Weekend Movie sales

[JoeGKushner]

MOVIE TICKET SALES
The Fog $12.2
Wallace & Gromit $11.7
Elizabethtown $11
Flightplan $6.5 I
n Her Shoes $6.1
Domino $4.7
Two for the Money $4.6
A History of Violence $3.6
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride $3.5
The Gospel $3.2

My girl friend wants to see Mirror Mask and that'll probably be the next one we see, than a History of Violence, then Walace & Gromit.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Serenity is out of the top 10 after only 3 weeks? Brutal.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Serenity is out of the top 10 after only 3 weeks? Brutal.

No, brutal is Domino not even making $5 million in its first week.

 

[Just_Hal]

Serenity is out of the top 10 after only 3 weeks? Brutal.

Ranked #12 Serenity Universal Pictures Distribution $2,282,000 $22,144,000

 

[Acid_crash]

Wow. I was hoping Serenity would have lasted longer than that in the top 10. Oh well.

This has definately been a down year for movies. I guess putting movies out on video 3 to 4 months after the movie is in theaters is taking it's toll on movie goers and going to the movies. They should redo that and go back to at least 6 months to even 8 or 9, but that'll never happen.

 

[Crothian]

well, it also hasn't been a really striong year for movies. The summer blockbuster I found less impressive this year and there didn't seem to be the breakout hit from a relatively unknown movie.

 

[Banshee16]

The whole year seems to be down. Of course, I didn't find as many good movies this year, personally...but some of the demographics were really weird. Kingdom of Heaven tanked in North America but was a hit internationally. Serenity getting almost no presence outside of North America?

Since when have movies been getting $10-15M opening weekends?

Banshee

 

[ssampier]

I can only say I really enjoyed Wallace & Gromit. Of course, I'm no stranger to Wallace and Gromit, having seen all the previous shorts.

 

[jcfiala]

Going to the movies is dying out, slowly. People don't want to have to put up with the impoliteness of their fellow theatergoers, people don't want to sit through 15 minutes of ads before the movie starts, and people don't want to put down $6-$12 a ticket for a group when they can rent a movie for a couple of dollars or buy it for twenty.

Thanks to big screen TVs that you can watch in the privacy of your own home, with your own snacks and the ability to pause it when you need to hit the rest room (instead of missing 5 minutes of movie), the big movie experience just isn't pulling people in.

And, y'know, it hasn't helped that it's been a weak year for movies overall. People are getting out of the habit of going out to the movies, I think.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I am really going to have to change my title: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=152927

One day late and someone takes over!