Another week, another box office thread. Two time weekly box office champ the help faces new competition for its title. Apoolo 18, Shark Night 3D, and The Debt make their theatrical bows this weekend . Apollo 18 is the favorite to claim the top box office, but nothing is ever certain. Which one is your choice?
No one's gonna go watch Apollo 18 bcuz it looks horrible. Shark Night 3D is gonna bomb big time just like Conan. The Debt is getting zero publicity and the proof is that ive never even heard of it. The Help will be number 1 again!
The Debt won't appeal to a mass audience. A lot of people seemed to like Piranha 3D, so it might bring them out to Shark Night. IDK, I'll guess Apollo 18, because its PG-13. I think it will hit the top at 15 million.
This. I'll be seeing The Debt, and maybe the other two ("Horror" films) if they get good reviews. Otherwise, I'm skipping them. Still think The Help is going to win, just like it has for a fe weeks straight. So suck on that people who brushed it off as a stupid, semi-racist, chick flick. I'm kidding.
No one's gonna go watch Apollo 18 bcuz it looks horrible. Shark Night 3D is gonna bomb big time just like Conan. The Debt is getting zero publicity and the proof is that ive never even heard of it. The Help will be number 1 again!
Next week I'm looking forward to Warrior and Contagion. Last week had Our Idiot Brother. This week is weak. Ha ha! See what I did there?
No?
It's the first week of September, this is where the lame quick buck cheap no one give a bad films start to sliver out, it's a bit suprising to see films like Warrior and Contagion to come out actually
It's the first week of September, this is where the lame quick buck cheap no one give a shit films start to sliver out, it's a bit suprising to see films like Warrior and Contagion to come out actually
Week and weak - a homonym-ish type thing.
Ohhhh.... I thought that was February. There are lots of movies coming out this year that I'm interested in checking out....except in November, and this week. Oh well, can't win them all.
Ohhhh.... I thought that was February. There are lots of movies coming out this year that I'm interested in checking out....except in November, and this week. Oh well, can't win them all.
Ah I get you now wasn't that funny
There are a ton of months where they release stuff like this, February is usually weak as it's a week off, so they release the cheap blockbusters. January is usually a little weak, although it seems to be getting better over the last few years. November isn't looking to great either this year, but there are a few big movies coming out then.
I dunno, I'm tempted to say The Help for the third straight weekend. Movies these days, jeez. To be fair, The Debt looks like it has potential, but I'm not convinced of its widespread appeal.
BOM predicts that 'The Help' win will the Labor Day Weekend. How about another film winning...talk about a dull Labor Day Weekend Box Office:
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Summer 2011 is poised to close with an even quieter whimper than normal. Unless any of the new releases break-out, this Labor Day weekend will go down as the least-attended one since 1992. Apollo 18, Shark Night 3D and The Debt enter the fray, but The Help has an excellent shot at topping the box office for the third weekend in a row. The drama continued to hold well on the weekdays, and it's the type of crowd-pleasing movie that people catch up on over the holiday weekend.
All Apollo 18 has going for it is the intrigue of its moon landing premise ("Discover the reason we never went back."), and whether or not its "found footage" aspect has tricked anyone into thinking it's real. Other than that, the movie doesn't look like a pleasant experience as far as horror movies go, with its standard "someone-gets-infected-in-claustrophobic-setting" scenario, nondescript characters and murky camera gimmick. The market for this type of movie relates more to supernatural hauntings, such as Paranormal Activity and The Last Exorcism, or something more grounded, like Quarantine. Space horror has been a mixed bag. Outside of Alien, there's duds like Pandorum, Ghosts of Mars, Doom, Supernova and Jason X, not to mention countless straight-to-video-or-cable titles.
Normally, a shark thriller should score a decent audience or at least a greater turn-out than lesser chompers like Piranha. In the case of Shark Night 3D, though, the movie's marketing campaign has neither built up the shark menace nor displayed much of the sharks. The tagline says "your worst fears are about to surface," but that's not sufficiently shown beyond a shift from party music to ominous tones. What's more, the ads haven't promised much in the way of over-the-top thrills and gore, and the premise of different kinds of sharks attacking people in a lake seems as random as Snakes on a Plane. Both Shark and Snakes were directed by David R. Ellis, but the ads cite him as the director of The Final Destination (odd given that movie's poor reputation). At the end of the ads, the announcer tacks on "also showing in 2D" in a feeble bid to overcome the perceived limitation of the "3D" in the title. (On top of that, most of the action seems to take place in the day, not the titular night.)
The Debt follows in the modest adult-thriller-for-Labor-Day tradition of The American, Traitor and The Constant Gardener. The trouble is that the movie has lacked clarity in its marketing campaign, coming off as some garbled Munich-like affair and relying on the genre and distinguished cast (Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Worthington, etc.) to carry the day.
Box Office Mojo's reader polling has reflected the slowness at the box office. Apollo 18 has scored 10.4 percent for opening weekend so far, or a few ticks behind The Fourth Kind among past comparable titles. Shark Night 2D has come in close to 10 percent for opening weekend, trailing Final Destination 5's 15.9 percent and, perhaps more alarmingly, Piranha 3D's 17.4 percent (which suggests just $7 million for Shark). The rosier comparisons indicate openings no higher than the low teen millions for both Apollo and Shark. The Debt brought up the rear with 6.2 percent for opening weekend, or less than half the interest in The American at the same point last year.
The Forecast, Sept. 2-5 (Four-day weekend)
1. The Help - $17 million
2. Apollo 18 - $13 million
3. Shark Night 3D - $12 million
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - $8.5 million
5. The Debt - $8.5 million
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. Apollo 18 is the favorite to claim the top box office, but nothing is ever certain. Which one is your choice?
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