J.T. Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 $161 Mil seems to be the final total. I suppose either Frozen or Black Nativity will come in a distant second next week. I want Oldboy to do well, but I am reminded of when Girl With The Dragon Tattoo came into theaters during the winter holidays and went straight south. Oldboy is far too prickly of a movie to do well this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I like the Mara/Craig version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but why the fuck would you remake a movie that came out TWO years prior? That's insanely retarded. If Oldboy flops, it's going to make it extremely tough for the rest of Vengeance remakes to get traction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Girl with did over a 100 million. Not great, but it's not like it was a complete bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Also, Catching Fire is the best November opening ever, and if the estimate holds, will be the best 2D only open ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Girl with did over a 100 million. Not great, but it's not like it was a complete bomb. I know that, but why the fuck would you do it in 2011? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Because the books had become a big hit here to, and lots of people just will not watch foreign films. At least, I assume that was the thought process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Because the books had become a big hit here to, and lots of people just will not watch foreign films. At least, I assume that was the thought process. And that thought process doomed a second film being made anytime soon. That's swell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Wasn't there some big deal about them wanting Craig to take a pay cut or maybe making the film without him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Wasn't there some big deal about them wanting Craig to take a pay cut or maybe making the film without him? I know they brought in someone to rewrite what Zaillan had wrote, but the chances of Fincher returning are slim to none. I know Rooney Mara contractually has to come back so I guess Craig would have to come back as well. But Craig has many projects already lined up and those Bond movies film for like half a year. So if they were going to get film out for 2015, they already missed their window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think it completely stalled, anyway. But there was something about them wanting to pay Craig less than the contract called for, and they discussed dropping the entire (co-lead) character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 From what I gather from various sources, Zallian and Scott Rudin are still interested in a sequel but Fincher has gone full tilt into House of Cards. Lisbeth Salander is no longer the it girl of the pop culture zeitgeist that she used to be, so I don't think that there will be a sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ah well, we got the three books, the three original films, and one decentish Hollywood film. Better than nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think it completely stalled, anyway. But there was something about them wanting to pay Craig less than the contract called for, and they discussed dropping the entire (co-lead) character. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/girl-dragon-tattoo-sequel-whats-416621 Sources close to the project say the biggest holdup isn't Fincher's involvement but star Daniel Craig's. The studio has options on Craig for two sequels, but the actor is said to want a pay raise, not a cut, in the wake of Skyfall grossing $1 billion worldwide. If Sony can't bring Craig back to reprise his role as journalist Mikael Blomkvist, the sources say the studio could write the character out of the sequel. (A Craig source says negotiations have yet to commence but the actor wants to return to the role.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ah, yeah, that was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think you could easily write Blomkvist out of the 2nd two movies. He's pretty superfluous to the stuff people care about in those. Really, he's just a terrible character all around. There's no reason he shouldn't have died in the 1st one, except he's the Mary Sue author stand-in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 RT rankings for Black Nativity and Oldboy would indicate that this weekend's second place probably belongs to Frozen. The traditional 50% drop-off for the second weekend wouldd still have Catching Fire earning close to eighty million US dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 50% for a movie that does over 120 is an absurdly good hold. When Avengers did that it was a record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Maybe Spike Lee should have kept "Oldboy" in captivity. The outspoken director's remake of the decade-old Korean movie of the same name was released in fewer than 600 theaters this weekend, posting about $400,000 in ticket sales Wednesday and Thursday combined. That puts the movie on pace to generate less than $2 million through the Thanksgiving weekend, probably making it one of the biggest flops of the year. A $2-million total would give the FilmDistrict movie a per-theater average of between $3,000 and $4,000, putting it in similar territory to Universal's recent bomb "R.I.P.D." ($4,450 a screen for its opening weekend in July), though it's not as poor as DreamWorks' Julian Assange drama "The Fifth Estate" ($946 a screen) in October. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-spike-lee-oldboy-box-office-20131129,0,4572024.story#ixzz2mAVQ4QHC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 So, Frozen had the best Thanksgiving open ever, and finished WAY behind Catching Fire anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Did anyone really think that Catching Fire wouldn't hold for two weeks straight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 No, I just love that a record weekend for Frozen didn't even challenge it. Rest of the films got murdered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Frozen takes the weekend. Catching Fire has made nearly identical money domestic and foreign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 As expected, Smaug easily won the weekend while doing noticeably less than Unexpected Journey. Somewhat less expected, Frozen beat Madea's Christmas by a healthy margin for 2nd place. Catching Fire and Dark World round up the top 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Yikes, what happened to the Hunger Games' legs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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