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Author Topic: Single Screen Dilemma 2007: Evan Almighty vs. Ratatouille John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-12-2007 12:38 PM                     Agree on the Harry Potter thing...Harry's the best of both worlds. Good for little kids and big kids alike.  |  IP: Logged Ky Boyd Hey I'm #23 Posts: 314 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-18-2007 02:50 AM                       Mike, If Evan or Ratatoulle is the only choice, then I'd go for Ratatoulle. Evan will as you said get negative reviews. Did you read the Variety review? There are a couple of other options: Sicko and Evening - both solid adult appeal pictures. Of course Evening might be better as a one week lock later once the word of mouth is out. But don't count out the swelling buzz around Sicko. It's the one that the media will be all over.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-18-2007 05:26 AM                        Only book "Evening" if you do good business with the blue-hair crowd. We had it at a recent film festival and the film wasn't that good, but it is tailor-made for the little-old-lady crowd.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-18-2007 09:26 AM                        We are going with Ratatouille, it turns out. Apparently large city bookings are taking an inordinate # of Evan prints, so there are not as many for small situations as they first thought. I agree Sicko will be a media favorite. I'm wishing we had 2 screens A LOT this summer. It's all good...we will do fine with Ratatouille and we can play Sicko and Evan in July after Potter, if they do well.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 06-25-2007 02:19 PM                     Looks like you didn't miss out on anything big with Evan. - Matt  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-25-2007 03:37 PM                     What I love is that movie can gross 32mil in an actual weekend (Fri-Sun) and people say omg it bombed!! When the hell did 32mil mean BOMB! Nobody thought this was going to make 100 mil opening weekend. Anyway end of rant, and sorry to go off topic  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-25-2007 05:02 PM                        quote: When the hell did 32mil mean BOMB! Well in this day and age, sequels are often expected to do as well or better than the original movie. This one, they figured would not do that well because Carrey wasn't in it, but they guesstimated it would do $40 million. So it did $8 million less than predicted. Not really a bomb, more of a 'disappointment.' But it cost $175 mil to make, so it's going to have to do REALLY well in video to not be a loss.  |  IP: Logged David Graves Film Handler Posts: 38 From: Cocoa, FL Registered: Nov 2006 posted 06-27-2007 11:32 PM                     The bad news (for Universal) is that the actual budget is supposed to be closer to $225-250 million. The $40 million projection was the scaled-down estimate from UI after seeing bad tracking- there's no way to spin it- when you invest that kind of money in a movie, and another $100 in marketing, you need to open with $60-80 mil. This thing will be lucky to break $100 mil in the end, alas, that's a bomb. But! Mike's in luck, because he's got the PIXAR film, and that looks like a winner. The rest of the summer is actually looking good- TRANSFORMERS is getting good WOM, as is the Pixar film (not gonna try and spell it), POTTER will be huge, and SUPERBAD is tracking very nicely with the KNOCKED UP crowd, and will surprise. BOURNE looks good too. On the dark side, besides the obvious bombs in August, RUSH HOUR is showing some problems in early tracking, and LICENSE TO WED doesn't look like it'll deliver. Don't take your eyes off of HAIRSPRAY, for your sleeper hit pleasure- the early critic's reactions have been outstanding, and this one may have legs if people can get past the bizarre stills of Travolta in drag...not exactly family material.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-28-2007 03:55 AM                     Not exactly in drag...he's playing her mother...it was the only decent role DIVINE ever had. (in the '88 John Waters' version)  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 06-30-2007 05:05 AM                     "Hairspray" looks like a lot of fun, but a REALLY hard sell. Music, Travolta in drag, lots of camp. It should be fun as hell to watch, but it's going to be hard to get anyone to actually watch it. They'll rent the hell out of the DVD, but I don't think the general public will buy tickets to watch it. I have no intention of seeing it in a theater, even though I enjoy most of the cast and the premise. The show they put on at Showest was awesome, and I enjoyed every second of it. It won't make me buy a ticket to watch it in a theater, however.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-02-2007 03:15 PM                     So Mike, how'd the weekend go for you with the little rat?  |  IP: Logged David Graves Film Handler Posts: 38 From: Cocoa, FL Registered: Nov 2006 posted 09-01-2007 02:25 AM                     How'd everyone's predictions wind up? I'm pretty proud of mine...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-01-2007 10:31 AM                        Sorry for not reporting back! Ratatouille did well for us. It followed the same trend as everywhere else...a good solid film but not a blockbuster. I think we did slightly less than we did with Cars on it. David, your predictions held up great! I thought Rush Hour 3 would open better than it did, considering how well the second one did.  |  IP: Logged Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 09-01-2007 12:16 PM                        We've had a disturbingly bad summer at our single screen Roxy Theater. Opened transformers on the break and it bombed for two weeks. Harry Potter 5 did less than half of what Harry Potter 4 did. Shrek the Third was really good. The really weird thing is that Knocked Up and Chuck and Larry were our second and third biggest grossers this summer. Go Figure, at least the rental terms were good on those. I echo Mike's sentiment that it would have been really nice to have two screens this summer so that we could have opened more films on the break. steve  |  IP: Logged David Graves Film Handler Posts: 38 From: Cocoa, FL Registered: Nov 2006 posted 09-06-2007 07:56 PM                     Yeah, it's been a bit of a rough summer for some. Up until this summer I programmed and ran a single-screen, and single-screens are always brutal. In the end you simply are always going to run into what I call the "Oh S**t Friday"- when you walk into the house at 730pm and see 18 people watching the previews, and you know you're screwed for the rest of the week (and maybe more, depending on the booking)  |  IP: Logged

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