12/19-21 Weekend BoxOffice
Juan F. Lara
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
3 The Tale of Despereaux $10,103,675 3,104 $3,255 $10,103,675
7 4 Bolt $4,146,856 -44.4% 2,968 -165 $1,397 $94,900,059
12 8 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $1,569,610 -50.7% 2,007 -761 $782 $172,392,069
22 23 The Polar Express (IMAX) $253,852 +21.2% 26 $9,764 $1,118,204
43 43 Santa Vs. the Snowman - Season 7 (IMAX) $29,809 -24.9% 13 -4 $2,293 $278,451
48 40 Igor $18,382 -59.8% 82 -36 $224 $19,420,496
55 45 WALL-E $11,074 -64.1% 62 -61 $179 $223,773,410
56 59 Fly Me to the Moon $10,095 -32.2% 13 +1 $777 $12,423,424
80 87 Fear(s) of the Dark $617 -67.3% 3 -1 $206 $77,876
The distributors of "Delgo" knew when they were licked. :-) The movie is
still out in a few theaters, but they apparently quit bothering to report their
boxoffice numbers.
"The Tale of Despereaux" opened to a lukewarm $3255 per theater average.
That matched its lukewarm critical reception.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tale_of_despereaux/
The boxoffice will surely pick up during Christmas weekend, but I don't know if
it will endure past that.
Happy Holidays.
- Juan F. Lara
Oliver
> The distributors of "Delgo" knew when they were licked. :-) The movie is
> still out in a few theaters, but they apparently quit bothering to report their
> boxoffice numbers.
The resemblance of Delgo's protagonist to John McCain contributed to
its failure: Discuss. :-)
Anim8rFSK
lj...@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:
Did they? It looks more like the film was pulled completely, which
would be extraordinary. You'd expect it to be playing in some 52 seat
basement somewhere.
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Derek Janssen
>>
>> The distributors of "Delgo" knew when they were licked. :-) The movie
>> is
>>still out in a few theaters, but they apparently quit bothering to report
>>their
>>boxoffice numbers.
>
> Did they? It looks more like the film was pulled completely, which
> would be extraordinary. You'd expect it to be playing in some 52 seat
> basement somewhere.
Yeah, studio execs pulling their own movie prematurely before Christmas
weekend to save face after "embarrassing" weekend grosses hit national
headlines?
That's NEVER happened before!.... 9_9
(But unlike "Treasure Planet", Delgo had it *coming*.)
Derek Janssen (and at least they're not joking about the OTHER movie
anymore)
eja...@verizon.net
Anim8rFSK
Derek Janssen <eja...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
Hell, Fox didn't pull the movie, they closed the studio! That Monday!!
Juan F. Lara
Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net> wrote:
>Did they? It looks more like the film was pulled completely, which
>would be extraordinary. You'd expect it to be playing in some 52 seat
>basement somewhere.
I don't know about this week, but last week I used imdb.com to look for
showtimes near my area and I found a few theaters miles away. One theater in
Charlotte still had "Delgo" at least. I'm sure the movie will show up again
in dollar cinemas.
- Juan F. Lara