Information taken from Brandon Gray's
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
9 The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything $4,251,320 1,337
$3,179 $4,251,320
18 13 Enchanted $1,805,534 -52.6% 1,201 -731
$1,503 $122,392,372
25 21 Bee Movie $300,799 -32.1% 338 -69
$889 $125,595,476
28 40 Persepolis $186,734 +142.9% 18 +11
$10,374 $540,085
34 26 Beowulf $133,273 -35.4% 126 -89
$1,057 $81,736,659
45 43 The Polar Express (IMAX) $29,278 -57.5% 24 -6
$1,219 $2,474,688
2008 started with the Pirates who didn't do a lot of boxoffice. The
$3,179 per theater average wasn't terrible. But it was comparable to the
second week boxoffice of "Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie", and that film was
released in 2002. Guess the Veggie Tales are has-beens nowadays.
"Persepolis" got some more theaters last weekend, enabling it to
maintain
its 10K+ PTA. But its theaters still are concentrated in the Northeast
and in
California. And Sony Pictures Classics still won't post a release
schedule.
This is very frustrating.
Looks like "Bee Movie" is going to come up short in covering its
$150M
production budget from domestic take alone, though it's done a little more
than that already overseas. "Enchanted" is also underperforming in the
U.S.
But it now looks like it has a chance of surpassing "Bee Movie"
domestically.
Ha ha. :-) And the makers of both films can at least take comfort in the
fact
that they didn't make "Beowulf". :-)
- Juan F. Lara
|
