Weekend Boxoffice #4
Odd collection this week. FLICKA on 2877 screens, and THE PRESTIGE and FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS on a lot less -- 2281 and 1876, respectively.
We'll keep the prediction game to those three movies. I think it'll be a catfight with The Departed to be #1, but I'll be surprised if anything breaks $15 million.
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS $14.8 million
THE PRESTIGE $13.9 million
FLICKA $8.1 million
posted by Scott the Reader @ 10:13 AM
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS $12 million
FLICKA $11 million
THE PRESTIGE $7.5 million
The only guarantee, of course, is that I'll be dead wrong.
I get the feeling that if you can't find something at the multiplex to interest you this weekend, you probably don't like movies. So I'm going to be bullish.
Flags of Our Fathers $19 million
Flicka $14.5 million
The Prestige $14 million
I suck at this. normally I give the edge to the teenage girls, but I don't think the boys are gonna go with them to see Flicka.
Flags of our Fathers - 15 mil
The Prestige - 13 mil
Flicka - 9 mil
I was mego off last week with "Man of the Year" I figured he would pull a patch adams.
Flag of... 23
Flicka 14
Prestige 12
MA 3
Well, I'm late this week so I'll just throw down the numbers as I've already looked them up (based on Friday's Numbers):
1. The Prestige - 14-16 Million
2. The Departed - 14-15 million (depending how it plays out, this might squeak into 1st - very low % drop)
3. Flags - 10-12 Million
4. Flicka - 8-9 million
5. Marie - 4-5 Million
From the above contestants, I'd say Peter nailed it pretty good.
Good estimates Scott - very impressive (having now seen the numbers)
Fewer.
(sorry, it's a pet peeve..pete?peach? sore point..)
Yeah, you're right on the "fewer".
Looks like Flags of Our Fathers underperformed fairly dramatically; everyone overestimated it. I guess the public is a little tired of war.
Well, I was right about nothing breaking $15 million.
Official totals:
The Prestige $14.8
Flags of our Fathers $10.2
Flicka $7.7
Peter is the closest...
I don't think it's that folks are sick of war or war movies necessarily. I think it's that folks like their WWII epics served up with a large order of A-list stars, not the leads of "Swimfan", "Squanto" and "AntiTrust."
Like it or not, B-listers lack the gravitas needed to elevate the experience. They'd have been better off with absolute unknows.
(And yeah, I know --Phillipe was in "Crash." America doesn't care.)
I think the bigger problem is that they just haven't found a way to make it interesting -- the movie apparently builds to the moment in which they raise the flag, so a lot of people know that it is going to end with this victory, and otherwise it just seems like a dry history lesson.
Without Eastwood's name on it, it probably would have done half as much.
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