Christopher Nolan's Inception

[Dr. Evil]

That's a pretty good opening.

I would not call a $60.4 million opening weekend gross as a flop. Now if it was a $6.4 million opening weekend, than yeah, it's a flop.

 

[General Vulcun]

Hopefully now the WOM spreads like wildfire. Go Nolan go!

 

[Golgo-13]

That's is a pretty good weekend opening, especially since it's not a kiddie/family friendly type movie. Most movies usually get creamed around this time by kids movies.

 

[TNC9852002]

I have a feeling that this movie is gonna sweep the Academy Awards nomination-wise. They'll probably earn at least some preliminary entries for almost every single category from Art Direction to Editing.

 

[DarkKnight88]

The only flop opening this weekend was the remake of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

people on facebook are spreadin this like fire...
everyones goin to see it...i betcha there wont be a drop off much at all!

 

[TNC9852002]

Spoiler

 

[Twin723]

I'm guessing this opening will bold well for an oscar nomination for best picture/director??

 

[General Vulcun]

I'm guessing this opening will bold well for an oscar nomination for best picture/director??

Yeah, but too bad it will probably lose to a film like The Kids Are Alright. Not saying that that film is bad, but the Academy has their favorite ice cream flavors, and Inception may be too strong for them to handle.

 

[Twin723]

Yeah, but too bad it will probably lose to a film like The Kids Are Alright. Not saying that that film is bad, but the Academy has their favorite ice cream flavors, and Inception may be too strong for them to handle.

Probably, but I at least want Nolan to be NOMINATED. He's one of the few true auteurs left today. He deserves it..

 

[TNC9852002]

Word of mouth should definitely keep the numbers strong for this movie, at least for a few more weeks..

 

[The Englishman]

This movie blew me away. I loved every minute of it. Tom Hardy was awesome. If Danial Craig never makes another 007 movie then i think Hardy should be the next Bond...t:

 

[The Guard]

One of my favorite things about Nolan is how he manages to "sneak" the word "Bond movie" into almost every interview he's ever done. It's kind of funny.

The more I think about it, the more I find

Spoiler

We can't change things because the subconcious will notice and attack us

valid, but simultaneously an absolute copout, and I wish to heck we'd been able to see them try anyway, would have upped the stakes and then some.

Spoiler

Everyone was afraid of Limbo but it has the same ESCAPE CLAUSE like the rest of Dreams....Just kill yourself. Why were they afraid of Limbo if it has the same rules and Cobb knows it?

It's similar to the issue Dom had with Mal killing herself when she thought she was in limbo. She didn't know she wasn't in limbo. She thought she was, and that by killing herself, she would return to reality.

You don't know you're in limbo.

Limbo was where you lost yourself, and forgot about what reality was. As far as I can tell, Saito didn't know he was in a dream, and barely remembered reality, until Cobb returned for him.

A question I've been pondering, related to the the kids, and

Spoiler

How old they are, etc.

How long had Mal been dead?

If time operates differently in dreams, who is to say that Dom Cobb hasn't only been a dream extractor for a few months, or a year?

Think about it. He couldn't let her go, but realistically, how long does it take the average person to grieve (I know there's no set number)? He could have been grieving in dream time VS real time, where he couldn't bear to let her go because she was so accessible to him.

Him desiring only to do "one last job" could have been years of dream thievery in there, and only a year and a half or so of real time passing out here.

 

[TNC9852002]

Yeah... it's a flop. Don't gross at least 100 million OW and you are pretty much cast off as step son that nobody wants anymore. At least there is BB3.

A flop is more contingent on the drop in weekend totals over time in relation to opening weekend estimates. Like, with Superman Returns.

These are very strong numbers for such a movie, but only time will tell how well it performs in the upcoming weeks.

 

[FlawlessVictory]

'Inception' Dreams Up $60.4M Opener; 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' Nightmare $17.3M

By Nikki Finke | Saturday July 17, 2010 @ 9:45pm PDTTags: Box Office, Chris Nolan, Ellen Page, Inception, Inception Box Office, Inception Comic Book, Inception Marketing, Inception Tracking, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Legendary Pictures, Leonardo DiCaprio, Summer Movies, Warner Bros

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Friday, Saturday, and weekend numbers for North America's Top 5 movie grosses:

1. What an impressive start for the Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures mind-bending scifi thriller from 3,792 theaters, with Friday's $21.6 million (including $3M midnight shows in 1,600 locations) and Saturday's $21.5 million. The studio pegged the weekend opening at $60.4M, solid for a 2D film, against a $150M budget. Audiences rated it an overall "B+" Cinemascore, with the under-25 crowd giving it an "A". Then again, this is Summer 2010's most anticipated film because of Chris Nolan's incredible track record for critically acclaimed big box office actioners (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) as well as smaller psychological dramas (Memento and Insomnia) films -- and Inception represents both genres. (By the way, have you seen Inception's comic book preview? This rather innovative marketing gimmick is here.) This gives star Leonardo DiCaprio his biggest debut ever, out-grossing the mid-February opening of his Shutter Island with Marty Scorsese. Also, the IMAX screenings of Inception accounted for 12% of the weekend gross with an amazing $7 million in 197 locations: the best ever for an IMAX 2D title.

But I've rarely seen Hollywood all over the map when it came to a movie's expected 3-day weekend grosses like this time. That's because this was an original film not easily explained in a 30-second spot. Rival studios gave me predictions ranging from a low of $40sM to a high of $60M -- and everything inbetween. Especially because, surprisingly, tracking didn’t jump quite as much from last Monday to now. Comps include Shutter Island with a bump for summer, or Batman Begins plus inflation. But no one is certain what to add for "The Nolan Factor". (This was a movie Chris wanted to make for 10 years.) Yet everyone agrees that the pic will have considerable legs if audiences don't find it too dark or too hyped or -- god forbid! -- too smart. Though one reviewer complained, Nolan's visionary film has "no soul, no sex, and almost no joy".

Overseas, Warner Bros plans a 3-week roll-out for the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer with Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This weekend, 10 markets open, including the UK. From July 21st to 25th, a total 29 markets open, including France, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Australia, Russia, and the Benelux. Then, from July 28th to August 1st, another 13 markets come on line, including Germany.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/solid-3m-midnights-for-nolans-inception/#more-54419

 

[TNC9852002]

The only flop opening this weekend was the remake of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

It's too bad because it was quite charming and entertaining.

 

[bullets]

This movie blew me away. I loved every minute of it. Tom Hardy was awesome. If Danial Craig never makes another 007 movie then i think Hardy should be the next Bond...t:

The snow scene brought back memories of playing Goldeneye on N64 but Hardy was great in this and Bronson . The whole theatre laughed when he gives the thumbs up
after tossing the bomb .

I think this movie will have legs and I've seen it 3 times within 48 hours . It would of been criminal if this had underperformed .

 

[Mr. Earle]

The snow scene brought back memories of playing Goldeneye on N64 but Hardy was great in this and Bronson . The whole theatre laughed when he gives the thumbs up
after tossing the bomb .

I think this movie will have legs and I've seen it 3 times within 48 hours . It would of been criminal if this had underperformed .

Dude!

 

[Anita18]

It's solid considering what this film had going against it. It's nothing spectacular, but it is solid. Now this film's survival depends on word of mouth.

I need to see this again! If only I had my license and a job. I made twelve bucks yesterday from grass cutting which is the price for IMAX. I'm tempted, but every little dollar I'm saving up for a car.

Bf wanted to go to Pasadena yesterday so we decided to see the film there. There's a new Arclight theater I didn't know about, so I wanted to check it out.

It was $12.50. For a MATINEE on a regular screen. I think I've just seen the most expensive movie theater ever.

It was a nice theater, though. Still!

It's not a flop. BO reports say it is a solid opening weekend. They would say otherwise. This movie was never going to make a $100 million opening weekend even in the prediction. In fact it met expectations. We'll see if it flop or not with time.

Avatar made $75 million opening weekend.

For an original film with such a seemingly complicated concept for the GA to grasp this is good.

Keep in mind Avatar also had many many 3-D screens. With regular ticket prices, it would have made $55 million opening weekend, IIRC.

So Inception really made more than Avatar OW.

Of course it's not to say that Inception will be another Avatar. In all likelihood it won't be. It's just to prove how original films don't have big openings. They just don't.

 

[BH/HHH]

Movie of the year 'nuff said

 

[TNC9852002]

Dude!

Yep. I've seen it 3 times too in like 45 hours.

 

[Christopher Nolan]

in 7 hours it will be my third time too. 1- theater , 2 imax...

 

[TNC9852002]

2-theater, 1-imax

I went to a legit IMAX theater for the midnight show, and although the picture and sound was great, I was still a tad disappointed--I mean, the movie itself wasn't really shot in IMAX, so, I feel like it didn't really have any of that uber-IMAX quality like the TDK scenes did.

The IMAX wasn't that much better than the quality of the regular theater that I went to yesterday.

 

[FaT_tONle]

A flop is more contingent on the drop in weekend totals over time in relation to opening weekend estimates. Like, with Superman Returns.

These are very strong numbers for such a movie, but only time will tell how well it performs in the upcoming weeks.

I was being sarcastic... just the whole anything less than 100 million for summer tentpoles is terrible stigma fanboys and BO analysts have shared in recent years.

 

[JP]

Seen it twice already and I want to see it again so bad!