That wouldn't be a good idea since:

1) It'd add about $100-200 to the box-office. People are not THAT crazy about Depp to go and see a movie just to see the trailer of his newest film before it. Moreover, they simply won't knowit's attached and most of them can download it online.

2) It'd hurt The Libertine since almost no one will see the trailer since it'd be attached to a box-office flop.

Yeah i doubt anyone will go see a film just for the trailer to The Libertine. It will be online within a few weeks.

Only Star Wars trailers have ever been events. LOTR and Matrix also were sought after but not much else.

And the trailer to the first Harry Potter movie.

From HSX:

"Final Midnight Information For SoCal DUKES sites last night
-- notfabio, Aug 5, 12:18

Not amazingly fantastic but wound up doing about 82-90% of WEDDING CRASHERS Thursday Midnight business at sites which would put it exactly within the range that THR is tracking it at (25-30)

LBC: 121
OC: 155
IE: 101

IE is funnily enough the most rural of the bunch."

No afternoon reports?

Just as I was expecting, DUKES was doing excellent today when I went to see it. My 2:25 showing was SOLD OUT a good 10 minutes before and the 4:30 and 5:00 showings were both sold out as I was leaving. It had a crowd that was larger than most other summer blockbusters. I see a 16 Million opening day. I enjoyed it a lot, by the way, awarding it an 8/10 (B+)

Well started off extremly bad but has picked up nicley sp far.. Dukes... 450, 450 and 300 seater

11 am - 5
1130 am - 2
12 - 15
145 - 65
230 - 95
330 - 115
445 - 195
515 - 220

730 830 and 915 are already sold out

atm the 630 is 85% full


Was really really woried after the noon show we had only done 22 people for 3 shows, but oh well for that

Sounds very good.

It sort of is understandable, those southern hicks dont wake up till the afternoon anyhow

You'd think they'd be up earlier because there are chores to do.

Chores for them to do
1.Clean up trailer
2.Cash in welfare check
3.Watch Jerry Springer

Easy on the Southern Bashing guys! Not everybody in the Red States is a brain-dead moron who voted for Bush! A lot of them are but not all of them!

I see your point.

A lot of them farm and live in houses, not trailers. And who cares if they live in a trailer? Not all trailers are dumps. My cousin and aunt live in a mobile home in the city in a mobile home park and it's really nice. They aren't poor white trash at all. She can't stand people making fun of people in mobile homes and stereotyping, assuming they are all stupid white trash, and it has come to annoy me too because it's bullshit and not true. There are some shitty mobile home parks and some shitty mobile homes, just like there are some shitty houses. But there are also REALLY nice ones. And they aren't all on welfare either or watch Jerry Springer. What sickening stereotyping! I am not a fan of hillbillies so it's not like I'm sticking up for hillbillies, but I'm sticking up for everyone else that isn't a hillbilly but is from the south or lives in a mobile home.

I'm sorry, but I find it hard to grasp that many of the crowd reports I see here that indicate Dukes selling out like it has shows me that folks will see just about anything when it comes to movies.. For heaven sakes, save your goddamn $$$ on bullshit like this and wait for the DVD next month and even that's pushing it....

It won't be on DVD next month .

From notfabio on HSX:



And for March of the Penguins:

Wow, there were like pretty much no crowd reports tonight. I'm interested in seeing the numbers in the morning. I wish PENGUINS would surprise and do like 2 Million on Friday.

I wonder if Dukes will be a true regional movie. Probably will do very well in places like KY, TN, AL, GA, FL and other places. It might do poorly in NY, NJ, MA, CA, WA, IL and others.

It has jessica simpson..non-southerner's want to know what bounced up in her under-carriage.

THE DUKES OF HAZZARD didn't sell out a single show at the mall theatre in Annapolis, MD. Here it was showing on two screens and it showed 5 times on each screen so 10 in total.

Here is my theater report.

March of the Penguins (135 seater)
1:10 - 21% full.
3:25 - 19% full.
5:45 - 24% full.
8:30 - 39% full.
10:45 - 22% full.
(all in all, it dropped 11% from last Friday).

My Date with Drew
2:15 - 2 people
4:40 - 2 people
7:25 - 15 people
9:55 - 13 people
(Sorry Drew, no hit here).

Dukes of Hazzard
12:15 (300 seater) - 11% full.
1:00 (600 seater) - 9% full.
1:45 (400 seater) - 18% full.
2:30 (600 seater) - 9% full.
3:15 (300 seater) - 16% full.
4:00 (600 seater) - 7% full.
4:45 (400 seater) - 10% full.
5:30 (600 seater) - 15% full.
6:15 (300 seater) - 29% full.
7:00 (600 seater) - 19% full.
7:45 (400 seater) - 42% full.
8:35 (600 seater) - 35% full.
9:05 (300 seater) - 82% full.
9:50 (600 seater) - 36% full.
10:35 (400 seater) - 61% full.
11:25 (600 seater) - 43% full.
12:00 (300 seater) - 62% full.
(Notice a pattern in the night shows. If you don't, I'll tell you. Each of them got like 200 something people. Overall, this was not bad for a rural movie, which are never popular here, so I say it did pretty good for this type of theater).

The only show to sell out was Wedding Crashers. It sold out the 10:10 show in the 250 seater (the 9:10 in the 300 seater came close).

All in all, this was the slowest summer Friday ever, with Dukes bringing down the business. In fact, the whole place was slow, so this theater may not be a good indicator on where the movies will go.

not a single sold out show

Not, and this is not surprizing, I knew that California would be one of the lowest grossing markets for the Dukes of Hazzard. To get this much business was lucky.