Box office thread (Opening Day $18.7M)

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2008-06-27&p=.htm

Very good start. :up:

[TLH]

Good? It's downright amazing.

[Zombie_Comics]

so do you think it'll make number one this weekend or be beat by wall-e?

[hpwiz89]

It will be beat by Wall-E.

[TNC9852002]

Well it's an R-rated film.


-TNC

[Cinemaman]

$51m opening weekend, that's damn great for R-rated film :up:

[War Party]

That's a great opening weekend for this film.

[DieSmiling]

Very good opening weekend. I'm not surprised, this looked awesome from day one.

[BloodyWolverine]

Its amazing considering it was suppose to be buried by Wall-E. Unfortunately next weekend Wanted has Hancock which should open 60 million at least.

[Gotham]

Superb opening weekend. And now with the report that it's almost at fifty million...

I think we can expect a sequel.

[xwolverine2]

they just about made their budget back lol

[Lord Blackbolt]

I liked the movie but I hope there's not a sequel. Not every successful movie needs a sequel

[Dr. Manhatten]

they just about made their budget back lol

Actually, I believe the budget was around 70-ish million, but for a movie to break even, it has to make at least double that to cover marketing and other costs. Factor in world wide grosses and what's left of the US, it'll make a tidy profit though :). Glad to see it didn't get clobbered by Wall-E like I feared, even though I love both movies

[BloodyWolverine]

It should make 100 million for Get Smart will atleast get that. Good Job Terrance Stamp two big movies back to back weeks.

[Zombie_Comics]

This movie was great, they should just leave it at one and don't make a sequel. I think Angelina was one of the main reasons this film made alot of money.

[Morg]

looks like that little robot kicked Wanted (http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20080629/121476840000.html)

[November Rain]

I liked the movie but I hope there's not a sequel. Not every successful movie needs a sequel
well considering how much original material they have left to showcase from the graphic novel and how a lot of the comic fans aren't happy they didn't show the supervillain aspect, i think they can afford to.

they've already got the attention of mainstream audience, now they can rely on them coming back for more and be more supervillain-centric in the sequel to get the fans rallying it as well.

sounds like a perfect cocktail of franchise advertising to me.

[Arkady Rossovich]

I think this movie was a sort of failure.

[Gotham]

I think this movie was a sort of failure.

Really? According to Mark Millar, Universal would have been happy with thirty or even forty million, but the film went above and beyond and made fifty. Also, according to Box-Office Mojo, it's already made the entire budget back plus thirteen million.

[RDK]

I think this movie was a sort of failure.
Interesting definition of failure you have there. $50M+ weekend, far above expectations, the best R-rated opening ever for the month of June...

Why don't you just admit you don't have a clue?

[kakashi]

Domestic: $65,500,990
+ Foreign: $32,252,635

Worldwide: $97,753,625

^^ as of Jul 2nd according to boxoffice mojo