Wkd Box Office Est. 02•17-19•12 - Denzel back w/ vengeance, war: what is it good for?

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rottenwatch box office:
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51% Safe House
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28% The Vow
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16% Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
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42% Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
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25% This Means War
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93% The Secret World of Arrietty

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'Safe House' surges to top spot at B.O. U's spy thriller projected to earn $28.5 mil in four days

In an impressive surge to No. 1 at the domestic B.O., Universal's Denzel Washington starrer "Safe House" grossed over President's Day weekend an estimated three-day take of $24 million, with the studio projecting the pic to earn $28.5 million in four days.

"Safe House," in its second outing, dropped just 40% using a three-day weekend comparison. Overall four-day B.O., meanwhile, was up approximately 10% over last year's holiday frame.

Overseas, the U pic collected $6 million from 35 territories, bringing its international tally to $19.6 million. Through Monday, "Safe House's" estimated worldwide cume stands at $102.4 million.

A Sony pair nabbed the following Stateside rankings: Holdover weeper "The Vow" earned a fantastic four-day gross of $27.4 million, followed by newcomer "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" (budgeted for a reported $57 million), which debuted to an early estimated $25.5 million through Monday.

"The Vow," from Screen Gems and Spyglass Entertainment, has cumed a stellar $85.5 million domestically in 10 days, making it already the highest-grossing pic ever for Screen Gems.

Also bowing this weekend, Fox's romantic actioner "This Means War" earned a solid $17.6 million in three days. That's with "The Vow" still attracting a strong share of post-Valentine's Day couples and female audiences.

Disney's Studio Ghibli toon "The Secret World of Arrietty" grossed in four days an projected $8 million, making it the biggest Stateside debut for the Japanese toon shop. Consider, however, "Arrietty" opened the widest of any Ghibli pic at 1,522 domestic locations.

Though as the top choice for families, Warner Bros.-New Line's holdover "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" collected an estimated $20.1 million through Sunday, down only 27% from the pic's three-day opening last weekend. "Journey 2" has tallied so far $53.2 million domestically.​


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Arrietty is the 8th highest grossing anime film in the US after 1 weekend. Per screen average is higher than Ponyo despite the larger theatre count.
 
Arrietty is the 8th highest grossing anime film in the US after 1 weekend. Per screen average is higher than Ponyo despite the larger theatre count.
It would have done better if Disney marketed the movie. I barely saw anything for it on their own channel.
 
I am surprised that Journey 2 held up so well. Even with it being a holiday weekend, the 27% 3-Day drop is impressive. I guess adding the Rock helped, because this movie looked like it should have been DOA. I wonder if the Rock will continue his streak of helping to reinvigorate franchises with GI Joe 2 this summer.
 
I was thinking the same thing, it will make a profit from WW numbers...

B-grade comic films don't do extremely well overseas. However, 55-60M here, and maybe the same overseas, wouldn't be a complete disaster for a $60M film. I think GR2 will do alright on the home video market as well.
 
Safe House winning the weekend was unexpected.
The Vow is fucking wrecking shit lol. Women love them some Channing Tatum.
Ghost Rider did a lot better than I thought it would. I was expecting bomb of the year from GR:SoV. Instead it's actually gonna do decent numbers.
 
What are the other movies? I'm guessing other Ghibli movies with maybe Pokemon?

The first three Pokemon films, a Digimon film, a Yu-gi-oh film, Spirited away and Ponyo

This should end up being the highest grossing Ghibli film in NA by the time it leaves theatres.

It seems like they knew GR wasn't coming near the first one based off that budget. Looks like it will be a success.

One of the smarter sequel budgets I have seen in a long time.
 
How in the holy fuck does a romantic comedy have a 65 million dollar budget? Tom Hardy and Chris Pine aren't even big name actors, so it can't really be salary related.
 
It seems like they knew GR wasn't coming near the first one based off that budget. Looks like it will be a success.

Actually i think it´s because Sony going cheap on many movies. Rumors say that The Amazing Spiderman only costs 70 million, and that is without calculating how much product placement does that movie has. They could probably pay for the movie with product placement if they wanted. A third of Skyfall´s budget is paid by product placement.
 
What are the other movies? I'm guessing other Ghibli movies with maybe Pokemon?

1 Pokemon: The First Movie - $85,744,662
2 Pokemon: The Movie 2000 - $43,758,684
3 Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie - $19,765,868
4 Pokemon 3: The Movie - $17,052,128
5 Ponyo - $15,090,399
6 Spirited Away - $10,055,859
7 Digimon: The Movie - $9,631,153
8 The Secret World of Arrietty - $6,400,000
 
Finally went to see The Grey this weekend.

Didn't care for it at all. Neither did most of the audience there and more than 1 group of people started laughing at the end of it.

Not what I expected at all. I expected an action movie. What I got was a bunch of outdoor panorama shots, a little bit of action, and a lot of philosophical pondering about man vs. nature vs. God.

About 30 minutes into it, I turned to my wife and said - 'I think this is a horror movie', 30 minutes after that, 'I see some parallels to Jaws - a lot of psychology here', by the end - 'I don't know what this movie was, but I wasn't entertained'.
 
I kind of feel The Grey was straddling two different types of movie, but I wanted something more ponderous and philosophical. I enjoyed it and would recommend it, but I wish there was more meat to it than just the wolves.
 
How in the holy fuck does a romantic comedy have a 65 million dollar budget? Tom Hardy and Chris Pine aren't even big name actors, so it can't really be salary related.

Reese Witherspoon's salary is probably like 25 million of that budget. Isn't she one of the highest paid actresses out there?
 
Reese Witherspoon's salary is probably like 25 million of that budget. Isn't she one of the highest paid actresses out there?

Probably, not sure how she got that high though, she's not someone to draw people to theaters like, Angelina Jolie for example.
 
17 mil? Kirk Vs. Picard bombed Hard.

Finally went to see The Grey this weekend.

Didn't care for it at all. Neither did most of the audience there and more than 1 group of people started laughing at the end of it.

Not what I expected at all. I expected an action movie. What I got was a bunch of outdoor panorama shots, a little bit of action, and a lot of philosophical pondering about man vs. nature vs. God.

About 30 minutes into it, I turned to my wife and said - 'I think this is a horror movie', 30 minutes after that, 'I see some parallels to Jaws - a lot of psychology here', by the end - 'I don't know what this movie was, but I wasn't entertained'.


It's a good film, but has some of the most deceptive marketing I have ever seen.
 
I saw This means war this weekend. My wife liked it and it did have a couple of funny scenes. Movie was pretty forgettable but OK nonetheless.
 
Quality-wise or based on box-office? Because the box-office results look to be pretty strong to me.

Quality-wise. The top 5 is just awful and the top 10 doesn't look much better to me (I'd consider watching The Woman in Black, if I absolutely had to pick a movie).
 
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