Valkyrie box-office first numbers (Stats) coming In
RagSheet Tarantella
Show_Biz_Data/
http://www.showbizdata.com/dailybox.cfm
Daily U.S. Box Office
Thursday December 25, 2008
Please note, that ShowBIZ Data is the first to publish daily box office
grosses every day."
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#4. VALKYRIE
Distributor; MGM
Sites (Theater): 2,711
Daily Gross; $8,565,000
Avg; 3,159
Change; n/a
Total Gross; $8,565,000"
Box_Office_Mojo/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=valkyrie.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/counts/chart/?yr=2008&wk=52&p=.htm
TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic:
$8,350,000 100.0%
+ Foreign: n/a 0.0%
= Worldwide: $8,350,000
DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend: n/a(2,711 theaters)
Widest Release: 2,711 theaters
In Release: 1 days / 0.1 weeks
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/12/marley-bites-in.html
Entertainment News & Buzz: Breaking news, industry scoops, and beyond
'Marley' bites into Christmas day box office
02:11 PM PT, Dec 26 2008
Los Angeles Times
Christmas has gone to the dogs ... at least at the cineplex.
First-day box office estimates are in, and it looks like in the battle
of Jennifer Aniston versus ex-husband Brad Pitt, Aniston's
record-breaking "Marley & Me" wins by a puppy's tail.
The Owen Wilson-Aniston vehicle took in $14.6 million (A Christmas Day
record), while award-nomination darling "The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button" followed in second with $11.7 million, according to
BoxOfficeMojo.com:
http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2008-12-25&p=.htm
Slashfilm.com estimates "Marley & Me's" holiday weekend haul to be in
the ballpark of $54 million while "Button" is expected to ring up $45
million in ticket sales. Third-place finisher "Bedtime Stories" may have
split some of Adam Sandler's male audience with Tom Cruise's
fourth-place "Valkyrie."
The Christmas Day top 10 estimates are:
1. MARLEY AND ME
Fox - playing on 3,480 screens
$14,600,000
2. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Paramount - 2,988
$11,700,000
3. BEDTIME STORIES
Buena Vista - 3,681
$10,325,000
4. VALKYRIE
United Artists - 2,711
$8,350,000
5. YES MAN
Warner Bros. - 3,434
$5,900,000
6. SEVEN POUNDS
Sony / Columbia - 2,758
$4,750,000
7. THE SPIRIT
Lionsgate - 2,509
$3,825,000
8. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008)
Fox - 2,402
$2,685,000
9. FOUR CHRISTMASES
Warner Bros. (New Line) - 2,510
$2,280,000
10. THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
Universal - 3,104
$1,987,000
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com"
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Film Critic estimate numbers before release/
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/25/box-office-benjamin-button-targets-453m-by-monday-marley-me-breaks-christmas-record/
Box Office: Benjamin Button Targets $45.3M by Monday; Marley & Me Breaks
Christmas Record
The biggest box office gift under the Christmas tree belongs to Fox.
Marley & Me, based on the tearjerker of a novel by John Grogan, has
posted the all-time best Christmas Day opening with a stellar $13.9M,
but the good news for Hollywood doesn’t stop there. Paramount’s David
Fincher epic Benjamin Button appears to have posted the all-time #2
Christmas Day opening with $11.1M while Adam Sandler’s Bedtime Stories
has notched the 5th-best with $10.75M. Even Tom Cruise’s Valkerie
(MGM/UA), once thought to be a total disaster, has managed the all-time
#11 opening for the movie-friendly holiday with an estimated $7.35M.
ALL-TIME BEST CHRISTMAS DAY OPENINGS
1. Marley & Me - $12.47M (projected)
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - $10.75M (projected)
3. Ali - $10.2M
4. Catch Me If You Can - $9.8M
5. Bedtime Stories - $9.75M (projected)
6. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem - $9.5M
7. Dreamgirls - $8.7M
8. Bedtime Stories - $8.42M (projected)
9. Patch Adams - $8M
10. Cheaper By the Dozen - $7.8M
11. Valkerie - $7.35M (projected)
12. The Talented Mr. Ripley - $6.3M"
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/26/box-office-marley-still-headed-for-54m/
Box Office: Marley & Me Grabs $14M on Friday; Still Headed for $54M
Posted on Friday, December 26th, 2008
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Meanwhile, the Bryan Singer-directed Tom Cruise epic Valkyrie was down
about 5% to a still-strong $8M. So it appears that kid and
family-friendly movies held up a bit better than more adult fare like
David Fincher’s Best Picture contender."
MARLEY & ME off 3% Friday for $14M, but still headed for $54M; BEN
BUTTON & BEDTIME STORIES close for #2 Friday with about just over $10M
with both targeting $40M by Monday; VALKYRIE seizes another $8M; REV
ROAD, GRAN TORINO and WRESTLER are likely 4-day PTA leaders!
The big box office guns of 2008 were generally down a couple of ticks on
Friday. This is counter to the models that I and many box office types
were using to project the 4-day weekend numbers. The last time Christmas
landed on a Thursday was in 2003, the biggest day of that 4-day frame
was Friday. Pictures that year were generally up 15%-20% on Friday, flat
or down a few percentage points on Saturday and then down 19%-25% on
Sunday. We’re seeing something different here.
The answer I’m getting from studio honchos is that just because
Christmas is on the same day, doesn’t mean that pictures will play in
the same pattern. It may be that because retail sales were down
dramatically during the traditional holiday shopping season, more
potential movie-goers rushed out to take advantage of after-holiday deep
discounts. It’s also possible that more people were working on the day
after Christmas because of the rough economy. Job insecurity makes
workers less likely to take days off, and that may have contributed to
the mild undertow. Then, there’s also the fact that 4 movies opened huge
on Christmas Day and that there was real anticipation for Marley & Me
(Fox), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount), Bedtime Stories
(Disney) and Valkyrie (MGM/UA), an a high percentage of people saw their
First Choice yesterday.
The lovable dog yarn starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Anniston took a
very mild 3% drop to about $14.06M. Benjamin Button was off 14% to an
estimated $10.2M, while Bedtime Stories dipped 2% to $10.1M. Meanwhile,
the Bryan Singer-directed Tom Cruise epic Valkyrie was down about 5% to
a still-strong $8M. So it appears that kid and family-friendly movies
held up a bit better than more adult fare like David Fincher’s Best
Picture contender."
KNX NewsRadio snip>
Tom Cruise's Valkyrie is definitely doing business. It'll be his 2nd
smallest debut since 1986 (first was his UA flop Lions For Lambs), but
at least it's not stillborn. "
http://www.knx1070.com/Xmas-Box-Office-Goes-to-the-Dogs/3561247
KNX 1070 NewsRadio
Christmas Day was "enormous" for the movie industry with the top two
pics setting all-time records for the holiday, studios are telling me.
Even the weather cooperated. Good thing too because, for weeks now,
Hollywood has been hotly anticipating today's opening of five
high-profile movies with potential to be blockbusters (because Christmas
releases on average have a 6.9 multiple)."
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Bedtime Stories had been expected to lead the pack of five films
opening today. But watch out for it tomorrow because of the Adam Sandler
starrer's short running time and kiddie matinees all holiday weekend.
Tom Cruise's Valkyrie is definitely doing business. It'll be his 2nd
smallest debut since 1986 (first was his UA flop Lions For Lambs), but
at least it's not stillborn. In 5th place is holdover Sony's Seven
Pounds, again demonstrating Will Smith's box office drawing power even
in a downer film. Taking a hit from the new openers is Warner Bros' Yes
Man comedy which moved down from 1st to 6th. Remains to be seen if Jim
Carrey gets a payday on this film."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20249134,00.html
Reviews Mixed for Tom Cruise in Valkyrie
[People Magazine (Dec 26)]
The reviews are in for Valkyrie, Tom Cruise's World War II epic about
Claus von Stauffenberg, a German soldier who became disillusioned with
the Nazi cause and tried to assassinate Hitler.
The film, which opened Christmas Day and took in $8.57 million, has been
strongly lauded for its high production value, but the reviews for
Cruise's performance are mixed.
Fox News calls the actor's performance "awful," and many critics agree
that Cruise's profile as one of the most famous actors in the world is
detrimental to the film.
"He's distractingly bad," writes the Associated Press's Christy Lemire,
"the iconography of his celebrity so strongly overshadowing his
performance."
"Tom Cruise the movie star never disappears into Claus von Stauffenberg
the brilliant military man," agrees The Seattle Times critic Moira
McDonald.
The New York Times's Manohla Dargis defends Cruise's "fine, typically
energetic performance in a film that requires nothing more of him than a
profile and vigor," but also concurs that the actor is "too modern, too
American and way too Tom Cruise to make sense in the role."
But Cruise does have critics in his corner.
The Washington Post writes, "Even Cruise, whom many doubted could carry
off the aristocratic elan of the blue-blooded von Stauffenberg, manages
his part respectably, with a combination of ramrod posture, starched
costumes and minimalist acting."
The Los Angeles Times writes, "The fact that the colonel was likely the
most charismatic man in any room, eye patch or not, is something the
actor has been able to connect to."
Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum calls out the film's supporting
cast, including actors Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard as
"top-notch . . . and in the middle, standing straight as a Top Gun ace,
is Tom Cruise, that quintessentially self-constructed American movie
star."
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