Specialty Box Office: December 10-11

COMMENTS (18)

• Well done to one and all. In a just world this would’ve been the real box office listing.

  Comment by Mohammed — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 5:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Saw “My Week with Marilyn” last night in a mostly empty theater. Acting was superb and there should be a couple nominations in Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. But the script didn’t match the acting and seemed a bit light in spots. May pull the acting talent down. This script needed one more revision. At least.

  Comment by jarlerguy — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 5:48pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Totally agree. It’s unfortunate too – with a better script, Michelle could have been a real contender, but it looks like she’ll ultimately be outpaced by Streep/Davis.

    Comment by Ralph — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 8:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• i run a performing arts venue, and we carry the Met Opera live in HD. We run it once, on Saturday afternoon. I beat the screen average on a number of the films above. They Met is regularly pulling in $2M every weekend. They should be included in this data. A lot of megaplexes are giving up a screen to these broadcasts pretty regularly.

  Comment by pejamo — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 5:54pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Amen to this! Every Met in HD I’ve been to has been sold out. Speciality box office is missing a big component by not including this story.

    Comment by macartney — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 7:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• No mention of We need to Talk About Kevin?
  Wow its almost as if people forgot about the movie.

  Comment by Jose — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 5:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Saturday 5PM screening of Tinker Tailor in the East Village was totally packed. The studio was handing out questionnaires to the audience, apparently gauging reactions in order to decide on how wide to go in future weekends. As a fan of the BBC miniseries, I was rather disappointed. Not awful, not even bad, but nowhere near as delicious of an experience as the original. Too much to cram in and not enough tension in the story or connection to the characters.

  From the conversations around me, the older people enjoyed it much more than the youngs. The girl behind me apologized to her friend for choosing this, confusedly explaining that the trailer was really good but it was nothing like the trailer. Will be interested to see how this platforms.

  It’s also a bit misleading to say it was only at two theaters in NYC, when one of those theaters, Lowe’s AMC in the Village, had it on three screens.

  Comment by macartney — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 7:02pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I was there, too! That 5PM Tinker Tailor was *packed*.

    The old people at that showing were quite curmudgeonly grumpy. I’m surprised any of them liked it. I’m a young guy and I *loved* it. I thought the tension was incredible and everything was just layering and layering and just perfect. The acting was amazing on all counts, too.

    I also went to see We Need To Talk About Kevin at the Angelika. Besides Swinton’s amazing acting, the movie has not one good quality. It made me question why I even watch movies. The story was preposterous, the characters never acted like real people, and the jumping around in time wasn’t as clever as it was trying to be. The Kevin movie deserves to be forgotten.

    Comment by Kenny — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 9:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• We need to talk about Kevin opened on one screen and had a $24,000 per screen average.

  Comment by Madsen — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 7:11pm PST  Reply to this post

• One day these will be the range of normal flux on 2500-3000 screens. If you give the kids good stuff and not sugar they will eat the good stuff. And good stuff comes in many great varieties. Thanks Deadline fir beginning to give the good stuff a voice. Just think, today, Taxi Driver, Coming Home, Being There would never have made a dent. Our movies today suck because of the nepotism in all aspects of our business. I’m going to stretch neopotism to friends in life. It starts with the writers of garbage. It used to be in the late 70s when I was at Universal we’d look for new voices and get excited. Today I get calls that this writer or writers are sons of so and so. Do a favor and pick up their script. It continues down the line. To the people really working and striving for great work, not blabbing on Facebook and Twitter, keep working at it. Times will change. And with Deadline opening the door a crack, hopefully more, really talented people will get through again.

  Comment by Thank you — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 7:31pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You offer a glimmer of hope. I can build on that, however fragile.

    Comment by Etoile — Monday December 12, 2011 @ 1:48am PST  Reply to this post

  • I agree with your statement, however, you do realize that one of the directors whose film is mentioned in this speciality section is sort of a product of nepotism.

    Comment by Drew — Monday December 12, 2011 @ 8:16am PST  Reply to this post

• “My Week with Marilyn” had fantastic acting in a good, but not excellent, movie. “A Dangerous Method” was incredibly disappointing, which was sad because the subject matter is so interesting.

  Comment by L — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 8:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• Which Tintin did they adapt? Was it Tintin In the Uncanny Valley?

  Comment by B — Sunday December 11, 2011 @ 10:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Paramount’s Young Adult platformed in 8 theaters with $40K per screen averages. Paramount points out that it out-grossed the expansions of both The Artist and Shame on half the screens.

  Quick note to Paramount executives that are having the crotches of their pants expanded to fit their huge balls – how much money has The Artists and Shame spent on a TV blitz on every stinking cable channel I clicked past last weekend? You have an advantage when it comes to marketing over these two films. Young Adult has spent a bit more than $40K in advertising on Bravo, E! and six other channels. You’ve paid to lure an audience into the theater.

  Comment by Frank Tien — Monday December 12, 2011 @ 6:17am PST  Reply to this post

• What about Margin Call? Isn’t that a “specialty” title? We saw this on Friday at IMO it was a terrific movie and definitely the best “serious” Wall Street movie ever…

  Comment by MikeT — Monday December 12, 2011 @ 7:54am PST  Reply to this post

• What’s sad is there are 15 comments here. But if there is a Myli Cirus headline that she farted on stage there will be 89 comments and God forbid we discuss Twilight. Shows that most on here are still today’s retarded you.

  Comment by Af — Monday December 12, 2011 @ 8:58am PST  Reply to this post

• I saw Margin Call the other day, and was really suprised how many well known actors were in it. What a amazing group, and they each had just enough screen time to make an impact, which was pretty cool. Several great monologues delivered, my favorite by Paul Bettany. One of the best movies I saw this year.

  Comment by Marcus — Monday December 12, 2011 @ 8:58pm PST  Reply to this post