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SUNDAY AM: It's a dull pre-Oscar weekend at the North American box office with only two major releases are genres fighting each other for No. 2. 
There were better than expected grosses considering the East Coast was slapped with another harsh snowstorm. Otherwise, there's not much to say. Holdover Shutter Island, the Marty Scorsese/Leo DiCaprio psychological thriller from Paramount, will easily stay No. 1 again with just a 41% drop from a week ago. It made $6.7M Friday and $10.4M Saturday for a $22.2M weekend and estimated cume of $75M. Warner Bros' Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan buddy comedy Cop Out (formerly entitled A Couple Of Dicks) opened Friday with $6.2M Friday and $7.8M Saturday for a $18.5M weekend which shows audiences are starved for laughs. Gee, you don't think director Kevin Smith's nationally blown-out-of-proportion fight with Southwest Airlines was a PR grab by this publicity hog, do you? It's the first film he helmed that he also didn't write. Overture's doomsday horror pic The Crazies co-financed by Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi debuted with $5.7M Friday and $6.4M Saturday for a $16M weekend due to heavy TV ad rotation. Fox's Avatar crossed $700M domestic. And Sony Pictures Classics platformedg the French language prisoner drama A Prophet in 9 NY and LA locations after it's won several awards and is Oscar nominated. Industry types all weekend emailed me from the theaters gushing how good this pic is.
Overall year-to-date revenues for the first 2 months of 2010 are $1,805,600,000, as compared to $1,778,467,029. Revenue is up 1.53%, but attendance is down .48%.
Here's the Top 10 for the weekend:
1. Shutter Island (Paramount) Week 2 [3,003 Theaters]
Friday $6.7M, Saturday $10.4M, Weekend $22.2M, Cume $75M
2. Cop Out (Warner Bros) NEW [3,150 Theaters]
Friday $5.9M, Saturday $7.8M, Weekend $18.5M
3. The Crazies (Overture) NEW [2,476 Theaters]
Friday $5.9M, Saturday $6.4M, Weekend $16M
4. Avatar (Fox) Week 11 [2,456 Theaters]
Friday $3.1M, Saturday $6.6M, Weekend $14M, Cume $706.9M
5. Percy Jackson (Fox) Week 3 [3,302 Theaters]
Friday $2.4M, Saturday $4.6M, Weekend $9.8M, Cume $71.2M
6. Valentine's Day (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,578 Theaters]
Friday $2.9M, Saturday $4.2M, Weekend $9.5M, Cume $100.3M
7. Dear John (Sony) Week 4 [3,006 Theaters]
Friday $1.5M, Saturday $2.1M, Weekend $5M, Cume $72.6M
8. The Wolfman (Universal) Week 3 [3,043 Theaters]
Friday $1.1M, Saturday $1.9M, Weekend $4.1M, Cume $57.2M
9. Tooth Fairy (Fox) Week 6 [2,249 Theater]
Friday $730K, Saturday $1.7M, Weekend $3.4M, Cume $53.8M
10. Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight) Week 11 [1,158 Theaters]
Friday $610K, Saturday $1.2M, Weekend $2.5M, Cume $25M
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God, I was hoping Cop Out would bomb so we could finally be finished with Kevin Smith once and for all. Now that egomaniacal wind bag will probably get to make another movie.
I hear he’s prepping a hockey movie, a sport with potential to translate into the kind of box office poison that could put his career on the skids.
With a budget of 30 million, Cop Out will sadly reach a level of profitability that its horrible quality makes it entirely undeserving of.
I just wish the media would stop giving him so many platforms to fuel his inflated sense of self-importance. The man is a glutton and a drug addict, and he’s there’s little correlation between the length of his career with his abilities as a director. If we all ignore him, maybe he’ll thankfully decide to go away and retreat into a haze of pot smoke.
jesus dude… how can someone build that much hate for a person… it’s just movies. chill the eff out
Good point, but you gotta admit there, D-Man, that Smith IS basically just a big ol’ gi-normous bag o’ gas.
Kevin Smith is not such a huge idiot as you might think, he might even have a sense of humor.
Michael Moore pegged it right, he said fat people are the last ones we can discriminate against with impunity.
Kevin Smith is talented, no kidding, and gets it. On Clerks, he said : “They kind of say ipso facto you’re a filmmaker. I don’t know if the title applies, you know, it’s like come on guys, it’s 90 minutes of dick jokes set in a convenience store. I don’t know if it’s truly the nature of film.” (Source of the quote: Screenmancer archive)
Clerks was a great film… almost 20 years ago
hey, leave smith alone. chasing amy is a good ‘un.
Don’t worry. I’m betting most of his remaining fans came out on Friday.
I think the combination of Fanboy spike and brutal word of mouth will mean a weekend total of 15 mil or so and a second week drop of more than 70%. With a final total of less than 35 mil or less than the production budget.
well i guess avatar’s creator, James Cameron, will have competition in the “egomaniacal windbag” category. its a shame so many hollywood creators fall into the trap that just because they are creative they are somehow better than the rest of us…
oh well. must be nice to get paid and to be an ass.
The difference with Cameron and Smith is Cameron delivers the goods and makes the studios rich. I don’t think Smith does. Although I am tired of see Smith and Rodriguez wannabes in film class.
I think anyone who actually listened to Smith explain the Southwest incident would realize that in the end, he regretted the circus that ensued. It was more embarrassing then anything else.
And how exactly is Smith egomaniacal? Again, if you listen to him speak, he actually doesn’t really think much of himself at all. Least of all as a filmamker.
“And how exactly is Smith egomaniacal?”
His response to Cop Out being shredded by reviewers was dripping with ego. He more or less said that he’s at a point in his career where the work he does is so specialized it transcends professional film criticism. He also thinks so highly of himself that he was compelled to say most of the negative critics were “reviewing him instead of the movie,” as if it’s all some big, organized conspiracy to undermine the brilliance of a comedic gem because what he perceives as the monolithic status of himself as a director needed to be taken down a peg.
Yech @ him and everything he’s done, not to mention everything he’s become, post-Amy.
That it transcends professional criticism? I think what he means is that he’s making dick and fart jokes, so why the fuck would they review it like it’s supposed to be art? And yes, the critics talked about him a bit because he’s just more interesting to talk about than the movie.
C’mon, ANYONE facing that kinda review is going to respond with some degree of defensiveness. Who do you think he is? Martin Luther King Jr.? Cut him some slack for reacting. He obviously doesn’t think he’s a genius director… he thinks he makes dick and fart jokes a little better than your average man on the street.
Then he whines that critics are irrelevant because the internet has democratized film critique. Well, he doesn’t fair any better in cyberspace than he does in print – Rotten Tomatoes gave “Cop Out” a 22% rating. His insecurity is severely affecting his talent.
Rex Reed’s review called the buddy cops “stoners”. Seeing as how they aren’t and there is no demonstration that they are in the movie, I’d say it lends credence to Kevin Smith being reviewed instead of the movie.
The audience I saw this movie with was laughing throughout. I don’t think reviewers take into account target audiences all that much.
KS makes films like an accountant. The number of times I’ve heard him explain that studios like him and let him make films because the films come in on time and on budget.
And he STILL won’t concede that Jersey Girl was a turd of a movie.
Cop Out was atrocious – shoddily made and painfully clueless in establishing any kind of comedic rhythm. It was very awkward witnessing scene after scene desperately flailing about in vain as momemtum is attempted to be mustered up. The characters from the David Cronenberg film Crash would’ve loved this film because it really is the cinematic equivalent of a catastrophic car wreck scene being rubbernecked.
Using Kevin Smith as a hired directorial gun on a project where he had no original script input made zero sense because screenwriting is the sole area that he hasn’t been an abject failure in throughout a career that, frankly, has had a longer shelf life than his actual talent level warranted. His Nikki-referenced status as a publicity hog is irksome and baffling because there’s an inordinate amount of real filmmakers out there who do work that’s infinitely superior, not to mention considerably more profitable, without achieving his level of pop culture ubiquity. How much longer is this guy going to coast by on the fumes of Clerks and Chasing Amy?
It’s a shame, b/c even though “The Crazies” is a remake. It’s a pitch perfect survival horror movie(not even overtly gory), and undoubtedly the best one that will come out this year. You heard it here first. Hope this one has legs.
I concur. It was trully terrifying which is what horror movie should be. Great acting (especially Olyphant and the deputy) and cinematogrpahy were big bonuses.
Legs or not,it`s a hit. Small budget and respectable opening plus good reviews. Good job.
If you knew anything at all about Kevin Smith Egomaniacal is not one word that should be use to describe him he’s as self depracating as they come.
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He deserves some respect and success on a bigger scale than he’s achieved before, he puts his heart and soul into his movies which is probably why he divides opinion down the middle. Give the guy a chance
Awesome to see Shutter Iland having another great weekend. Well desereved. Wonder how all those who trashed it here last week will play off its much deserved success. Reminds me of Inglourious Basterds. People here trashed that one too and look at it now.
Just because you think a film sucks doesn’t mean that you assume everyone else will think that, too.
Seriously? You truly believe Kevin Smith (or anyone) would want to be publicly humiliated to boost their upcoming project?
And if he were truly a “publicity hog,” he would have gone on every TV show that called him … but he didn’t.
When it’s obvious that every joke of the movie is in the trailer, and the jokes aren’t funny, you got problems. And why has Tracy Morgan actually become the actor his character is a spoof of on 30 Rock?
Wow. Avatar at 700+M. That’s nuts. I wonder if that conspiracist/lunatic Whiskey can prop up more fake numbers and arguments to prove Avatar lostoney. Btw, I bet he could score some kind of gig at an accounting dept at one of the studios. Aren’t they always trying to find new arguments fir how their pictures lost money?
How dare you accuse Kevin Smith of fabricating or taking advantage of the Southwest dilemma for PR. The man was embarrassed and angry at the incident because it was misinterpreted for something it wasn’t. And he purposely refused to go on shows like Larry King to discuss it because he did NOT want it to overshadow Cop Out. Why do some people hate him so much? I really don’t get it.
he’s successful. that’s enough for some. I’d think filmmakers would celebrate their haters on DHD– being hated sure beats being an unknown.
“Shutter Island will stay #1 with JUST a 51% drop?”
That’s a BIG drop off.
No “just” about it.
I thought 50% was average these days.
Revised (Sunday) is 41% – not 51%.
And 50% is average drop-off these days.
You were here last week saying it would drop by 60% and be #3.
Feeling a bit awkward, are we?
Shutter Island deserves the top spot this weekend considering the two crappy movies that got released this weekend.
I hopefully next weekend will be Shutter Island, AVATAR and then the rest.
After all it is Oscar time yeah! woh woooh.
Most likely, “Alice” as #1, actually.
I caught A Prophet and it is simply the best movie at the moment. I am sure a certain Cameron is kicking himself for not having the intel to produce a ‘man-tellect’ movie.
Oh! I am sure his Avaturd-fans would beg to disagree
Could your bias against Kevin Smith be any more obvious Nikki?
I’m glad Shutter has become something of a hit, I hope it keeps it in the conversation until the end of the year, particularly for Bob Richardson and Leo’s performance.
Not something of a hit. It`s a hit. It`ll clean $100 mio and than some.
I`m laughing at Paramount now. SI opens big with over $40 mio and has a good hold that made it #1 for two weeks in a row but the studio didn`t release “stunning success” comments like when their Oscar and boxoffice dud Lovely Bones opened with $20 mio for 4 days weekend (which is less than SI`s second weekend total). Bahahahahaha! Excuse me for laughing out loud but I`m so happy that SI, which they pushed to 2010 because they campaigned TLB for oscars, is now making money for the studio that TLB wasted and will cross $100 mio mark which is how much TLB really costed. Bahahaha!
P.S. Leo was incredible.
Is there a poll which reports percentages of the income of the movies depending on the number of theaters each movie played?
If the Southwest thing was indeed a publicity stunt (I wouldn’t doubt it) I’m not sure how effective it is. I didn’t know it was a Kevin Smith movie until now. Well played, fatty.
no Scorsese lapdog but Shutter Island owns…glad to see it sustaining well it’s second weekend, especially against brain-dead fare like Cop Out, The Crazies, and Avatar
Wow who would have predicted 700 million domestic and a crazy 2.5 billion worldwide for Avatar…
Avatar has just made overseas as much as Titanic did worldwide. @-@
I can’t see Cop Out doing more than $40-$45 domestic. It’s going to sink fast. Roper’s review was brutal!
“…just a 51% drop…” “Just” 51%?
Also from the world of understatement, the Titanic “almost” made it to New York.
Looks like WOM on Shutter Island wasn’t the skull and crossbones everyone said it was. I attribute the drop largely to the teenage crowd expecting a horror film, and I suspect it will hold at #2 next weekend. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it wasn’t a bad movie, either.
I thought it was terrific. So did everyone else I know who saw it. The absolute, unmitigated viciousness against the film on the board here last week when it made #1 (suspiciously by just a few people, repeating comments) with Scorsese’s best opening ever was downright bizarre. I’m glad it’s #1 again and those commenters can sup on some nice, tasty, warm crow.
“Alice in Wonderland” will be #1 next weekend, no doubt.
It’s making money so it’s great, huh? By that line of thought, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is also exemplary filmmaking.
Also, a 51% dropoff in week 2 is nothing to *crow* about. A percentile drop of that magnitude proves that most of the people who saw it in week 1 didn’t recommend it.
Cop Out was not boring at all, one of the first comedies i’ve enjoyed at the theatre in awhile. What’s with the KS hate? Hard to imagine his weight thing was a PR stunt since I read that he turned down good morning america, the daily show, and any other media outlet that wanted to talk about it.
Few film makers have failed to live up to their potential like Kevin Smith. “Clerks” was a brilliant synthesis of a specific period and movement in film, while “Chasing Amy” showed growth. Since then, its been one stupid, empty film after another, recycling the same, juvenile jokes over and over again. He’ll always have his core audience of geeks, but he’ll never be anything more than a novelty to everyone else. If “Clerks” hadn’t been so great, maybe people wouldn’t be so angry at him for turning out to be so mediocre.
I actually think the full court press by the right wing media over Dogma did more to hurt KS’s growth than anything else. He hasn’t even scraped a film that ambitious since then.
Cop Out was pretty good in spite of its script. The best stuff of the movie felt like improvisation between Morgan and Scott. It’s tough to say if Smith was milking the fat thing or not. He is pretty shameless, but I don’t really see a correlation between a humiliating headline and people wanting to see your movie.
In spite of the script? the script made the black list last year. I read the script and the script was much funnier than the movie.
I know piling hate on SI is so last week, but I really did dislike that laughable mess. Please people – go see GHOST WRITER to watch a gripping thriller by a master of the genre.
I highly disagree with you about “Shutter Island” – I thought it was fantastic.
That said, “Ghost Writer” was brilliant, and yes, everyone should see it if they get a chance. Of course, now you’ll probably get a slew of “I’ll never put money in Polanski’s pocket!” morons on here now that you’ve brought up his film.
Leo needs a voice. He still sounds like a high school kid & diminishes his work. Needs a little Lee Marvin w/a James Coburn chaser.
Avatar will cross $700 million in domestic box office gross today (Saturday).
A question: Say Alice in Wonderland boots Avatar from most 3D screens, that Avatar slides over to 2D screens in many theaters and is totally dropped from others, but that a month or so down the road many theaters decide to put Avatar back up on their 3D screens; would this be considered a second release or merely a continuation (marked by a resurgence) of the initial release? And what’s the rule on this? Does ‘first release’ last until the point at which the film is being shown on zero screens? (So, for example, if a film goes from 3k screens on opening weekend down to a low of 1 screen in 12th weekend, then surges back to 2,000 screens in week 13, is week 13 still part of the first release?)
Thanks in advance.
Second release is when a movie brought back on the screens after being totally pulled out. Like those 20th anniversary releases of Star Wars, ET, Exorcist,etc.Or like Hurt Locker that I`ve heard is back on some screens due to Oscar but was out of them for several months. If Avatar only loses some screens but is still in theaters and than get those screens back, it`s one release.
In that case, I could see Avatar’s first release lasting over a year. It will be a very long time before it isn’t on at least screen.
If theatre count falls then increases again this is called an “expansion”. If it falls to zero and is released again later then you have a re-release.
Here’s the last word on Shutter Island: someone high up should look into – well – plagiarism on this one. I direct everyone to watch the movie, The Ninth Configuration (1980), directed by William Peter Blatty (most famous as the author of The Exorcist). It is often considered a cult film and it won the Best Screenplay award at the 1981 Golden Globes. The film is based on Blatty’s novel, The Ninth Configuration (1978). Shutter Island has such a similar plot, with similar characters, that it’s truly surprising that Scorse made SI. I’d bet a thousand that he was well aware of the similarities when he first read the script.
written & directed by William Peter Blatty. Same characters, same plot, same ending. And it’s a better film. You should rent the DVD of Blatty’s film & see for yourself. There are so many major & minor plot points that exactly match, it’s unreal. A real shame, since Blatty’s film has been largely forgotten over time. Check it out & find out for yourself.
You do realize that “Shutter Island” is a novel by Dennis Lehane, right? That the film is an adaptation of that novel?
The novel SHUTTER ISLAND still postdates Blatty’s work.
I recognized the similarities between SI and 9th Configuration, it has a similar setting and a similar resolution in certain ways, but by no means are the plot and characters the same to the degree it could be called plagarism by any stretch.
Very true – and not knocking “Ninth Configuration” or Blatty. Just saying that Scorsese didn’t “rip off” “Ninth Configuration” by adapting a Dennis Lehane novel that’s similar to it, as someone up there was bizarrely suggesting.
Both of those movies were based on novels. I hardly think Shutter Island could be considered a sequel to The Exorcist as the other films scribe describes The Ninth Configuration.
Corporate owners of Hollywood please read and learn. Good movies live forever. Movies like these don’t. The mighty dollar IS mighty. Making money and lots of it. Yes. I understand that. But to make long term money, please consider excellent writing, acting, storytelling. Not short term weekend boxoffice and payoffs to the “reviewers” who push your product. Look at the history of movies. Look at the movies that whose lives have lived since the beginning of movie making. No intention to disrespect you but as corporate bottom liners, you have no perspective or experience about what is excellent. You are not creatives, though many of you think you are. If you want to make lots of money, then I implore you to think about these ideas. Or think about this: What would Humphrey Bogard or Jimmy Cagney or Steve McQueen or Paul Newman think of these movies? I’ll leave you to answer that question.
The author of the article needlessly shits on Kevin Smith and makes the outrageous claim that the Southwest thing was a PR stunt (guess he paid someone to throw him off and then thought podcasting and tweeting would reach a wider audience than Larry King Live, GMA, etc). A few more pile on. Then we have someone recommending we skip Shutter Island to go see the movie by the child rapist? Wow…
Ghost Writer was horrid. I’m all for smaller films doing well, and mainsteam films failing; such as that mess known as Avatar, but Shutter Island is a masterpiece that the public are enjoying. So let it be.
I am glad Crazy Heart is doing well. Looks like Up in the Air dropped off the buzz radar. I think Bridges will win the Oscar.
All these comments just suck. I thought these comments were from legitimate hollywood but instead from a bunch of idiots, re: KS Fat issue discussion, go see ghost writer?!? Idiots. And hoping a movie bombs -perplexed go back to New Mexico and live your life being a cow tipper. Last I knew – if u work in the business u support theatre sales and audiences flocking to theaters so our industry continues to make money.
So that’s what became of “A Couple Of Dicks”? I remember reading that script awhile ago. Not surprised about the title change for obvious reasons. I caught “The Crazies” over the weekend and would recommend it to horror buffs. Probably the best horror remake/reboot there’s been since “Dawn of the Dead,” with some truly scary set pieces (the car wash attack is going to be remembered for years to come) and it’s a great looking film to boot. Will probably disappear fast when “Alice” opens next weekend, but it’s worth a look.
I think I would have been more impressed by the car wash scene in THE CRAZIES had I not seen the somewhat similar bit in THE FINAL DESTINATION. Car wash horror is kind of played out at this point.
Come on, did anyone like The Crazies? I walked out after the first 10 minutes. The tv spots and trailers are bad so the film made good on the promise.. Not a great film!
I think the beauty of the entire movie is you don’t know how to feel and you don’t know which to believe. You are very much in the mind of Leo’s character. Paranoid and stuck between two different things that both could very much be true. I called it very early on. The fact that it didn’t show him anywhere else but the Ferry and the Island. He has experienced Trauma. The Doctor said he does experimental procedures. Patients seemed coached. Just met his partner. And there wasn’t much to the movie unless he was crazy. Frankly, practically from the beginning I just felt that’s the only way it could have been.
Cool. Thanks for blowing the twist. Now I no longer need to see the movie.
Just plain rude.
Wow was “Shutter” a major disappointment — and for a Guy like Scorsese who prides himself on originality… to just steal a bunch of pieces of other films and call it “his own” is truly a sign that it’s time for him to go back to teaching.
They were booing at the WGA screening.
Since when has Scorsese “prided himself on originality”?
He makes genre films and always have. In fact, one of his goals was always to make a film in every genre. Gangster movies, a boxing movie, a re-make, a romance…all of which reference other films in many ways.
How did you end up in the WGA without knowing anything about Scorsese or his films? Good lord.
Not to mention, even if you didn’t like it, even a weaker effort by a director like Martin Scorsese is not a sign that the man should “go back to teaching”. What is it with you people? Seriously, you don’t like one movie by a great director and suddenly he should “go back to teaching”.
Do us all a favor and don’t ever write anything – ever.
I read “Crazies” over a year ago and it was weak. Saw it the other day and noticed that they did some reworking–this time it was an improvement. But still…the whole thing is overdone.
You guys are so full of it, Kevin Smith is FAR from full of himself, he’s one of the most self-deprecating people ever. You guys know nothing about him and he’ll always make movies because he doesn’t LOSE money, even when his movies don’t do that well in theaters, they make money. He doesn’t need a big budget to make a solid comedy. He will always get work for that very reason. So get over it, internet nerds.
“Here’s the last word on Shutter Island: someone high up should look into – well – plagiarism on this one. I direct everyone to watch the movie, The Ninth Configuration (1980), directed by William Peter Blatty.”
Larry Brooks you are the man! I posted this similarity on another site. There is no question Dennis Lehane was influenced by Blatty’s plot device. For those who haven’t seen the Ninth Configuration, please get a hold of it, you will not be disappointed. It makes ‘Shitter Island’ look like a Shawn Levy flick.
Uh – yes – you…posted that same exact comment up above – where it was pointed out to you that “Shutter Island” is an adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel.
The stories may be similar, but if you have a problem with it, take it up with Lehane – not Scorsese.
Ah – sorry, my bad. Thought it was a repeat of Larry Brooks’ comment.
SI was OK, but way below Scorsese’s ability. He rocked on the Cape Fear remake, but SI was just ‘not bad” for the most part.
About Avatar…It did what movies are supposed to do. Get people into the theaters again. So what’s the problem?
Well said FILMFAN, well said indeed. Where are all you SHUTTER ISLAND haters spreading all your poisonous opinions about such a masterpiece of a movie? Where are all you “nay-sayers” who said this movie would drop 60-70%? SHUTTER ISLAND is number who one for the second straight week and all you guys have to talk about is COP OUT.Let me tell you just went to see this movie with my girlfriend and we both thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Great cast, good story, good score. All this bad editing you guys were singing about, never saw it. I thought this was one of Scorsese’s best films especially moving into a different genre. You people are nuts, absolutely nuts. Leonardo Dicaprio..quickly becoming one of my favorites and definitely one of the best hollywood has to offer. After seeing his performance in so siked to see INCEPTION, i mean so siked. I was already siked now i’m really siked. Hahaha to all you losers who thought SHUTTER ISLAND drop like a hammer…freeking losers. Grow some brains people.
I hope Smith and Willis are not cheering for 18mil. This is a colossal failure. Once again,Smith is involved. If this makes 40mil for it’s entire inception, I’d be suprised.
The trailer was middling,and when Tracy Morgan quotes a ‘Die Hard’ idiom, I nearly pulled thatfat ass off the plane myself for such hackneyed work.
Kevin Smith seems to write everyone in the same voice. I have liked a few things he’s done.
I read the novel, but didn’t bother with the movie because I found the novel a bunch of predictable cliches. It seems like a thousand other things I’d seen.
Another side note on SHUTTER ISLAND. Not only was it an amazing movie but it may have had one of he best ending credits i have ever heard. “this bitter earth” by Dinah Washington on “nature of daylight” by Mike Richter may be the saddest, most gripping beautiful song ever featured in a movie and it couldn’t have been more appropriate a song to cap off and really punctuate what was an amazing movie. I couldn’t let myself leave theater until the song was finished..it was that beautiful and moving a piece of music and those of you whom saw the movie and enjoyed it im sure would agree with me. An amazing piece punctuating and ending what was an amazing movie. Well done Leo and Marty!!
Eh,
are you nuts? The movie cost 30 and most had it making 12-14 this weekend. 18.5 is a big success and it will suredly turn a small profit
“Shutter Island” is my must see movie for the next week, and I’m still interested in “Cop Out”, even though I’m POSITIVE I’ll be disappointed. This weekend both movies will be slammed to the mat by “Alcie in Wonderland”, another film on my radar. Then it’s a month-long slog towards what looks to be a possible box office gargantuan in “Clash of the Titans”, now in 3D! (3D, ugh!)
It also didn’t hurt The Crazies that the buzz was REALLY strong for this remake.
mickeyitaliano:
Last time I checked, an $18 million opening weekend for a $30 million movie is a pretty good number. It’ll end up more than making up its budget in the theater, then really earn once it hits the “home theater” market (which is what Hollywood makes most of its money from these days).
Not every movie is expected to earn a hundred million dollars in its theatrical run. It’s all about cost vs revenue.
Another fairly predictable weekend at the box office for the openers, yet the light drops all around were a bit of a surprise.
1. SHUTTER ISLAND – After speculation that this would sink like a rock, the alright hold proved that Scorcese’s name holds some power to it and the film has been getting better word-of-mouth than assumed. Playing out every week with similair 45% drops, a $125-135M total is in order which is in line with THE DEPARTED. However, I wonder how it would have done if still released in October.
2. COP OUT – Junk does well at the box office, but with the lackluster Saturday bump, a 50+% drop should be expected in the weeks to follow.
3. THE CRAZIES – I hoped this would have beaten COP OUT, but it kicked it’s ass when it comes to PTA. I was surprised how good this film is and word-of-mouth has been great. Hopefully it will have better legs than your typical fright flick, but with ALICE opening next week and having wide appeal, it seems like a challenge. Yet the high PTA is a good thing to see. SEE IT!
4. AVATAR – Anyone else shocked Fox didnt do any “SEE IT BEFORE ALICE TAKES OVER” campaigns? Anyways there is not much left to say until next weekend where we will truly be able to guess where this film will end its run but even then its up in the air.
5. PERCY – After last weekends frightening fall, PERCY found the legs it needs to become a franchise, but AIW might steal some kiddies away. $100M is still possible.
6. VALENTINES DAY – The first film this year to cross the $100M milestone, $120M final seems in order which is sad considering its giant OW, but WB ain’t complaining at all.
7. DEAR JOHN – With a surprisingly great hold, a final in the low-$80Ms seems likely which is a win for Sony.
8. THE WOLFMAN – If only the movie was as scary as it’s weekly drops then it might have been a hit!!!! Universal just can’t cut a break and it looks as if this will be the end sadly of the classic monster ressurgence franchise idea they had. I was looking forward to that but maybe if they had better quality and budget control on the future planned films, they still might go through. The over-inflated budgeted GREEN ZONE seems likely to suffer this film’s fate after a mish-mashed marketing campaign and a lack of enthusiasm. $70M seems unlikely to be attainable for this $150M flick and if any film loses screens to make room for the future films coming out this week and next, it will be WOLFMAN.
9. TOOTH FAIRY – The Rock just won’t let go of the top 10 and TOOTH will probably rank in the top 10 next week too assuming it doesn’t lose it’s screen due to ALICE. It makes more sense to keep this film than WOLFMAN since this has been out longer, theaters get more $ for keeping it. After it’s underwhelming OW that made most think it would sizzle out like SPY NEXT DOOR, TOOTH held on although it was just as unbelievable nauseating and now $60M is possible.
10. CRAZY HEART – A true sleeper, where this film goes next will depend on Bridges’ winning the Oscar. However, I see $45M finish most likely which is a MAJOR success for this film.
*OUT OF THE TOP 10 BUT NOTABLE*
-BLIND SIDE (#11) eeks its way ever closer to the magical $250M mark which it should break even quicker if Sandy wins the Oscar. LAST STATION (#13) had a big expansion and kept a so-so $3000 PTA, but it should dwindle down quickly considering it’s low Oscar chances. EDGE OF DARKNESS (#14) and FROM PARIS WITH LOVE (#15) plummeted out of the top 10 into $2.99 bin oblivion. THE GHOST WRITER (#17) sizzled a $20000+ PTA, however will Oscar winners distract the same movie-goers who would see this? And how will mainstream audiences take it? If Summit keeps it’s great marketing plan on track, GHOST can be a mid-size hit.
THE CRAZIES also did well because it’s a good movie. As you know, ads will buy you Friday, but the Saturday bump comes from good word of mouth. The film is a knock out….
I’ve seen a few comments here about Ego. They must be from people who’ve never done anything. If someone achieves in life and in their industry, they likely got there by being full of themselves, not by being full of false humility. Ask an Olympian.
Listen, Cop Out was not a great movie by any stretch. That being said, it made me laugh out loud quite a few times. I haven’t been able to say that about a comedy in a long, long time. Maybe I have a childish sense of humor and dig bathroom humor and dick jokes but this is hardly the worst movie ever made and certainly not the best. It’s a stupid, fun way to spend a couple hours getting out of the snow.
So many of you are on here getting personal with your attacks… Why? Nobody comes to your office and tells you you’re fat piece of garbage because your reports are messy or you’re a no-talent-hack because my fries weren’t hot.
Maybe one day you’ll all be lucky enough to make a movie and when you do I hope you smile when everyone else tells you how awful you are, how disgusting you are physically and how untalented you are. Geez, I wish this site came with a mirror so you people could see how ugly you are. Truly sad and shameful.
Cop Out: the audience exercised its right to remain silent.
I find it astonishing that people on the internet can espouse hatred to somebody they clearly don’t know. Everyone I’ve seen dissing Smith doesn’t even get what he does or who he is.
Also, kind of ironic when Smith’s went on record as saying that once Scorsese had his Oscar he felt he didn’t need to watch the awards anymore.
With Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland opening in 3d and Imax 3d I expect some local cinema operators are going to be left out in the dark with new 3d technology. U know there are still some cinema operators according to Cinema Treasures who are hostile even to the new digital tech. Even though the local cinema has the latest digial projector tech; it lacks tech to generate 3d and with a lot more films being release in 3d I expect a lot of them are going to lose thier audience to higher chain theatres who have the 3d tech.