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post #31 of 45
6/23/03 at 12:39am
Production and marketing costs of The Real Cancun: $9.5 million

Domestic Box Office Earnings: $3.8 million

Production and marketing costs of From Justin to Kelly: $20 million

Projected Box Office Earnings: $9 - 11 million

The Joy of Watching Each Crash & Burn: Priceless

(Numbers courtesy of www.boxofficemojo.com)

Further comparisons:

The Real Cancun had an opening weekend of $2.1 million in 2,261 theaters (with an R rating). It opened on April 25th against Identity, Confidence and It Runs in the Family and came in at 10th place overall. The DVD arrives two months later on July 1st.

From Justin to Kelly had an opening weekend of $2.9 million in 2,001 theaters (with a PG rating). It opened on June 20th against Hulk and Alex and Emma and came in at 11th place overall. The DVD (tentatively) arrives three months later on September 16th.

Perhaps New Line and Fox would be better served by following the lead of Disney and Artisan; they wisely unleash this sort of flotsam direct-to-video. (The Olsen twins are billionaires thanks to the DTV market.)

Hopefully these two experiments (the movies, not the Olsen twins) will be seen for the clear failures they are and we'll all be spared further theatrical releases of such obviously turgid filmmaking.
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post #32 of 45
6/23/03 at 12:45am
And just now I realized that my $9 - $11 million projection for From Justin to Kelly seems VERY generous!
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post #33 of 45
6/23/03 at 6:59am
Kelly Clarkson's album has sold fairly well and has been certified Platinum for more than 1 million units shipped.

Justin Guarini's album has been less successful, with first week sales of merely 54,000.

Singles for the new Idols have sold quite well. Clay Aiken's first week sales were about 384,000. Ruben Studdard's first week sales were about 265,000.
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post #34 of 45
6/23/03 at 8:34am
The theater owners were rightly ticked that this is going to DVD immediately. If it was a great title, they would have lost all opportunity to make money at the theater on this (for those who don't know, there is a sliding scale system between the studios and owners)...

...NOW, with the (predictable) results of the movie goers and critics, the theater owners are likely thankful that this is going to DVD right away. This gets this bomb out of their buildings.
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post #35 of 45
6/23/03 at 9:02am
Shucks ... I was an idiot for setting the over/under at $19 million.
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post #36 of 45
6/23/03 at 10:32am
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Justin Guarini's album has been less successful, with first week sales of merely 54,000.
Whoa, I completely forgot that this just came out. There obviously wasn't as much publicity for his album as there was for Kelly's...

EDIT: I just checked out Amazon to see his album's sales rank, it's at 158. I saw information on his single album as well, and it seems that Amazon can see into the future and that he'll be a star for some time, because the release date is January 1, 2010! But the detailed page says that there's no release date yet.
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post #37 of 45
6/23/03 at 10:55am
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I think it'll make 10-25 million tops. If it makes 100 million I'm moving to Iceland.

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Weekend gross: $2.9M



Looks like I over estimated too! I was kind of looking forward to moving to Iceland. Or at least trying!

They should have just given out the DVD at theaters this weekend.
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post #38 of 45
6/23/03 at 11:21am
Well sure it's had a poor opening, but lets not ignore the power of word of mouth, It could go onto be this years "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
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post #39 of 45
6/23/03 at 11:35am
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Well sure it's had a poor opening, but lets not ignore the power of word of mouth, It could go onto be this years "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"


Please tell me you forgot to add a smiley to that post...
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post #40 of 45
6/23/03 at 11:44am
Unlike 'Greek Wedding', in this case word of mouth will likely decrease the intake not help it. 'Greek Wedding' was a fluke, something like that rarely happens.
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post #41 of 45
6/23/03 at 12:22pm
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I actually underestimated the stupidity of the American public
I'm confused, so they are stupid if they don't see it?

This movie was destined to failure from the beginning. A Pop musical starring people that are semi-famous from a reality show? If anything I hope this sets the precedent for studios thinking to translate reality TV to the big screen.
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post #42 of 45
6/23/03 at 3:07pm
It might have helped if they wrote a script before they started shooting. Your average Olson twins DTV film has more plot, and the "musical sequences" are nothing more than MTV style videos. No one over the age of 10 is going to want to sit through this.

The only surprise was that Kelly and Justin were better actors than I expected.

I saw it for free, and it wasn't worst experience of my movie going career, but it was one of most pointless.
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post #43 of 45
6/23/03 at 6:11pm
Funny review from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/trib.../s_140991.html
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post #44 of 45
7/24/03 at 9:32am
I got a DVD screener for this last week, but haven't checked it out yet. But I think I just might. It's the regular theatrical version though. Not the new extended DVD cut.
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post #45 of 45
7/24/03 at 9:56am
An extended cut would probably be illegal in the US due to cruel and unusual punishment statutes
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