it so callously that adoptive parents groups were very vocally protesting.)
5. Ice Age 3-D: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Fox) $3.1M; $8.4M weekend; cume $170M.
6. Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen (Paramount) $8M weekend. Its $379M cume passed Lord Of The Rings 3‘s $377M as the 10th highest grossing film of all-time.
Weekend’s total box office should add up to $140M, down 33% from last year which had The Dark Knight.
SATURDAY AM: Here’s first look at early North American box office numbers for Friday…
1. G-Force 3-D (Disney) $11.5 million today & around $35M this weekend.
2. The Ugly Truth (Sony) $11M today & about $29M weekend.
3. Harry Potter/Half-Blood Prince (WB) $9.5M today & probably $30M weekend.
4. Orphan (Dark Castle/Warner Bros) $5M today & near $13M weekend. (Ouch! Then again, Joel Silver should be ashamed both for making this revolting movie and then marketing it so callously that adoptive parents groups were very vocally protesting.)
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I think Harry is hurt by the lack of IMAX screens and wonder if they will see a noticeable bump next weekend when it goes wide in IMAX, i know that I’m not seeing it until I see it in IMAX. Orphan didn’t do too badly, didn’t know that Leo had produced this movie as well. Ashamed of himself? It’s a horror thriller movie, I don’t think any adoptive parents would see this as anything further than that — like they are gonna say — oh, let’s adopt, and then they see Orphan and say, let’s not. Did anyone complain about similar movies such as bad seed? Happy for Katherine Heigl, but G-Force being number 1 — I hope not.
With the “success” of The Fugly Truth, does this mean Grey’s Anatomy is set to be one more less at the end of next season?
G-Force..what a lame excuse for a movie.
Despite knowing about the lack of IMAX screens and the other factors as to why HP6 is performing how it is, I can’t help but be a little disappointed by its run so far. After that amazing opening night, things went downhill, FAST. On Monday and Tuesday I was filled with some hope when it posted great numbers but what happened on Wednesday? It was down more than 20% and now it doesn’t get much of a bump from Thurs-Fri, and remains below the relative day of HP5. I really hope it has long legs in IMAX because it might be the case of a little too late for it to encourage people to see it.
I REALLY wanted it to atleast challenged Transformers 2 for movie of the year, but TF2, had that sealed and delivered after 5 days. Sigh.
why so negative? this is what “hollywood” should do… girl movie, kid movie, teen movie… i mean yes better flicks would be cool but it’s good for the biz to have multiple hits on the same weekend. especially chick flicks. proposal is gonna go passed 150 soon… and it’s one of only 3 female skewing films the entire summer. when will they learn?
I don’t know why but I really want Katherine Heigl to fail. Something about her just bugs me. It’s probably her “holier-than-thou” attitude.
Nikki you should put your money where your mouth is with your revulsion of Orphan by publicly spoiling its shocking twist in your next update to deter anyone else from seeing it.
The japanese are working on a device that rates different pieces of shit by the smell. This could provide the studios with earlier forecasts of box office returns, the bigger piece of shit doubtless being the weekend winner.
Nikki, when will you learn? Orphans are evil abomanations. Scum sucking pigs. Sons of motherless goats. They can truly suck it. This is an important movie that DEMANDS we stop adopting. Got it? Okay. Send those baby children back to the mine.
I find your comment towards “Orphan” to be an exaggeration. It’s a movie, not a documentary. Of all people, I didn’t expect you to believe this film was harmful towards adopted children.
I mean, not that long ago, blind people were protesting over Fernando Meirelles’s “Blindness”. Some folks have too much time in their hands.
LOL. Where are all those Potter fans now who claimed it would have better longevity compared to Transformers?
Sincerely, I really do feel sorry for the dupes paying $11.00 or more for the Ugly Truth. You watch the trailer and it’s all there in less than 3 minutes. What can you possibly expect from a one note actress starring in a movie where everyone looks the same? Want a date movie, go watch 500 Days of Summer.
Orphan is a low-budget horror film, so its opening gross is actually respectful.
As an adopted child myself, I have to say….come ON, people. This is a horror film, and it’s being advertised as a horror film. It’s not even being advertised as a thriller, which could conceivably be taken as something that is a representation—however distorted—of real life. Horror generally implies a more fantastical take on a subject matter and this clearly seems to be a film that goes in that direction. To think that anyone actually looks at a movie like the Orphan and thinks “Well, that’s certainly got to be what adoption’s like these days” is to bestow on the film a level of realism that I don’t think the makers merit or even want.
Furthermore, I think that if anyone looks at a horror film and lets it dissuade them from going through with an adoption process that they otherwise may have done, it’s probably for the benefit of the child they were about to take into their home. Just saying.
Harry Potter 6 faded for three reasons:
1. Too little of the book it’s based on is actually in the film
2. The unlikely/unfathomable/unappealing “romance” between Hermione and Ron was even worse on-screen than it was in the book. The fact that Radcliffe and Watson (Harry and Hermione) have crackling chemistry onscreen (and thus made the supposed lack-of-attraction between them even more unlikely) didn’t help either.
3. IT WAS BORING AS HELL.
At $180M plus P&A, G-Force needs a hell of a lot more than $33M to not be another embarrassment for Disney’s live action side.
Here’s a question I’m sure I know the answer to: Nikki, have you SEEN ORPHAN? Because if you haven’t, you have no right to call it revolting. Just hearing/reading about a film doesn’t count as seeing it… but i’m sure you knew that…
I’m actually glad G-Force is #1. I mean let’s face, it’s a movie about talking Guinea Pig Secret Agents, it’s not for our age group and it doesn’t try to be. It is something original and considering the talent involved (Sam Rockwell, Zach Galifianakis, Tracy Morgan, Jon Favreau, etc.) I’m happy for them. Besides, next week we get our movie in Funny People.
Nearly $85 million spent on tickets for these three films? Proof that Hollywood could smear crap on 3,000 screens and the American public would still go out in droves to see it.
G Force sounds like a movie whose concept was decided over lunch and whose screenplay was written during dinner that same day. Feels like this movie has been done before ten times over.
Looks like the romantic comedy is not dead and buried. Like her or not, Heigl does have a good screen presence and there aren’t too many leading women anymore that can pull off romantic comedy.
Ebert gave Orphan ***1/2
That makes me mildly curious to see it.
Orphan is a very good movie. Isabelle Fuhrman deserves some recognition. This movie is going to last in the genre.
I for the life of me will never be able to figure out what the hell is going on in an audiences head. How something as simplistic and extremley forumlaic as G-Force has a shot at being number 1 and something as non-realistic, unfunny, and stupidly crude as The Ugly Truth can come in second. Oh it’s a sad state for movies.
Nikki Finke making a snide comment about a horror movie she’s never seen? SHOCKING!
She does it because she is a tool. A tool who apparently advocates censorship as she is always harping on the fact that she feels these movies shouldn’t even be made.
a tool is a tool. There’s nothing wrong with that, just call it like it is.
Wow, a lot of bitter, hateful comments by people using very descriptive words for movies they clearly haven’t seen. It’s kind of like saying someone is an a##hole you’ve never met.
I saw Ugly Truth last night so thought I would chime in:
The trailer was abominable, the reviews were spotty/bad so I had very low expectations – but I have to say the MOVIE IS GOOD. REALLY GOOD. One of the best rom coms I have seen in a long time.
I went with my wife and we had a great time, laughed our asses off, then went home and did naughty things to each other.
Well worth the ticket price.
I think The Ugly Truth will drop over the weekend. This summer has shown that if a movie is bad or disappointing, it could do well it’s opening day but will definitely drop over the weekend (see Year One and Bruno, Transformers is an exception).