This Weekend at the Boxoffice: 2006.06.05

[Hand of Evil]

My-oh-my, the X-Men drop bigs, from 120 opening to 38 for a second weekend. Guess this just go to show that the big screen just does not have the staying power it use to but come on, the Break-Up number one! I have only heard bad things about it.

1. “The Break-Up,” $38.1 million.
2. “X-Men: The Last Stand,” $34.35 million.
3. “Over the Hedge,” $20.6 million.
4. “The Da Vinci Code,” $19.3 million.
5. “Mission: Impossible III,” $4.67 million.
6. “Poseidon,” $3.4 million.
7. “RV,” $3.3 million.
8. “See No Evil,” $2 million.
9. “An Inconvenient Truth,” $1.33 million.
10. “Just My Luck,” $825,000.

Time to keep track of the movies I see this year but think I will do it a different way...anything I go to that I feel is a waste of time is a 5 or below, 6 not a complete waste, 7 a good two+ hours spent, an 8 a good two hours I will tell my friends about, 9 something I will consider seeing again, 10 will see again.

Rank 10/10: NA
Rank 09/10: V For Vendetta
Rank 08/10: X-Men: The Last Stand
Rank 07/10: Underworld: Evolution - Lucky Number Slevin
Rank 06/10: Bloodrayne
Waste of time: Slither

 

[Brown Jenkin]

My-oh-my, the X-Men drop bigs, from 120 opening to 38 for a second weekend. Guess this just go to show that the big screen just does not have the staying power it use to but come on, the Break-Up number one! I have only heard bad things about it.

Or it could be that audiences realized that X-3 has no plot and word of mouth helped drop it.

 

[Fast Learner]

No plot? You can't possibly mean that. A plot (or plots) you didn't enjoy, maybe, but no plot? Were you paying attention?

 

[Arnwyn]

word of mouth helped drop it.

I'm pretty sure that's what happened - that's over a 60% drop. Word of mouth got out.

 

[trancejeremy]

It's actually impressive how well MI3 has stayed up there, considering how many people wrote it off as a flop

 

[Taelorn76]

You just knew the Breakup was going to take the number one spot. All those Friends fans can't get enough of Jennifer Anistan. I did expect a drop off on x-men but not that much. And just to chime in it was a good movie, not great, but good. I don't think word of mouth was that bad on it.

 

[Sir Brennen]

38 mill for X3 is still very, very good. Most likely reason for the drop off is simply more fans seeing it opening weekend rather than waiting.

 

[EricNoah]

True, dat. There were, I believe, four screens in my local cineplex showing it on opening weekend. They do that now with big pics -- it used to be kind of dicey as to whether you would get in to a brand new movie on opening weekend; now there's no reason you can't give it a shot.

 

[Bront]

I think the reason people think X3 is a bad movie, is because they're compairing it to the first 2. If it had no expectations, it would have been rated better by most people I believe. I enjoyed it, but I understand the drop, particularly after a HUGE weekend.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Took my g/f out to see X-Men 3 over the weekend.

We enjoyed it.

I don't nomrally see movies on the big screen but this year I've seen four.

V for Vendetta
Thank You For Smoking
Hard Candy
X-Men 3.

Of those, X-Men 3 is the loser, but it was still pretty good.