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Friday box office estimates - Sky Captain = bomb?

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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Good lord and the budget is reported at 70 mil.... <warning> <warning>
 

Goreomedy

Console Market Analyst
DarienA said:
Good lord and the budget is reported at 70 mil.... <warning> <warning>

70 is imdb's bullshit estimate. Actors are working scale, budget is 35-40 million tops. I'll look for an article to validate...
 

Goreomedy

Console Market Analyst
http://portal.tds.net/newsreader.php?id=44107

He (Director Conran) said "Sky Captain's" budget was less than the $70 million that has been reported.

Filming took place on a sound stage in which various areas served as different locales, "and we walked the actors around these different environments."

"Within the span of 10 minutes, you cross the globe," Conran said. "And it was those kinds of economics of scale that made this affordable."

I've read a few articles that have put it closer to $30. Still lookin'.
 

Memles

Member
Positioned in September, they had to have known they weren't going to make much more than this. Same with Dreamwork's Shark Tale; a kid's movie in the beginning of October? It's all about timing. Sky Captain would have been served better with a summer opening. As it is, it's going to bomb pretty hard.
 

Coop

Member
I was reading a post over at IMDB for Mr 3000 and the thread was about how much money the was going to do all together. And people were saying 40 mill, 50 million, 75 million,etc :lol
 

Memles

Member
COCKLES said:
RE2 held on pretty well.

Wimbeldon bombed. Kirsten Dunst without Spidey = Dudess of Duke Street.

RE2 held on pretty well? It's heading towards a drop of about 65%...which is not pretty well at all.
 

DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Memles said:
RE2 held on pretty well? It's heading towards a drop of about 65%...which is not pretty well at all.

He's probably comparing it to the original:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=residentevil.htm

vs.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=residentevilapocalypse.htm

-69.1% vs. -70.8%

It's drop is slightly more than the original but it's tracking ahead of the original even though budgetwise it cost a bit more to make. So as he said.... it's not doing that bad compared to the original.
 
It's great for me when movies bomb, so the studio will get the DVD out faster. I can't stand going to the movie theaters anymore. Paying all that money for such a shitty experience, especially on opening night.
 

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Bomb Captain And the Bomb of This Weekend!

Poor Kirsten Dunst...I thought her little date movie would do okay.
 

Minotauro

Finds Purchase on Dog Nutz
I predicted this months ago. In fact, I was actually going to make a bet with Olimario but he ignored me once I asked for specifics.
 
Damn, number one and still a bomb? Times is tough.

Though there's a huge swatch of movie-going public out there that wouldn't be seeing the movie since a hurricane may have blown it away.
 

cvxfreak

Member
GAF hates Ebert?

OMG there is a God!

(seriously, Ebert offended me recently when he told people to "bore themselves" with the RE videogame. Fuck that stupid moron.)
 

BioFan

Member
Glad that it bombed, cos it's one of the worst movies I've seen this year, cool style/animation or not the story sucks bad...but that;s just my opinion
 

DaCocoBrova

Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Damn. It sucks?

I'll cop the DVD, which should be out right after the holidays unless this movie really tanks. Then they'll release it for the holidays and advertise the DVD w/ the 2nd round theatrical marketing $$.
 

COCKLES

being watched
Jude Law isn't star material. I still can't fathom why Sky Captain is British when the movie is supposed to be based on the 30's serials with the likes of Buster Keaton. Jude looked right, he just doesn't sound right. And Jolie is the kiss of death for any movie.
 

Scrow

Still Tagged Accordingly
During the age of the motion picture serial, people of all ages would flock to cinemas to catch the next chapter of their favorite hero’s latest adventure. Their admiration went to epic pulp heroes like “Tarzan”, “Flash Gordon”, “Buck Rogers”, “Commander Cody” and of course “The Masked Marvel”. This golden age of action-adventure paved the way for literally hundreds of other motion picture heroes in the years to come.

“Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” is homage to those pioneers with the help of modern day technology. The film opens with the disappearance of the world’s premiere scientists and newspaper reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) is on the case.

Just as Perkins is about to break her story, New York City is invaded by an onslaught of mechanical beings that wage war upon the city and seem to be focused on one particular mission.

The city looks to the heavens for a hero to save the day. That hero happens to be flying-ace for hire, Sky Captain (Jude Law). Like Superman, Sky Captain screams out of the clouds above and into the fray. How can one man stop this army of menacing beings? What is Sky Captain’s connection to Polly Perkins?

For Sky Captain to save the world he will have to look to the aid of his friends, mechanical wizard Dex Dearborn (Giovanni Ribisi) and fellow flying ace, Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie) of the Royal Air Force. Once he has his allies assembled can they uncover who is behind this sinister plot before it is too late?

When you first look into the world of “Sky Captain”, you can’t help but compare it to the likes of those old ingenious Max and Dave Fleischer Superman cartoons of the 1940s. The rich textures, heavy noir shadowing, invading giant robots and a mad scientist bent on ruling the world are all vintage Fleischer. Then you have throwbacks to so many other epic serials of the same period like the classic that the film becomes a feast of the past.

There are so many clever and magical moments throughout the film that at times it is hard to soak it all in.

It is difficult to look past the film’s presentation and see what lurks beneath its brilliant execution. But the film’s simplistic storyline is something modern audiences probably won’t appreciate. Storylines from the serials were utterly simplistic to the point where you had one man in a black hat and another in a white hat. The film probably could have used a deeper approach with more fleshing out of characters and more supporting players but it would have probably ruined the illusion of the era it was trying represent. So in that case it is a “catch 22”, if you will.

The illusion is also maintained in the performances of the film’s award winning stars. Paltrow’s performance as Perkins is probably seen as weak but if you look at it as part of the whole film’s presentation it is actually quite brilliant because that is the way classic female characters of that era, like Lois Lane, were portrayed. The same goes for Law as the epic pulp hero. The only exception might be Jolie’s female commander. In the serials of the 1940s, her character probably would have been male.

Of the three, my favorite performance was that of Law who seemed born to play the role of a classic pulp hero. He reminded me so much of Buster Crabbe, William Forrest and even some of Van Williams from the 1960s TV Series, “The Green Hornet”.

“Sky Captain” is a brilliant reminder of what the past loved so much about science-fiction and how its innocent portrayal made for so many memorable moments.

(4.5 out of 5) So Says the Soothsayer.
http://www.movie-list.com/reviews.php?id=skycaptain
 

belgurdo

Banned
Paradox said:
why the fuck would one want or hope a good movie to bomb?

Sad form of self satisfaction? Or the chance of finding it on tape/DVD at "we gotta get rid of all this fucking stock" prices
 

Cooper

Member
COCKLES said:
I still can't fathom why Sky Captain is British when the movie is supposed to be based on the 30's serials with the likes of Buster Keaton.

I didn't know Buster Keaton made serials.
 

teepo

Member
i always looked at this as fifth element all over again in terms of success. knew it would bomb in the boxoffice, might break even there but it will make a shit load in dvd sales.
 

DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
teepo said:
i always looked at this as fifth element all over again in terms of success. knew it would bomb in the boxoffice, might break even there but it will make a shit load in dvd sales.

No movie should be compared to the greatness that is Fifth Element... Milla ownz j00! ;)
 

Bog

Junior Ace
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers DID come out this weekend, right? Because it didn't even make the top 18.
 

Jim Bowie

Member
Sky Captain, in my opinion, is the movie of the year thus far.

There literally is nothing wrong with the movie. The graphics are absolutely beautiful, the acting is (of course) top notch, the action is nothing but sweet all the way through, the movie actually has great humour! Plus the camerawork (sceneing?) is amazing, as is the direction.

Sky Captain, welcome to the top five.
 

Meier

Member
Bog said:
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers DID come out this weekend, right? Because it didn't even make the top 18.

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers $400,000 (gross) 1,062 (theatres) $376 (PTA)

From what I've read, it is the worst PTA ever for the first week a movie is in wide-release.
 

Insertia

Member
Sky Bomb. :)
Eh, people were expecting otherwise? I knew it would bomb the minute the trailer was shown during Spiderman 2 and everyone let out a laugh due to how incredibly lame it looked.
 

Trevelyon

Member
1) Bomb Captain & the World of Bombius Bomb! Bomb! - $16,200,000
2) Mr.3000 - $9,200,000
3) Resident Evil: Apocalypse - $9,000,000
4) Wimbledon - $7,780,000
5) Cellular - $6,875,000
6) Without a Paddle - $3,715,000
7) Hero - $2,956,000
8) Napoleon Dynamite - $2,400,000
9) Collateral - $2,300,000
10) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement $2,000,000

Weekend numbers
 
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