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SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM: The other studios are sticking pins in voodoo dolls tonight as the weekend grosses shows Sony boasting both the No. 1 and No. 2 movies in North America. Not even box office poison Woody Harrelson could kill off the hit combo of comedy and deadmen walking as Zombieland opened to $9.4 million both Friday and Saturday (rain on the East Coast helped) from a wide release in 3,036 theaters. That’s a strong $25M first weekend, especially since it was produced for under $24M. The pic’s buzz was surprisingly good with even critics embracing first-time director Ruben Fleischer. That translated into a CinemaScore of “A-” — “A” for males, “A-” for females, “A” for everybody under 35. It’s Sony’s 6th #1 movie of the year.
Meanwhile, starting Week 3, Sony’s Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs kept a good hold of -34% (even up against Disney’s Pixar 3-D challenge). The toon took in $3.7M Friday, and $7.6M Saturday, from 2,977 runs for a $16.7M weekend and new cume of $82.3M. “I’ve no idea where the top is now but don’t bet less than $115 mil,” one Sony exec told me.
For 3rd place, 
Disney had the irresistible notion to release Toy Story I and II as a 3-D combo in 1,745 venues and saw a sizeable Saturday kiddie matinee bump – from $3.4M Friday to $5.6M Saturday. It’s a $12.5M weekend.
Warner Bros’ Invention of Lying starring Ricky Gervais came in #4. Gervais is no box office hottie, and the pic opened with $2.4M Friday and $3M Saturday for a $7.3M weekend from just 1,707 runs.
Disney’s Bruce Willis fiasco Surrogates was #5 making $2.2M Friday (-55% from a week ago) and $3.2M Saturday for a $7.3M weekend and cume of $26.5M. This is the crappy sci-fi pic which cost $80M and Disney held for a year.
Drew Barrymore helmed that roller derby girl power flick from Fox Searchlight Whip It playing in the same amount of dates, 1,720. But even co-starring Drew (and she flogged the film everywhere), it debuted only #6 with $1.5M Friday and $2M Saturday for a $4.8M weekend.
Michael Moore’s purposefully controversial and politically polarizing documentary Capitalism: A Love Story was distributed by Overture Films and wound up in 7th place. It went wide into 962 theaters this weekend after opening on September 23rd in a limited release of 4 theaters. The pic about the financial crisis made $1.6M Friday and $2M Saturday (+33%) for a $4.8M weekend and $5.2M cume. Just for comparison purposes: Moore’s most recent Sicko did $4.4 mil its opening weekend from only 441 theaters (and that was with him guesting on The Tonight Show and announcing he’d been subpoenaed by the Bush administration for the health care documentary). And his Fahrenheit 9/11 did $23.9M its opening weekend from 868 venues.) So, as much as the left loves Moore, and the right detests him, and he always uses the ensuing controversy to self-promote, the money angle is only what interests me. The fact is that Capitalism: A Love Story looks like its domestic total will fail to crack $20M and end up his worst performing film since his Oscar-winner Bowling For Columbine in 2002.
The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers: MGM’s disastrous Fame flopped to #8 with just $1.4M Friday and $2.1M Saturday (-48% after one week out) for a $4.7M weekend and cume of $16.6M. Warner Bros’ Matt Damon starrer The Informant! hangs in for #9 with $1.1M Friday and $1.7M Saturday and $3.8M weekend for a $26.5M cume. Rounding out the Top 10, Universal’s Love Happens drops to #10 with just $925K on Friday and $1.2M Saturday and eked out a $2.7M weekend and weak cume of $18.9M.
Also opening was Focus Features’ A Serious Man from the Coen Brothers in 6 theaters (NY, LA, and Minneapolis) for $72K Friday and $105K Saturday for a strong per screen average of $12K and $17K. Its weekend take is $251K. The film garnered positive reviews and word-of-mouth from its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival which attracted the Coens’ smarthouse audience as well as older patronage.
Meanwhile, read my posting here how in college towns right now, Paramount’s Paranormal Activity is getting freakishly good grosses playing only after midnight.
Overall, it should be a $100M weekend just short (-5%) of last year’s total gross.
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Drew Barrymore is no Cameron Diaz.
The “Diablo Cody backlash” is really quirky-girls-being-quirky backlash, which has been done to death in recent years, in the same way the audience is sick of stoner-guys-being-stoners. There are interesting girls out there who aren’t quirky. There are funny guys who aren’t stoners. The problem is that a few of these movies were successful, so now everything for the teen audience must feature the quirky girl and her stoner boyfriend, with occasional forays into the quirky guy and his zany stoner girl to keep things fresh.
“There are funny guys who aren’t stoners.” Nuh-uh. There aren’t.
It’s hard for me to know what’s coming out until just a week or two before the films open. I don’t read any magazines. I don’t watch the entertainment news shows. It doesn’t seem like any films are able to generate online interest with websites, anymore. So what’s left? A star’s brief appearance on a late-night talk show, and trailers, of course. The trailers have become everything. Hollywood needs to become MUCH more creative and innovative when it comes to promoting films.
As for the WHIP IT advertisements, it just looked like girls roller skating around in circles, with contrived love interests thrown in. That’s what I got, from the trailer.
With regard to Zombies, well, I think Zombies are great. Why? What is it, psychologically, that is attractive about them, after all this time? Could it be that we all feel like we live in a psychotic world, where we are powerless against scary, imcomprehensible forces? And we want to take some vicarious control,in a fun way? Even if the premise is absurd?
The films that will succeed will be the ones that successfully tap into the nation’s psyche, and that satisfy an emotional NEED.
Lame, contrived storylines with familiar stars will not do it.
mileshigh, ZOMBIELAND is performing incredibly well for a horror/comedy. I have no idea how you can say it is performing weakly. Its gross will exceed the production budget by Monday morning. And it’s not just for geeks, it plays with all kinds of audiences.
As for SHUTTER ISLAND, it would likely not open as well as THE DEPARTED – which opened to a strong 26m – about the same amount ZOMBIELAND made this weekend. This is the fall, not summer.
I misspoke on Zombieland. I have not interest in seeing it because it looks weak, not that it is preforming weak. My bad! I agree that those numbers are very good and better then I was anticipating. Zombieland is taking advantage of an empty market.
I’m a misogynist?
If I were a misogynist, I wouldn’t have supported “Whip It” on opening weekend, and I wouldn’t have made a specific point to note that it was “pretty damn good.” Judging by the fact that we’re lamenting its performance, I’m probably one of the only guys in America who *did* go out and support it, rather than join everyone else for Zombieland. I wanted to see Capitalism, but was more interested in giving my money to Whip.
If I were a misogynist, I wouldn’t know who Amy Pascal and Stacey Snider are. I wouldn’t know how Stacey Snider spells her first name differently from your standard “Stacy.”
No, I’m just trying to point out that while Diablo Cody is brilliant and otherwise charming, and yes, has offered something special to the world that enriches our lives, I (and a great number of individuals throughout this country) cannot stand her constant yapping. Did Nancy Oliver say, “Hey, I wrote a movie about a man, and it starred one of the most adored actors in America?” Did Tamara Jenkins go nuts with PR? I support women like K. Bigelow and K. Pearce. Hell, I saw freaking Calendar Girls in the theaters. When you throw around the word “misogynist” every time someone disagrees with your viewpoint, it does a disservice when it comes to shining a spotlight on true misogyny.
Jennifer’s Body was not marketed poorly. Women can’t stand Megan Fox, not just because she talks a lot, but because their boyfriends and husbands, even if *they* can’t stand her, the fear is that she’s the archetype for what men wack off to. They don’t like that she was “hot,” but then got plastic surgery to make herself even more “hot.” I’m sorry, but I can admit that Diablo’s first appearance on Letterman was brilliant. I still remember it. Funny and smart and charming. Well, Fox on Conan the other night, had a great, great line about how she listens to Britney Spears on airplanes to cure her fear of flying, “Because I figured out at some point that it’s not my destiny to die when listening to Britney Spears, so now I just listen to it while in the air and I’m good to go.” Conan laughed in that genuine way he laughs, not the canned, polite one. It’s just she is unaware of how much onslaught of PR she does. She says, “If a guy wrote JUNO, there wouldn’t be this backlash.” Uh, a guy wouldn’t have been asked to write a script by another guy surfing for porn, and he wouldn’t have gotten all the exposure she did. The shoe incident, the open Myspace letter, those didn’t help her either. Hell, I saw her talking to Peter Travers about how, “No one in the history of cinema has ever done what I’ve done.”
Look, her accomplishment are extraordinary and she has talent. I’m glad she’s not making stupid, cookie cutter movies. But, Shane Black sold Lethal Weapon for millions in the 80′s when being a millionaire meant something, and he did it in his early 20′s. Say what you want about the guy, that’s an extraordinary accomplishment as well. He’s a great-looking dude; but you didn’t see him EVERYWHERE. It’s just too much, and yes, the catch-phrases and puns are silly. It’s not just marketing, it’s overexposure. Even she has now caught on to her stupid pseudonym. If anything, it’s HIPSTER backlash. If there’s misogyny, which, sure, there is, it’s because guys look at her and say, “She was a stripper? Uh, she’s not hot.” As if the sex trade is defined by dancers who look like actresses or porn stars. But people picked up newspaper after newspaper, and saw Diablo Cody as her pen name, and were like? WTF? It’s not like her name was Sarah Hyman or Shanna Goldenfarb where middle America wouldn’t accept her. She *is* middle America. And has a lovely, lovely name. And sorry but that Myspace F.U. turned a lot of people off. It’s tough out there; no one wants to be reminded that they’re never going to accomplish they’re precious little dream, but D.C. shoves her success down people’s throats.
Sorry, but to accuse me of misogyny is just misguided, and silly. People will watch Ellen Page in that new Dicaprio/Chris Nolan movie, but did you go see previews when Whip It came on? You could audibly hear people groaning “Ugh. Juno.”
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I just got Vera Drake (and In The Company of Men) in the mail.
-A twenty-five year old guy with a wonderful mom, 2 wonderful sisters, a wonderful girlfriend, lots of wonderful female friends, and a female cat.
Right on! I’m a woman and I feel the same exact way you do about the overexposure of this pop culture phenom. I eagerly await the day when her 15 minutes are over. I just hope the next one isn’t even more grating that this one.
“-A twenty-five year old guy with a wonderful mom, 2 wonderful sisters, a wonderful girlfriend, lots of wonderful female friends, and a female cat”
…and apparently way too much time on his hands. Drop it.
Alton
the problem with your earlier post is that you sounded unnecessarily venomous. And you touched a nerve, so what?
Also, shane black made 250,000 for Lethal Weapon. He made his big paydays with The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Good Night, and The Last Action Hero. Those are the reasons he went away, until Joel Silver, perhaps out of pity I don’t know, helped him out with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
A better analogy with regard to the Diablo phenomenon is the press that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon received after they wrote (with help) Good Will Hunting. They were awfully overexposed at the time, and for a long, long, long time afterwards.
And what about Tarantino after Pulp Fiction?
People like success stories. We can’t control the media. If it’s overkill, time will fix that.
And by the way, BOTH men AND women want to have sex with Angelina. That’s the difference between her and Megan Fox. That, plus acting ability.
So relax, dude. Pet your cat. Life’s short.
And by the way, BOTH men AND women want to have sex with Angelina.
Hmmmmm NOOOOPE
Actually Angelina was consider a sex symbol at some point but nowadays she is not a big deal. She has the worse body in Hollywood and she is looking scary skinny these days. She has fans but that’s far from everybody.
Angelina still seems to be the popular answer for women to “Who would you go gay for?” She’s still considered a sex symbol even if you and some others don’t personally like her. That’s not a status that’s easy to lose, excluding Britney/Lindsay level meltdowns.
Also, 2008 saw Ms. Jolie star in a successful action flick and get Oscar-nominated for Best Actress in another film. I’d say she’s still “a big deal,” even without a 2009 release.
Your lengthy essay still doesn’t explain what Diablo Cody has to do with WHIP IT. Anyone who makes the association simply because of Ellen Page’s presence is severely shortsighted and/or a fool. And I weep for any of the smart, ambitious movies about young women that will fall out of active development at the studios now that WHIP IT has tanked.
So now “middle america” is assumed to be anti jewish? Is that what you’re saying?
It’s ironic that you’re apparently a bigger bigot than they ever could be. You just libeled an entire region of the nation.
Newsflash, the world isn’t what you see on screen, in movies, and in the news media(based on the coasts). Nobody in the midwest or south even cares about who writes movies, they just want to see a good film. You sure seem to be the one all hung up on whether someone is a woman, jewish, black, etc.
You probably think people in the south all drive around in Dodge Chargers with rebel flags on top. After all, you saw in in “The Dukes of Hazard”, so it must be true.
Overture officials only predicted a $5 million to $6 million weekend for “Capitalism: A Love Story ”, so its weekend result is not bad.
By the way, Warner Bros predicted a $8 million to $10 million weekend for “The Invention of Lying”
Just because they predicted it would only make as much as it did, doesn’t mean it isn’t a bomb. If Walter Mondale predicted he would only win one state in the 1984 election, would that mean it wasn’t a landslide? Michael Moore is a fat, irrelevant liar. No amount of spin from his ideological comrades can cover up his multiple failures.
I don’t like Michael Moore either, but his movies cost nothing to make, little more to promote and always make money before leaving the box office. I wish it weren’t the case but if he had multiple failures as you claim the fat dork wouldn’t be rolling in millions. The only real failure he had out of his cheap “documentaries” was The Big One and even that probably made money after hitting VHS and eventually DVD.
Moore may be rolling in millions because of all the Halliburton stock he owns. Oops!! Thought you hated capitalism Michael.
CONGRATS TO RICKY GERVAIS AND MATT ROBINSON. It is great to see a movie that attempts to be different and interesting succeed in this market. 9 mil on 170 screens is HUGE!! I wish more people would try and make thought provoking movies
I’ll never understand the public’s fascination with zombie movies. They’re the most undynamic screen villains around and the movies that contain them are uniformly identical.
I think zombie movies tap into the feeling/fantasy that “Oh my god, I’m the only person in the world who ISN’T a crazy, lazy, unthinking, conformist!” Every cube dweller likes to think that they’re the lone free thinker in a world of wind-up drones.
Take a look at how partisan politics have hijacked everything in this country – everyone seems to think THEY’RE the last sane, functioning person around them. (Newsflash: they’re not)
Plus, given how frustrating our society can be on a day to day basis, the primal urge to just blast a hole in the head of anything that moves plays a big part.
Vampires I don’t get – zombies, to me, make perfect sense.
Watch “Shaun of the Dead” You will never look at a LP the same way.
Wait, THE INVENTION OF LYING with an entire cast of big stars is a “sleeper hit” with $2.4 from 1707, and LOVE HAPPENS was a “flop” and “weak debut” with $3m at 1898?
One is a by the numbers LOVE IS NICE boring movie and the other took huge chances with a British actor unknown in America and raises important questions. The difference between the two is one strives to be fresh and new.
um, but this is about box office, not critical analysis. Too Obvious.
“Love Happens” is a bomb because it cost $18M to make and only made $3M in 1898 theaters. “Lying” is a sleeper hit because it made $2.4M in 1707 and only cost less than $5M. It’s not just about what it makes. It’s also about what it cost.
Lying cost 18.5M according to Box office mojo. So it is FAR from a hit. It will probably break even or even make a small profit but no hit. ‘Love Happens’ already made its budget back but it is not a hit since, much like “Lying”, the marketing cost is not included in the budget. However NEITHER of the two can be consider bombs. Films that are considered bombs usually make much less than their budgets at the end of their box office run.
A movie like ‘Surrogates’ which cost 80M and has only made 26M is probably the biggest financial flop out of the top ten on the box office chart, so far.
I read somewhere that Love Happens had a $30 million advertising budget but if that’s true I’d like to know where the money went. I didn’t see anything about that movie until it was already being declared a flop. Did a bank account in the Cayman Islands just get $25 million richer a few weekends ago?
Anyways if Invention of Lying had about half the ad budget and pulled in comparable numbers, then that would be the difference between “flop” and “sleeper hit,” I suppose.
The invention of lying is far from a hit. It has the lowest budget in the top ten movies so it will be profitable but it is NOT a hit. The same thing goes for Love happens and The informant. And another thing The invention of Lying also had some KNOWN cast members so that has nothing to do with it.
Whip it is a flop so far but I am not sure what the budget for this film was.
Anyone dare comment on WHIP IT? Hard to knock the industry leader when things are so tough out there, but…
$1.4-1.6M opening day on its way to $4-6M weekend?
So un-Searchlight like for a “playable” movie.
Should be sweet spot for young girl marketing experts over there.
Maybe Kissing Ellen Page Stein and roller derby just aren’t as popular?
Maybe a platform release? Better dating? Maybe more focus/less films?
Bring on Amelia and everyone’s sweetheart Hilary Swank, or just fast forward to Wes animation and awards?
I enjoy seeing women actually play multi-dimensional characters rather than just the girlfriend/wife/love interest role, but Whip It didn’t appeal to me because of the way it looks. Those roller derby outfits almost look cartoonish. And who’s interested in the roller derby?
It looks like it would be a great film for the tweeners, but that’s about it. And that’s too bad, because I like Drew Barrymore, but I’m okay with waiting to rent this one (if I get it at all).
I saw a premier of Zombieland and I loved it. The movie was great. I also saw Whip It, the movie was very good. The movie was fun and the characters had great chemistry, I really recommend seeing it.
The expectations game is fascinating. Whip it, made for the same number as Jennifer’s Body, will do maybe a third of the latter’s business in foreign and dvd. No hue and cry, no blogosphere hate meltdown for the Whip It. Same thing with Invention and Love Happens and Fame. Hitting decently reasonable expectations is great, but… LeoGetz is right. Maybe be a little less frothy roars of “flop” and “horribly pathetic” and all the hysterical crap tossed at movies that, underperforming as they do, won’t lose anyone a dime. Let’s get a little real.
I loved Whip it. And not because it was shot in MI.
It reminded me of Raquel Welch’s roller girl film but with out being too feminist. In fact it reminded me of every other sport movie. It was like Any given Sunday without the profanity and nudity. It told a story about a girl torn between her desire verses friend and family. Daniel Stern was excellent as the Dad who wanted a son, but loved his daughter.
I really don’t know what audiences want anymore. See the speech by the director producer on independent film. For a first shot I thought Drew gave it her best. She played he ditzy child that reminded me of her first role in ET. Eve was funny, the mom great and the supporting cast played their roles to perfection.
Hell, rottentomatoes gave it 88.8 percent which is why I saw this film over Capitalism or the lying movie.
If women want control in Hollywood and don’t want to be thrown under the curb they should support film that isn’t crying over a man, a baby or some disease.
Drew rocked and Ellen Page delivered a great performance. And I’m a man.
Whip It is a gem. But it’s a hybrid of genres.
It needed to be platformed to build word of mouth, not blown out in 1700 theatres.
Marketing misfire.
I am waiting to see “Invention of Lying” for 5 weeks now))
Zombieland is great, one of the most fun studio films in years, see it with a crowd.
Surrogates didn’t drop as much as expected, I actually enjoyed it. How is Fame a disaster if the more expensive Invention of Lying and Whip It made less than it did? Capitalism seems decent for a documentary. So sad about Love Happens and the Informant, hoped they would do more.
I loved “The Invention of Lying”…..so refreshing to see a film that is both provocative and sweet. Much to talk about after leaving the theater. Smart movie. And different than a usual rom-com.
I know you haters love to Bash Michael Moore, but his film made 5.5 million in 996 theatres.
That is a huge hit.
I know ignorant people don’t know that most big screen films open in 3000 theatres, so this is huge and its expanding again next weekend, which it only gets to expand if it gets good per theatre numbers and they are great. No amount of lying or badmouthing will stop this film from expanding and making more next weekend because The opinion of some loser doesn’t nullify Moore hitting his performance numbers or change the facts.
Michael Moore owns you and if you don’t see that he has been right about everything, you are either obscenely wealthy, pious, or dumb
Looks like it only made $1.5 million in 962 theaters.
Moore is an anti-American and a hypocrite. He’s not making money in a socialist economy; he’s making money under a capitalist one. Further, I socialist regime would not allow him to speak out against anything.
Find someone else to worship.
Only $1.5M in 962 theaters:
http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2009-10-02&p=.htm
The ~$5 million estimate is for the whole weekend, not just Friday. So most people will say it opened with about five million.
No, he owns you. Try thinking for a change. And good luck with defining a “documentary” which he has yet to make.
Maybe you and your ignorance should check out what factcheck says about his “documentaries”. Nearly every point he makes in his movies is either a flat out lie or gross misinterrupation of facts.
Ironically your cheering for his movie to do well and make lots of money, and at the same time its a movie about how evil money is. But of course your a liberal so you have never actually thought about anything in general. Let alone how hypocritical it is to make money of selling anti-capitlist bull crap. Do all liberals suffer from your sort of mindless zombie ranting. answer: yes.
Sure it may be hypocritical but isn’t that the beauty of capitalism. As long as someone will buy it you can sell it. Moore just happens to be selling the idea of anti-capitalism and people are buying it. So heck more power to him.
Moore, as much as he would hate to hear this, is helping people by playing the capitalistic system. He made this movie and in order to do that he had to hire people which in turn put money in their pockets to feed their families or to better their lives. So to me it seems to be a win win situation. Moore gets his money from his movies and his employees get their pay check.
I am glad that it is a huge hit. This means he’s going to make a ton of money. Now he can give all of the money that he makes from a capitalist society to the poor like he did with his other movies… He did that, right?
The Truth, that is load of pure BS! Most parts in his movie is F*ucking lies, like in one of his movie “Sicko” like part where he compare Cuban hospital to USA hospital, that is bs for example… If you don’t believe me, then get off your f*cking fatass and go live in Cuba, you f*cking piece of sh*t!
Read this one “http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54833″
See that? He is scamming all you stupid f*ckers!
Kyle…there’s something awfully wrong with your keyboard…or you need to invest in a Spell Checker. Verstaht!
So Michael Moore is obscenely wealthy, pious, and dumb. Remarkable liberals against liberals. Thanks being right, I mean left on this.
In a weekend in which every one of the new releases was well-reviewed, it is disappointing most of them underperformed.
I went to “Whip It” and I thought it was a good movie.
I think it will catch on and when it goes to DVD
it will do well.
I don’t know anyone who would not go to a move because of Diablo Cody backlast.
@ The Truth:
“Michael Moore owns you and if you don’t see that he has been right about everything, you are either obscenely wealthy, pious, or dumb”
What do you consider “obscenely wealthy”? Someone whose net worth exceeds $50 million? Like, oh, say, Michael Moore?
Irony is a concept you should definitely look into.
If guns kill people, then that means silverware made Michael Moore fat.
Think about it, libs. Think hard.
Yes.
And then, even Overture officials had only predicted a $5 million to $6 million weekend for “Capitalism: A Love Story ”, so its weekend result is actually strong.
Saw ”Capitalism: a love story” yesterday and I have to say it’s absolutely required to watch for anyone living in the U.S right now. A lot of people realize Madoff and all. are crooks but this movie shows to what extent they are thieves. Moore illustrates the decay of economic and political checks and balances during US history. You just have to wonder about people who go to gatherings holding signs and screaming they want their country not to fall to socialism…they are truly defending those who are most ready to steal from them. Moore’s movie = a must watch.
I don’t believe it’s a huge newsflash that people do bad things, especially when money and power are involved. So you’re suggesting that Moore’s idea to institutionalize thievery is a logical conclusion? Without exception, that is what happens under socialism. That’s why you don’t see too many old Chevies being rowed TO Cuba.
You need to think about this more. You’ll take the word of one fraud, but not the other.
Michael Moore sucks.
Always has, always will.
In 5 years nobody will remember him.