Spanglish was a very good movie; its such a shame it didnt get the recognition it deserved

You don't think it will open higher than White Noise? hmmm i thought it might open a little higher than that, maybe £2million, i don't know, the preview screening i went to tonight was sold out on the biggest screen, the showing before and after were both sold out too.

Did u enjoy the movie andrew?


My predictions should be up over at Sky-Is-falling shortly, i predicted $2,000,000 eventually for THE RING TWO.

i think it'll do about £3,500,000

The Ring was pretty big here on home video - plus Channel 4 have been showing the Japanese version
I wish theyd show the American version on terrestrial soon

While i did enjoy the movie, i was slightly let down by it... but by no means as much as people have been saying round here. There were some good set pieces, loved the bathroom scene! and the line from Watts at the end. But thats all it seemed to be, set piece... plod along a bit.... set piece. It just didn't flow and wasn't that scary. I gave it a C+ in the end, much better than White Noise/Hide and Seek etc though.

Thanks xiayun

The Will Smith romantic comedy held the second spot in the United Kingdom with $2.2 million in its fifth weekend (off 32%), just behind "The Ring Two's" $3.4 million opening, lifting "Hitch's" U.K. cume to $26.9 million.

So the Ring 2 opens with $3.4million (£1.87million) which is just a tiny bit under expected i suppose, somewhat underwhelming, only just beating White Noise's opening of £1.78Million.

Ooh still a solid gross....i predicted £2,000,000 so i'm not far off.

6th Biggest opening of the year.

£5-6M total gross maybe.

Weekend Actuals April 1 - 3 (£'s)

1 The Ring two 2,062,792 NEW
2 Be cool 1,196,884 NEW
3 Hitch 1,073,241 -35
4 Robots 998,046 -32
5 Valiant 921,359 -16
6 Miss.Congeniality 2 695,395 -47
7 Constantine 500,554 -49
8 Hostage 263,451 -4
9 The Downfall 163,413 NEW
10 Pooh's heffalump movie 136,473 -28
11 Melinda and melinda 93,935 -27
12 Maria full of grace 66,674 -21
13 Meet the fockers 51,599 -51
14 The Chorus 51,032 -36
15 Mickybo and me 49,475 +3


The Ring 2 was slightly underestimated, nice to see it go over £2million. Some great drops in the top 15, the kids movies held well, but most surprising is Hostage, fantastic drop of only 4% in week 4. Also nice to see the limited releases making the top 15, The Chorus, Mickybo and Me, Melinda and Melinda, Maria full of Grace & Downfall all had a screen count less than 65, compared to The Rings 2's 419. Downfall managed the 4th best screen average of the weekend, followed in 5th by Maria Full of Grace showing on only 24 screens.

Pheeew. Glad THE RING TWO topped £2,000,000. I predicted £2.2M on the site. so i wasn't too far off.

I think easter holidays are going to help THE RING TWO and give it a drop below 60%. Maybe 50%.

Nice opening, Surprisingly GREAT word of mouth over here.

I seen it yesterday, and i really enjoyed it

Some new BBFC ratings announced:



Cursed "15" :Contains strong horror

Because Of Winne Dixie "U": Contains infrequent, mild bad language

Guess Who "12A" : Contains moderate sex references and mild racial jokes

Sin City "18": Contains strong bloody violence


Glad to hear SIN CITY got the 18 rating! It shouldn't affect the BO gross, as both KILLBILLS were 18. It will just make the movie cooler!


Coming this week soon should be

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

Im PRAYING for an 18.

Fan bloody tastic!! thank god for that, fingers crossed for Amityville Horror.

Time for an Update

2005 To date (£'s) - I'll restrict this to the top 50 now as its getting bigger.

1 Meet the fockers 28,549,465
2 Hitch 13,937,041
3 Ocean's 12 12,419,981
4 Robots 8,423,931
5 Closer 8,338,242
6 The Aviator 8,264,273
7 White noise 6,452,286
8 The Magic roundabout 5,832,437
9 Racing stripes 5,669,316
10 Spongebob squarepants movie 5,528,701
11 Constantine 5,455,513
12 Million dollar baby 5,267,239
13 Team america:World police 4,912,868
14 Shall we dance 3,962,494
15 Valiant 3,875,739
16 Hide and seek 3,804,290
17 Sideways 3,549,011
18 Hostage 3,433,842
19 Miss.Congeniality 2 3,232,548
20 Son of the mask 3,215,583
21 Are we there yet? 2,901,774
22 Alexander 2,721,904
23 Boogeyman 2,144,484
24 Vera drake 2,078,791
25 The Ring two 2,062,792
26 Ray 2,062,325
27 Assault on precinct 13 1,987,518
28 Creep 1,838,537
29 The Life aquatic with steve zissou 1,553,484
30 Coach carter 1,540,273
31 Elektra 1,457,857
32 Hotel rewanda 1,450,648
33 A Very long engagement 1,407,712
34 In good company 1,260,587
35 Be cool 1,196,884
36 Pooh's heffalump movie 938,711
37 Ladder 49 733,414
38 Vaniy fair 663,066
39 The Chorus 624,093
40 The Flight of the phoenix 543,238
41 Spanglish 535,433
42 Harold and kumar get the munchies 533,139
43 Bewaafa 504,119
44 Black 473,862
45 Laura's star 454,803
46 2046 380,472
47 Melinda and melinda 330,741
48 Kinsey 334,457
49 The Sea inside 330,646
50 Kisna 237,619

Hitch takes the number 2 spot for the year, overtaking Oceans 12 and could end the year in the top 10 which would be agreat result for the film. Robots takes advantage of the kids holidays to climb to 4th and is well on its way to a £10million+ finish.

2005 Multipliers

Rank/Yrly Rank/Film Title/Multiplier

1 45 Laura's star 6.68
2 12 Million dollar baby 6.55
3 36 Pooh's heffalump movie 5.84
4 6 The Aviator 5.35
5 5 Closer 5.32
6 9 Racing stripes 4.95
7 33 A Very long engagement 4.51
8 20 Son of the mask 4.43
9 10 Spongebob squarepants movie 4.41
10 46 2046 4.35
11 18 Hostage 4.25
12 26 Ray 4.25
13 28 Creep 3.85
14 8 The Magic roundabout 3.72
15 14 Shall we dance 3.67
16 3 Ocean's 12 3.66
17 7 White noise 3.61
18 1 Meet the fockers 3.61
19 15 Valiant 3.54
20 30 Coach carter 3.28
21 21 Are we there yet? 3.27
22 38 Vaniy fair 3.24
23 2 Hitch 3.23
24 13 Team america:World police 3.22
25 4 Robots 3.21
26 29 The Life aquatic with steve zissou 3.09
27 32 Hotel rewanda 2.86
28 23 Boogeyman 2.72
29 27 Assault on precinct 13 2.65
30 11 Constantine 2.60
31 19 Miss.Congeniality 2 2.48
32 16 Hide and seek 2.39
33 22 Alexander 2.27
34 34 In good company 2.12
35 42 Harold and kumar get the munchies 1.88
36 40 The Flight of the phoenix 1.86
37 31 Elektra 1.84
38 41 Spanglish 1.74
39 37 Ladder 49 1.71
40 25 The Ring two 1.00
41 35 Be cool 1.00

Laura's Star regains number one from Million Dollar Baby, must have a had a bit of a boost from the Easter Holidays being a kiddie flick. Hopefully M$B can cath up again? who knows. Poohs Heffalump Movie climbs a massive 19 places from 22nd to third place.

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR is just a "15" Over in the UK.



Other recent "15" rated horror movies:

Cursed
White Noise
Hide and Seek
Boogeyman
The Ring Two

So. Amityville's so called "HARD R RATING" is more like these pg13 films.

Than say FREDDY VS JASON'S, SAW's and TEXAS CHAINSAW's "R" ratings.


Ah well......We'll see on Friday.

That just sucks so much! i had great hopes for Amityville, and they just went down quite a lot. I'll still see it opening weekend, i'm just disappointed by this. At least we still have Sin City....

All Reuters Movie News
'Sahara' Reigns in U.K.; 'Pacifier' Tops in Oz
Sunday April 10 11:29 PM ET

"Sahara" burned up screens in the United Kingdom, "The Pacifier" swiped the top spot in Australia, "The Ring Two" distracted Italians from the pope's funeral, and "The Interpreter" translated well in its first international territory, Greece, according to weekend estimates.

"Sahara" opened day and date with the U.S. in Britain, taking the No. 1 spot there in the face of significant distractions including Prince Charles' marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles and the funeral of Pope John Paul II, taking approximately $2.6 million (including $448,000 in previews) from 400 cinemas. This beat "The Ring Two" in its second week, which dropped a huge 47% to a little more than $2 million from 422 cinemas.

"Hitch" made a weekend total of $7.6 million on 3,880 screens in 56 markets, hoisting the cume to $160.6 million.

The romantic comedy starring Will Smith opened at No. 1 in Thailand with an excellent $420,000 on 52 screens.

The film's ongoing power is evident in the cumes in holdover territories after six weeks: $31.5 million in Germany (off 19%), $29.9 million in the United Kingdom (off 24%), $10.5 million in Australia (off 39%) and $8.6 million in Spain (off 37%).

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

from http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20050410/111320097100.html



So Saraha takes about £1.41million, and the Ring 2 dropped 47% (which i would hardly call huge as in the report above - i would say thats quite a good drop for the genre with bad WOM) to £1.1million.

Pretty much as expected really.

Emmm....47% is great... It's totally not huge.

Surprised it fell under 50%. Nice

2005 Horror 2nd Weekend Drops:

White Noise dropped -23%
Hide and Seek -58%
Boogeyman -52%
The Ring Two -47%

So the only horror that beat RING 2's drop was White Noise.


The Ring Two has now grossed around $6,000,000 in the Uk.

Nice.

UK Release Schedule:

This Weekend:

APRIL 15th
The Amityville Horror
The Interpreter

APRIL 22nd
Guess who
Cursed
Beauty shop
The Wedding date
Tarnation

April 28th
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The

April 29th
XXX2-State of the union
Mean creek
Clifford's really big movie

May 6th
Kingdom of heaven

May 13th
Monster in law
The Jacket
Seed of chucky
Friday night lights

May 19th
Episode III:Revenge of the sith

May 20th
Mysterious skin

May 27th
House of wax
The Pacifier
Duma

June 3rd
League of gentlemen's apocalypse
Sin city

June 10th
Millions
Unleashed
Kung fu hustle
Baadassss!


June 17th
Mr and Mrs Smith
Mindhunters
13 Conversations about one thing
We don't live here anymore

June 22nd
Batman begins

http://www.sky-is-falling.co.uk/weekend-50.html

Very slow session, but Downfall rose, so yay!

After a very poor opening of $2million, Valiant is doing great. It almost hit a 6 multiplier after 3 weeks. Drops of 17% and 2% this past weekend. It total right now stands near $12million. I think it could get upto $18-21m.

Yeah Valiant is doing well, which is weird, because i'v heard nothing other than "it's shite" Basically.

Ring Two falls less than BOOGEYMAN and HIDE AND SEEK.

Under 50% (not including previews), nice.

AMITYVILLE will be number 1 next week

Valiant is a beast, Ive never seen a film perform that great, unless it were an older film that came out in the before the 90s, and a few exteme films from the 90s. Wow, BJ gives congrats =D>