WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: BYE WEEK
12.07.09
A bye week, that’s what this week felt like. But the weekend after Thanksgiving is always slow, and even though The Blind Side landed on top with a mediocre $20 million in its third week, business overall was up 21% over last year. So put that on yr Power Point, Mrs. Potato Dick.
Brothers and Armored were the two new releases, and they earned a not-particularly-noteworthy $9.7 and $6.6 million, respectively. Fantastic Mr. Fox fell all the way out of the top 10 despite being really good, and I wonder if this is partially my fault for being too lazy to finish a review. I’m so sorry, you guys. *cutting*
Finally, the other new release this weekend, Transylmania, set a record for the lowest gross ever for a film opening on more than 1,000 screens, earning just $272,000 at 1,002 theaters.
I heard the directors on the Adam Carolla podcast last week talking about raising the money for it and how they managed to get an independent film such a wide release. They talked a lot about testing and market research and demographics, and how they’d “really done their homework,” but not a lot about the actual movie. Supposedly more of an old-fashioned general spoof than the recent crop of terrible direct parodies, it probably suffered from comparisons to Seltzer-Friedberg. But when you’ve got the directors of direct-to-DVD National Lampoon movies directing Bobby Lee in a movie that looks a lot like a direct-to-DVD National Lampoon movie, I’m not sure that’s an unfair comparison. Even the title, Transylmania. It sounds like something that would have cover art done by the guy who spray paints Vanilla Ice’s jeans.
| Film | Weekend! | Per Screen! | Total | |
| 1 | The Blind Side | $20,440,000 (-49.0%) | $6,146 | $129,264,000 |
| 2 | New Moon | $15,704,000 (-63.4%) | $3,808 | $255,639,000 |
| 3 | Brothers | $9,700,000 | $4,646 | $9,700,000 |
| 4 | A Christmas Carol | $7,520,000 (-52.3%) | $2,954 | $115,006,000 |
| 5 | Old Dogs | $6,901,000 (-59.2%) | $2,015 | $33,934,000 |
| 6 | Armored | $6,600,000 | $3,446 | $6,600,000 |
| 7 | 2012 | $6,600,000 (-62.6%) | $2,050 | $148,787,000 |
| 8 | Ninja Assassin | $5,030,000 (-62.2%) | $2,010 | $29,790,000 |
| 9 | Planet 51 | $4,300,000 (-57.9%) | $1,481 | $33,966,000 |
| 10 | Everybody’s Fine | $4,027,000 | $1,888 | $4,027,000 |
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I meant to see it, but I kept getting it confused with my DVD of Trannymania. Can I get that back this decade, Vinnie?
Hey, yIntaghs, He didn’t go see Twilight this weekend!
I just can’t get into seeing a parody movie without Leslie Nielson in it.
I just can’t get into seeing a parody movie without
Leslie Nielsona Paris Hilton lookalike in it.Unficksed.
The Blind Side? More like, The Bland Side. amiright? eh? eh? Ah forget it, I don’t have the comedic timing of Sandra Bullock. Just an equally masculine jaw line.
That comment is so hot, Erswi.
*cow falls on Burnsy*
Instead of seeing any of these movies, for fun and excitement this weekend, I hired an old Asian woman as a chauffeur.
Transylmania would have grossed more money if they charged people in other theaters a dollar to not have to watch the trailer.
Transylmania is tracking 0% at RottenTomatoes but that’s only because Pete Hammond hasn’t seen it yet
Pete Hammonds: “Transylmania Is Runnin’ Wild, Brother!” I’m paraphrasing of course, I’m sure there were far more laborious puns and mouth breathing in his actual review.
I screamed at my television, dogs, wife, couch and empty beer cans over one tiny little second of my life. -FMLIN
EMPTY BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY CASE :-(
Seriously though I’m pissed that nobody went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox. One of the most fun movies I’ve seen in a long time. At the very least you’d think parents would bring their kids to see it, after all G-Force had cute furry animals as well and…
oh duh, the 3-D thing
I wrote a script for a movie a long time ago in which a black family takes me in and teaches me to sell drugs instead of playing football….then John Hancock comes along, flips my entire script around and puts Sandra Bullock in it. Give me a break.