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2ND UPDATE: I hear Inglourious Basterds booked a good $800K in Germany.
UPDATE: I just heard that Inglourious Basterds also opened in Australia but did about the same as Universal’s other pic Public Enemies there — right around 500K. “That’s just OK, not great,” a rival studio exec tells me.
It opened last night (Wednesday) in three territories — Belgium, France, French-Switzerland — and scored the highest Tarantino opening ever in those three markets. “The results are great. We opened No. 1 in all three markets and grossed: Belgium $143K at 63 locations, biggest Tarantino opening day; France $1.4M at 499 locations, biggest Tarantino opening day; French-Switzerland $61k at 24 locations, biggest Tarantino opening day,” an insider tells me.
Australia opened today (Thursday) and 201 locations grossed an estimated $490K for a strong 36% market share. The opening is 15% bigger than Quentin’s Kill Bill Vol 1, but not as big as Kill Bill Vol 2 which opened on a holiday weekend. Russia opens today and early results are “strong”.
Inglourious Basterds opens in 22 international territories this week/weekend and 2,620 international locations. Universal has foreign and domestic and international home video, while The Weinstein Company is self-distributing domestic starting tomorrow and also has pay TV — but it’s a single-pot worldwide deal split 50/50.
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Between this and Project Runway, Harvey has to be in Overdrive.
What is the overarching Tarantino vision? We caught a glimpse of it in Jackie Brown but seeing a film of his nowadays is a bit like eating two-day old Chinese food — it’s indulgent and you’ll likely regret it at some point.
I’m looking forward to not seeing Inglourious Basterds this weekend and hoping at one point he steps into gear again. Namaste friends.
The reviews are leaning overwhelmingly toward the positive side of the spectrum. I guess that tinkering in the editing room since Cannes has paid off. I’m seeing a glut of four-star reviews. The widespread fears about this being a box office fiasco seem to be waning. I don’t think it will be a homerun for Harvey but it should definitely be in the green during its first run once the foreign markets are factored in. Halloween 2 will make back its production costs in its first weekend of release too so reports of the Weinsteins’ demise seem to have been exaggerated.
Those foreigners love shitty Tarantino.
I doubt it’ll do well in the US.
Europe already liked Tarantino, and they pretty much always show up when Hollywood makes a film about European history. It will be interesting to see how word of mouth affects the film in America, because the marketing does a heck of a job misrepresenting the thing. All those young guys think they’re walking into The Dirty Dozen starring Brad Pitt, when what they’ll get is a two and half-hour talkfest that’s mainly about a French girl running a theater. Basterds is sandwiched in between last weekend’s rather well-received District 9 and two R-rated horror flicks on the 28th: the fourth movie in the popular Final Destinaion series and the Westeins’ own Halloween II. There’s plenty of product for the typical Tarantino audience to drift to if their friends or the internet warn them off. The biggest question is why the two films that are supposedly the last hope for the Weinsteins, both appealing to the same audience, are stacked right on top of each other.
Can someone please tell me why the fuck Tarantino is considered a genius or a filmmaker worth following? His movies are made up of scenes, dialogue, and entire plots from other movies. Since his one mature movie, Jackie Brown bombed he has increasingly retreated to his movie geek fixations and his movies are more and more juvenile. Inglorious Basterds is like something a hyperactive 12 year old would come up with. Critics by and large give him a pass because they like him are movie geeks and get the obscure references he loads into his films and because of his past glories (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction). I wish there was someone around him to tell him no, or at the very least pull your pants up, stop jerking off and make a real movie.
Saw it in Paris. It’s not good: makes no sense, terrible performances from all (but the main Nazi and Diane Kruger). But some scenes taken as scenes are entertaining. Don’t look for a script though. There’s none.
Film is about reality and the dreamed reality of cinema.
Im excited to see this. QT has never let me down before.
It will do decent in the US. He has a cult following so anyone who is a QT fan will go see this no matter what.
I already have my tickets for the midnight show!
From the trailers I have seen along with everything else, it appears to me that Inglourious Basterds is nothing more than gratuitous Nazi killing. Frankly, that never gets old and I only wish the re-edited it to 5 hours of Nazi killing. Hopefully, a few Commies are sprinkled in too. I’ll be seeing it Friday night.
looks like Tarantino does the Cohen Brothers…
Brad Pitt + Quentin Tarantino = a great Saturday night.
Saw it. Hated it. Evidence of what happens to a director after years of being called a genius. He starts believing whatever he touches will turn to gold. Clearly this could have a solid opening weekend but once word of mouth gets out it’s sure to tank. Images of the Weinsteins packing up their offices this week were flashing before me in my seat. And his use of a Bowie song was so souring. WTF?
The domestic on this is probably going to be underwhelming. On the upside, there is nothing strong opening against it, and District 9 is looking at a 60+% drop. Overall, this is clearly going to be a down weekend vs. last year.
Harvey will sleep fine tonight.
Just saw it and loved it.
“looks like Tarantino does the Cohen Brothers…”
So true, Smithee, with all those World War 2 flicks to the Cohen Brothers credit, Why not just say, “looks like Tarantino does Wes Anderson” or “looks like Tarantino does Spike Jonze”. Actually, what do you mean? Was that a dig? I don’t get it. But I guess if any director decides to tackle the combat genre, the comparisons to the Cohen Brothers, the kings of war movies, are going to happen.
its all about numbers. This film isn’t going to let Harvey sleep fine tonight. Do you know where this money goes…. not to TWC, not at 30m, probably not at 60m! Theaters, p and a, gross players, production costs = Harvey still in the hole. To all the people who do not understand the numbers all will look good. I am all in favor of TWC surviving, we all need a distributor to be healthy, but this film is not going to clear the flood and stop TWC from drowning.
It’s Quentin Tarantino TRYING to do Sergio Leone. BADLY. Should have made it a musical.
Tarantino does John Waters more like it.
Alex, Ultraman, and people who think their opinions matter, you thought wrong. The movie has gotten very strong reviews, most loved it. Doesn’t matter if you didn’t, nobody of importance cares what you think. Get over yourselves.
The only people who won’t like Basterds are the offspring of Nazis. So if you don’t like it, odds are your daddy or grandaddy did the Fuhrer’s bidding.
Greatest Tarantino movie ever. Better than Pulp Fiction, Res Dogs, or True Romance. About as much fun as you can have in a movie theater. You will not be disappointed.
Hey Max
I’m a Jew not offspring of any Third Reich. Just because a film shows people plotting to and killing Nazis doesn’t make it a good film. Wait. You’re right! OMG you’re so right. Even though the film itself is a piece of crap I should love it because it shows people killing Nazis. What was I thinking? I should HATE just like the Nazis…thank you for puting me back on track.
Simon you’re dillusional. $100 you LOVED LOVED Transformers too.