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Celeb News: Home actual #s: $52.1 million
Member Since: 10/7/2010
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Originally posted by ALA
 jesus I can't believe how well this is doing |
Yep pretty impressive
Especially when it's not doing so well with critics.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 was critically acclaimed and did way less 
And it's a sequel
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Originally posted by Deemy
- Variety
DreamWorks Animation’s family film defied expectations, to say the least, opening to $15.6 million on Friday, which set it on course for just under $59 million this weekend — one of the best debuts for DreamWorks Animation.
59 Million. ascjhdbcjsdvjhds vjhhj
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Oh my Lord  
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Member Since: 11/17/2011
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Originally posted by clairebear23
*giggles hysterically* so why do other animated movies flop? *giggles hysterically* I think Ciara could have voiced Rihanna's character. Loves it.
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Originally posted by clairebear23
A #1 song on Itunes, a #1 movie in hollywood. Who is the person in common with both. *giggles on the floor hysterically*
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Originally posted by clairebear23
A lead character with a lead on the soundtrack on her own label  i mean, when will the other girls.
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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DreamWorks Animation’s family film defied expectations, to say the least, opening to $15.6 million on Friday, which set it on course for just under $59 million this weekend — one of the best debuts for DreamWorks Animation.
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yet another epic win for rihanna
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Not it adjusting up again  Haters where are you?
What an EPIC opening weekend!
She told everyone to have ha money and they did! ICON! POWER! #BlackExcellence
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Member Since: 9/18/2011
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iTunes
19. HOME
She just DOESN'T lose.
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Member Since: 12/7/2011
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Originally posted by CarterTax
Not it adjusting up again Haters where are you?
What an EPIC opening weekend!
She told everyone to have ha money and they did! ICON! POWER! #BlackExcellence |
EPIC indeed.
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Member Since: 12/12/2004
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New Forbes tea
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That’s more like it, Mr. Katzenberg…
I was pretty grim about the box office prospects for DreamWorks Animation’s Home in my “box office” portion of my mixed-positive review. I promised a Mea Culpa if the film ended up being a big hit, but frankly I didn’t think I’d have to offer one this soon. I was super optimistic about How to Train Your Dragon 2, and I’m generally optimistic about DreamWorks animated features, both in terms of artistic potential and box office returns. But they’ve been in a bad place the last few years, with middling returns for the likes of Turbo, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Rise of the Guardians, and The Penguins of Madagascar. Even I had given up hope, feeling a bit like Charlie Brown after being promised by Lucy that this time she’d totally let him kick that football. But Home is indeed looking like the smash hit, the smash non-sequel hit no-less, that DreamWorks desperately needed. I am very happy to have been wrong this week. Because Home, starring Rihanna, Jim Parsons, and Jennifer Lopez, made $15.6 million yesterday.
The $132 million production, distributed by 20th Century Fox and based on Adam Rex’s The True Meaning of Smekday, scored one of the biggest opening days for a DWA non-sequel ever, behind Kung Fu Panda ($20m in 2008) and Monsters Vs. Aliens ($16.75m on this very day in 2009). If we’re using the weekend multipliers for other recent mid-to-late March DWA openers (Monsters Vs Aliens, The Croods, How to Train Your Dragon), and I think we should, then Home should end up with around $54m-$58m for the weekend again the biggest non-sequel debut behind Kung Fu Panda ($60m) and Monsters Vs. Aliens ($59m). Of note, last year’s March release, Mr. Peabody and Sherman pulled a 4x weekend multiplier off a $8m Friday, so a similar result would give Home a $62m debut, but we’ll cross that bridge if that happens.
Either way, assuming the film isn’t inexplicably front-loaded this weekend, this is a great result for a studio that really needed a flashy win. Chalk the success up to the star power of Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, and (to a lesser extent) Jim Parsons. And yes, unknown demographics notwithstanding, I think we can partially chalk this one up to the somewhat unconventional notion of having a major animated feature starring a young black female as opposed to the standard young white male hero template. As I discussed back when Sony’s Annie came out,, most of the mainstream black-centric multiplex releases that we’ve been seeing over the last few years have been strictly-for-adults fare, so the fact that this was a kid-friendly animated feature centered around a black female lead should not be discounted. And it will be interesting to see if that effects the film’s legs, although DWA animated features, especially the March ones, are usually pretty leggy.
Beyond that, there is the matter of Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez’s relative star power. Obviously they are (these days) more known for their musical careers than their acting careers, but they are media-friendly celebrities and their new singles released for the film garnered copious free publicity along with the other various events that promoted the film beyond trailers, billboards, and bus station posters. What frankly makes this more impressive is that we haven’t exactly been starved for kiddie fare of late. Home flourished despite the consistent presence of the likes of Paddington, The SpongeBob Movie, and Cinderella. We’ll talk more about this tomorrow, when I hope the news is at least as good as it seems today. I wish the movie were a little better, ironically because I was worried for the film’s box office prospects. But I needn’t have worried. With the caveat that a single big hit won’t singlehandedly reverse long-term issues, DreamWorks is presumably partying like it’s 2009.
The rest of the Friday box office news will be along shortly.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmen...-15-6m-friday/
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It seems like everyone is stunned at how well this is doing and its weird because I had no idea Dreamworks was even in a decline lately. They better be glad they casted Rihanna in this, idk about her voice acting skills but her name has honestly given this a lot of press.
And I think it's ESPECIALLY encouraging that the lead is a young black girl. Like thats really uncommon and should be seen as a victory across the board.
Stan bias aside.
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What a TRAGIC month for Rihanna haters, they gotta watch this bitch be #1 on itunes AND #1 in the box office for two completely different projects. One, a children's movies. The other, BITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY 
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Member Since: 11/23/2011
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Originally posted by Deemy
RIHANNA her Power.
First black Dreamworks lead character and the biggest black lead animated opening ever!! Poor Tiana.
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I forget Tiana happened. Them basing her name off rihanna.
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Not HOME coming for $59 million.
I'm going to see it tomorrow with my mom and baby brother. Rihanna better take my money.
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Lmao @ Forbes apologizing.
Oh well. At least they are graceful.
If only all the haters could be like that.
Lol
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Forbes apologizing to the Queen 
Rihanna winning again and again
Queen of America, kids, fashion, music and planet Earth
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I wasn't expecting nothing from this but wow . Everything she puts her hands on become gold.
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Originally posted by Navyboy20
What a TRAGIC month for Rihanna haters, they gotta watch this bitch be #1 on itunes AND #1 in the box office for two completely different projects. One, a children's movies. The other, BITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY |
When I said a year ago that Rihanna will do something similar like Jen did back in 2000-ties (#1 single and #1 movie) people were laughing and mockin me here so much
Poor dem haters
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Member Since: 2/16/2010
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 I did not expect this. Go Rihanna!
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Where dem girls talking trash
where dem girls talking trash
where dey at where dey at where dey at
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Originally posted by Navyboy20
What a TRAGIC month for Rihanna haters, they gotta watch this bitch be #1 on itunes AND #1 in the box office for two completely different projects. One, a children's movies. The other, BITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY |
This
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Yas Queen  . Always proving them wrong, ALWAYS
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The FUMES in this thread I live
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Member Since: 5/14/2012
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oh wow no one saw this coming congrats to all cast members especially Rihanna and JLO
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