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According to MovieTickets.com, domestic online box office ticket sales for Warner Bros’ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises are strong heading in to its 3rd weekend of release with the film accounting for 56.6% of all transactions for Wednesday. Sony Pictures’ Total Recall accounts for only 7.41% and Fox’s Diary Of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days accounts for just 3.71% of all transactions yesterday.
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i figure about 10-15 people go see ‘Recall’ this weekend… in the United States.
i know, i know it’s a bold prediction but i’ve got a good feeling about this movie (…that doesn’t involve homeless people for once).
These facts continue to highlight just how poorly The Amazing Spider-Man did at the box office, considering Spidey is just about the most popular superhero out there. Yet other superhero franchises are carrying away the gold.
Now it turns out if Sony proceeds with a sequel they may have to chance yet another new director without experience at these sorts of movies. The risk level with a sequel just goes up and up. Is there even a demand for a sequel to ASM? DVD sales ought to give us a clue, but I’d think it’d be far better for Sony to sell the rights to Spider-Man back to Marvel.
Exactly. With TASM closing to $750m worldwide there is no way Sony make a sequel. They will sell it asap! :/
Uh. Latest stats as of this afternoon put it’s worldwide gross at 658 mil, and losing steam fast. It was number 6 this last weekend, trailing behind Ted, a movie about a pothead teddy bear that comes to life, with a fifth the budget and a fraction of the promotion.
By comparison, Spiderman 3 pulled in 890 mil worldwide. Sony can spin the numbers all they want, but TASM will go on to be the weakest performing of the series, and anything beyond this will just be a case of diminishing returns.
TASM is still doing great business overseas, or did you forget about those markets? It maybe trailing the wildly successful TED domestically, but no where else.
it’s a hit.
I’m not surprised that Total Recall is tracking weakly, I personally have no interest in seeing it. The Dark Knight Rises should easily pull in $35 million for the weekend to win for a third straight week.
The Dark Knight Rises is the best movie of the Summer, hands down. It’s not surprising that the Batman sequel is still drawing a large audience. Great word of mouth will do that for a movie despite the tragedy in Colorado.
I have to agree, the new Spiderman movie was OK, but not great. I doubt Sony will let the rights go back to Marvel yet.
When it was announced that this “isn’t a remake” but a more focused adaptation of the book, I was excited. …And then came the previews, and nearly every scene, trailer, and press photo released look like exact replicas of the original (except the bit with the car falling to Earth (but even then, we were shown that they avoid crashing, so say goodbye to any suspense that scene was meant to have!)). I’m interested to see where the sequel will go, but these obvious remakes aren’t doing anything but keeping me at home to watch the Olympics.
Once again, bereft of new ideas, Hollywood decides to remake a movie thay didn’t need remaking. Does anyone think another dimunitive star, that nobody even likes, can replace a force of nature known as Arnold?I don’t mind watchig the gorgeous Kate Beckinsdale, but Colin Farrell is a lightweight.
If they stopped remaking things that no one asked them to remake they’d have more money and more happiness.
Has anyone else noticed that the first TOTAL RECALL with Arnold was rated R while the remake snags a PG-13? I doubt that this means the new version (starring Mr. Boxoffice Poison Colin Farrell) is less violent than the putrid (though hugely commercial) original, but simply that the jolly “censors” employed by the MPAA have become far more jaded, just like moviegoers, over the passing years. I’ve been joking for the past 30 years that if the authentic gladiator games of the Roman Empire (fights to the death) were staged for a week at Madison Square Garden for a paying audience (not to mention pay-TV event), it would sell out within minutes. I’m not joking anymore. People seem to forget the thumbs up/thumbs down verdict didn’t originate with Siskel and Ebert!
The following is a run on sentence like no other but it’s necessary for the sarcasm, please forgive me.
You mean to tell me that a half baked CGI laden remake starring a noodle armed Colin Farrell in a role that was originally held by an internationally renowned action star slash colossally huge bodybuilder who’s so famous two decades after the original film that 9 year olds know who he is didn’t succeed at the box office? Really? I thought for sure this one would be Oscar gold…especially with Jessica Biel thrown into the mix.