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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
SUNDAY PM/MONDAY AM - 7TH UPDATE: Did the Midwest blizzards depress box office? Well, not a single studio exec mentioned it to me, and usually they’ll hide behind any excuse… Here are the Top 10 North American movie grosses for Friday and Saturday and Sunday. Both Walden/Fox’s The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and GK Films’ The Tourist really underperformed domestically. The bright spot were specialty films in an otherwise disappointing weekend. Fox Searchlight’s Black Swan directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman easily cracked the Top 10 at #6 despite playing in only 90 locations. That $37,024 per screen gross average momentum should help its Oscar chances along with the $31,141 per screen gross average in 19 theaters for The King’s Speech from The Weinstein Co. Paramount/Relativity’s The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale platformed as a knockout this weekend – a big $320K from only 4 theaters – also helping its Academy Awards stock:
1. Chronicles Of Narnia/Voyage Of Dawn Teader 3D (Walden/Fox) NEW [3,555 Theaters]
Friday $8.2M, Saturday $9.5M, Sunday $5.9M, Weekend $23.6M
Fox management will be glad to see 2010 end. Narnia 3 didn’t get much of a Saturday kids matinee bounce domestically. A weekend opening of $40 million would have been a home run for the studio restarting this fantasy franchise. Instead, Fox has only the low end of what it wanted for a 3D film. But “the real story of this movie’s performance may well be the multiple off its opening and not the opening itself,” a Fox exec emailed me Friday. “Word of mouth about a great family film will serve us well as we move into the holidays.” And foreign could save it. Fox tells me Narnia 3 has already done $105M with international, “a very good start”. Its budget of under $150 million, with Walden still the co-financier, is nearly $100M below the second film. Plus Narnia 3 was shot in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK because of tax and currency conversion reasons.
Fox really pulled out all the stops, including a London Royal Premiere in London with the Queen herself. The studio dated this PG threequel the same opening time frame as the first blockbuster film, and Fox took great pains to reestablish ties with the faith-based communities who made the first film such a hit and were ignored by the 2nd film, which was released in summer and promoted with a lot of battle imagery. To that end, Fox hired Christian PR consultancy Grace Hill Media to reach out to churches, religious radio, faith-based websites, and so on. ”The biggest hurdle was how to resurrect the franchise after the second film left the perception of a failed franchise,” a Fox insider tells me. The Walden franchise had been at Disney, then moved to Fox because of a relationship dating back some years: Elizabeth Gabler at Fox 2000 originally wanted the series and pitched Walden on it before it went to Disney. When it became available again, Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos felt the franchise had a lot of life left in it, and Narnia just needed to be re-configured and re-launched.
2. The Tourist (GK Films/Sony) NEW [2,756 Theaters]
Friday $6M, Saturday $6.6M, Sunday $3.8M, Weekend $16.5M
When Angelina says to Johnny in the trailer, “I’m sorry I got you involved in this”, we now know what she meant… Who knew? Not the distributor Sony Pictures which saw a fun sexy PG-13 thriller starring what’s surely the world’s hottest pairing right now and decided it was a big commercial pic that was going to play great during the crowded holiday season. Oops! But The Tourist really struggled on tracking all the way up until Thursday when it saw a jump. “But I think that jump may be more a function of marketing support rather than genuine interest,” a rival studio exec told me Friday. Filmgoers who were predominantly female only gave it a “B” CinemaScore. Said Sony on Sunday, “While the opening was soft, we expect the film to play to a solid holiday multiple and perform substantially stronger overseas where the title rolls out thru the end of the first quarter in 2011.” Indeed, European distributor Studio Canal planned the biggest ever release across Europe because it’s a remake of its own 2005 film, Anthony Zimmer. And during its shoot, The Tourist paralyzed Venice and those parts of Italy where it was filming. (At one point, production was shut down because too many fans showed up trying to get pics.) Talent participated in a worldwide press junket in Paris and the cast and director are currently on a European tour.
GK Films financed the film in association with Spyglass Entertainment and Sony Pictures handled marketing and distribution. It was produced by Graham King and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck who, so the production notes claim, presented his vision of The Tourist to King who took all of 30 minutes to decide to finance and produce the film. English screenwriter Julian Fellowes wrote the original screenplay while American screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie (Valkyrie) and Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) did the rewrites. The production history of this movie was as convoluted as any thriller. Donnersmarck had previously dropped out of directing The Tourist. At that point Sam Worthington was going to play opposite Jolie. And Worthington only came on board after Tom Cruise dropped out. Cruise was originally going to star opposite Charlize Theron as the Interpol agent. Marketing was aimed at women, so the TV spots were bought during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, Barbara Walters/Oprah interview, etc.
3. Tangled 3D (Disney) Week 3 [3,565 Theaters]
Friday $3.4M, Saturday $6.8M, Sunday $4.2M, Weekend $14.4M, Cume $114.4M
4. Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows, Pt 1 (Warner Bros) Week 4 [3,577 Theaters]
Friday $2.4M, Saturday $3.7M, Sunday $2.3M, Weekend $8.4M, Cume $257.6M
5. Unstoppable (Fox) Week 5 [2,967 Theaters]
Friday $1.1M, Saturday $1.7M, Sunday $810K, Weekend $3.6M, Cume $74.2M
6. Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Week 2 [90 Theaters]
Friday $987K, Saturday $1.3M, Sunday $1M, Weekend $3.3M, Cume $5.5M
7. Burlesque (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3
Friday $1M, Saturday $1.3M, Sunday $800K, Weekend $3.1M, Cume $32.5M
8. Love And Other Drugs (Fox) Week 3
Friday $1M, Saturday $1.2M, Sunday $720K, Weekend $2.9M, Estimated Cume $27.6M
9. Megamind 3D (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) Week 7
Friday $554K, Saturday $1.2M, Sunday $780K, Weekend $2.5M, Estimated Cume $140.2M
10. Due Date (Warner Bros) Week 6
Friday $860K, Saturday $1.1M, Sunday $615K, Weekend $2.5M, Cume $94.9M
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The Fighter (Relativity/Paramount) NEW [4 Theaters]
Weekend $320K
The Kings Speech (The Weinstein Co) Week 3 [19 Theaters]
Weekend $591K, Cume $1.5M
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Week 6 [416 Theaters]
Weekend $985K, Cume $8.2M
The Tempest (Miramax/Touchstone) NEW [5 Theaters]
Weekend $45K
Waiting For ‘Superman’ (Paramount Vantage) Week 12 [55 Theaters]
Weekend $17K, Cume $6.3M
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The bigger story, however, is that the Narnia franchise is toast. Hate to admit it, but looks like Disney knew what they were doing when they dumped it after the second film. Disappointing, but it is what it is.
Narnia, and Toursit were predicted to do a lot more.
30 mill for Burlesque is great. I finally watched it, it was actually really good.
Tangled looks like it won’t make it’s 260 mill budget back in the US. Loved the movie though.
Tangled is killing internationally. Plus merchandise on this film is selling like hot cakes. It will easily make back what it cost. Disney profits are far more complex than just BO.
“Tangled is killing internationally”
No it’s not.It’s only made 45 million in more than 20 markets internationally.It’s total box office to date is 149 million on a production budget of 260 million.Tangled is a bomb.Disney is going to be covered in red ink over this poor choice of a film.
In the most markets Tangled had a very successful start (most starts were in small countries, a lot of big markets still coming Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain) and most European countries have Xmas holidays soon. At the end it will pass the 600 mio maybe 700 mio mark worldwide. My expectations are Russia 30 mio, Germany 30 mio, France 40 mio, UK 40 mio, Spain 20 mio, Italy 20 mio, Australia 20 mio, Rest of Europe 80 mio, Japan 80 mio, Rest of Asia 50 mio, Latin America 40 mio, USA 200 mio, sum worldwide 650 mio.
Hum… it only opened in 35% of the international market for only the 2nd week. Seems like you have no idea what you are talking about. Plus it’s a fact the merchandise was flying off the shelves even before the movie came out. Sorry to rain on your little hate parade.
I think wh should have to wait and see if the tourist has any legs. If it does then it could be not be a bomb. If it goes down to 8 million next weekend then we could say that it is a bomb.
Black Swan is fucking amazing. Just, amazing.
-RnsW
I’m going to choose to believe that older audiences that would go see Angelina and Johnny were too busy with work and Christmas to see The Tourist on friday night. I know that was the case with me, even though I saw Salt opening night. Teenagers and college audiences simply don’t see Angelina as the icon older audiences do, it seems.
the two biggest stars in the world can’t open a movie. i bet they can sell tabloids though.
Knew it was a dud the moment I saw the first commercial. I guess the rest of America isn’t as stupid as Hollywood thinks.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, but Hollywood just keeps paying these people all that cash. Not that I want to deny anyone cash or as much money as they can, but come on. The movie looked horrible and what’s the big deal about Jolie? Pfffttt..
Wait, so The Tourist is going to make less than The Bounty Hunter did opening weekend? Even with Depp and Jolie as the leads. Wow, just wow. Maybe now we can stop referring to Angelina as the biggest female star in the world. A huge movie star is usually review proof.
Jolie seems like a one trick pony at this point. How many more assassins or spies does she plan on playing? Honestly, I thought it was already getting tired with Wanted. And Depp, love him, but he doesn’t play normal successfully. And it’s especially bad when he looks bland and bloated. Who thought styling him like this was a good idea?
Is any one person “review-proof” anymore??
The only thing that term can apply to is the Jackass movies. Even Will Smith isn’t review proof.
Aniston will never be as successful as Jolie. Please just get that through your head and it will be ok. At least Angelina has opened a movie, quite a few times.
Here in Philadelphia, I’ve never seen a weekday matinee as crowded as Black Swan yesterday. The line was out the door at 1 o’clock on a Friday afternoon. The theater was totally caught unprepared — there wasn’t even a ticket taker on staff, and the one guy at the popcorn stand was selling the tickets. The movie started a good 20 minutes late, and I can’t remember any audience for any recent movie as transfixed and absolutely silent — no chatting, no wandering in and out, no texting, not a single blue screen in the house for 2 hours.
In Toronto on Thursday night I tried getting a ticket for the 9:00 at about 6:30 and they were already sold out. I know it’s Toronto and these types of films tend to do well here but I still thought that was fairly impressive.
Well it was expected. They (producers) should have make Johnny Depp to lose wight. Johnny’s bloated face distracts all the time. And no one knows what the movie is about. They should have choose a better script. That’s why it failed.
Depp was very fat & bloated. No sex there.
well i am just shocked that another expensive movie from 20th century-flops underperformed! how much money do they have to lose before they clean house? they must have wiped out the avatar profits by now. (and gulliver’s travels = meet dave)
What happened with Narnia? Putting aside issues of quality, was it because most people only read the first novel? Was the height of the popularity of the books so long ago that there was no way the whole book series could enjoy sustained success other than the first novel? I thought putting the film back in the Christmas timeframe was supposed to answer critics who thought ‘Caspian’ didn’t belong in a summer time slot.
And whatever happened to ‘Narnia is tracking very well’? Guess not. Then again, The Tourist wasn’t tracking well, and it’s a bomb. Suddenly I’m getting concerned for my Tron:Legacy.
The Fighter looks very good, and I hate boxing movies. May have to go see that one.
Yeah, Fighter looks great and I normally can’t stand Bale but his performance looks refreshingly free of histrionics for once.
The first Narnia did fantastic box office but that was five years ago. The 2nd one was released in a May slot that put it up against Indiana Jones 4, with very poor advertising. For this one, Fox needed to really raise awareness for the franchise, but their promotion had been sub-par to put it mildly.
Even Lord of the Rings had a Burger King tie-in, for heaven’s sake!
‘Bomb’ is a strong word, sure it ‘disapoints’ or ‘underperforms’ , but it doesn’t ‘bomb’. It will make 200M+ worldwide, maybe even 300M that’s not a flop, it is just simply an underperformer considering the budget (100M) and the star power. It is basically Knight and Day all over again : two Box Office stars team up for an action romance and the film underperforms stateside BUT makes up for it on the international circuit.
I’m pretty sure you just described The Bounty Hunter, that Aniston flick that was considered a total flop. Btw, The Bounty Hunter cost half of what it cost to produce The Tourist.
Mike, you sound like you are on Ms Aniston’s PR team? Stop making comparisons between your client and a serious film actress. When it comes to the genre audiences expect to see Jolie in she does great BO, especially overseas. When it comes to smaller dramas she gets critical acclaim and not as much BO. And when she tries to step out of her comfort zone with a light caper-ish film it doesn’t seem to work so well. Same with Depp. He has really only made money with Pirates but he has done well critically in smaller movies with no green.
In any event, the reviews are puzzling as The Tourist is just not deserving of the critical bashing it is getting. I’m almost sure that if this movie had no Big Names attached you would not be seeing these kinds of reviews – you’d be seeing ratings in the mid range.
I’m not particularly happy to see posts here that seem fueled by celebrity animosity. I am amazed that people like “Mike” are going there.
Which meants it wasn’t such a big flop as The Tourist, since the the tourist then hasa lot more money to los! Why Johnnie Depp would lower himself to do a movie with that rat skeleton, plastic looking face Anjelina is beyond me, oh wait, money that’s right, but see what happens when you get greedy Johnnie she now hurt your image, she already ruined Bradd’s image but you don’t deserve it, since you aren’t the scum bag that Brad is.
Chelsea Handler–Don’t you have better things to do than stalk Angelina Jolie on the internet? And comparing Jolie to Aniston is what crazy people invested in a stupid 6 year old divorce do.
Move on, reject. Go drink some vodka and get sunburned in Cabo on Thanksgiving, while you bitterly rant about how EVIL Angelina Jolie is.
You really need to get off the Bounty Hunter thing. It was a terrible movie that made $135m worldwide. The Tourist will double that when its international grosses are counted. Hence why Angelina is considered a global superstar and Jennifer Aniston is not.
So what if it does double the Bounty Hunter’s global box office – it would still only mean that they performed similarly but The Tourist was slightly less successful financially. People are forgetting that The Bounty Hunter’s production budget was just $40 million, and with two “lesser” stars than Depp and Jolie and with terrible reviews as well, it somehow managed to make half its budget back on opening weekend, and more than triple its production budget after worldwide box office totals were finalized. The Tourist has around a $100 million budget, so to have compared to TBH financially it would have had to earn around $50 million this weekend, and more than $300 million worldwide – something it seems a far cry from earning at the moment.
The only point in comparison here is to say that The Bounty Hunter was widely panned all over the web and in the media immediately following its opening weekend, yet many on here are trying to make excuses for The Tourist. The numbers and reviews don’t lie – regardless of which “stars” you prefer.
We love Jennifer Aniston in France! Her face, hair and body are remarked upon a lot by French women who know how much work it takes to be beautiful and healthy and natural.
But she is not the topic here, is she? If she was in a movie this weekend, I have not seen it.
I am in the U.S.A. and went to see the Tourist because I love Johnny Depp and Venice is wonderful.
The movie was not so wonderful.
Angelina Jolie is very strange-looking, not a natural beauty any longer. This is important because this movie relied on her beauty.
I look forward to seeing Black Swan sometime.
The Bounty Hunter wasn’t considered a ‘total flop’, or at least it shouldn’t have been considering it did well stateside AND overseas especially considering its budget (40M). I’m aware Nikki was quick to call it a flop – just as she did with this film – but I’m pretty sure that was NOT the case, or at least studios rarely complain when their 40M-films make 135M worlwide…
The Tourist will probably gross over 300M worldwide, so I don’t see the big fuss here. I guess the site gets more hits with provocative titles like this one…
@mike. Isn’t it great how these other posters find all these excuses for Jolie’s flop(s), but you mention that “Bounty Hunter” did better than “Tourist”, and all of a sudden you’re on Aniston’s team? Sounds like the pot needs a reality-check!
The success of “Black Swan” makes me happy. The word of mouth must be great.
LOL Pretty expected. Narnia had a dissapointing debut in the second installment, what did they expected for this one??? I mean really???
And Jolie only sells when she has a gun in her hand (Salt, Wanted). Her face doesn’t really sell, ie Changelling and AMH. Johnny is only relevant when he has TONS of make-up on other than that he is no Will Smith. The tourist will sank even more next weekend when Tron comes out.
Well, Unstoppable is the champ with legs….don’t write off the Tourist yet, because $28Million is pretty good. This is a non-action, non-Pirates movie….and $28M is not a bad number. However, their salaries alone probably trumped that figure. Unless they took a pay cut.
Why must you say that The Tourist bombs when it makes 18 million on the first weekend. Just because it’s not number 1 doesn’t make it a bomb. It will make it’s money back. And, I have no connection the film…so I could care less about it. I just don’t think it’s responsible to call it a bomb Nikki. Not fair reporting.
This looked like a bomb from the location stills. Depp can do much better than this, and you can see he has absolutely no chemistry with the increasingly wooden Jolie. (He’s quite likable on his own, and with a different female lead MAYBE this would have had a better outcome.)
As awful as “The Tourist” looks (and its reviews), $18.5 million is hardly a bomb. Slightly underperforming perhaps, but not a bomb. Less than $10M would be a bomb. I’d say “Chronicles of Narnia” is far more disappointing. None of this bodes well for the Christmas movie season.
I’m sorry but your headline shouldn’t say bombs. Bombs is like 5 million. Besides this is December, it Can make up a lot during holiday week
ever hear about something called “expectations”?
In that case, the wording should have been “disappoints”, which others have already brought up here. But that doesn’t necessarily provide a provacative title, as someone else has said.
Sony will probably be happy with $18.5M for The Tourist given the scathing reviews it received. Without Johnny and Angelina, this would probably not even make $10M the way it was eviscerated by critics. It will make its money in the foreign markets which largely doesn’t care for reviews and where the two are huge draws.
Not surprised about The Tourist. From the first trailer the movie looked like crap. Total snoozer. And I am a fan of both Depp and Jolie.
I don’t know anyone who wanted to see “The Tourist” after than underwhelming trailer was released. I saw it. It was just OK. The locations are beautiful though. But it would have been interesting to see Jolie and Depp (who I really enjoy) do something different.
I don’t know about it being a “bomb” though. Was this really as hyped, promoted, and anticipated as a movie like “Salt”? I don’t think so.
tourist was way more hyped than salt.
It actually wasn’t.
We’ve been bombarded with “Tourist” buzz since Depp and Jolie turned up in Venice. So, yes, it was definitely hyped to the gills, But the proof is in the pudding, the movie might have been good, but the reviewers prepared us for the dud it was.
I watched Depp on Letterman last week – Depp was really cute and charming. They showed a clip from “The Tourist” and it was ghastly! Johnny was doing all the talking in the clip, and finally he said, “Why did all the chaos break out on the canals?” and she finally spoke (big moment!) “Because I KISSED you!” Everyone in the audience forgot to clap, there was a delay while they waited for something more to happen. It didn’t. That was the end of the clip. Apparently that was the BIG MOMENT. That’s when it was clear this movie was a turkey!
Sooo, how is it that “The Tourist” is considered a bomb but the pricier “Narnia” sequel, which only grossed three million more on Friday (and that is with the benefit of 3-D screens and nearly 800 more screens), is not?
and the head of sony just got reupped? the trailer made it quite clear the tourist smelled rotten. now word gets out that sony let james l brooks spend over one hundred million on a fucking love triangle dramedy (how do you know)? shame on you. seriously, shame on you. that’s morally reprehensible, you bourgeois-y bitches.