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Topic: HELP! Please someone save us from Hollywood!
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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-18-2002 02:02 PM
Opening weekend estimate on Pluto Nash: $2.15 million from 2,320 sites. Must be a record low per-theater average for a new movie in wide release.Blue Crush opened third behind xXx and Signs -- with a per-theater average smaller than the 4-month-old My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Let's all stand up and cheer Mr. Film-Tech himself, Brad Miller!
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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene
Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-18-2002 05:29 PM
This film cost $100 million dollars to produce. Good payoff.This is about seven people per screening on average. Great turnout. Must be a kickass film. Blue crush came in at a respectable 15 million, considering it only cost that much to make. xXx came in at number one again, and all signs point towards a third week as well. Thank god for trash.
Dave
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David Stambaugh
Film God
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From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 08-18-2002 07:46 PM
Pluto Nash will go down as the biggest box-office dud of 2002, by far.Luckily, for every Pluto Nash, you can usually name a My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It's been playing here in Eugene for a LONG time, at the Bijou Arts Cinemas. Surprisingly, Cinemark opened it here this week too. There's a co-op display ad in the paper for it that only lists the Cinemark engagement, even though it's still playing at the Bijou. Kind of a slap in the face to the independent Bijou by the distributor, unless of course Cinemark paid the full cost of that ad... I passed by Regal Cinema World 8 today around 1PM, and there were maybe 25 cars in their parking lot. Can't be a good weekend for the box office in general.
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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-19-2002 06:55 AM
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is now in over 1,000 theaters -- the Loews New Brunswick also picked it up this weekend.The Regal Barn Plaza in Doylestown PA was busy Saturday because we're in the middle of a heat wave in the Northeast. Barn Plaza is playing most of the mainstream titles and just picked up the arthouse picture Tadpole. I was at the 5:25 show of Tadpole -- it drew about 25 in a hall that seats 60. Some people do care about quality: Possession opened wide in NYC/LA and limited elsewhere with a better per-theater average than Blue Crush. One Hour Photo opens Wednesday in big cities and should be in suburbs/megaplexes before long. The Good Girl expands Friday from its big-city limited release. Mostly Martha opened strong in NYC and should be in suburbs/megaplexes after Labor Day.
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ty films out and the tourist season winding down....Maybe this is the "catch up on cleaning weekend"
ratfink bastards! ...yup, no 12:05 showtime on Friday... Even more joyous - someone gets to have something of a 'crash course' in print assembly... grrr.....
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