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TV Show: TV Ratings (US Broadcast & Cable Networks) | Thursday 1/5
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^^That's great and all, but don't diss "Titanic". :sex:
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first day that TDK did not move up on a list, so i wont update
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THE DARK KNIGHT leads Warner Bros to almost $1B in summer sales; Paramount #2, trailing by just $30M; Universal & Sony are 3-4!
by Steve Mason
The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) will soar past $500M sometime on Sunday, and will have banked about $505M by Tuesday morning. With Sex & The City at $152.44M and Get Smart reaching $128.29M, Warner Bros is the no. 1 studio for the summer of 2008 with a monstrous $995.42M by the end of the long Labor Day weekend. The studio also got help from Journey to the Center of the Earth, which has generated an impressive $93M or so.
My measure here is to take the grosses for all movies released from May 2 thru this Friday (Aug. 29) and add projected Labor Day weekend numbers. Based on that standard, Paramount/Dreamworks is a very strong no. 2 with an estimated $964.59M, about $30M behind WB. The Melrose gang rode back-to-back $300M grossing movies - Iron Man ($317.57M) and Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull ($315.33M) - followed by the Dreamworks animated smash Kung Fu Panda ($212.95). Include the $86.53M that Tropic Thunder will reached by end of business on Labor Day, and you have got a very impressive performance during Hollywood's most lucrative season.
Universal is third among the big six with $651M or so. The Incredible Hulk, Wanted and Mamma Mia all have topped $130M, and The Mummy 3 will be just shy of $100M by Tuesday. Sony climbed on Will Smith's back for a $226M ride with Hancock, then got excellent performances from its string of comedies You Don't Mess With the Zohan (just under $100M), Step Brothers (bearing down on $100M) and August offerings Pineapple Express and The House Bunny. The estimated total for Sony by the end of the long weekend will be $580.5M, which makes them no. 4.
Disney is next with just three films and $374M domestic. WALL-E is just over $216M of that take and although Prince Caspian disappointed, it still accounted for $140M+. On the other hand, Fox released eight movies, failing to top $100M with any of them. The summer started in a promising fashion with What Happens In Vegas ($80.25M), and they even salvaged a $65M gross from M. Night Shymalan's The Happening. With Fox's next five movies though, starting with Meet Dave ($11.66M) and ending with The Rocker (which should be in the $7M range by Tuesday), the studio's average domestic cume has been just $18.5M or so, and unfortunately, Babylon A.D. will not stop Fox's cold streak. The studio will finish the summer with only an estimated $250M in US sales.
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BABYLON A.D. wins Friday with $3.5M, but TROPIC THUNDER will win the 4-day with $14.2M; THE DARK KNIGHT headed for $11.3M & should pass $500M on Sunday; TRAITOR #5; DISASTER MOVIE, HAMLET 2 and COLLEGE disappoint!
by Steve Mason
Steve Mason is now on Facebook.
FRIDAY 10:00 p.m. (Pacific): Labor Day is a dumping ground for bad movies, but this year seems more toxic than usual. Three of the four new wide releases - Babylon A.D. (Fox), Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) and College (MGM) - were not screened for critics, while Traitor, the Don Cheadle thriller from Overture, has managed just a 54% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. Horror and action have always been good plays on this weekend with Halloween 2007 ($30.59M opening), 2005's Transporter 2 ($20.1M opening) and Jeepers Creepers 2 ($18.36M) as the all-time best Labor Day openings, but there is no horror on the menu at America's multiplexes this weekend, and Traitor is more of a grown-up thriller than a pure action genre pic.
That has left the door open for another weekend win for the Ben Stiller-directed Tropic Thunder (Dreamworks/Paramount). The R-rated movie satire has grabbed an estimated $3M on its third Friday, which should translate to an $11.5M 3-day and a very strong $14.2M for four days. By Monday night, the movie will have banked $86.53M, and I am projecting a final domestic take of $115M-$120M.
French director Matthieu Kassovitz’s Babylon A.D. (Fox) managed to score $3.5M on its opening day, enough to win Friday, but the Vin Diesel sci fi flick will finish the weekend at no. 2. I am calling for a 3-day of $10.6M and $13.1M in sales by Tuesday morning. For Diesel, whose career seemed promising after his work in Saving Private Ryan, Babylon will likely post only his eighth-best 3-day opening, behind XXX ($44.5M), The Fast & The Furious ($40M), Saving Private Ryan ($30.6M), The Pacifier ($30.5M), The Chronicles of Riddick ($24.3M), Pitch Black ($11.5M) and A Man Apart ($11M).
There is just no stopping The Dark Knight (Warner Bros), which seems headed for a strong third on the 3-day and 4-day scoreboards. The Christopher Nolan-directed phenomenon generated $2.1M or so on Friday, but the Caped Crusader will get his usual monster weekend bounce. The 3-day total should be in the $8.8M range and the 4-day is looking like $11.3M. Sometime on Sunday, TDK will smash through the magical $500M barrier, and the movie will push to a new cume of just under $505M.
Another holdover The House Bunny (Sony) seems headed for no. 4. The Anna Faris Under 25 Female-driven comedy added $2.7M to start its second weekend, and that should translate to $8.5M for the 3-day and a 4-day of $10.9M. The new cume for this PG13-rated comedy will be a nifty $30M.
Despite sub-$1M days on Wednesday and Thursday, business has picked up dramatically for Traitor. With the always trusty Cheadle in the lead, the movie delivered about $2.3M on Friday, and it will play well with the 25 Plus crowd over the weekend. It should finish fifth with $8.4M by Sunday night and a very solid $10.8M by the end of Labor Day.
The news is very bad for the other two new wide releases. It appears that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have gone back to the "movie spoof well" one too many times. Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) managed $2.2M on Friday, no. 5 for the day, but it is headed for just $7.3M for the four days. That is far behind previous Friedberg/Seltzer openings Scary Movie 3 ($48.1M), Scary Movie ($42.3M), Scary Movie 4 ($40.2M), Scary Movie 2 ($20.5M), Epic Movie ($18.6M) and Meet the Spartans ($18.5M).
MGM's College never really had much of a chance. With stars like Drake Bell (54 episodes of the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh), Andrew Cardwell (a few episodes of Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel), Kevin Covais (the singer known as Chicken Little from American Idol), Alona Tal (10 episodes of Veronica Mars on the CW) and Ryan Pinkston (a season of the Andy Richter series Quintuplets), this should have gone straight to video. The picture flunked on Friday with $660,000, and it will top out at $2.2M for the Labor Day weekend.
The news was also dismal for the Focus comedy Hamlet 2, expanding to 1,500 screens. This Sundance favorite could only muster $600,000 on Friday, and it will be limited to an estimated $2.5M for the long weekend.
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW - Babylon A.D. (Fox) - $3.5M, $1,032 PTA, $3.5M cume
2. Tropic Thunder (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $3M, $864 PTA, $75.33M
3. The House Bunny (Sony) - $2.7M, $995 PTA, $22.25M cume
4. NEW – Traitor (Overture) - $2.3M, $1,120 PTA, $3.8M cume
5. NEW – Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) - $2.2M, $833 PTA, $2.2M cume
6. The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) - $2.1M, $764 PTA, $495.77M cume
7. Death Race (Universal) - $2M, $788 PTA, $18.84M cume
8. Pineapple Express (Sony) - $825,000, $403 PTA, $77.2M cume
9. Mirrors (Fox) - $800,000, $440 PTA, $22.86M cume
10. Mamma Mia (Universal) - $785,000 - $412 PTA, $127.87M cume
*NEW – College (MGM) - $660,000, $311 PTA, $660,000 cume
*Hamlet 2 (Focus) - $600,000, $376 PTA, $1.63M cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. Tropic Thunder (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $11.5M, $3,311 PTA, $83.83M cume
2. NEW - Babylon A.D. (Fox) - $10.6M, $3,127 PTA, $10.6M cume
3. The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) - $8.8M, $3,200 PTA, $502.47M cume
4. The House Bunny (Sony) - $8.5M, $3,095 PTA, $27.95M cume
5. NEW – Traitor (Overture) - $8.4M, $4,090 PTA, $9.9M cume
6. Death Race (Universal) - $7.79M, $3,072 PTA, $24.64M cume
7. NEW – Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) - $6.3M, $2,385 PTA, $6.3M cume
8. Pineapple Express (Sony) - $2.75M, $1,345 PTA, $79.13M cume
9. Mamma Mia (Universal) - $2.7M - $1,417 PTA, $129.79M cume
10. Mirrors (Fox) - $2.65M, $1,456 PTA, $24.71M cume
*Hamlet 2 (Focus) - $2M, $1,252 PTA, $2.5M cume
*NEW – College (MGM) - $1.9M, $895 PTA, $1.9M cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 4-DAY ESTIMATES
1. Tropic Thunder (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $14.2M, $4,089 PTA, $86.53M
2. NEW - Babylon A.D. (Fox) - $13.1M, $3,864 PTA, $13.1M cume
3. The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) - $11.3M, $4,109 PTA, $504.97M cume
4. The House Bunny (Sony) - $10.9M, $4,016 PTA, $30.45M cume
5. NEW – Traitor (Overture) - $10.8M, $5,258 PTA, $12.3M cume
6. Death Race (Universal) - $9.68M, $3,816 PTA, $26.53M cume
7. NEW – Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) - $7.3M, $2,763 PTA, $7.3M cume
8. Pineapple Express (Sony) - $3.47M, $1,696 PTA, $79.85M cume
9. Mamma Mia (Universal) - $3.33M, $1,751 PTA, $130.42M cume
10. Mirrors (Fox) - $3.29M, $1,809 PTA, $25.36M cume
*Hamlet 2 (Focus) - $2.5M, $1,565 PTA, $3.53M cume
*NEW – College (MGM) - $2.2M, $1,036 PTA, $2.2M cume
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Some TDK Update
Day 43:$495,861,000
Weekend 7: $11.5 M
Domestic Actuals Rank: 2; Next Movie: Titanic at 600 M
Domestic Adjusted for Inflation Rank: 332, film to catch up to next: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid $499.6M
Domestic Yearly Rank: 1
International Gross: $381,200,000; Yearly Rank: 2, After Indiana Jones 4 ($465)
World Wide Gross: $877,061,000; All-Time Rank: 14
Records Broken: 44 AND COUNTING!!!!!!
Public Ratings: A (highest rated film all-time on Box Office Mojo.com)
THE DARK KNIGHT HAS WENT A TOTAL OF 40 DAYS WITH BOX OFFICE EARNINGS OF MORE THAN 1-MILLION DOLLARS, WITHOUT ANYTHING LESS. TODAYS MARKS THE FIRST DAY THAT IT SHOULD EANR ANYTHING LESS AT 986K. A TRAGIC DAY, YES, BUT IT IS A TRUER LEGEND THAN TITANIC EVER WILL BE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE FILM IS IN A TIME IN WHICH DVDS AND VHS RECORDINGS EXSIST AND ARE SOLD WITHIN MONTHS OF ITS THEATRICAL RELEASE AND DO NOT FORGET THE PREVALENT ONLINE ILLEGALITY. SO BOW BITCHEZ TO THE GREAT FILM TO HAVE GRACED THE PLANET
By the end of Labor Day weekend, TDK will surpass 500 million and break, yet another record ! bow bitches!
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Can I just say how AWFUL and DISGUSTING Tropic Thunder is? Gosh, I'll never recover from that. Simply worst movie EVER.
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There is just no stopping The Dark Knight (Warner Bros), which seems headed for a strong third on the 3-day and 4-day scoreboards. The Christopher Nolan-directed phenomenon generated $2.1M or so on Friday, but the Caped Crusader will get his usual monster weekend bounce. The 3-day total should be in the $8.8M range and the 4-day is looking like $11.3M. Sometime on Sunday, TDK will smash through the magical $500M barrier, and the movie will push to a new cume of just under $505M.
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Just remember that there were people saying that it wouldn't even reach the total of Batman Begins. Think about that for a minute.
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It appears that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have gone back to the "movie spoof well" one too many times. Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) managed $2.2M on Friday, no. 5 for the day, but it is headed for just $7.3M for the four days. That is far behind previous Friedberg/Seltzer openings Scary Movie 3 ($48.1M), Scary Movie ($42.3M), Scary Movie 4 ($40.2M), Scary Movie 2 ($20.5M), Epic Movie ($18.6M) and Meet the Spartans ($18.5M).
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And this news made my week.
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And this news made my week.
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LOL, same here.
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Hopefully they will stop.
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BOM 3-Day Weekend Estimates
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #
1 1 Tropic Thunder P/DW $11,500,000 -29.3% 3,473 +121 $3,311 $83,834,000 $92 3
2 N Babylon A.D. Fox $9,700,000 - 3,390 - $2,861 $9,700,000 $70 1
3 4 The Dark Knight WB $8,750,000 -17.0% 2,750 -413 $3,181 $502,421,000 $185 7
4 2 The House Bunny Sony $8,300,000 -42.9% 2,714 - $3,058 $27,851,000 $25 2
5 N Traitor Over. $7,900,000 - 2,054 - $3,846 $9,401,000 $22 1
6 3 Death Race Uni. $6,228,000 -50.7% 2,537 +5 $2,454 $23,078,000 $45 2
7 N Disaster Movie LGF $6,170,000 - 2,642 - $2,335 $6,170,000 $20 1
8 8 Mamma Mia! Uni. $4,418,000 +2.4% 1,968 -358 $2,244 $131,509,000 $52 7
9 6 Pineapple Express Sony $3,390,000 -37.8% 2,047 -573 $1,656 $79,773,000 $27 4
10 11 Vicky Cristina Barcelona MGM/W $3,003,000 -0.1% 692 - $4,339 $12,787,000 - 3
11 5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars WB $2,900,000 -48.8% 2,444 -1,008 $1,186 $29,808,000 - 3
12 7 Mirrors Fox $2,825,000 -43.6% 1,820 -844 $1,552 $24,893,000 - 3
13 9 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Uni. $2,595,000 -37.9% 1,713 -709 $1,514 $97,824,000 $145 5
14 10 The Longshots MGM/W $2,406,000 -41.0% 2,089 - $1,151 $7,556,000 - 2
15 N College MGM $2,105,000 - 2,123 - $991 $2,105,000 $7 1
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Some TDK Update
Day 45:$502,421,000
Weekend 7: $8.8 M TOP 3!!!!
Domestic Actuals Rank: 2; Next Movie: Titanic at 600 M
Domestic Adjusted for Inflation Rank: 30, film to catch up to next: Shrek 2: 503 M
Domestic Yearly Rank: 1
International Gross: $416,700,000; Yearly Rank: 2, After Indiana Jones 4 ($465)
World Wide Gross: $919,121,000 All-Time Rank: 10
Records Broken: 45 AND COUNTING!!!!!!
Public Ratings: A (highest rated film all-time on Box Office Mojo.com)
THE DARK KNIGHT HAS WENT A TOTAL OF 40 DAYS WITH BOX OFFICE EARNINGS OF MORE THAN 1-MILLION DOLLARS, WITHOUT ANYTHING LESS. TODAYS MARKS THE FIRST DAY THAT IT SHOULD EANR ANYTHING LESS AT 986K. A TRAGIC DAY, YES, BUT IT IS A TRUER LEGEND THAN TITANIC EVER WILL BE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE FILM IS IN A TIME IN WHICH DVDS AND VHS RECORDINGS EXSIST AND ARE SOLD WITHIN MONTHS OF ITS THEATRICAL RELEASE AND DO NOT FORGET THE PREVALENT ONLINE ILLEGALITY. SO BOW BITCHEZ TO THE GREAT FILM TO HAVE GRACED THE PLANET
TDK BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD!!! IT PASSED 500 M ! the fastest film ever to do so!!!!!!
AND IT PASSED 400 M INTERNATIONALLY!! BOWW!!!
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OMG TDK back to the Top 3!
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Could anyone tell me which movies are being released next weekend?
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Could anyone tell me which movies are being released next weekend?
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Only Bangkok Dangerous is being released next week.
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Only Bangkok Dangerous is being released next week.
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What about it? Does that mean Tropic **** is staying #1?
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^I think Dangerous should be no.1 since it stars Nicolas Cage, but I doubt it will exceed 20 million this weekend.
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^ Hope you're right, I don't want that awful 'movie' to tie TDK # of weeks on top.
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Some TDK Update
Day 46: $505,417,800
Weekend 7: $8.8 M TOP 3!!!! ALL_TIME #12!!!
Domestic Actuals Rank: 2; Next Movie: Titanic at 600 M
Domestic Adjusted for Inflation Rank: 29, film to catch up to next: Sleeping Beauty: 515M..soo far away!
Domestic Yearly Rank: 1
International Gross: $417,000,000; Yearly Rank: 2, After Indiana Jones 4 ($465)
World Wide Gross: $921,300,000 All-Time Rank: 9: UP NEXT: Star Wars I-TPM
Records Broken: 46 AND COUNTING!!!!!!
Public Ratings: A (highest rated film all-time on Box Office Mojo.com)
THE DARK KNIGHT HAS WENT A TOTAL OF 40 DAYS WITH BOX OFFICE EARNINGS OF MORE THAN 1-MILLION DOLLARS, WITHOUT ANYTHING LESS. BUT IT IS A TRUER LEGEND THAN TITANIC EVER WILL BE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE FILM IS IN A TIME IN WHICH DVDS AND VHS RECORDINGS EXSIST AND ARE SOLD WITHIN MONTHS OF ITS THEATRICAL RELEASE AND DO NOT FORGET THE PREVALENT ONLINE ILLEGALITY. SO BOW BITCHEZ TO THE GREAT FILM TO HAVE GRACED THE PLANET
TDK BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD!!! IT PASSED 500 M ! the fastest film ever to do so!!!!!!
AND IT PASSED 400 M INTERNATIONALLY!! BOWW!!!
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450 MILLION INTERNATIONALLY HERE WE GO.
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