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[GhaleonEB]

...hit?

1 WAR OF THE WORLDS $21,256,483

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

*Edit* Um...click on the link for the rest.

 

[ManaByte]

Matt Drudge is crying. He's hated the movie ever since the Superbowl spot and had dedicated his site to posting all the bad news about it he could find including a Fox News report yesterday that claimed it was playing to empty theaters.

 

[DMczaf]

You got Monday numbers for 2-5.

 

[Willco]

Who didn't think this be huge?

ALIENS AND/OR EXPLOSIONS? CHECK.

HUGE RELEASE? CHECK.

LOTS OF MARKETING? CHECK.

SPIELBERG? CHECK.

PRE-BATSHIT CRAZY CRUISE? CHECK.

Although, I will say, if it wasn't for Spielberg's name and the popularity of the material, I think this movie would've been fucked. The next project that Cruise has to draw on his own name and/or doesn't have a built-in fanbase, I think will suffer.

 

[tedtropy]

PRE-BATSHIT CRAZY CRUISE? CHECK.

Pre?

 

[GhaleonEB]

You got Monday numbers for 2-5.

My request to you is a simple one. Click on the link! The chart is for the week so far, and includes Monday - Wednesday.

 

[Alcibiades]

I started reading the novel last night, and my dad said that he didn't like the way Tom Cruise responded to Matt Lauer (like it would have anything to do with the movie)...

I wonder if the bad press had any other negative effects...

I'm a Tom Cruise fan so I was probably biased in my reactions to his crazy comments (which I admit was in bad taste)....

 

[DMczaf]

My request to you is a simple one. Click on the link! The chart is for the week so far, and includes Monday - Wednesday.

No, I mean you have Monday numbers for 2-5. Batman made $2.5 mil on Wednesday, not $4 mil.

 

[Alcibiades]

My request to you is a simple one. Click on the link! The chart is for the week so far, and includes Monday - Wednesday.

your chart includes a #1 Wed. and #2-5 Mondays, it's neither Wed. numbers nor weekly numbers...

 

[Jim Bowie]

I think this is the first movie, according to GAF, not to bomb in the history of all movies.

 

[milanbaros]

My request to you is a simple one. Click on the link! The chart is for the week so far, and includes Monday - Wednesday.

No, muppet. He means you have monday numbers for positions 2 through 5. :lol

 

[Brian Fellows]

No, muppet. He means you have monday numbers for positions 2 through 5. :lol

echoooo choooo hoooo ooooo

 

[GhaleonEB]

No, I mean you have Monday numbers for 2-5. Batman made $2.5 mil on Wednesday, not $4 mil.

Sorry for the delay in response, I'm too busy wiping the fucking egg off my face. Ag! :lol

 

[Macam]

I started reading the novel last night, and my dad said that he didn't like the way Tom Cruise responded to Matt Lauer (like it would have anything to do with the movie)...

I wonder if the bad press had any other negative effects...

I'm a Tom Cruise fan so I was probably biased in my reactions to his crazy comments (which I admit was in bad taste)....

I probably would've opted to see this with a friend who's been wanting to see it for some time now, but, and forgive me as I know it comes across as shallow, I'm all Cruised out. I was largely indifferent to his antics until that Lauer interview; when you just start lying and attempt to manipulate public opinion (kids on Ritalin, people being shocked against their will, et al), I just can't stand it. I don't much care for Spielberg's recent films either. Saving Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report....I enjoy them at moments, but on the whole, they're just well produced shells of movies to me. I don't get much out of them.

On the whole though, I doubt Cruise's antics had any significant impact on the movie one way or the other. If anything, it probably helped. Jessica Simpson only went up to becoming an A-list celebrity despite being dumb and crazy.

 

[Alcibiades]

yeah I have to admit since I didn't catch Oprah or BET I didn't care much at first, but staying up super-late till the morning hours, I actually caught the Friday interview on Today...

I was pretty surprised how fanatical he was...

I have a lowered opinion of him now, though I'm still a fan...

 

[FoneBone]

I probably would've opted to see this with a friend who's been wanting to see it for some time now, but, and forgive me as I now it comes across as shallow, I'm all Cruised out.

Well, in general, I don't really care about what an actor or actress does offscreen. That said, Cruise has been so publically nutty lately that I couldn't blame anyone for skipping this. But I guess I'd been looking forward to WotW too much to skip it for that reason.

 

[TheDuce22]

Disaster movie + Holiday weekend = Hit

 

[ManaByte]

Disaster movie + Spielberg + Holiday weekend = Hit

Fixed

 

[Mike Works]

I like Cruise as an actor (and he works well with Spielberg, who's been on fire lately with his movies), so there's no way I wouldn't see this. I'm also not the kind of person who wouldn't see a movie because of the way an actor acts in real life (ie Russel Crowe is one of my favorite actors even though he's a moron in real life).

That being said, I am completely sympathetic to those who say they're not going to watch it because of Cruise. It's completely Cruise's fault, because a lot of people when they see Cruise smile in the movie, they're going to associate that smile with crazy man Tom jumping on Oprah's couch, and it'll take them out of the movie and hurt the experience. Pre-release publicity is almost always good, but he went way too far. I'm just thankful I can differentiate myself from the PR circuit and the movie itself.

 

[Escape Goat]

I am going just to see that hottie Dakota Fanning!! Rawr!! Tap it!

 

[SteveMeister]

I like Cruise as an actor (and he works well with Spielberg, who's been on fire lately with his movies), so there's no way I wouldn't see this. I'm also not the kind of person who wouldn't see a movie because of the way an actor acts in real life (ie Russel Crowe is one of my favorite actors even though he's a moron in real life).

That being said, I am completely sympathetic to those who say they're not going to watch it because of Cruise. It's completely Cruise's fault, because a lot of people when they see Cruise smile in the movie, they're going to associate that smile with crazy man Tom jumping on Oprah's couch, and it'll take them out of the movie and hurt the experience. Pre-release publicity is almost always good, but he went way too far. I'm just thankful I can differentiate myself from the PR circuit and the movie itself.

It's not terribly different from trying to remove an actor who was in a specific, career defining role from being that same character in a different movie. Some times a single role can take over an actor's career, and some times off-screen behavior can do the same. Happened to Jane Fonda during Viet Nam, though I don't think Cruise's recent behavior is in the same ballpark.

Folks just have to remember that he's an ACTOR, and the chances of you EVER seeing what he's really like, even in interviews, are slim.

 

[DMczaf]

I am going just to see that hottie Dakota Fanning!! Rawr!! Tap it!

Too late

 

[Jonnyboy117]

Did that BET clip of Cruise ever make it online? I'd like to see it.

 

[GhaleonEB]

$21.5m on Friday
$57.2m first three days

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

 

[Pack of Wild Rats]

Hmm, any chance of it hitting 100 mil? or at least 90? This week that is.

 

[J2 Cool]

Week? Yes. Weekend, no. It should definitely hit 90 by Sunday, by Monday over 100. Batman Begins meanwhile... well, I think it has a long shot at hitting 18 million if you include 4th of July. That would send it to almost 155 million.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Batman is only $6 million or so away from passing Longest Yard for the 5th best box office of the year, and Ebert just proclaimed it as STILL the best movie of the summer (Suck it Cruise!). There doesn't seem to be any big movies coming out this year after WotW, so it has a good chance of finishing in the top 5. Not bad for a movie people were declaring a bomb a couple weeks ago.

 

[Barrage]

Batman is only $6 million or so away from passing Longest Yard for the 5th best box office of the year, and Ebert just proclaimed it as STILL the best movie of the summer (Suck it Cruise!). There doesn't seem to be any big movies coming out this year after WotW, so it has a good chance of finishing in the top 5. Not bad for a movie people were declaring a bomb a couple weeks ago.

King Kong, bitch. Plus Harry Potter.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Fantastic Four outgrossed Batsy.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

King Kong, bitch. Plus Harry Potter.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Fantastic Four outgrossed Batsy.

King Kong comes out in December, no? It will probably carry over into '06, thus not TECHNICALLY being 2005. BATMAN WINS AGAIN!

 

[Barrage]

Actually, a movie's box office is counted in whatever year it's released. Hence why Return Of The King is listed at the #1 movie at BOM for 2003 despite coming out in December.


GOOCHED HA BALE SUCKS BALLS

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Actually, a movie's box office is counted in whatever year it's released. Hence why Return Of The King is listed at the #1 movie at BOM for 2003 despite coming out in December.


GOOCHED HA BALE SUCKS BALLS

"Barrage you diabolical.."

 

[Memles]

Both Harry Potter: GOF and King Kong will outgross Batman Begins, only because of large opening weekends and the strength of the holiday period. While Batman Begins continues to have pretty darn good legs (Likely helped by the overall increased box office that will result from the 4th of July Weekend), both of those movies will outgross its opening weekend and end up outgrossing it in total.

The bigger story from the Friday Estimates has to be the 29% drop for Episode III...the film has been holding fairly steady between 30% and 40% drops, which is damn impressive for the current box office climate. Hopefully Batman follows suit.