12/12-14 Weekend Box Office

[Juan F. Lara]

I had been so busy with the semester that I didn't have time for these
posts. Now I have time, though. Information taken from Brandon Gray's
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

4 3 Bolt $7,464,282 -23.8% 3,133 -383 $2,382 $88,849,005
8 6 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $3,181,231 -37.4% 2,768 -549 $1,149 $169,937,394
18 Delgo $511,920 2,160 $237 $511,920
23 24 The Polar Express (IMAX) $198,404 +26.8% 26 $7,631 $720,745
40 32 Igor $45,700 -30.2% 118 -44 $387 $19,389,266
44 44 Santa Vs. the Snowman - Season 7 (IMAX) $31,184 -7.8% 13 -2 $2,399 $190,776
45 36 WALL-E $30,820 -34.3% 123 -43 $251 $223,749,872
58 57 Fly Me to the Moon $14,890 -4.1% 12 -3 $1,241 $12,400,527
84 92 Fear(s) of the Dark $1,889 -14.5% 4 -2 $472 $76,694
97 $9.99 $478 1 $478 $478

As busy as I was, I sure didn't want to miss reporting THIS week's
results. :-)

As you've already heard, on 12/12-14 we saw "Delgo" make history. :-) The
really stinging part, "Delgo" was originally reported to have a $900K opening
weekend, which was still a record breaker for a flop. But the actuals turned
out to be only HALF that. Yikes. I assume that this weekend it will have a
record breaking dive in the boxoffice due to a mass disappearance from
theaters. Incidentally, it didn't do too well among critics either.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/delgo/

Over the past couple of weeks, I missed the ups and downs of "Bolt".
"Bolt" initially took a lot of flack for a lukewarm $30Million first weekend,
though now "Delgo"'s probably made everyone forget about that flop talk. :-)
Then "Bolt" showed some good hold during the Thanksgiving day weekend, due to
very good word of mouth.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bolt/

But the boxoffice has been lackluster since. It looks like "Bolt" is just
going to crawl over the $100M mark. How much did this movie cost?

Also a couple of weeks back, "Space Chimps" left theaters with a
$30,105,968 domestic gross coupled with a $32,886,476, easily covering the
film's $37M production budget. It's out on DVD, if you care to watch it.
Curiously enough, other films on DVD, like "WALL-E" and "Fly Me to the Moon",
are still in theaters.

The stop motion animation "$9.99", debuted this weekend.

http://www.9dollars99movie.com/

It opened in only one LA theater for Oscar consideration. It still had a
better boxoffice than "Delgo". :-) Not registering a boxoffice is "Dragon
Hunters", even though that had an Oscar consideration opening in LA as well.

http://www.dragonhunters-themovie.com/indexuk.php

Meanwhile in NY, "The Sky Crawlers" had its Oscar consideration release, but
only for one day.

http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/theskycrawlers/

I don't know what the plans are for future distribution for any of these
movies.

- Juan F. Lara

[S.t.A.n.L.e.E]

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 8:16am-0000, Juan F. Lara <lj...@ces.clemson.edu>:

>
> Meanwhile in NY, "The Sky Crawlers" had its Oscar consideration release, but
> only for one day.
>
> http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/theskycrawlers/
>

Sky Crawlers had its Oscar consideration release

in Los Angeles the week prior:

http://tinyurl.com/6mxatk

Laters. =)

Stan
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