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rottenwatch box office:
59% Real Steel
82% The Ides of March
81% Dolphin Tale
95% Moneyball
93% 50/50

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'Real Steel' shows B.O. metal. Disney pic KOs weekend competish with $49.4 mil global

Not pulling any punches, Disney-DreamWorks' robo-Rocky "Real Steel" topped the global box office with an estimated $49.4 million, of which $22.1 million came from 19 overseas territories, including No. 1 postings in Australia, Mexico and Russia.

Domestically, the pic's $27.3 million debut take was more than enough to win the weekend, beating Sony's political thriller "The Ides of March," which bowed at $10.4 million through Sunday.

In a global market previously dominated by holdovers, "Real Steel" marks the first opening title to nab Stateside bragging rights in four weeks since "The Lion King" bowed on Sept. 16. Though more notably, the DreamWorks pic managed to knock Sony's "The Smurfs" from its eight-week reign atop the international B.O. (Sony has yet to report this weekend's grosses for "The Smurfs," but the film last weekend earned only $10.7 million without any new territories.)

The weekend's No. 3 domestic title, Warner Bros.' "Dolphin Tale," held well, down only 37% in its third frame for an estimated weekend gross of $9.2 million. Pic has cumed $49.1 million.

Meanwhile, Sony's Brad Pitt starrer "Moneyball" trailed in B.O. standing, with a projected $7.5 million, bringing the film's domestic tally to $49.3 million. Both "Moneyball" and "Dolphin Tale" have been playing nicely to their core adult and family audiences, respectively.

Increased traffic among families likely boosted weekend prospects for "Real Steel," with added opening power from fanboy auds. In fact, Imax reported for "Real Steel" a share of $3.2 million, which reps 12% of the film's total domestic bow.

Globally, "Real Steel" grossed $4.4 million from Imax, or roughly 9% of the pic's worldwide gross.

In Russia, the film earned $6.9 million, followed by Australia, where it opened to $5.3 million, with Mexico contributing $2.9 million.​

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[TheSeks]

93% is rotten now?

 

[Jak140]

93% is rotten now?

They are switching to the IGN rating system.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Why does a movie like dream house cost 50 million ffs. Same with what's your number.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Why does a movie like dream house cost 50 million ffs. Same with what's your number.

Daniel Craig

 

[Pelydr]

Nice numbers for 50/50.

 

[Smellycat]

The highest grossing movie in the top 12 is from 1994

 

[TacticalFox88]

27 million? Didn't they say they expected a 70 million weekend for Real Steel? Fucking lol. But a awesome movie nonetheless.

 

[Weenerz]

Real Steel was pretty enjoyable, hopefully it does well.

 

[xaosslug]

93% is rotten now?

fixed

 

[CaptainMintMan]

I'm surprised Real Steel is making money, at all.

 

[Weenerz]

I'm surprised Real Steel is making money, at all.

Why? Have you seen it? It's a fun movie, sure it won't win any awards, but go with friends or family and enjoy a boxing movie. To me, it really captured the "Rocky" feel to it.

 

[King of the Potato People]

Thank you OP, you've just given me the mental image of a robot punching a dolphin.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

WTF at the ordering of the top two, wtf America.

 

[MetalAlien]

MAN this has been a dry 30 days! This has been the least movie going I've done in a long while!

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

The trailer for Real Steel looked like shit. Is the movie entertaining?

Why? Have you seen it? It's a fun movie, sure it won't win any awards, but go with friends or family and enjoy a boxing movie. To me, it really captured the "Rocky" feel to it.

That´s one helluva praise.

 

[Mr.Swag]

27 million? Didn't they say they expected a 70 million weekend for Real Steel? Fucking lol. But a awesome movie nonetheless.

If anyone was expecting over $35 million opening for Real Steel they should be fired.

 

[HerbertFish]

Pretty shocked at Real Steel.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

The positive impressions of 'Real Steel' and the likeability of Hugh Jackman make me want to go see it, but I can't until next weekend.

27 million? Didn't they say they expected a 70 million weekend for Real Steel? Fucking lol. But a awesome movie nonetheless.

Not sure where you heard that, ~$30M was the projected number being thrown around before opening. Plus, it's October; the biggest October opening ever was $50M for the last Jackass movie.

 

[Count Dookkake]

lol at people surprised at the quality of REAL STEEL. How can you people be so bad at watching trailers? It was guaranteed to be a decent family film.

However, I am more concerned with the per-screen performance of HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2.

 

[RdN]

I haven't watched any of them, but I really want to see Moneyball. Love baseball movies.

 

[Slayven]

I hope Real Steel does well, it reminds me of truly awesome movies of my childhood. Like Robot Jox, Robot Wars, and Arena.

 

[Scarecrow]

Real Steel was very entertaining. Good job, Jackman.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Daniel Craig

well yeah, but who wants to see bond in a haunted house.

 

[AgentChris]

Next week The Ides of March will make back its budget($12M).

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Next week The Ides of March will make back its budget($12M).

$12 million? That´s really cheap. Studios need to encourage more of these low budget movies.

 

[AgentChris]

$12 million? That´s really cheap. Studios need to encourage more of these low budget movies.

Yup. Clooney said this during an interview with Charlie Rose. I personal thought the movie was great, especially the 2nd half. Every character had their moment to shine on screen. The writing and directing was top notch. A real thinking man's thriller.

 

[friskykillface]

I plan to see Real Steel, i made fun of it when i first saw the commercial but now it looks good B^)

 

[ivysaur12]

Real Steel needed to do mid-30s to be impressive.

 

[border]

Real Steel looked soooooo bad. I'm surprised it did as okay business, but I guess there wasn't much competition. The premise of it just seems so incredibly stupid.....

 

[Expendable.]

Real Steel was truly horrendous, can't believe how many people bought into the cheese. The Ides of March was quite good on the other hand, wish it did better.

 

[soundscream]

Help me forget I just saw that The Help has made $162,000,000.....

 

[Hot Coldman]

I saw The Lion King today. Nice 3D conversion, plus the fact that that film is fucking great, equals a nice wad of cash well earned by the Mouse House.

I wanna see 50/50 already

 

[PBY]

I refuse to believe Real Steel is even half decent. Seriously- the trailer was the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen in my life. Like "how the hell is this even being made" bad.

 

[paparazzo]

Real Steel was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought I would. Need to see Ides of March soon now.

 

[Deku]

I refuse to believe Real Steel is even half decent. Seriously- the trailer was the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen in my life. Like "how the hell is this even being made" bad.

Likaeable actor helps stereotypical white blonde boy.

There's a market for that.

And the Ides of March didn't exactly get great reviews. A radio show was discussing how, having run out of leads, Hollywood is just cherry picking pretty but mediocre actors and shoehorning them as leads in as many movies as possible hoping it sticks.

 

[wenis]

I refuse to believe Real Steel is even half decent. Seriously- the trailer was the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen in my life. Like "how the hell is this even being made" bad.

It's more than half decent.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Likaeable actor helps stereotypical white blonde boy.

There's a market for that.

I haven't seen the film, but what stereotypes are depicted?

 

[Deku]

I haven't seen the film, but what stereotypes are depicted?

I haven't either, I was commenting on the trailer, same as the person I responded to .

 

[Count Dookkake]

I haven't either, I was commenting on the trailer, same as the person I responded to .

Oh, what stereotypes are in the trailer?

Blonde people have blond hair?

Boys are boys?

 

[Deku]

Oh, what stereotypes are in the trailer?

Blonde people have blond hair?

Boys are boys?

I don't know how to answer that question.

Only that pairing a likelable actor to help a white aryan boy is fairly bankable Hollywood fare. And I enjoy those films as much as the rest of the world.

It wasn't meant to offend but I'm not into the PC business of not saying what I mean.
I left that in the 90s.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I don't know how to answer that question.

Only that pairing a likelable actor to help a white aryan boy is fairly bankable Hollywood fare. And I enjoy those films as much as the rest of the world.

It wasn't meant to offend but I'm not into the PC business of not saying what I mean.
I left that in the 90s.

You said something about stereotypes, so I was wondering what stereotypes were being depicted. Not a trick question.

 

[Deku]

You said something about stereotypes, so I was wondering what stereotypes were being depicted. Not a trick question.

Maybe archetypal would be better, but I reserve that term to discuss characters in a narrative/story I've actually seen.

The stereotypes that IRC from the trailer
- young boy of the right race
- pretty
- from what appears to be a broken home in need of a father figure
- the trailer implies Jackman is the father figure that set the story in motion
- Jackman is a plausible father figure and isn't ugly either.
- Though Jackman's character is the lead, the story is about the boy

 

[Count Dookkake]

Maybe archetypal would be better, but I reserve that term to discuss characters in a narrative/story I've actually seen.

The stereotypes that IRC from the trailer
- young boy of the right race
- pretty
- from what appears to be a broken home in need of a father figure
- the trailer implies Jackman is the father figure that set the story in motion
- Jackman is a plausible father figure and isn't ugly either.
- Though Jackman's character is the lead, the story is about the boy

These are stereotypes about blonde boys? I have learned something today.

It looked pretty inoffensive to me, so I thought I had missed something in the trailer.

 

[Deku]

These are stereotypes about blonde boys? I have learned something today.

It looked pretty inoffensive to me, so I thought I had missed something in the trailer.

As I phrased it.

"stereotypical white blonde boy."

white and blonde are used as the adjectives use to describe the stereotypical boy.

It was a jab at the audience's racial preference for these kinds of roles.

 

[AbsoluteZero]

Saw 50/50 last night. Possible best movie of the fall.

 

[Count Dookkake]

As I phrased it.


white and blonde are used as the adjestives use to describe the stereotypical boy.

It was a jab at the audience's racial preference for these kinds of roles.

I gotcha now.





Racist.

 

[Deku]

I gotcha now.





Racist.

 

[Pachterballs]

wow. I'm surprised people want to watch real steel. the trailer looks so terrible and I'm a huge jackman fan and I'm not interested in that movie one bit. no.1? Good for hugh though. Will wait for dvd.

 

[jett]

Likaeable actor helps stereotypical white blonde boy.

There's a market for that.

And the Ides of March didn't exactly get great reviews. A radio show was discussing how, having run out of leads, Hollywood is just cherry picking pretty but mediocre actors and shoehorning them as leads in as many movies as possible hoping it sticks.

Well it has worked for George Clooney for most of his career!