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A little OT, but "the internet" had taken off before the SW SEs were released. There was a LOT of discussion about the movies when they came out, and the general consensus back then ,t oo, was that "Empire" was the best. I don't agree, but that's what most people seemed to think. Of course, it...

What do you guys think of the box office prospects for Link Removed, the new Rob Schneider comedy? /Mike

As long as we have inflation but studios refuse to take that into account, yes records will be broken every year. :) /Mike

scooby Doo's estimate was $2M higher than the actual take. Warner and New Line have the same owner, right? ;) /Mike

That was author Jonathan Franzen. I assumed he refused all promotion, all interviews and all book signings too, but of course he didn't. So much for "the strengths of the book itself". I remember reading about this guy, and it was just ridiculous how concerned he was about who was to be given...

The movie looks like crap, and I normally like "chick flicks", as long as they're well made (good chick flick="One true thing", bad chick flick="Practical magic"). It doesn't have to do with snobbishness anymore than the bashing of "Scooby Doo" or "Batman & Robin" has. But in this case it...

Well, I'll most likely be going to "Bad CompanY" this weekend, if it helps anyone's predictions. :) I agree that it'll probably make at least in the mid 20's, simply because of the names involved and because it's a fluffy traditional action comedy, something that hasn't been released in a while...

Hey, Terrell, don't take it personally, I certainly enjoy your input in this thread, so keep posting. But I do wonder about that 375 vs 350 statement above. :) /Mike

Ib liked AOTC, but the few people I've talked to who have seen it weren't very impressed with it. Several online comments are very negative too. I agree with those who say it's probably split pretty evenly. Then again, looking at EW's "Critical Mass" poll on their website gives it an A from all...

Oops. sorry, I counted wrong. /Mike

Spiderman is now #8 on the all-time unadjusted chart, according to the Mojo. It kicked out LOTR from the Top 10, that was a short stay up there for that movie... /Mike

After inflation, I think TPM is still ahead of AOTC then. /Mike

Malcolm, I'm with you about "Spider-Man"'s screen count. I was thinking the same thing when I got the Mojo's screencount e-mail this morning, that some of the multiplex prints will be cleeared out and sent to smaller theaters, to make way for newer releases. I don't know what the actual screen...

I wouldn't say "leaps and bounds". The adjusted gross for the opening day of "Phantom Menace" is $31.2M, for the opening weekend it's $71M. Compare that to AOTC's $30.1M and $80M, respectively. It's ahead, but not by much. Still, it's another sign that the traditional idea that sequels always...

I think the number of screens is more important as for how many screenings PER DAY that they can squeeze in, than for the number of available seats. If I come to see a movie at 6:15 PM, and there's only 2 screens showing it, it might start at 6 on screen 1 and then at 7:30 on screen 2, then at...

Or they just call the DVD's "tapes". I've met several people that refer to CD's as "tapes" for some reason.

I'll be seeing AOTC on Saturday for the first time, if anyone cares. So you can up your estimates with $4.50. I was there opening day for TPM, but I just couldn't get that excited about AOTC, especially after the excellent "Spider-Man", which kinda saturated my taste for blockbuster movies for...

The worst part is that even that would be too low. It actually looks to make about $240M in two weeks. :D

If I understand you correctly, that means that "Titanic" is definitely safe now that "Spider-Man" dropped 52% on Monday compared to last Monday. It brought in $5.2M yesterday, for a total of $228M now, according to the Mojo. /Mike

Maybe "Spider-Man" will be the new "Titanic", and Tobey Maguire is the new Leonardo Di Caprio... let's hope not, for his sake. :) /Mike

If the estimates are correct, that's a -37% drop. That's a pretty spectacular number after a $115M opening. I wonder what SPider-Man has that other movies don't. I loved it, but there are lots of other movies I've loved that haven't made those numbers. :) /Mike

That's not a disastrous drop either, -65% from Sunday to Monday. Can you imagine the numbers if it had opened on a holiday weekend? $11M is more than the entire weekend box-office for the 2nd place movie, "The Scorpion King". Speaking of estimates... I sold Spiderman at H$90/share on Hollywood...

I believe that the studio in this case (and in other cases of very easily marketed, high-profile projects) has made a LOT of the money back already thanks to foreign sales and merchandise licensing, so they don't necessarily need to bring in as much money percentage-wise as they do on other...

http://www.boxofficemojo.com reports that the actuals are in: $114,844,116 Friday: $39,406,872 Saturday: $43,622,264 Sunday: $31,814,980 I was afraid that the $114M estimate might have been wishful thinking (remembering some of the overestimates that New Line made for LOTR), but apparently...

Oh man, I just got the box office numbers in the e-mail, and saw an estimate of $114M for Spider-man!!! I had to go here and dicsuss it of course. :) That's insane... but in a good way. :) I figured the numbers would be big though, I saw it on the 10:30 show this morning and it was nearly sold...