This Weekend at the Boxoffice: 2007.July.30

[Hand of Evil]

Only costing 75 million to make, the Simpson Movie takes in 71 million in its openning weekend! Harry contiues to drop on the weekends but is doing very well during the week days.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Some more detail on take:

Harry Potter: 150 to make
Domestic: $241,771,000 34.9% + Foreign: $450,000,000 65.1% = Worldwide: $691,771,000

Transformers: 150 to make
Domestic: $284,558,000 59.7% + Foreign: $192,437,683 40.3% = Worldwide: $476,995,683

Live Free Die Hard: 110 to make
Domestic: $125,128,000 44.0% + Foreign: $158,996,258 56.0 = Worldwide: $284,124,258

Knocked Up: 30 to make
Domestic: $145,131,000 91.8% + Foreign: $13,000,000 8.2% = Worldwide: $158,131,000

 

[Crothian]

Wow, that was big weekend for a non holiday

 

[Hand of Evil]

Wow, that was big weekend for a non holiday

One of the quotes I thought was interesting...

The movie's success depended on former and casual fans returning to the fold, and the fact that it was the Simpsons in their first movie apparently was enough. After all, the prospect of a movie has been buzzed about for a decade, and distributor 20th Century Fox's ubiquitous marketing campaign offered no compelling reason other than that it was the Simpsons in a movie. The advertising maintained the franchise's brand of manic parody and random humor, from trailers pitching it as ugly two-dimensional animation in the age of 3-D to converting 7-Eleven convenience stores into the "Qwik-E-Marts" from the show.

"I think we did a great job courting the family audience and catching fantastic reviews," said Chris Aronson, Fox's senior vice president general sales manager, who claimed the studio expected an opening in the $40 million range. "It's a multi-generational appeal picture. You have people who started watching 18 years ago. They may not watch the show anymore, but the Simpsons are beloved."

Now for a Futrama movie!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Oh numbers for Priates, which dropped out of the top 25.
Domestic: $306,483,088 32.4% + Foreign: $640,617,000 67.6% = Worldwide: $947,100,088

Spiderman also out of the top 25 but still the number 1 movie of the year (domestic)
Domestic: $335,625,539 37.8% + Foreign: $552,809,653 62.2% = Worldwide: $888,435,192

 

[Klaus]

Wow, Pirates 3 is close to one BILLION dollars!

Hopefully, Transformers' success will pave the way for GI Joe, Masters of the Universe and Thundercats to take a more realistic stab at the properties. I'd love to see them.

 

[Mark]

1,000+ votes are in on IMDb for Who's Your Caddy? and it does not look good.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Now for a Futrama movie!

Well there is one coming this fall but it is set for DVD release right now.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471711/

 

[GlassJaw]

Glad to see Ms Lohan's antics are paying off at the box office.


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