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Post by Fantasy Box Office on Aug 16, 2006 22:32:06 GMT -5
What are your predictions this weekend?
Opening This Week:
Snakes on a Plane: On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin looking to off a potential mob informant frees a crate of deadly snakes. FBI agent Nelville Flynn (Jackson), whose sole purpose was to get his witness to his trial, instead works works with a rookie pilot and a terrified crew to keep the passengers -- and his witness -- alive. Theatre Count: 3,300
Accepted: A high school slacker (Long) who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institue of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near home. Much to his surprise, his fellow slackers and reject enroll, making it a wannabe legit place of higher learning. Theatre Count: 2,913
Material Girls: Sisters Tanzie (Hilary Duff) and Persia Marchetta (Haylie Duff) are heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune. The girls are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth. Theatre Count: 1,509
Competition:
2nd Weekends of Step Up, and World Trade Centre
3rd Weekend of Talladega Nights
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Post by permatiltx on Aug 16, 2006 22:47:58 GMT -5
All right, it's about time for some snakes on a plane...
This movie is the biggest internet buzzed film to come along since, well, The Blair Witch Project...this is marketing gold for New Line...a brilliant campaign...I see it easily earning at least $36M which is pretty strong, especially this deep in August...
Second will go to Accepted, which should finish with a decent $13M...that's about what comedies of this type seem to be doing lately...
Third will be Talledega Nights...with about $12M followed closely by World Trade Center which is definitely generating some positive word of mouth with about $11M...and last week's surprise (which from what I understand was based mainly because of advertising from My Space) will definitely lose plenty of ground scoring about $9M...
I'm pretty sure Material Girls won't appear in the top five...I see it earning around $4M...unless of course it was heavily advertised on My Space...
Also, Little Miss Sunshine is going to make a jump, earning around $5M this weekend...
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Post by Fantasy Box Office on Aug 17, 2006 0:24:55 GMT -5
I'm not sure how well Snakes on a Plane could do. The buzz has died down. They should've released it a few weeks ago when buzz was huge.
Whether this only grosses $25 million, or $40 million, I think it will be very frontloaded.
Accepted I think will fare fairly well, about $13 million.
Material Girls: Less than 2,000 theatrs. (My dream come true...Duff going down!!). $3.5 million.
I think Little Miss Sunshine will make around $4-4.5 million. I really want to see this movie.
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Post by geekfreek000 on Aug 17, 2006 0:47:14 GMT -5
For the life of me, I cannot figure out the hype for Snakes on a Plane. LOL. But it's certainly developed some crazy following. It'll open well but will probably have bad legs. (I seriously can't see "Snakes on a Plane" being a masturful film that gets great word of mouth.) But yeah, close to $40M for that one.
Accepted will do well, I think. With the strong openings teen movies have had over the last while, it could probably get something in the $15-18M range.
I haven't actually heard of either Material Girls or Little Miss Sunshine...so I have NO idea how they're going to do. By Duff, do you mean Hilary Duff? Always thought she was a great role model for girls, but I think her time as a tween girl diva are over. I saw her the other day and she looked like a young woman looking for a more adult-oriented audience, and she's just never gonna make that transformation (ala: The Olsen Twins).
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 17, 2006 22:32:32 GMT -5
SOAP has so much buzz, so I'm gonna say:
1 Snakes on a Plane-$65.0
2 Talladega Nights-$18.2 (-45.2%)
3 Accepted-$12.5
4 World Trade Center (amazing movie...)-$8.0 (-23.8%)
5 Step Up (very good movie...)-$7.2 (-47.1%)
6 Barnyard-$7.0 (-34.4%)
7 Pulse-$5.0 (-45%)
8 Material Girls-$4.2
9 Pirates-$3.5 (-37.8%)
10 Little Miss Sunshine-$3.2
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Post by Fantasy Box Office on Aug 17, 2006 23:15:56 GMT -5
Theres no way Snakes on a Plane will make that much, yes it had buzz but not that much, and buzz has died down.
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Post by permatiltx on Aug 17, 2006 23:54:29 GMT -5
Well, I just got back from one of the 10 o clock screenings...and my brother and I were the only ones in the theater...
Now, I wonder what the reason for this is, our neighborhood theater, (I live in Bayonne, NJ) never sells out...except for really big movies like Pirates of the Caribbean...not even the 10 o' clock sneak of Superman Returns sold out...but two people in the theater? I'd expect a bit more...they didn't advertise for it, until day off and when I bought my ticket today, the box office attendant didn't even know it was playing...he told me it started tomorrow...I had to point out the movie times behind him...so maybe that's why...
Did anyone else go see a sneak showing, and was there more than two people in the theater?
On a side note, the movie is highly implausible, and well, you can definitely tell the R-rated scenes that were inserted, since they appeared like scenes that just got inserted...
But it did have snakes, they were on a plane, and they never pretended to be anything better than an average B-movie...at least it was better than Congo...
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Post by tvtime07 on Aug 19, 2006 8:53:09 GMT -5
Snakes will do alraight ... Same with Accepted
As for Hilary Duff, I think she should have stayed with Disney, there's no doubt in that, none of her movies since her split with the mouse ever did so good... atleast she still has music (little known fact, her music label "hollywood records" is owned by the mouse)
I'd also like to see "Little Miss Sunshine", unfortunately it's playing on those independent film theaters that are like 40 minutes away... maybe on DVD...
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