This Weekend at the Boxoffice - 06/28/2004

[Hand of Evil]

Boxoffice numbers...

1. “Fahrenheit 9/11,” $21.8 million
2. “White Chicks,” $19.6 million
3. “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” $18.5 million
4. “The Terminal,” $13.9 million
5. “The Notebook,” $13 million
6. “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” $11.4 million
7. “Shrek 2,” $10.5 million
8. “Garfield: The Movie,” $7 million
9. “Two Brothers,” $6.2 million
10. “The Stepford Wives,” $5.2 million

White Chicks doing better than I thought but I have heard it is funny. Dodgeball still up there.

 

[MarauderX]

Wow, when's the last time a documentary has been #1?

 

[Sarigar]

This is the first time a documentary has been #1 for the week.

Going back to my comments from last week. May was a good month for movies, June had a few good movies early, and now blah. Thank god for Spidey. It's interesting to note that most summer movies are gauged now on how many millions over 100 they take in. The movies up to now aren't even breaking $50 million in their opening weeks. Too many good movies coming out together and not spaced out. Did Hollywood expect moviegoers to flock to the garbage from the last few weeks just because they were summer movies, and the only new movies out?

 

[Felix]

"Documentary" or "speculative documentary"?

I've not seen it, but I have a hard time imagining Michael Moore being objective about anything...

 

[TracerBullet42]

"Documentary" or "speculative documentary"?

I've not seen it, but I have a hard time imagining Michael Moore being objective about anything...

I don't think he even refers to it as a documentary.

(I wonder if a simple analysis of the box office thread has ever been closed before...)

 

[Henry]

I don't think he even refers to it as a documentary.

(I wonder if a simple analysis of the box office thread has ever been closed before...)

Not yet, but there's a first time for everything.

 

[Welverin]

I don't think he even refers to it as a documentary.[/i]

Either way I'm not sure it matters, $22 million for an opening nowadays isn't impressive and says more about the competition than the movie itself.

 

[BobROE]

Either way I'm not sure it matters, $22 million for an opening nowadays isn't impressive and says more about the competition than the movie itself.

Except that it opened in 868 theaters, so it make about $25000 a theater, while White Chicks, made about 7000 in each of the 2726 theaters it opened in.

 

[buzzard]

I just think it's a shame that Around the World in 80 days dropped off so quickly. I went to see it yesterday, and it wasn't a bad film. It certainly deserves a better showing than it's had.

buzzard

 

[Rackhir]

Either way I'm not sure it matters, $22 million for an opening nowadays isn't impressive and says more about the competition than the movie itself.

I tried to catch it this past weekend and it was sold out at all the theaters I could find. So I'd expect it will continue to keep doing similar buisness for at least a couple of weeks and may well hit the $100 mil mark before going out of theaters. Also the Election and Party Conventions are in a way free advertising for it, to help keep it in people's minds

Besides, movies are also judged on how much money they cost to make vs how much it made. I believe that F911 only cost about 6 mil to make, so at $22 mil, it's already paid back the investors and probably even earned some profits. That's a big deal when when most films at $50-100 mil have to earn $150 mil to $300 mil, just to break even.