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TGWTDT A in Cinemascore?  |
Pretty amazing for a long, intense, violent, dark movie
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL leads a very busy Wednesday afternoon at the box office. Currently MI4 looks to be on track to do between $7.5 - $8.5 Million for the day.
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED is having a solid day as well and is currently in the 2nd spot but will probably drop a notch or two as the day goes on with about $3.5 - $4.5 Million for the day.
THE GIRL WITH A DRAGON TATTOO is currently 3rd and should do between $6 - $7 Million for the day (including last nights $1.6 Million).
SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS (not to be confused with BLAIR WITCH BOOK OF SHADOWS) is currently running 4th for the day and should do around $4 Million for the day.
And finally rounding out the top 5, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN finally makes it stateside, and is looking like it will do $3.5 Million today.
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So is Dragon Tattoo underperforming, doing what expect, or overperforming? 
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Did you see it yet? What did you think?
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So is Dragon Tattoo underperforming, doing what expect, or overperforming? |
I'd say it's doing well
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I haven't seen it yet. Have you guys? I can't tell if that number's good. What was the last major cerebral R-rated adult tentpole to open on a Wednesday during Xmas week? Benjamin Button? But that was Xmas day, right? Regardless, it's too early too tell if it's good. Maybe fans of the book rushed out and it won't hold well during the holidays, or maybe with that A Cinemascore it will show continued strength once adults have gotten holiday shopping out of their system.
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I saw it earlier, it's terrific.
I hope it breaks out. The number for Wednesday will probably be inflated though as fans of the book probably flocked to it today.
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Christmas Preview: 'M:I-4,' 'Dragon Tattoo' to Lead Crowded Holiday
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In one of the most crowded holiday seasons in recent memory, no fewer than seven movies are either opening in or expanding in to nationwide release this weekend. That's in addition to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, which should both continue to have a strong presence. With so many offerings for audiences, the remainder of 2011 will almost certainly mark an improvement over a comparatively quiet 2010 holiday season.
Coming off Mission: Impossible III's disappointing $134 million gross, and factoring in star Tom Cruise's apparently declining star power over the past few years, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol has become the movie to see this season. After earning $12.8 million from just 425 locations this weekend, the fourth installment in the espionage franchise expanded in to 3,448 theaters on Wednesday and took first place with $8.92 million (that does include grosses from Tuesday night showings as well). Riding some of the best reviews of the season (it's currently 93 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and strong word-of-mouth coming out of its initial IMAX run, the movie should continue to play well throughout the weekend, and will likely have amassed a total north of $70 million through Monday.
Debuting at 2,914 locations, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo placed second on Wednesday with $5.07 million, which includes $1.6 million from late Tuesday and midnight showings. Cleverly dubbed early on as "The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas," Dragon Tattoo has had an exciting, ever-present marketing campaign that has gone a long way to exciting the book's fan base while alleviating some of the concerns of remaking the Swedish-language movie that earned over $10 million last year. Clocking in at 160 minutes and featuring an abundance of horrific imagery, the movie probably won't get off to a huge start, though it will likely end up in the mid-$30 million range by Monday.
The Adventures of Tintin had a somewhat slow $2.3 million debut at 3,087 locations on Wednesday, and including previous grosses from French Canada the movie has so far made $5.6 million. The Steven Spielberg animated movie was always going to be a tough sell to U.S. audiences who are largely unfamiliar with the title character and have at least recently hesitated to attend motion capture animated movies, though with $237 million in overseas coin already collected it's unlikely the movie needs to be all that successful stateside anyway. With older adventure-craving audiences likely to head to Mission: Impossible or Sherlock Holmes and younger families seeking out Alvin and the Chipmunks and possibly We Bought a Zoo, Tintin is probably in line for no more than $20 million or so for the six-day weekend.
Speaking of We Bought a Zoo, the comedy/drama intends to reach family audiences when it opens at 3,117 theaters on Friday. Bullish on the movie's broad appeal, distributor 20th Century Fox arranged nationwide screenings on Saturday, November 26 and again on Saturday, December 10 in an attempt to gin up strong word-of-mouth. That seems to have worked to some extent, and a feel-good original movie should be a welcome respite from sequels like Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. Still, there's just too much competition to expect the movie to break out of the $10-15 million range for the Friday-Monday period.
War Horse and The Darkest Hour are waiting until Christmas Day to open at 2,376 and 2,324 theaters, respectively. War Horse is Steven Spielberg's second movie to come out within five days, though it seems much more within his wheelhouse than the animated Tintin. With its World War I setting and horse protagonist, the movie is going to be harder for audiences to latch on to than Spielberg's most-famous war movie, Saving Private Ryan, though it is probably in much better shape than Munich. That movie opened to $6.04 million from Friday-Monday at the same time in 2005; War Horse should come close to that amount on just Sunday and Monday.
Alien invasion movie The Darkest Hour is being positioned as counter-programming to the wave of more traditional holiday fare, though it continues to look like the movie most likely to get lost in the crowd. According to a Summit spokesperson, The Darkest Hour is poised for $2-3 million on Sunday and $4-5 million for the Sunday and Monday period.
After already earning $6.3 million in limited release, My Week with Marilyn reaches a barely-wide 602 theaters this weekend. The movie won't come close to cracking the Top 12, but with Oscar buzz surrounding star Michelle Williams performance it should continue to put up decent numbers throughout the next few weeks.
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Question: What are you guys watching this weekend?
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I'm watching The Muppets tonight. On Sunday I'll be checking out Mission Impossible and Sherlock Holmes. And on Monday the Darkest Hour.
Most of the movies I'm watching aren't my top picks though.
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Friday Numbers (from Nikki):
1. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - $9.5m
2. Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows - $6.7m
3. Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $5.1m
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $4.6m
5. The Adventures of Tintin - $3.5m
6. We Bought a Zoo - $3.1m
7. New Year's Eve - $1.1m
8. Arthur Christmas - $1.0m
9. The Muppets - $0.98m
10. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn $0.64m
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/
Dragon Tattoo is flopping.
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I blame Daniel Craig. Outside of Bond, her CURSES every movie he's in. Go through his credit - he's the box office kiss of death.
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Damn.
Looks like we're probably not seeing Fincher doing Girl Who Played With Fire.  I hope it at least has good legs.
Kind of sad how nothing seems to be REALLY breaking out. Hope next week we'll see good numbers.
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Here I thought people perceived Tom Cruise as a total weirdo. I noticed that Tom Cruise is always talking in character even in interviews. He is not any different from how he is in films. His outburst against Brooke Shields using medication for her postpartum depression. His bizarre behavior on Oprah to confess his love for Katie Holmes. Trying to convert Scientology to his inner circle.... Yet, he's still a huge movie star after all these years... 
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I blame Daniel Craig. Outside of Bond, her CURSES every movie he's in. Go through his credit - he's the box office kiss of death.
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I don't understand. It's not as if Americans went to see the Swedish film. They hate subtitled movies. 
I have hope word of mouth will help, and there's still Europe, where the book was huge. 
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M:I4 is the only film not disappointing at the moment.
That's a terrible PTA for Angelina's movie opening in three theaters.
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Xmas wasn't the right time to release a dark, grim, ultraviolent and sexual 3-hour thriller. 
Hopefully that A Cinemascore translates into legs. Movies of its kind don't usually get As.
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I watched M:I 4 a few days ago. Nothing spectacular, but I liked it. Had a good time.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo flopped. 
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo flopped.
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Too early to make that conclusion!
American moviegoers just need time to meet Lisbeth Salander. Despite the success of the book, most still don't know who this mysterious tattooed girl is. Once they do, they won't be able to resist her. $21.4M is enough for word of mouth to start spreading. The only problem (especially in the US) is that the movie is very cold and cerebral like all of David Fincher's movies. So is the book - that's probably why he was drawn to it.
I think by next Sunday, it could top $50M. 
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