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SUNDAY AM: Warner Bros is already planning the 3D sequel. “The franchise is very much alive,” an exec told me this morning. Because this weekend’s opening for New Line/Warner Bros’ A Nightmare On Elm Street was $32.2 million — or 15.8 million Friday and $10.5 million Saturday and Sunday’s estimate from 3,332 theaters. (Friday’s take includes $1.6 million from Thursday midnight shows in about 1,000 locations, a new record for a horror flick previously held by the February 2009 rebooted Friday The 13th‘s $1 million.) ”A Nightmare On Elm Street is a dream that won’t stop,” a rival studio exec emailed me. Puh-leeze, this Michael Bay-produced pic received rotten reviews. In all, this is the 9th in the infamous franchise — if you count number Freddy vs Jason – with Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. (Robert Englund as the slasher used to scare me so badly I could never even watch the trailers of the old films.)
By contrast, Furry Vengence turned in a nightmare performance as expected of a politically correct kiddie pic about the environment. Remember when Brendan Fraser had a film career? Opening in 2,997 theaters, the pic was co-produced and co-financed by Summit and Participant Media/Imagenation Abu Dhabi. But the studio claims the $35 million budget went lower after rebates, incentives, and strong pre-sales by Summit International. Even so, this did only $1.7 million Friday and $2.9 million Saturday for a $6.5M weekend with Sunday’s estimate.
Here’s the Top 10:
1. Nightmare on Elm Street (NL/WB) NEW [3,332 Runs]
Friday $15M, Saturday $10.5M, Weekend $32.2M
2. How To Train Your Dragon (DWA/Par) Week 6 [3,426 Runs]
Friday $2.5M, Saturday $4.7m, Weekend $10.8M, Cume $192.3M
3. Date Night (Fox) Week 4 [3,093 Runs]
Friday $2.4M, Saturday $3.4M, Weekend $7.6M, Cume $73.6M
4. The Back-Up Plan (CBS Films/Sony) Week 2 [3,280 Runs]
Friday $2.4M, Saturday $3.0M, Weekend $7.2M (-41%), Cume $22.9M
5. Furry Vengeance (Summit) NEW [2,997 Runs]
Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.9M, Weekend $6.5M
6. The Losers (Dark Castle/WB) Week 2 [2,936 Runs]
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.4M, Weekend $6M, Cume $18.1M
7. Clash Of The Titans (Warner Bros) Week 5 [2,736 Runs]
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $2.6M, Weekend $5.9M, Cume $154.0M
8. Kick-Ass (Lionsgate) Week 3 [2,452 Runs]
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M, Weekend $4.5M, Cume $42.2M
9. Death At A Funeral (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3 [2,271 Runs]
Friday $1.2M, Saturday $1.7M, Weekend $4.0M, Cume $34.8M
10. Oceans (Disney Nature) Week 2 [1,210 Runs]
Friday $830K, Saturday $1M, Weekend $2.6M (-56%), Cume $13.5M
FRIDAY 2:15 PM: I was just told that the New Line/Warner Bros reimagining of A Nightmare On Elm Street debuted to $1.6 million from Thursday midnight shows in about 1,000 theaters. That’s way more than the previous record for a horror flick: the February 2009 rebooted Friday The 13th‘s $1 million. Today, Nightmare opens in 3,332 locations and my sources tell me right now the Friday domestic grosses look like a whopping $15M to $17M. So that’s a $40+M opening weekend for sure.
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Thanks, audiences, for supporting unnecessary remakes and making original ideas and voices a thing of the past.
I hate this business so very, very much.
Thats all that can be said negatively about this movie is that its not the original and for all of you critics giving bad reviews becuase this might actually be a bigger hit than the original just suck it up times are changing remakes are going to be made and some are going to be better than the original so just stop crying and enjoy the movie
You are obviously a washed up writer/director or someone who never made it in the first place. Don’t crap on the work of those that have been successful.
This is horrific. First, teenagers are getting murdered in their sleep and now they’re getting ripped off at the box office!
Rooney Mara and Thomas Dekker are gonna be big stars.
No way those two will be MOVIE stars… Her look is “exotic” and frail, and not much in the histrionic dept… HIS look is… I dunno… “jail bait” friendly with a tendency to overact… with his propensity to cruise in the saunas and at work… he may get gigs… but that wont make audiences flock to see him. Anybody who saw him belting out “original songs” at the jawbreaker screening at a west LA revival house knows that a) he needs to butch up and b) he seems to think of himself as a male lindsay lohan…
you can’t understand a word mumbley rooney mara says and thomas dekker has a closet issue
Not from these awful performances.
Does Cameron protect the teenagers from Freddy Krueger, get it!
No way this turd gets 40 – mid-twenties if they’re lucky – check your comps!
Heh way to both be wrong.
well, looks like it did better than you had thought – not mid twenties for sure.
This will do better than friday the 13th remake.
I saw this movie being a fan of the series and have to admit that if you are not a fan then this movie was pretty bad. The plot and dialogue were awful and being a horror remake I was expecting the bare minimum. Plus the deaths were all repeats from the previous films. Gonna crash next weekend but this is still an amazing figure (especially with no gimmick or holiday release date).
Hell, if these kids wanted a good scare, they should watch the original Nightmare on Elm Street with Robert Englund. And yes, Englund scares the hell out of me too.
as a horror fan, part of this makes me happy (even though the movie was disappointing). BUT, does anybody remember the record Saturday drop that Friday 2009 saw?
No really thought this movie was going to fail, did they?
If Voorhees could scare up $40M+ in his reboot’s opening weekend, obvs Frederick’s reboot was going to match that.
This is great news. I can’t wait to see it tomorrow. My friends tell me it is actually good unlike the Friday The 13th remake. Hopefully they don’t fag out with this series and actually make a sequel.
Great marketing job here. NMOES will surely drop off hard after this weekend, when word of mouth spreads.
Great trailers, great print, really good tv.
WOW! And this is getting a sad 15% on rottentomatoes
Past three NL/WB films (notice the pattern, all rotten and all major money producers)
NOES %14 rotten – $32mm domestic gross and counting
VDAY %18 rotten – $212mm worldwide gross
FD4 %27 rotten – $181mm worldwide gross
This goes back further, but I doubt we need to go there.
There is a formula to the terds that are crapped out over on Robertson.
Try real hard to develop a decent script, achieve that goal, and then hire the most unqualified director and producers you can to film the pages that took years and thousands of wasted dollars to write. After the hacks get done changing everything to the point of confusion during production, allow a bit of corporate smudging on the things that aren’t kosher in post & re-shoots, pardon -’additional photography’,and voila – a worldwide cash cow!
Simple, yet so hard to accomplish with a GOOD movie.
Maybe GTD will break the cycle.
Yeah, I was excited about it, and I would be seeing it tonight too if I hadn’t caught a free screening Wednesday and discovered that the movie is AWFUL. The “regular” audience didn’t seem very impressed either, and they’re usually pretty forgiving with free movies. With the drubbing from critics and mediocre (at best) word of mouth coming out the next few days, this lame remake won’t have legs. One great weekend and it will plummet.
It was fun seeing Freddy back and bad ass, again!
Don’t listen to the reviews. This movie was great. One of the first horror movies I’ve liked in recent years. Ranks up there with Paranormal Activity, the Blair Witch Project, etc. I found this movie entertaining from start to finish. Well done Jackie Earl Haley!
Anyone, and we’re talking ANYONE, who called this movie “great” should be flagged from this site.
Even my idiot horror buddies thought this was total shit — from start to finish. Haley did NOTHING unique with the role and exactly WHO were were supposed to root for again? Daniel, ignore the promises of promotion from those Plat Dunes morons — you will be getting them coffee forever.
Brendan still has a career in a movie that’s remotely watchable.
The real story is the super solid hold of How to Train Your Dragon.
Absolutely, How to Train Your Dragon is the real story here. Then again it shouldn’t be a surprise, it is one of the best animated films I’ve seen in years. Utterly brilliant and deserves all the good that’s coming its way.
I’m betting Brendon Frasier took this particular movie because they let him executive produce. CBS films didn’t let him executive produce Extraordinary Measures.
Role out the barrels… whe’ll have a barrel of fun…
I’m a die hard fan of the original and I must say that I enjoyed this movie. A little maudlin, yes, but also creepy, inventive, and effective. A true re-imagining of the franchise with enough to satisfy fans of the original while bringing something different to the table. This is much more successful creatively than all of the other PD remakes, especially the dreadful Friday the 13th. This is in no way the disaster that we all feared it could be, I know that much.
Wait, how could a 35m weekend be considered a success when Friday the 13th opened with 42m , immediately died afterwards and a sequel no longer being considered?
It’s a financial success, Friday the 13th part II was scrapped because of the studio’s decision, maybe they thought that they couldn’t make another one so that they would stop destroying a beautiful franchise (smart move)
$35M is not bad, at least it help to make this weekend a tad higher than last week, heck, it’s 60% of the BO weekend last year when Wolverine ripped Hollywood
I don’t know why people freak out when they re-make movies, I don’t mind them adding a modern twist to it. Besides, its not like they went out and literally destroyed copies of the original movies. The originals will always be there for us to compare.
very true — i guess people just don’t want their memory tarnished of the original, but most of the kids now have not even seen the original. And most people are cynical == especially those who are horror fans.
The tragedy is that once the godawful remake is out, everyone runs that version (on cable TV, etc). The abortion that is “The Longest Yard” is a great example of a fantastic film remade terribly, that is now the only version you see out. Every time I see Adam Sandler playing Paul Crewe I die a little inside. THAT is why people are so upset with these pieces of shit.
there isn’t an infinite amount of development money out there, some more worthwhile movie didn’t make it because money hungry execs wanted to go with this aborted turd
and remakes tend to attract ninth rate talent, same as with video game movies, that’s why people groan about them
“there isn’t an infinite amount of development money out there, some more worthwhile movie didn’t make it because money hungry execs wanted to go with this aborted turd”
Spot on…development $ is a finite resource. So I guess the execs should spend it all on innovative indie films with the right amount of verve and insider cred, right? Who cares what the PAYING customer wants when the critics are on your side.
See, the problem with your sort of “logic” (actually, more like il-logic) is that taken to the nth degree, the studio would fail to make money, the investors would lose money and eventually ALL the capital would dry up. In case you have failed to put point A with point B, this would mean that effectively NO movies would get made.
Perhaps, then, the better strategy is to float some guaranteed money makers out there so that there is capital available to invest in some of the riskier films. That is what this films is: a proven commodity sold to a willing populace…nothing more. However, the movie has played its part…and judging by the numbers, played that part well. Maybe because of the profits from this film one of your more “worthwhile” films will suddenly find some funding.
TLDR: Take your haute couture attitude towards films that make money and cram it up your ass.
@sosgemini:
Wow dude, you’ve taken the next step and written off a faceless horror remake that just made $15 million o.d. as a flop. Bravo. Never mind the fact that F13 had the titular “see it on Friday the 13th” gimmick to go with it, or that FvJ never had a sequel, or that none of that crap has anything to do with Freddy’s success.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but teenagers are feeling the grip of this economy, too: Fast food restaurants and department stores are the first places to start downsizing, and there’s definitely a way to snip the guy/girl who can’t even start a shift until after school. The ones who didn’t get canned last fall are now making crumbs, and even kids have things they need to pay for. They can’t afford the gas, ticket and marijuana; kids are just sitting at home, smoking dope.
So Freddy making $15 million yesterday is pretty damn good.
The Friday sequel isn’t dead because of the money it made but because the studios (WB and Paramount) are not seeing eye-to-eye. F13 made plenty to warrant a sequel!
First weekend box office = budget, will always be considered a succes.
I think it will drop like a rock next week just like the Friday the 13th remake.
Furry Vengeance gets 2% at RT. Patrice O’Neal and Jim Norton deserve better.
Patrice does absolutely. If he could stop self-sabotaging (per Chris Rock’s story) he could be a viable actor, his views on relationships and race are always hilarious. Norton – who’s material I enjoy obviously hence the username – is not an actor. Sorry Jimcy.
Hey fanboys! When is word of mouth going to kick in on Kick Ass?
Extraordinary Measures tanks, Furry Vengeance bombs and Brendan Fraser is still passing on a big pay day for sure-thing Journey 2?? Is he out of his mind?? That’s career seppuku.
Maybe he doesn’t believe New Line will make it without him. They will. And they’ll craft it for another star and it’ll be a hit and Brendan will look back and wonder, “what the hell was I thinking?”
Gotta love the Fraser Crash. WHY DOES ANYONE PUT THIS GUY IN MOVIES? I thought the title referred to some odd sexual practices with Fraser in a giant costume, a Furry. Which, based on stories surrounding the guy, would be comparatively mild.
This new Nightmare was beyond terrible. Jackie was good as usual but he couldn’t save it. Never seen half of an audience simultaneously just break out during the middle. Hopefully this puts the breaks on the Platinum Dunes remake train and forces them to develop original material for once. One of the worst horror films in recent memory.
Nobody goes to see their originals so they’re screwed. And with a budget of 25 mil on NOES that ballooned to 60 after re-shoots, whatever success they spin in the media is bs.
Platinum Dunes knows exactly what they’re doing. The suck train will never stop because for them this is a homerun. Here is the PD formula (if it’s not obvious):
1) Pick successful 80′s horror movie
2) Hire inexpensive talent to write/direct/act
3) Market the hell out of it
4) Laugh as the teen crowd shows up again and again
5) Repeat
These are surely the dark ages of American cinema and Platinum Dunes is leading the charge. They’re impervious to criticism because they simply don’t care. Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are sad small little men without a single original thought in their skulls. And they don’t care. Every production is a chance to bed another teen starlet.
The only thing that surprises me about Platinum Dunes is the Jordana Brewster / Andrew Form lovematch. If you’ve met him, you know what I’m talking about. I guess it’s true that actors have zero self-esteem.
truth
I love the Nightmare series, even the crap ones like sequel #3: Dream Warriors.
DOWN with Platinum Dunes!
The horror genre deserves its own U.S.B.O. niche, and it is hard to make money on the better horror indies which tend to come from Canada/U.K. Therefore, remakes are good for exposure, bad for art, and a mixed bag in the $$$ dept. My suggestion would be to let Bob Shaye (produced original Freddy) produce all the decent mid-major projects that come down the pipeline…through New Line!