This Weekend at the Boxoffice - 06/28/2004

[Welverin]

I foresee this weekend being drastically different.

 

[Felix]

[melodrama]
Curses! I will get you Henry and Eric Noah, if that is your real name, I almost slew a box-office analysis thread!
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No harm meant, and given the movie I think it was a valid question to ask... although perhaps not for these boards. Thank you for the honest (and well restrained ) replies, though.

In a lighter vein, I am looking forward to the movies that are slated to come out in this summer. Personally, I have felt a surge of quality in movies over the last 3 years and while part of me hopes that this is a permanent shift in production quality, the other part is reluctant to see it as something other than a high-water mark, soon to fall back.

 

[Sarigar]

Oops. Let me say what a slow June movie month. Shrek 2 did start last month. Except for Spider-man, Riddick, and the Terminal there is nothing I want to go to the movies for that start(s)ed in June. There should be at least a half-dozen films each month I want to go to the movies to see over the Summer. This summer I have half that each month that I want to go see.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Saw the Terminal last night(and got me some midnight showing tickets for Spidey while I was there). I thought it was great...but really, this month has only been Riddick, more viewings of Shrek 2, Terminal, and Spidey for me.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I foresee this weekend being drastically different.

So, will Spiderman's box office take be double on all the other movies in the top 10 list...I think so.

 

[RenoOfTheTurks]

Now that I consider impressive, but doesn't change the fact that first place with $22 mil isn't, which was my point.

Yeah, but I saw a statistic to the effect that $22 million is almost half of what *all* documentaries made, combined, back in 1998. Their revenue has, I think I recall, tripled since then, with Fahrenheit obviously the heavyweight. So in a way, that's evidence that this movie is a powerhouse when you consider that it is smashing previous achievements by a documentary. Of course it's not going to compare to Spiderman. Documentaries don't.

I saw it, liked it. But another recent documentary, The Corporation, was much better IMO.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

So, will Spiderman's box office take be double on all the other movies in the top 10 list...I think so.

Having just gotten back from Spidey...I can say that YES it will. At least, as many times as I hope to go back it had better!

 

[Welverin]

So, will Spiderman's box office take be double on all the other movies in the top 10 list...I think so.

Yeah, even just counting Fri-Sun. May have even come close for the first two days (I've only heard about Wed so far).

Yeah, but I saw a statistic to the effect that $22 million is almost half of what *all* documentaries made, combined, back in 1998. >snip<

Problem is you're comparing it to other documentaries, I wasn't. For a documentary it has done insanely well, in general it hasn't.