Weeeee, more Box Office numbers. This time Harry Potter is the one setting records, it has broken the opening day record for Wednesday and is placed fifth overall for any day taking in an amazing haul of $44.2 million in 4,181 cinemas.
Transformers is still going strong with $155.2 million from 7 days being open. Transformers is definitely living up to the hype, Michael Bay has done a tremendous job on the effects and the numbers are really showing up for his work put in.
Phoenix was another big player at the box office this weekend. Pulling in $42.5 million on it’s opening day. Warner Bros. are pipping the number to be a little higher than $100 million for the opening weekend of Phoenix, which is said to beat out there previous holder of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Some other titles which are opening up this weekend are Captivity (a Saw wannabe just without the seven deadly sins involved) which is only going to open up to 1,000 cinemas this weekend. Talk to Me (a movie about a criminal who turns to be a famous talk show radio host in the 60’s) which really goes under the radar and only opens to 33 cinemas. And finally the Interview opens in 7 cinemas in Gotham and L.A. and My Best Friend which opens in 3 cinemas in those cities
Those films must be pretty fucking shit. I mean all up 1053 cinemas which is like a quarter of Harry Potter, shamful, enjoy the weekend while it lasts and get out and see some of those shamful movies!
Congratulations are in order to the people over at Paramount Pictures for topping $1,000,000,000 in ticket sales sometime on Monday. Sometime over the weekend Paramount will also surpass the $1.046 billion mark which will break there record of 1998 for ticket sales, and they still got quite some time left in the year.
1998 was a record setting year partially because of Titantic, which managed to haul in a fucking huge amount. BoxOfficeMojo puts the figure at $600,788,188 which is just over half. Man, a lot of people must have been dying to see Leo or Kate, cause that is a shit load of cash to haul in.
The films which helped get Paramount across that $1 billion mark are: Blades of Glory, Freedom Writers, Zodiac, Reno 911!: Miami, Norbit, Disturbia, Next, Shrek the Third, A Mighty Heart and Transformers.
A breakdown of the movies ticket sales courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo are: Blades of Glory - $118,175,865, Freedom Writers - $36,605,602, Zodiac - $33,080,083, Reno 911!: Miami - $20,342,161, Norbit - $95,360,247, Disturbia - $79,341,927, Next - $18,049,868, Shrek the Third - $316,959,197, A Mighty Heart - $8,477,841 and Transformers - $165,333,052.
It seems that Blades of Glory, Shrek the Third and Transformers were there biggest earners pulling in roughly the equivalent of what Titantic pulled in all together in 1998. That is amazing, 3 blockbuster films equal Titantic. Enjoy those figures
Transformers have done it! They hit the $100 million mark in a pretty nifty time of 4 and a half days. On Friday it pulled in $22.4 million which puts it ahead of it’s rivals Ratatouille (which was beating it at one point) and the action flick Live Free or Die Hard (which was never in the lead :P)
I was one of the few who did enjoy Transformers and the action scenes were absolutely crazy (although I did think that Bay went a bit overboard with the CGI as there was soooo much detail you couldn’t tell when a robot started and finished) and for god sake Optimus Prime did have lips, although they were shit, he had fucking lips, damn Michael Bay lying to us.
Enough Transformers rambling, some other movers and shakers at the box office were 1408 which managed to cross the $50 million mark today after 16 days at the box office. FF: Rise of the Silver Surfer is sucking big time and so is Sicko only managing to pull in just over a million after adding more theatres.
It seems that nobody will be able to beat Spider-Man 3 which managed to take the reigns of the most grossing film of 2007 so far followed by our green friend Shrek. I really cannot see anybody coming close to $330 million this year although it is possible, I just don’t see it happening.
Although 2006 was a year to remember with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest taking in a fucking $423 million at the box office, freaking psycho. Well I have had enough, just wanted to jot some thoughts down so I remember it all.
On the opening night in the US, Transformers managed to take in an estimated $8.5 million in ticket sales. It opened to 3,050 screens and had an 8 PM starting time. Not bad, roughly $2.7k per cinema, I’d be happy with that. I guess Bay took advantage of the Independence day people looking for something to do.
Disney-Pixar’s Ratatouille was also still running on Monday and it managed to hold it’s own on the weekend debuting as No. 1, slipped to second spot with a cool $7.5 million in ticket sales on Monday. The film that was gonna cause ripples came in at third, with Life Free or Die Hard pulling in an estimated $4.3 million.
Transformers wasn’t the only thing that night making ripples. According to many film goers, a mysterious trailer occurred during the opening of Transformers which is set to be a monster movie. The only thing is, nobody knows anything about the movie only that JJ Abrams will be directing it.
The trailer is not online and when I went searching came across a bunch of Transformers trailers and a Star Trek trailer, but the film is set to debut on January the 8th, 2008. Well I cannot wait until Transformers comes down under so I can see this trailer, it is causing quite a stir around the net.
