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Mar 21
2010
12:56 PM ET
Box office report: 'Alice' wins the weekend; 'Wimpy' outperforms 'Bounty Hunter'
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Aniston is a has been-plays in the same type of movie over and over again-has the same type of hair over and over again and even her clothes on screen are a duplicate of her off screen clothes over and over again. I am not surprised her film has done a poor showing….She is washed up….now she is trying to mimick Angie (five years later) on “W”
If shes a has been then Matt Damon and R-Patz are in trouble. The movie made half its production costs back in one weekend
You could kind of tell that Alice would be able to hold on this weekend. I’m surprised by Wimpy Kid, but I had a feeling that Bounty Hunter would kind of underwhelm.
And for everyone defending Remember Me, it’s not how much (little?) the movie has made. The most troubling aspect of this weekend was its DROP. A movie could make hardly any money, but if it stays consistent and has small drops, it shows that there’s still demand for it. That Remember Me dropped like 60% off an already-weak opening weekend is kind of sad. And yes I know it was small-budget and blah blah blah. But if it had been a hit, you’d be the first people on here gloating about how “such a small-budget film made sooo much money!” And while $16 million is small potatoes next to major studio films, it’s fairly substantial next to most genuine “indie” movies.
And sadly Stewart and Fanning also look like recipients of the Twicurse, which is a shame, given that The Runaways looks good and has gotten good reviews. But if it can’t average more than that (I’m looking at PTA, not the cumulative) in New York and LA and other major markets, I don’t see how it’s going to do much better when it’s wide. Especially considering that Clash of the Titans and Date Night will both be out then. By the time it does open wide, most people will probably have forgotten about it.
Runaways was solid and Stewart and Fanning really shone. Great chemistry too. But poor PTA cannot be ignored. There`s no demand and while it`s a proven thing that Twihards don`t watch movies of Twilight actors that are not twilight, it seems that rest of the public is turned off by movies that have a Twilight star in it.
I blame the hype and irritating behaviour of teenage girls. Stewart case is sad because she is really talented outside twilight and it`s good to see studios giving her challenging roles. I expect she`ll rebound when the series is over and win over the naysayers (just like post-Titanic Leo, another temporary victim of screaming, annoying teenyboppers).
Pattison is a different story since he came out of nowhere, didn`t have strong work prior to his megahit (unlike Stewart and Leo, both acclaimed actors before mass hysteria) so his hype seems undeserved. Focus on his hair and romance with Stewart (OMGOMGOMG, they are Edward and Bella!!!!!!) doesn`t help the matter.
He does have promising projects lined up and the true test will be what happens post-Twilight.
IMO, Lautner is in the biggest jeopardy of the three. While Stewart and Pattinson are getting actory roles (judging by their line-ups), Lautnoer is getting $7.5 million to star in another based-on-toy-line movie. Stretch Armstrong. Sounds absolutely horrendous. Superhero toy that stretches. Double ugh. Kids might like it. twihards won`t. Superhero fans won`t (they hate all twi actors anyway). Bad idea. Run Taylor, run!
Why do some people seem to think that as soon as Remember Me passes $16 million (which it hasn’t done yet even over two weeks), it means it “made money”? That’s what it would need, bare minimum, for it to BREAK EVEN. Generally, for a film to be profitable, it needs to recoup about twice what it cost to make it. So Remember Me wouldn’t be considered a “success” until it hit about $32 million. And that’s not even factoring in marketing costs. It has a loooong way to go and no sure chance of getting there.
People spun its weak opening last weekend with “But it’s low-budget!” posturing. Is the low budget also responsible for its 60% drop this weekend? Did the budget do that, too? That’s not even to point out that if demand had been high for it, Summit could and likely would have expanded its number of theaters, giving it an actual chance at making serious money. If the demand was there, the low budget would NOT have been a handicap.
Alice was terrific, and I’m looking forward to seeing Dragons in 3D the weekend after next.
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Aniston hasn’t made a good movie since The Good Girl and as for Butler, he hasn’t done anything watchable since 300.
agree with you but drop the since 300 part off on the end of the sentence.
People who appreciate movies that dare to do something different should see Remember Me. It’s being attacked by people who insist that romantic movies have to have unrealistically happy endings. However, it’s a really honest film that is beautifully acted and thought-provoking.
There is no war in Irag and never was. All we are doing is just camping out.
loved the bounty hunter
Can people please stop using Remember Me’s budget to excuse it from bombing?
Diary of a Wimpy Kid cost $15 million to make, according to Box Office Mojo, $1 million less than Remember Me. It’s already recouped its production costs in one weekend, and it didn’t have the benefit of a flavor-of-the-moment star.
$16 million is low-budget, but plenty of films with even lower budgets do more. A low budget is NOT an immediate disadvantage.
R. Patz will be typecast forever with “Twilight”, unless he does something completely different then ‘misunderstood teen’. He will also have to get adult [over 18]male fans.
The fact that BOUNTY HUNTER is a pile of shi* might have had something to do with its low grosses; trailers were terrible.
WIMPY KID not too bad at all, so deserving of its modest success.
ALICE? Average. But audiences eat up anything by Burton and Depp, even when it’s subpar.
I thought REMEMBER ME was a good deal better than BOUNTY HUNTER.