Jul 13 2008
Weekend Box Office: July 11 - July 13
Hellboy cleaned up at the box office this weekend. It took in almost $36 million, about $13 million more than its predecessor. The first only made $66 million domestically, but despite the more positive reception of the new movie, it probably won’t be too much more successful. Why? Because by Thursday people will be saying “Whoboy?” when The Dark Knight owns cineplexes (I’ve heard it’s sold out midnight and 3 a.m. showings across the country and 6 a.m. showings are now filling up).
Anyways, Hancock bumped down to number 2, but lost 50% of its audience from last weekend (no surprise, really, considering the last-weekend numbers don’t take into account midnight Wednesday through midnight Friday).
P.S. No one care about Meet Dave this weekend. Eddie Murphy, please retire.
Here’s the full list:
1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army: $35.8 million
2. Hancock: $33 million
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth: $20.6 million
4. Wall-E: $18.5 million
5. Wanted: $11.5 million
6. Get Smart: $7 million
7. Meet Dave: $5.3 million
8. Kung Fu Panda: $4.3 million
9. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl: $2.4 million
10. Indiana Jones: $2.25 million
I have about six minutes to post if I want to make any money today, so here’s a lame excuse for a post.
The ’80s Commie-fest Red Dawn is getting a new day in cineplexes. It’s being remade with second-unit extraordinaire Dan Bradley at the helm and Carl Ellsworth at the pen (that particular phrase to describe when someone writes a script doesn’t exactly work). In the
Despite a quiet day in Hollywood, there were a few big news items. For Quentin Tarantino aficionados, the script for his long-gestating WWII project Inglorious Bastards
Slightly less important news: DreamWorks Animation and Intel
Whoever owns The Weather Channel is LOADED. NBC Universal
Aint It Cool News has some
This summer the box office has already been immensely successful and Hancock has only furthered that success. After WALL-E last week, the box office was 4% ahead of last year’s, which was the most successful ever. Though it didn’t make as much as Transformers did this weekend last year, Hancock still took in a pretty penny, earning $66 million Friday-Sunday and $107 million since it started showing previews Tuesday night. That might somewhat slow this summer’s ability to top last summer’s, but with more big hits on the way (Hellboy, Step Brothers, X-Files, The Mummy 3, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder and, of course, The Dark Knight, to name a few) and barring any more increases in gas/box office prices, this will be the most successful summer ever.
Seeing as it’s the Fourth of July and all, I’m celebrating by doing as little work as possible. So I’ll take the easy way out for a Friday and sum up this weekend’s big releases.
Yesterday I posted a link to an article about a long-lost print of Metropolis being discovered in its entirety. Apparently, the new print was shown at a press event today in Buenos Aires and images from the film have hit the ‘net. You can see one to the left, but for an article that’s already been updated a few times with new photos, click
Mike Judge is getting back behind the camera behind his ignored Idiocracy. Unlike his last film and the cult-classic Office Space before it, he’s getting some big name comedy actors this time around. Jason Bateman is attached to star in Extract, a comedy about a flower-extract plant owner with bad luck, and now SNL’s current MVP Kristen Wiig
Two weeks ago, NPR’s Fresh Air ran a few interviews from their archives to celebrate the newest AFI list of the top 10 films from 10 different genres. Now they’ve followed that show with another half-dozen interviews with Martin Scorsese, Michael Imperioli, Mario Puzo, John Lassetter and film history Rudy Behlmer. You can find it
What is destined to become one of strangest versions of Sherlock Holmes, Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell
Due to a busy day, I’ll have to keep today’s update short. Here’s some quick bullets of today’s news.
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