‘Sleepwalk With Me’ Wows In 1 Theater, ‘Samsara’ Very Strong: Specialty Box Office

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• Why is Nikki calling “2016 Obama’s America” an anti-Obama movie? If deadline.com had been around in 2004, would she have called F 9/11 “anti-Bush”? Please leave the spin out of the story: just call it a documentary.

  In any case, her claim the box office for this documentary would be totally frontloaded are wrong: Saturday’s estimates are besting Friday’s.

  Comment by Phil — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 12:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Here’s Nikki referring to Chris Rock in February, 2005 as being “anti-Bush”: http://www.alternet.org/story/21341/oscars_to_%27rock%27_the_red_states. Took me less than five minutes to find this.

    Why are conservatives wrong so often? Because they are so interested in perpetuating their myths (in this case about the media) that they don’t have any incentive to actually look for the facts.

    BTW, the description of the Obama “documentary” as being “anti-Obama” is only 100% accurate.

    Comment by Mike Harrell — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 4:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What happened to R-Patz’s supposedly legions of female fans? More interested in the personality than the actor and the films?

  Comment by Tony — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 1:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • While Pattinson is lucky to have legions of female fans, he also generates a lot of hate because of Twilight so I’m not surprised with these number

    Comment by Caro — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 2:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The numbers for Cosmopolis are fantastic!!It’s only showing in about 7 markets throughout the US. That leaves out about 93% of fans who are anxiously awaiting for EOne to open the film in our area.

  Comment by Vicky — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 2:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • It’s not fantastic. These numbers show Cosmopolis is not likely to expand.

    Comment by Anon — Monday August 27, 2012 @ 7:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• Kind of disaster for Robert Pattinson’s career. Lets compare numbers:

  2 Days In New York – Average $2,550
  Celeste And Jesse Forever – Average $2,614
  Killer Joe – Average $3,250
  Searching For Sugar Man – Average $4,425
  Chickens With Plums – Average $3,373
  Compliance – Average $4,800
  Cosmopolis – Average $2,435

  That means that there were more people in theaters for those movies then for Cosmopolis. And I’ve never even heard of those movies except Killer Joe! Cosmopolis had pretty loud promotion campaign. Every tabloid, ever magazine, every TV channel mentioned Cosmopolis when Pattinson showed up after hiding. … What is wrong with those so called fans? They will camp for Twilight, they will worship Pattinson and put his face as tatoo on their bodies!!!… but they will never show up for his movies Amazing.

  His career after Twilight is officially kind of over. There is a reason why no one is asking him to do big budget movies. Because he won’t sell them to public. His fans don’t care about him and ordinary people won’t see his movies because he can’t act. After Twilight he will just vanish in those small budget movies that will go straight to DVD or will have short run in 50 theaters. And he doesn’t have any talent to be in awards season. So he will just vanish. Kind of like Van Damme or Forest Whitaker or Adrien Brody or Orlando Bloom or many other once famous actors. Kristen Stewart will join him very quick too. Because people went to see Snow White for Charlize Theron’s crazy Queen and good visuals. And they just tried to ignore Kristen, who was the worst part of the movie. She can’t sell any movie on her own too.

  Comment by Shy — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 5:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Bad news for you, my friend. From what I have heard, Robert has like 4 movies lined up with great directors so his career is definitely not over during the next few years. About Cosmopolis, it’s true that the scandal put him on spotlight but that doesn’t mean that people will want to see Cosmopolis especially because it’s not a “feel good” movie. Let’s be real, if Taylor Kitsch is still doing movies after all that flop, anyone can.

    Comment by Jo — Sunday August 26, 2012 @ 6:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Problem is that none of those movies will get some box-office or critical acclaim. They will be just like Cosmopolis or Bel Ami. Will get some limited release and will be ignored by critics and viewers. And after last Twilight movie will hit the theaters – Pattinson won’t have anymore that free publicity.

      That is no career. Remember Orlando Bloom? He was lucky and had good agent and fresh of his Legolas success he scored supporting roles in big budget movies like Troy and Pirates. And producers thought that he is big star and gave him Lead role in big budget Kingdom of Heaven. And it showed that Orlando is no leading man and doesn’t have fan-base to support him. While there were 3 Pirates movies – Orlando was somehow relevant. He did promotions, he was in press. And then Pirats ended for him, there was no free publicity to stay relevant and he just vanished from spotlight. He still shoots some movies. But when was the last time you heard of Orlando Blooms movie? Or promotion for that movie? Or interview?

      That’s what eventually will happen to Robert Pattinson, Taylor Kitch, Zac Efron. Taylor Lautner.

      Comment by Shy — Monday August 27, 2012 @ 4:12am PDT  Reply to this post

      • Out of curiosity, have you wondered if maybe Orlando Bloom was just “tired” after making so many epic movies in such a short time? Maybe he’s doing stuff like Good Doctor just as a break?

        Comment by Eric — Monday August 27, 2012 @ 6:55am PDT  Reply to this post

        • No. His career really ended. He is not a Leading actor. I’m telling this to you as a former (some kind of) fan. I was charmed by Legolas. As everyone were. I watched that stupid Ned Kelly for Orlando. I watched Troy for Orlando. I watched Elizabethtown. And even Kingdom of Heaven. And that movie was bad because of Orlando. He ruined it with his empty stoned performance.

          He can not act. I was fan and did not payed attention to it. But movie after movie. Pitas after Pirats and I was just tired of his non-acting. He can’t help it. He tried. But he is not an actor. He can’t play different characters. And producers stopped calling him with big budget movie scripts. And no one even noticed how Orlando slowly vanished from movies that have wide release. He is doing small movies because no one is asking him to big movies.

          Comment by Shy — Monday August 27, 2012 @ 2:51pm PDT  

      • We don’t know about box-office but how can you tell it won’t get critical acclaim? Like I said, they have good directors and Pattinson will have more of a supporting role (Guy Pearce and Naomi Watts are the lead for exemple) so at least people won’t blame solely on him if something happens. I just find really unfair that imo Water for Elephants did open really well considering i.e. all the flops from this weekend (which no one is blaming JGL, who has been in various blockbusters, but imagine if it was Pattinson) and even Remember Me (56m/worldwide for that movie is pretty great) but people just refuse to give him any credit in anything. Only time will tell if he becomes, in fact, a Orlando Bloom.

        Comment by Jo — Monday August 27, 2012 @ 4:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Shy nailed it.

    Comment by D — Monday August 27, 2012 @ 7:43am PDT  Reply to this post