Information taken from Brandon Gray's
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
1 Ratatouille $47,027,395 3,940 $11,935
$47,027,395
11 8 Shrek the Third $2,673,877 -52.7% 2,066 -756 $1,294
$313,739,703
12 7 Surf's Up $2,446,757 -62.8% 2,503 -806 $977
$53,760,658
29 37 Meet the Robinsons $96,310 +94.5% 93 -2 $1,035
$96,534,518
35 29 Paprika $44,111 -47.4% 31 -6 $1,422
$575,388
"Ratatouille" indeed came out #1 on its opening weekend, but with the
lowest boxoffice for a Pixar movie in many years. I was worried about the
movie's performance. But over the past week, thanks to kids on summer
vacation, "Ratatouille" has been showing especially strong legs, even in
the
face of a "Transformers" onslaught. I'm catching the movie myself this
Sunday.
"Miss Potter" has apparently left U.S. theaters, with a final U.S.
take of
$2,978,905. This movie went to many months open in only a handful of
theaters.
Then it had a less limited run of less than 100 theaters with little
fanfare.
I'm curious as to why it didn't get a bigger release, as it was an
entertaining
enough movie if not on the level of "Babe". I'm looking forward to Chris
Noonan's third movie.
Last weekend I was finally able to catch "Surf's Up", apparently in
the
nick of time. :-) I enjoyed watching it, but I didn't think it was as good
as
people were describing. You could play a drinking game to spot every
scene in
the movie that couldn't have been possible if this movie really was a
do***entary. :-) The do***entary format was unusual, but it didn't work
that
well for a cartoon. This format required characters to spend long
stretches of
time just standing there and talking on and on. Lots of kids in my
audience
fidgeted. Now I like "Creature Comforts" and the first scene of "The
Incredibles", but the "Surf's Up" interviews didn't seem as visually
interesting. The last third of the movie was a carbon copy of the end of
"Cars". Nonetheless, "Surf's Up" was much better than the really lousy
CGI
toons we've been getting up to now. The funniest moments were the sight
gags
concerning the fates of the two leads' fathers. :-)
- Juan F. Lara
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