Monday, January 23, 2006
Living and Dying by the Numbers
Weekend box office numbers are out and a pretty good movie, Brokeback Mountain, did pretty well ($6,200 per screen on nearly 1200 screens). A really bad movie, Munich, did worse and worse, slipping to #14 and reaching the dizzying heights of less than $38,000,000 in 5 weeks, which is only about half its budget before marketing. Movies have to work hard not to make money, because of DVD sales and fees for showing it on TV, not to mention overseas box office (which is the only thing keeping King Kong, a movie I liked a lot, in the black), but I think we can officially call Munich a flop despite the critics' near hagiolotry of it.
The current Christian flick, End of the Spear, opened pretty weak ($4,200,000) but it has a tiny budget so it might creep into profits. Disaster for Memoirs of a Geisha and The New World (that's two big flops in a row for Colin Farrel). The big winner was Underworld: Evolution with $26,800,000 gross and an impressive $8,200 per screen. There might be a bit of a drop off there next week although Kate Beckinsale continues to look quite good in tight leather. Who knew?
The current Christian flick, End of the Spear, opened pretty weak ($4,200,000) but it has a tiny budget so it might creep into profits. Disaster for Memoirs of a Geisha and The New World (that's two big flops in a row for Colin Farrel). The big winner was Underworld: Evolution with $26,800,000 gross and an impressive $8,200 per screen. There might be a bit of a drop off there next week although Kate Beckinsale continues to look quite good in tight leather. Who knew?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:56 PM 
