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I'm interested to see how "Dreamgirls" does when it premieres on Monday.

Apocolypto wins the weekend at 14.2M, and exit tracking shows it got high marks amongst audience goers, which may help it get some word of mouth. Not bad for a foreign language film on a portion of history most people have no connection to. Glad to see it perform so well. Putting all the...

I greatly enjoyed Apocolypto. I thought it was original, involving.. and the storyline was fast paced.

Terry does great work :) He's part of the reason a lot of us keep frequenting this thread ;)

A lot of hype? I know of no one who's interested to see this Bond. Hell, I've seen all the last Bonds in the theaters of the last twenty years and I'm skipping it. I'm sure it will do well, but I can't remember the last Bond that was some monster blockbuster (because they weren't) and this Bond...

http://www.variety.com/VR1117953739.html Borat takes international box office lead in multi-markets, replacing current lead.. Devil Wears Prada :) (because I know someone here will appreciate that DWP is closing in on Superman counting international returns)

Ah, that's interesting. I know our kids had school Friday but not Monday. *shrug* :)

The Holiday is actually Monday, unless something weird in the world has changed.

1. "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," $26.4 million. 2. "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause," $20 million. 3. "Flushed Away," $19.1 million. 4. "Saw III," $15.5 million. 5. "The Departed," $8 million. 6. "The Prestige," $7.8...

I talked to a local theater chain who told me that for the first time they can remember, they -OVERSOLD- a screen. They had people pay to go sit in the isles. I'm wondering what the per screen average on this thing is going to be.

1 N Saw III LGF $34,300,000 2 2 The Departed WB $9,840,000 -26.9% 3 1 The Prestige BV $9,626,000 -35.0% 4 3 Flags of Our Fathers P/DW $6,350,000 -38.0% 5 4 Open Season Sony $6,100,000 -25.3% 6 5 Flicka Fox $4,975,000 -35.4% 7 7 Man of the Year Uni. $4,714,000 -32.0% 8 6 The Grudge...

I admit, I really enjoyed DWP. It's not as good as the book, but it's good.

As Terry pointed out, he had to go through all those changes. But even more then that, he passed on two other film roles because he was told production would happen on target dates that never happened. Them paying him $20M is basically compensating him for the fact that he missed out on that...

Yeah, I'm not so sure of that. I think the Studio might care a bit more that it's somewhere between 80-100M in the red on SR. No, I'm not talking the actual costs, figured at about $270M, I'm figuring in the Development Hell costs, like payments out to Kevin Smith, Nicolas Cage, Tim Burton, etc...

The Departed is doing incredible in the week to week.

I will make an unlikely prediction: The Prestige will not fair well. $15 if lucky. But I think people predicting a big weekend for Flicka are the ones way off. I think it's going to struggle. Struggle badly. I'm not saying it's going to be a "Gordy" but I don't think it's going to be a big...

Weekend Tally: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby $47,000,000 Barnyard $16,040,000 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $11,011,000 -46.6% Miami Vice $9,683,000 -62.4% The Descent $8,800,000 John Tucker Must Die $6,050,000 -57.6% Monster House $6,000,000 -48.6% The...

You have no idea how right you are. Damn, with tickets about two hundred and up through a ticket broker jeez.

If Miami Vice takes #1, I will be suprised. I've seen it now, and uh, I have a feeling it will pull a REALLY fast fade, as the ending is flat out terrible.

I've got to think "Gone with the Wind" and "Star Wars" (the first one) would rank very very high in total ticket sales.

Here's what the studio sees, though: Cars was a film that had a production budget of $117M. Of which, a big part of it was infrastructure which pays off for Pixar in assets they get to keep regardless. Meanwhile, the film has now passed $210M. So, it -made- $100M at the Domestic Box, more...

I totally disagree. The "Modern" audience has been more willing to watch well drawn out films then any audience I can remember. Slow Character driven movies? Find me a western that develops like "Brokeback Mountain". And epics like LOTR series did very well. So do action-adventure type films...

If $80M were to happen, someone at Warner would slit their wrists. The film has an actual production cost of $260M. It has $94M in overage development cost - scripts that were started, stopped, writers attached and removed that had to be paid. The estimate around it is ~$350M in cost...

You can say it will fade fast because I believe next weekend is POTC:2, which people expect to be a blockbuster. So, Superman had to get a big ammount of steam this week, and then whether the storm next week, though it would likely slip to second. Right now, estimates of a big, big box office...

Friday's BO 1DATE MOVIE6650000 2EIGHT BELOW4900000 3THE PINK PANTHER4100000 4FINAL DESTINATION 32850000 5CURIOUS GEORGE2425000 6FIREWALL2325000 7FREEDOMLAND1750000 8WHEN A STRANGER CALLS1450000 9BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 21100000 10NANNY MCPHEE850000

Pink Panther may be one of the most unnecessary, unfunny remakes I've seen in a while. At least five or six months that is.