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mdana
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Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:07 pm
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 Temujin wrote: Wedding Crashers needs only about a 5.25 multiplier from here on out to reach 200M, considering its drops so far, it has a great chance!
Also, I took a look through last weekend's prediction thread, and I couldn't find a single prediction above 20 for it until Casey's on Thursday! And that was for its SECOND weekend, not to mention that many predictions for its opening were below what it will gross this weekend! Incredible. After WC's first weekend mdana wrote: I totally overestimated Sunday's drops, BB, WOTW, and FF did much better than the estimates when I thought they were already too high. Fantastic for every film, really good weekend all around. WC is just on fire, anyone think it can top $100m by its 3rd weekend, say $24m next weekend and $18m the weekend after that and another $30m during the week days. Really seems likely after the Sat. and Sun. numbers which are just unheard of anymore for a major comedy opening. Last weekend's predictions mdana wrote: WC-$24m
$24m may be too high but I think it will pull it off.
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are-why-a-en
MISSING IN ACTION
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Its about time that we had the break out hit of the summer. I was fearing we weren't gonna have a break out hit, and everything that was suppose to be big was big, and everything that was suppose to be small was small.
The WEdding Crashers is a breast of fresh air in this summer movie enviroment.:wink:
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wanderer
Star Trek XI
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The only good thing about the openers for the last 2 weeks is the box office puns they're generating.
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rolandka19
Indiana Jones IV
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Amazing for Wedding Crashers! =D> Terrible numbers for Stealth and The Island (which I'm not surprised by- to many people I know, they both looked very lame). Nice drops for WOTW and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Any idea on how March of the Penguins did? Guess we'll find out tomorrow. I'm assuming it did well (I'm betting it will next weekend with the huge expansion). Yeah! \:D/
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STEVE ROGERS
The Greatest Avenger EVER
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Michael wrote: I would encourage those who are calling Stealth and Island "dissapointments" to actually just substitute that word with "superbombs" as thats exactly what both of these films are.
Who knew there would be a day where i film was opening at 3,500 theaters and will be lucky to pull in $15m with an oscar winner at the helm.
I remember last year when people were whining that films making $50, 60, 70m were "dissapointments"
Well the defininition of "dissapointment" in 2005 seems to be films of even BIGGER budgets than last year making $20, 30, 40m... 
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Dr. Lecter
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Archie Gates wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: Archie Gates wrote: The problem for the Island and Stealth is they had no insurance. They had no big stars or popular source material to justify the big budgets. Hmm, I do consider Michael Bay an insurance himself. Just look at his track record. His track record? You mean Armageddon which had Bruce Willis as insurance, The Rock which had Connery/Cage and Bad Boys 1 and 2 which had Will Smith and Martin Lawrence? His hits had stars to them out. It's not like Will Smith was a huge star when the fuirst Bad Boys movie came out.
It's also not like Bruce Willis is a huge box-office draw (Tears of the Sun, Hart's War, Hostage...all in recent years). I'd call him anything, but a box-office insurance.
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
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The Island all it needed was some decent advertising/marketing, it didn't get it, and it failed. There weren't really any tv ads, I knew about the movie from internet reviews and a few posters and such, nothing about the movie really. A bad straw for Bay.
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David
Pure Phase
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BKB_The_Man wrote: It merely boils down to the fact that the general audience just thinks both The Island and Stealth Suck More like general audiences thought they looked to suck and didn't go. _________________   1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Algren
now we know
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The Island is getting FUCK LOADS of tv spots over here in the UK. Maybe they learnt from theyre mistakes....fast.
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Bodrul
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Algren wrote: The Island is getting FUCK LOADS of tv spots over here in the UK. Maybe they learnt from theyre mistakes....fast. So is Stealth. _________________
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Algren
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hans wrote: Algren wrote: The Island is getting FUCK LOADS of tv spots over here in the UK. Maybe they learnt from theyre mistakes....fast. So is Stealth. Yeh. So did xXx 2 when it was released. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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