Its been about 20 days since the U.S. release of Transformers and the money keeps flowing. According to weekend box office estimates, The Transformers came in 4th this weekend with a respectable $20.5 million. Hairspray was 3rd with $27.9, Harry Potter took a 58% hit in its second week (TF only had a 47%) taking in $32.2 million and Chuck and Larry was number 1 with $34.8 million.
Now these are only estimates so the numbers could change a little but doubt enough to effect the rankings. With the Simpsons coming next week should be interesting to see what effect it may have on these films. I suspect that all the bad reviews for Chuck and Larry will result in a massive nose dive (say 65%), Harry Potter will hold mostly steady now that the Book 7 release is done (excellent book btw), and Hairspray can only go down too.
Below are the over-all standings for the top 5 films of 2007, foreign estimates are from last Tuesday so will only go up in a few days. One thing these numbers show is foreign dollars (the rest of the world) is going to have more and more an impact on the decisions that Hollywood as the domestic box office is no longer indicative of whether a movie is a success or not.
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Budget: 300 million
Opening Weekend: 114.7 million
Total Domestic: 306.0 million
Total Foreign: 634.0 million
Worldwide Total: 940.1 million
2. Spider-Man 3 Numbers:
Budget: 258 million
Opening Weekend: 151.1million
Total Domestic: 335.3 million
Total Foreign: 550.9 million
Worldwide Total: 886.2million
3. Shrek 3 Numbers:
Budget: 160 million
Opening Weekend: 121.6 million
Total Domestic: 318.5 million
Total Foreign: 361.2 million
Worldwide Total: 679.7 million
4. Transformers Numbers:
Budget: 150 million
Opening Weekend: 67.6 million
Total Domestic: 262.9 million
Total Foreign: 146.6 million
Worldwide Total: 409.6 million
5. Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix Numbers:
Budget: 150 million
Opening Weekend: 77.4 million
Total Domestic: 207.5 million
Total Foreign: 193.0 million
Worldwide Total: 400.5 milliion
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It's summer, and the bext thing to do is to go to a movie. That always helps when you want to have something to talk about afterwards. So, I'm not surprised to see that they're almost all the same.
ReplyDeleteWhat does surprise me is that Transformers got as much as it did, vs well proven series. Bully for them. The ads were all over the place. In fact few movies could claim to have been hypes in as many places for as long as Transformers. Smart.
It's not a good movie in my book, but that an aside when the subject is the money of a film. Getting money is a slightly different art. It's the shadow area of market. And this movie did that well. The movie itself was total crap, but so are all kinds of money making ideas. Hell, the clapper is still selling.
I find the money to be the best area of films. It's the business side. Either making a good product or pimping a bad one, it's a great game. But it does not have too much to do with the movie.
Only 150million budget for the transformers movie? Wow..
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