This weekend at the Box Office: 2005.12.05

[Hand of Evil]

Harry still on top, Aeon Flux on 13 million.

1. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," $20.45 million.
2. "Aeon Flux," $13.1 million.
3. "Walk the Line," $10 million.
4. "Yours, Mine & Ours," $8.4 million.
5. "Just Friends," $5.9 million.
6. "Pride & Prejudice," $4.62 million.
7. "Rent," $4.6 million.
8. "Chicken Little," $4.5 million.
9. "Derailed," $2.4 million.
10. "In the Mix," $1.9 million.

www.boxofficemojo.com for details and breakdowns

 

[JoeGKushner]

Hope that the people in charge of Harry Potter weren't thinking that this weekend would be a repeate of last. Man, what a drop. Hope it doesn't have too much competition outside of King Kong.

 

[Umbran]

Hope it doesn't have too much competition outside of King Kong.

It has to contend with The Chronicles of Narnia before Kong.

 

[barsoomcore]

A 60% drop on the third weekend isn't that big a deal, especially post-Thanksgiving. It'll still end up as one of the most successful films in the franchise, looks like.

Frankly, Aeon Flux's dismal $13M opener is far worse news than Potter's decline. Like one review said: "Charlize Theron's gotten her Oscar, just like Halle Berry. Now she has her Catwoman." Looks like a disaster.

 

[Hand of Evil]

A 60% drop on the third weekend isn't that big a deal, especially post-Thanksgiving. It'll still end up as one of the most successful films in the franchise, looks like.

Frankly, Aeon Flux's dismal $13M opener is far worse news than Potter's decline. Like one review said: "Charlize Theron's gotten her Oscar, just like Halle Berry. Now she has her Catwoman." Looks like a disaster.

Potter breakdown
Domestic: $229,839,000 (41.0%) + Overseas: $330,600,000 (59.0%) = Worldwide: $560,439,000

 

[JoeGKushner]

A 60% drop on the third weekend isn't that big a deal, especially post-Thanksgiving. It'll still end up as one of the most successful films in the franchise, looks like.

Frankly, Aeon Flux's dismal $13M opener is far worse news than Potter's decline. Like one review said: "Charlize Theron's gotten her Oscar, just like Halle Berry. Now she has her Catwoman." Looks like a disaster.

I agree on both points.

It's just with Kong and Narina coming out, that 60% drop will probably continue no?

And yeah, Charlize... poor gal. Then again, how many people thought that Aeon Flux was going to be a top contentder for anything? I'm serious about that question as I don't follow the news or anything. I saw the commercials and though, "Hmmm... late fall no-brainer." as opposed to this being something "Good" that I must see.

Then again, the public is pretty stupid with what it demands in it's theater anyway. Many movies that receive great praise and critical reviews flounder and then are acknowledge at award time. Cinderalla Man would be a good contender for that field.

 

[trancejeremy]

I dunno, Aeon Flux wasn't that expensive to make. $60 million? So while a $13 million opener isn't great, it will break even once you include the foreign take, as you figure it will probably reach about $30 million US and probably $40-50 overseas (usually it's half, but films like this seem to do better outside the US).

Catwoman was like $130 million and only pulled in about $80 million in theaters (worldwide).

 

[barsoomcore]

Yeah, fair enough. I can't believe anybody thought investing $130M in Catwoman was a good idea.

 

[reapersaurus]

From the review (AICN), Aeon Flux doesn't sound NEARLY as brainless as is being made out by "critics".

Hard sci-fi concepts are seldom digested by the public very well - there should be no surprise it's getting drubbed.