11.09.09 BOX OFFICE WIPEUP: MOVIES I DON’T CARE ABOUT
Welcome to today’s box office wipe up, now consisting almost solely of movies I don’t care about. Robert Zemeckis 3D motion-capture thingie A Christmas Carol was number one with $31 million, though the studio was hoping for more like $35 or $40. It remains to be seen whether this is a harbinger of an eventual stinker or whether it will continue to play through the holidays. It’s pretty ballsy to expect people to be thinking about Christmas before Thanksgiving, and I’m just waiting patiently until this whole stupid mo-cap experiment is over.
This is It landed at number two and everyone says it’s great and blah blah blah I’m never going to stop hearing about this am I. Men Who Stare at Goats opened decently at $13 million, which is more than half its estimated budget. I actually want to see it I just haven’t gotten around to seeing it yet, in case you wanted to know. I’m very busy you see.
The Fourth Kind beat Paranormal Activity for the four spot, but while Paranormal is close to the $100 million mark, The Fourth Kind will be lucky to make $30 mil. The Box, from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, basically bombed at $8 million. Something about it makes me not care. On the indie front, Precious opened big, earning $100,000 per location. I heard Robin Quivers talking about it on Howard Stern this morning and she said it was “torture” and “why don’t they just take the audience out behind the barn and shoot us.” The gist was, “I don’t have to watch this torturous movie to know some peoples’ lives are horrible”. That was basically my impression from the trailer, but now you’ve heard it from someone who’s actually seen it, and a famous African-American radio personality at that. Join me next week for a box office wipe up post that might actually be funny. No promises.
| Film | Weekend | Per Screen | Total | |
| 1 | A Christmas Carol | $31,000,000 | $8,417 | $31,000,000 |
| 2 | Michael Jackson’s This Is It | $14,000,000 (-39.7%) | $4,022 | $57,855,000 |
| 3 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | $13,309,000 | $5,448 | $13,309,000 |
| 4 | The Fourth Kind | $12,521,000 | $4,955 | $12,521,000 |
| 5 | Paranormal Activity | $8,600,000 (-47.5%) | $3,362 | $97,430,000 |
| 6 | The Box | $7,855,000 | $2,981 | $7,855,000 |
| 7 | Couples Retreat | $6,428,000 (-0.5%) | $2,250 | $95,980,000 |
| 8 | Law Abiding Citizen | $6,172,000 (-16.6%) | $2,495 | $60,873,000 |
| 9 | Where the Wild Things Are | $4,225,000 (-28.8%) | $1,533 | $69,268,000 |
| 10 | Astro Boy | $2,588,000 (-25.2%) | $1,349 | $15,073,000 |
[via CHUD, BoxOfficeMojo, NikkiFinke]
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BOX OFFICE WIPEUP: MOVIES I DON’T CARE ABOUT
So Precious isn’t about fat white chicks?
I thought it was a Pretenders biopic
I hear Robert Zemeckis got Gary Busey to do the mo-cap for that chain in the picture.
Ok, who thought this animation with the motion capture was a good idea? Is it ever not creepy as hell?
You know…just by looking at her I always had a feeling that Cameron Diaz’s Box would stink.
Is that Andy Sirkis in Precious? He’s a chameleon I tell ya!
Something about it makes me not care.
Cameron Diaz. It’s definitely Cameron Diaz.
I’m tired of Diaz yapping about how big her box will open
On the waterfront, I opened big, earning 50$ per location.
Not everything is about you, Burnsy.
Banner Pic:
The safe word is “Hum Bug”.
Some sort of wizard with mind control spells is responsible for this mo-cap bullshit. It has to be… Seriously, who else could convince Hollywood money-grubbers that it’s a GOOD idea to take an actor, pay him for acting out the movie, that they kind of film but not really, on cameras that are more expensive than regular cameras, then take that footage of the movie already shot on green screen, and send it to more people that you pay to put the CGI shit into, so that the real actors are really acting in the movie, only not really because….clouds….rain….you….*head explodes*
Seriously, fuck Mo-Cap.
/Serious
Has anyone else noticed Couples Retreat about to cross the 100mill mark while movies like Hurt Locker and Moon get like 30 bucks between them? Its a wonder how America hasn’t collapsed on itself from its own stupidity this far.
So when did Tyler Perry stop putting his name in front of his movie titles?
I went to go see The Box hoping to see some footage of Layne Staley. I was sorely disappointed.
WAHHH!!!
Vodka usually makes me happy.
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