King Mark 3,631 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 they show too much clips of Angels and Demons on TV. I feel like I've already seen the film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 they show too much clips of Angels and Demons on TV. I feel like I've already seen the filmYeah I felt the same way seeing all the clips. I saw it tonight and you know a lot going in. Still entertaining though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Preliminary Friday numbers: Angels & Demons $17, Star Trek $12.5.http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 The theater we went to for Star Trek today was pretty full for it being the second weekend. I'm glad Star Trek is getting good numbers in return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Angels and Demons will make more money than Star Trek.Dan Brown is so 2005.I was joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 The theater we went to for Star Trek today was pretty full for it being the second weekend. I'm glad Star Trek is getting good numbers in return.Yep, it was packed at the showing I went to this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Angels and Demons will make more money than Star Trek.Dan Brown is so 2005.I was joking.A joke is a story with a humourous climax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 17, 2009 Author Share Posted May 17, 2009 DHD, a new favorite early source, has A&D barely beating out Star Trek for #1 this weekend, $48 to $42. BJM will have some more official numbers later. At this rate Trek should pass Wolverine next weekend, even though Wolverine's been out for a week longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 BOM Estimates show ST will win 43.1M for the weekend. A&D will get 48M. Actuals will be in Monday. Last weekend Star Trek actuals were 3M higher. So they might be lowballing it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 I think Star Trek's second weekend numbers are more impressive than A&D's $48 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 And you are correct. A 42.8% drop for a major blockbuster in this day and age is unprecedented. Generally if you're a blockbuster a second week drop has to be at least 50% or higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 19, 2009 Author Share Posted May 19, 2009 Weekend actuals:1. Angels & Demons- $46.2 million2. Star Trek- $43 (!)3. Wolverine- $14.7Year to date:1. Monsters vs. Aliens- $190.72. Fast and Furious- $1533. Wolverine- $1514. Star Trek- $147.6Coming this weekend:Terminator SalvationNight at the Museum 2and, er...Dance Flick *groan* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 454 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Coming this weekend:Terminator SalvationNight at the Museum 2and, er...Dance Flick *groan*At least Dance Flick isn't being helmed by the clowns who foisted Date Movie and Meet the Spartans on the general population. The Wayans Brothers know more about humor than Friedberg and Seltzer do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Except it's not being made by the funny Wayans brothers. It's being made by the ones we've never heard of before. There are like 20 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 There are funny Wayans brothers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 When they are restrained, they can be funny. When they have too much control, they aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 IMO Scary Movie 1 and 2 are excellent spoofs that tip the hat well to Zucker and Abrahams. Don't Be A Menace is also pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Midweek Star Trek box office update: Trek moved back into the daily #1 spot on Wednesday (and was #1 for last Saturday and Sunday as well), and has moved into 2nd place for the year, less than $35 million behind Monsters vs. Aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 Looks like we have our first upset: Night at the Museum 2 will defeat Terminator Salvation for the #1 spot this weekend, and not by a small amount. Star Trek is currently projected for a solid 3rd, and it looks to be a decent race between Trek and Monsters vs. Aliens to see which will be the first to crack $200 million for the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryant Burnette 654 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Terminator Salvation is a gigantic failure at the box office. The entire industry expected it to clear $100 million with no difficulty Thursday-Monday, and instead, it's not even going to come close. That is a franchise-killing performance. McG will (thankfully) have a difficult time getting big-budget work after this, and Christian Bale will have a hard time getting a starring role as anyone other than Bruce Wayne.Thing is, even though all the news stories will say otherwise, Night at the Museum 2's performance isn't overly impressive. It's going to make something like $70 million for the four-day period, but given how well the first movie did ($250 million), the sequel really ought to have done better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 To be honest, I did not really expect the second Night At the Museum to make all too much money. Though I am a bit surprised that Terminator: Salvation is not making more money. Perhaps the failure that is the third one combined with the myriad negative reviews have driven people away.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 that and the crap TV series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 The first Night At The Museum opened the weekend before Christmas and did most of it's damage there with back to back strong weekends, actually grossing more it's second weekend and doing very strong business in between the two weekends.I'm somewhat suprised anyone thought a sequel was neccessary.I cannot believe anyone in the industry actually believed Terminator 4 would gross $100 million it's opening weekend, especially after the disappointing gross of the third film. I don't consider Christian Bale's name to be a huge box office draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Hoyt 13 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I don't consider Christian Bale's name to be a huge box office draw.Ya Bruce Wayne is, thats it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Terminator Salvation is a gigantic failure at the box office. The entire industry expected it to clear $100 million with no difficulty Thursday-Monday, and instead, it's not even going to come close. That is a franchise-killing performance. McG will (thankfully) have a difficult time getting big-budget work after this, and Christian Bale will have a hard time getting a starring role as anyone other than Bruce Wayne.Thing is, even though all the news stories will say otherwise, Night at the Museum 2's performance isn't overly impressive. It's going to make something like $70 million for the four-day period, but given how well the first movie did ($250 million), the sequel really ought to have done better.Terminator Salvation got exactly what it deserved. Its a movie that should never exist. It deserved to fail from the beginning, I could not be more pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 They should have stopped after Terminator 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattris 416 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 They should have stopped after Terminator 1.No way. Terminator 2 is one of the best sequels ever made... a great movie.Using an AMC gift card, I saw Terminator Salvation yesterday. The film was a special effects 'fest' with good performances from most of the actors; Bale was excellent as John Connor. I think the camerawork/directing was a bit too wild and crazy during the action scenes. Overall though, Salvation is a worthy addition to the Terminator franchise. I only wish T3 had been... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 They should have stopped after Terminator 1.No way. Terminator 2 is one of the best sequels ever made... a great movie.It's ok. Good action setpieces, great Linda Hamilton performance and a fun villain. But it's overlong, too ponderous and just too self-important for its own good. And Edward Furlong really sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 Don't forget the long weekend here in the US, Monday should pull in some big numbers too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 They should have stopped after Terminator 1.No way. Terminator 2 is one of the best sequels ever made... a great movie.It's ok. Good action setpieces, great Linda Hamilton performance and a fun villain. But it's overlong, too ponderous and just too self-important for its own good. And Edward Furlong really sucks.sorry Charlie, you're quite wrong. Terminator and Terminator 2 are a great pair.Both are solid genre films 4 and 4.5 stars. Terminator 3 is a solid 2.5Terminator Salvation is a solid 1 star. Sorry Matt, its not a worth entry in this film series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I'm with Joey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryant Burnette 654 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 There are aspects of Terminator Salvation that I like, but it's a terrible movie, and a franchise-killer. Christian Bale is awful, although he's given such non-material to work with that I don't know how he could have been good in the role.Both The Terminator and Terminator 2 are classics; I rewatched them recently for the first time in years, and was surprised at how well they held up to my memories (especially the first one). Terminator 3 isn't very good, but hell, at least it made the attempt to honor the originals. This new one can't even manage that.Stick to directing episodes of Chuck, McG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahler3 478 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Actuals Are In: 'Night' at $70.1M, 'Terminator' at $51.9M...Be interesting to see how Terminator performs in the UK / Ireland when it opens next Thurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Sorry Joe, T2 is a 3.5 at best. T3 isn't worth 1.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahler3 478 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Both are solid genre films 4 and 4.5 stars. Terminator 3 is a solid 2.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scallenger 483 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 My little review of TERMINATOR SALVATION:What the hell?!Those are the first words to pop in my head after seeing this film. And I don't mean "What the hell?!" as in "wow there was so much crazy stuff going on, what did I just see?!", but more like "wow what was the purpose of this film at all?". This movie is the worst thing I have seen all year. I mean, this was supposed to be the film every TERMINATOR fan has always wanted to see: the future war! But let me just tell you now: the mere glimpses you see in the previous films are way, way better than this film. Let's have a brief rundown of why this movie is horrible:-Very bad and very thin plot.-Average to bad acting.-Cliches up the kazoo.-Bad soundtrack (and it was by Danny Elfman, too, who I usually like!), except for the all-too-brief quotes of the TERMINATOR theme.-Lame use of an Arnold cameo.-Incredibly slow pacing throughout.-Nothing looks very interesting or visually spectacular.-Only two action sequences go on for very long. One is very Transformers-esque (meaning you want to scream: it's been done already, recently, and better!), the other is too similar in ways to the final duel in T2.-Nothing was compelling, nothing felt dramatic. No tension.-Insulting use of popular quotes from the previous films.-Didn't care about any of the characters. None were cool, except Kyle Reese, but they never gave him much to do.-Stupid character of a little girl who is basically a plot device to give main characters useful things, sort of like a Felix The Cat bag, but a person.... I could go on, but I won't. I think you get the idea. This is the worst summer film I have seen in a long time, and it had very high expectations from a lot of people. The worst thing about the movie is that it was not fun at all. It was painful. And they want to make this into a trilogy? Count me out.And if this is the Future War... where is all the fighting? Where is all of the suspense? Even terror? No? Proper atmosphere? None of it is there! Which leaves you wondering why they made this and who the film was really for. Gullible fans I guess, but unfortunately that makes me and every other TERMINATOR fan gullible because we have almost all wanted to see what this movie was supposed to be, and no matter what any fan hears or reads, even my review, you will want to see it anyway.But really, guys. It IS that bad.People may bash TERMINATOR 3, but it was a masterpiece compared to this outing. At least that movie was fun and exciting, as goofy as it sometimes got.So, sorry everyone, but this one has killed the franchise for me. No more. I'm sure James Cameron will be pissed if he ever sees it. For those that want a movie version of the Future War that is better, just go to Universal Studios and experience the T2: 3D attraction. It takes you into the future war and is far more exciting than anything presented in this new film. And it has Arnold and was directed by James Cameron! It also features the T-1 Million: a scary spider-like liquid Terminator that has unfairly never been used in the other films. Now there is something that needs to be put on DVD! I can only hope. Because I wouldn't buy or see this new movie again for a penny.I will list the two strong points of the film:-Great special effects.-Great animatronic effects, featuring the last Stan Winston ever did. It's too bad however that this film is dedicated to him. He deserved a better last outing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahler3 478 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Oh dear! Doesn't sound good!Agree with you re Elfman's score. As a stand alone listening experience it's just unstructured noise, was kind of hoping it would work better and grow on me after seeing the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Sorry Joe, T2 is a 3.5 at best. T3 isn't worth 1.5.hasta la vista Baby. You will be terminated. Sorry Charlie but you should stick to your tuna commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 With Wednesday's numbers Star Trek is officially, at the moment, the #1 movie of 2009. It will become the first to crack $200 million this weekend.BJM 2009 chart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted May 30, 2009 Author Share Posted May 30, 2009 Friday's estimates give Up a $21.4 million opening day. Star Trek has hit the $200 million mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/Land of the Lost = BOMB. Up is #1 for the second straight week, will it be the one to challege Trek for the top spot for the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Transformers 2 will probably do that, although I looked at the comic adaption this weekend and it sucks storywise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wycket 36 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Transformers 2 will probably do that, although I looked at the comic adaption this weekend and it sucks storywise.Shocked. I repeat I am shocked by such a revelation. In all seriousness, I found the first one to be pretty harmless entertainment, though the length was excessive, especially considering it took forever for the Transformers to actually appear. I was hoping after Trek that they figured out the first was too long and condensed the story for the new one, but alas I was incorrect. Either way I wasn't seeing it until it reached HBO anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Spielberg productions used to get us teamings like Zemeckis/Gale/Silvestri. How'd we go from that to Bay/Orci & Kurtzman/Jablonsky? Star Trek should be some indication that these Orci and Kurtzman can do good work, though. I don't know what happened with Transformers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 Spielberg productions used to get us teamings like Zemeckis/Gale/Silvestri. How'd we go from that to Bay/Orci & Kurtzman/Jablonsky? Star Trek should be some indication that these Orci and Kurtzman can do good work, though. I don't know what happened with Transformers.No JJ Abrams or Damon Lindoff. Plus Orci and Kurtzman are Trek fans so they were probably inspired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahler3 478 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Obviously the aggresive UK marketing campaign worked:Terminator Salvation went straight to the top of the cinema box office at the weekend.The fourth instalment of the series took almost seven million pounds - making it the biggest film opening in the UK in 2009 so far.www.skynews.co.uk It's also getting positive reviews from the likes of Empire and other press, have to be some back-handers going on here!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 Up has become the second movie to cross the $200 million mark for the year, and it might still make a run at Star Trek for the current #1 spot for the year. Right now it looks like Trek is going to finish up somewhere in the $250-275 range, which probably won't be enough to hang on to the top spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Transformers 2 scores the second biggest opening day behind TDK.http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuter...-record-reutersI would imagine in two weeks it will be the highest grossing film of the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Never has there been a more undeserving movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted June 26, 2009 Author Share Posted June 26, 2009 Balls. I figured this was coming, but still, for another Michael Bay crapfest to beat out the first true mass-appeal Star Trek is disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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