FRIDAY 11:30 PM UPDATE : Remember that all these pre-Christmas movie openings will be helped tremendously by the holiday multiple gift from Santa. Some of the newcomers vans warped tour opened on Wednesday , with others Friday. Domestic box office looks like this tonight which definitely isn t a full reflection of what will be pre-Christmas weekend moviegoing. So this not-great-start vans warped tour is looking like only $100M total moviegoing, which is -19% from last year. See this as a quick glimpse until my refined numbers and full analysis Saturday and Sunday:
The problem with blockbusters is they have giant openings and then giant falls. But even with a -73% drop from a week ago, Peter Jackson s Middle Earth epic is still the big #1 domestic vans warped tour and international. Going into the weekend, its huge domestic haul was already $113.1M and its international take was just shy of $189M. That makes for a worldwide vans warped tour cume of about $303M. Yikes! The pic now opens in Russia and the Ukraine as it continues to blanket the globe with new and old JR Tolkien faithful.
Tom Cruise is currently not sitting quite as pretty as he was midday based on matinee trends. Yes, he s still #2 today and should stay there all weekend now that audiences bestowed an A- CinemaScore. That should help word of mouth, along with the expected holiday multiple. Still pic will debut less than the $20M which major stars like Cruise should gross to open movies. Frankly, Hollywood didn t think this ammo actioner would make even this kind of money after tracking trouble. (There s been snark from the film project s get-go that Tom Thumb was miscast as Reacher, vans warped tour who s a physically big guy in the novel.) But it only cost $60M, or so co-financiers Skydance and Paramount keep claiming. Remains to be seen if it ll struggle to get to $100M total box office. If so then Oracle scion David Ellison may have to rethink steering movies towards Cruise even after Mission: Impossible 4 paid off.
Adult pictures don t open big this time of year but then they go on to enjoy huge multiples. The studio wasn t expecting the so-so reviews fgr This Is 40 but is expecting Judd Apatow fans to turn out over the weekend. Remains to be seen if tonight s B- CinemaScore from audiences hurts word of mouth. Universal knew tonight could swing anywhere between $3M to $4.5M depending on how the R-rated dramedy fared on Friday Date Night. I don t agree with rival studios calling this openign soft just because This Is 40 had identical tracking vans warped tour to Jack Reacher . ( I m surprised it s so far behind. And for a movie that Universal sent out Academy vans warped tour screeners vans warped tour in November, it garnered only 49% positive vans warped tour reviews, one rival studio exec snarked to me tonight.) It s a way different genre though equally cheap. But let s see if it has a better holiday multiple.
Opened Wednesday and Disney now pumping up the publicity volume in preparation for the Christmas wannasee. Re-teched 2001 toon whose lifetime domestic gross was $257M should make a fat multiple while it also drums up interest for 2013 s prequel.
Also opened Wednesday and Hollywood did a double-take tonight. It fell off the map, one rival studio exec exclaimed to me. Co-financier vans warped tour David Ellison helped foot the minor $40M bill to pair up Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand in a double-lame genre of road trip and mother movie. Stop, before you crap out another.
Pretty pleased to see this is 40 on the road to a quick and painful death. Judd Apatow gives off an air of increasing smugness vans warped tour which is reflected and his increasing belief that we actually want to see his wife and untalented daughters in longer and longer movies. Plus they started the marketing on this one way too early, creating a sense of massive vans warped tour fatigue before it even came out.
Leslie Mann is actually a very funny actress, and his kids are great. Especially the younger one. Don t know why you don t like Judd, but he has made some great films, and produced some of the best comedies of the last 10 years. I went and saw the movie, and it was very solid. Had some real good laughs, and some real honesty to it. Some people are haters.
Judd is fine, but I agree with the OP s comments overall. vans warped tour Apatow projects now seem to drip with entitled hipster smugness. I m starting to think his inexplicably loyal fanbase is even fed up with it, but they ll never admit i.
What loyal fanbase? The guy has made 4 feature films and the first two were hits and the last two are meh. This is doing half the business of Funny People which has the rewatchability of a Katie Couric colonoscopy.
I can t stand low class bathroom humor. Potty humor is a sign of lack of talent. Why anyone would go see a movie with Rudd who will do anything for a part is beyond vans warped tour me. You want to see someone sitting on a toilet? Oh how clever and lacking in inhibitions. It s an insult to audiences everywhere.
At this point it feels like Judd Apatow is just making 50M home videos with his Paul Rudd standing in for himself, and expecting millions of Americans to pay $14 to watch. It s actually a little vans warped tour creepy.
That s ridiculous. Home movies, as if crafting a feature film is as easy as making snide internet comments. vans warped tour By your standards, novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters should never produce any works based on their own lives. Might as well toss out autobiographies, memoirs, adn stand-up comedy while we re at it.
But this wasn t crafting a feature film, it was a bad movie and the reviews state as much. HW works in the business and his opinions are usually spot on. I think it s beyond lame that he has a Deadline handle, but he s often right.
Apatow can t expect to put out bad product with his family starring in it, and have even those of us with money give him 14 bucks of our movie. If it s good, awesome, but it s not good. And I liked the first half of FUNNY PEOPLE a ton when most didn t.
Agreed. This is 40 is a smoking turd of a movie starring the Marsha Mason of 2012 aka Leslie Mann, an actress of limited vans warped tour talent who only gets cast in major movies when he husband is the writer/director (like Neil Simon). Other more talented, funnier actresses don t get the plum parts because they re saved for Mrs. Apatow. Fine. His 15 minutes are about up. We re ready for the new voice of comedy. And please, can someone give Paul Rudd his own sitcom on ABC and get his out of movie theaters? He s the male Jennifer Aniston, one bomb after another. IMO.
Judd, your posts are all over this thread, as they were with any of the posts about your movie. If you keep it up, you re going to get made fun of on Gawker, and then writers at The New York Times are going to go after your family in the comments section. It will get ugly. Stop. You ve made two very personal vans warped tour films of late, and they ve been really, vans warped tour really bad. Do you think people want to pay 28 dollars to see Paul Rudd spread his legs? Look at the poster? It s your wife in the mirror, and Paul Rudd on the toilet. No one cares about your wife, dude. You do. Your kids do. I m sure she s awesome. But the country vans warped tour does not care, and you re marking her a target. Just stop.
I think there s just a disconnect between an Apatow comedy and what 40-somethings want to see. Middle-aged movie-goers associate his work with stoner frat-boy comedies, and they d rather go see something more substantial. Younger audiences who like stoner frat-boy comedies vans warped tour don t want to watch a movie about old married people.
THIS IS 40 if you re white, a hipster and have money. Can Judd stop sucking his own $%#* and make a movie that isn t so self indulgent (ex: wife and kids in movie, filmed down the street from where he lives). 40 year old virgin was great, Knocked Up was pretty good, funny people sucked. He should vans warped tour stick to producing.
I think this is right; Apatow s movies are generally silly, stoner frat-boy movies that don t suggest to the audience that there is a lot going on under the surface, even if there actually vans warped tour is. Just like Adam Sandler when he tries to play serious roles the audience isn t particularly interested since his movies are generally so dumb and sophomoric.
vans warped tour I think Bill Murray and Jim Carrey are the only actors recently I can think of who have managed to somewhat succeed in serious roles; perhaps Steve Martin as well although in his case it would actually be more surprising vans warped tour these days for him to be funny in a movie!
Haven t seen it, but my wife didn t like it, so maybe not his best film. However, in the right role, like in 40 Year Old Virgin, Leslie Mann has been hilarious. It s hard to make one excellent film: nobody does it every time.
My wife and I went and saw the 12:40 showing of This Is 40. About 15-20 people in the theater. It was one of the smaller screens in the 14 theater multi-plex we went to. Movie received a lot of laughs. My wife and I really enjoyed it. It almost felt like a documentary. vans warped tour Had a very real feeling to it. One of the better movies of the year. I don t understand why some of the bigger comedies of the last few years are not doing that well at the box office. Funny People, This Is 40, The Watch, 5 Year Engagement. All did worse then expected. I guess you need a talking stuffed animal for the stoners for it to make money.
I think I understand Funny People, about a dying man and This is 40 where everyone argues and seems miserable throughout the movie, except Megan Fox character ((actually the only enjoyable scenes in the movie where Megan s, yes I was surprised)) are not FUN. So I don t think you need a talking stuffed animal, but you need to keep it fun and playful. The young daughter said it perfectly in the movie when she said, I don t like everyone fighting all the time especially if it s not funny fighting.
Poor Judd? He has been pretty successful and his wife and daughters vans warped tour are very talented and quite funny. vans warped tour This Is 40 was great. One of the better movies of the year. Some people will be uncomfortable watching this movie, because of the honesty to it.
That comment is funnier than anything in this self-absorbed, wanna-be comedy that whines
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