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rotten watch box office:

21% Evan Almighty

75% 1408

36% Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

71% Ocean's Thirteen

92% Knocked Up

metacritic box office:





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MORE SINKING SEQUELS: 'Evan Almighty' Debuts Weak; 'Silver Surfer' Drops -65%

SUNDAY AM: Hollywood's most expensive comedy ever needed divine intervention and didn't get it at the box office this weekend as Universal's Evan Almighty debuted to a disappointing $32.1 million. That's well below the $50 mil which box office gurus initially expected and the studio's own lowered expectations of 40+ mil. The PG faith-based pic made less than half the $68 million that the original PG-13 Bruce Almighty took in its opening weekend at the box office. Neither Saturday night nor Friday date night boosted weak matinees for Universal's terribly reviewed family-targeted Noah's Ark retelling which did $11.4 million on Friday and $11.4 million on Saturday and a projected $9.5 mil Sunday from 3,602 theaters. The Tom Shadyac-directed pic won't get to $100 mil domestic this summer despite its runaway cost of $210 mil. (Universal insists the final budget came in at $175 mil.) The pic's business was strongest in the South and Mid-West, average in the West Coast and Mountain regions, and softest in the East and Canada. But the studio had marketed the movie's religious theme heavily to faith-based sectors whose crowds never translated into moviegoers. All along, tracking scores for "Unaided Awareness" had been too low. And even with the book and toilet jokes removed, parents didn't want to take their kids to a sequel based on a movie they felt was too mature. According to exit polls, the pic drew a wide range of ages, with 52% over age 25, but family moviegoers comprised only 45% of the audience, with just 24% parents and 21% children under age 13. But the major problem in the end seemed to be that Evan Almighty sacrificed too many laughs at the altar of heartwarming. Exit polls showed that the top reason adults wanted to see the movie was the humor (76%). But Evan's reviews were god awful. According to RottenTomatoes.com, it garnered only 21% positive reviews among the pool of 112 film critics, and only 9% from major media outlets.). For details about what went wrong, including an analysis of the movie's marketing and a meltdown by the director, read my previous: 'Evan Almighty': Going To Heaven Or Hell?.

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[John Dunbar]

It was a pretty damn bad idea for a movie anyway.

 

[Defcon]

Ouch.

 

[NomarTyme]

Room 1408 did pretty well.

 

[LakeEarth]

And apparently the movie cost 200 mil. Come on!

 

[Armitage]

Holy crap, Knocked Up has grossed more than Ocean's 13.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I love the quaint notion that if a regular guy became a god, it would result in a PG movie.

 

[CajoleJuice]

Nice to see that overpriced piece of crap bomb. Also good to see Knocked Up get to $100 mil.

 

[MassiveAttack]

$210M production cost for Evan Almighty??? Holy god.

:lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Darko]

im surprised it did that much, movie looks terrible.. 175 million wtf were they thinking

 

[Forgotten Ancient]

I love Steve Carell, but Evan Almighty looks awful. If they were going to force the sequel to Bruce Almighty w/o Jim Carey, they should've gotten a different actor. It didn't seem like the role fit Carell very well judging by the trailers.

 

[devilscallmedad]

Knocked Up was pretty bad too i can't understand the 92% it received.

Edit: Jolie managing only a 4 million opening, the box office has really gone slow.

 

[KarishBHR]

good for 1408... it was a good movie

 

[Y2Kev]

...how did it cost 210 million?!?!

 

[John Dunbar]

...how did it cost 210 million?!?!

They thought money could hide Carell's lack of comedic ability.

 

[Windu]

...how did it cost 210 million?!?!

big boat, has to have enough room to fit every animal in it times 2.

 

[chubigans]

They thought money could hide Carell's lack of comedic ability.

You are a sad, crazy man.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Knocked Up was pretty bad too i can't understand the 92% it received.

Not understanding why it got a 92% is fine, but how could you possibly think the movie was bad?

Edit: Jolie managing only a 4 million opening, the box office has really gone slow.

Dude, it's kind of a small movie.

They thought money could hide Carell's lack of comedic ability.

(neutral) John Dunbar
horrifically bad taste

:lol

 

[BlueTsunami]

So this is the point in Carell's life when he gets heavy into drugs and ODs right? *Looks at watch*

 

[Petrarca]

:lol Universal :lol just can't win nowadays

 

[Mama Smurf]

They thought money could hide Carell's lack of comedic ability.

I can't believe you just said...

When it comes to popular American sitcoms, I'd rate Joey slightly above the later seasons of Friends and most of Seinfeld. Early Friends was still better, but not by much.

...I can believe it.

 

[Lo-Volt]

1408 already made $20 million on a budget of $25? Nice job.

 

[Littleberu]

So this is the point in Carell's life when he gets heavy into drugs and ODs right? *Looks at watch*

Why? He has been paid. It's not like he's not universally acclaimed for his role in The Office or something.

 

[Forgotten Ancient]

They thought money could hide Carell's lack of comedic ability.

Your shtick is getting pretty old.

 

[Darko]

1408 already made $20 million on a budget of $25? Nice job.

:lol

 

[Sapiens]

I can't believe you just said...



...I can believe it.

Lol max.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Why? He has been paid. It's not like he's not universally acclaimed for his role in The Office or something.

Totally forgot about "The Office". Not saying Carell sucks (hes awesome) but Evan Almighty is a megaflop. But I guess the blame falls squarely on the studio for spending an excess of $200 Million on an f'n comedy.

1408 already made $20 million on a budget of $25? Nice job.

I c u did thurr

 

[Souldriver]

:lol Universal :lol just can't win nowadays

What do you me...oh wait, Universal is in the HD-DVD camp!

lol, yeah :lol :lol :lol DEATH TO UNIVERSAL :lol :lol

 

[Eggo]

I think it's awesome that Knocked Up is getting new theaters added and it has the lowest drop-off of any movie in the top 15.

 

[Dreamfixx]

Spidey, Shrek, and Pirates are all going to finish their runs way short of their predecessors (domestically). Is there still a chance that the studios are going to spend even higher budgets making part 4's if they are guaranteed to gross even less?

 

[Raw64life]

They thought money could hide Carell's lack of comedic ability.

John Dunbar
horrifically bad taste

Had to be quoted a second time.

 

[dante786]

Spidey, Shrek, and Pirates are all going to finish their runs way short of their predecessors (domestically). Is there still a chance that the studios are going to spend even higher budgets making part 4's if they are guaranteed to gross even less?

They've all still done well enough though, especially shrek and spiderman. Worldwide all three are doing well with spiderman and Pirates putting up phenomenal numbers, so sequels are certainly feasible.

 

[Rabid Wolverine]

Saw the Evan Almighty trailer before F4 Rise Of The Silver Surfer (great sequel btw), didnt laugh once.

Not surprised its bombed.

 

[AniHawk]

Hopefully this summer gets studios to realize that sequelitus and trilogyitus (or whatever you want to call it) are really bad when you don't have a solid plan going in (unlike Back to the Future or Indiana Jones where they had a good idea where they were taking the series).

 

[devilscallmedad]

Not understanding why it got a 92% is fine, but how could you possibly think the movie was bad?

ok bad was a bit of stretch, but still its not even nearly good enough to get a 92, more like a low 70.

Dude, it's kind of a small movie.

It also has terrorists, thats 10 M+ just in itself

 

[captive]

Hopefully this summer gets studios to realize that sequelitus and trilogyitus (or whatever you want to call it) are really bad when you don't have a solid plan going in (like Back to the Future or Indiana Jones or something).

Die Hard 4 may tell them they need to keep making sequels.

 

[Instigator]

There's not a single funny scene in the two trailers released for Evan Almighty.

 

[Rabid Wolverine]

Die Hard 4 may tell them they need to keep making sequels.

If a sequels done right there no reason for it to make money.

Stallone proved it with Rocky Balboa.

 

[xaosslug]

re: Evan Almighty's budget, what did they use all them monies on, the animals, Steve's paycheck, craft service? Because the special effects were laughable.

 

[DMczaf]

Fantastic Four 2 is tracking behind the first movie now. Whoops!

 

[Desperado]

Yeah, I dunno where the money went in Evan Almighty.

Steve Carell saves it from being completely worthless, but bleh. My girlfriend loved it, though.

 

[bud]

re: Evan Almighty's budget, what did they use all them monies on, the animals, Steve's paycheck, craft service? Because the special effects were laughable.

from wiki:

At an initial budget of approximately $140 million, Evan Almighty is slated to be the most expensive comedy movie ever made. Added costs such as set construction, visual effects, and problems with filming multiple animals in a controlled location could bring the budget up to $160-175 million. Once marketing for the film is also included, the film's entire budget is estimated to be $250 million.

 

[Petrarca]

Spidey, Shrek, and Pirates are all going to finish their runs way short of their predecessors (domestically). Is there still a chance that the studios are going to spend even higher budgets making part 4's if they are guaranteed to gross even less?

Spidey 3 will finish $340 million domestically, a 30 million dollars short. It's bad, but not WAY bad.

Worldwide is a different story, it's already beating the previous 2 films by a wide margin, so overall Spidey 3 is actually an improvement from 1 & 2

Spiderman 3
Domestic: $332,548,000 37.9%
+ Foreign: $543,844,857 62.1%
= Worldwide: $876,392,857


Spiderman 2
Domestic: $373,585,825 47.7%
+ Foreign: $410,180,516 52.3%
= Worldwide: $783,766,341

Spiderman 1
Domestic: $403,706,375 49.1%
+ Foreign: $418,002,176 50.9%
= Worldwide: $821,708,551

 

[Dan]

This summer's sucked. I could only be bothered to see Knocked Up and Ocean's Thirteen. Ratatouille, The Bourne Ultimatum and Superbad are the only wide releases left that I believe will be worth paying for. It's possible I'll stumble into Transformers and Die Hard if I'm extremely bored or get dragged by friends, but I assume they'll be weak.

Thank god next summer has a couple blockbusters with great potential, between Iron Man, Speed Racer, The Dark Knight, WALL-E and Hellboy 2. Maybe, maybe even Indy IV.

 

[xaosslug]

Saw the Evan Almighty trailer before F4 Rise Of The Silver Surfer (great sequel btw), didnt laugh once.

Not surprised its bombed.

 

[Great Rumbler]

Also of note for this week:

Pirates 3's worldwide gross has risen to within $4 million of Spider-man 3's worldwide gross. Both sit at around $875,000,000.

 

[valkillmore]

I saw Evan Almighty. Here's my take.

Spoiler

The lessons Evan learns could have been learned without him having to build a ****ing ark. The whole ark thing makes absolutely no sense at all. None. I mean, the only people he ended up saving by getting them all on the ark were the same ones that were there to either watch him build the arc, report on it for the news media, or the police intending to destroy it. None of those people would have been at that location and required saving had he not built it in the first place. And, the wave of water that results from the dam being broken? could have killed tens of thousands. It just a ridiculous movie, and it has a COMPLETELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE DANCE NUMBER AT THE END that seems to be standard these days for directors that can't figure out how to end a picture. Its ridiculous.

 

[soundwave05]

The summer has been shit for quality.

While movies are making money, imagine how much they'd make if Spidey 3, Shrek 3, Fantastic Four 2, etc. were actually good movies, or Pirates 3 wasn't 4 friggin' hours.

I'll give Evan Almighty a pass, because that concept was destined to suck monkey ass right from the beginning.

Grindhouse is 100x better than any of these "summer blockbusters". Look for 1408 to have a solid run/legs, as it seems to be getting decent reviews.

With Die Hard pre-emptively sucking with a PG-13 rating, it looks like it's up to Harry Potter, Ratatouile, and Transformers to salvage this summer. We need Batman to come back and kick the crap out of these pretenders.

 

[captive]

I like how people keep naming off huge summer movies and no one is mentioning the Simpsons.

 

[bud]

I like how people keep naming off huge summer movies and no one is mentioning the Simpsons.

the simpsons movie is not a huge summer movie.