Comments on: Weekend Box Office- On Patriotic Holiday, Americans Abuse Freedom, Opt For ‘Ice Age’, ‘Transformers’

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:22:32 +0000

Anonymous? More like 'dumbonymous'! AM I RITE, GUYEZ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:32:55 +0000

Don't you guys think the "funny" titles here are a little old? They're something Sexman would come up with.

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:53:58 +0000

As much as I hate that Mann may have to temper the scope of his projects, the idea of him doing some low-budget films along the lines of Thief and Collateral (which I'm assuming would have had half the budget if someone like Edward Norton and Don Cheadle had played the roles instead of Cruise and Foxx) is exciting. Or maybe an HBO series? How great would that be? A small silver lining to this I suppose.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:19:54 +0000

Poor Mann. I guess this is it for him. I enjoyed the film despite it's obvious flaws. it looks like Citizen Kane compared to all the other studio movies from this summer. Universal is hurting right now. Bruno better perform or they're screwed. I see a change in power over there happening very quickly.

By: SK

SK — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:13:25 +0000

It doesn't look too great when your Johnny Depp movie opens at #3 so that's why I don't completely understand why they'd open in the Summer. Having PE open at #1 some other weekend of the year would have given it a bigger push for following weekends.
American Gangster was another $100 million production from Universal, also rated-R, and it opened November 2nd to $43 million (even beating an animated movie, Bee Movie $38mil).
So why take on two animated power-houses in the summer I don't know. Michael Mann and his digital camera probably weren't the ones making this choice.

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:07:04 +0000

Plant.

By: SK

SK — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:04:11 +0000

Like Public Enemies, Miami Vice was a Universal movie. Unless they had a 2-movie deal with Mann, they must have had some success with Vice in order to bring him back. His other movies were each with a different studio (boxofficemojo.com)

I've been reading The Playlist blog since October/November and with this summer action/animation box-office dueling movie season I can feel the pulling-for and championing of quality movies like State of Play, Hurt Locker. Even Public Enemies, which the Playlist writers seemed to have liked but were left wanting a little more. The mention of buying tickets for "The Informant" was another instance. I guess the times call for it.

I think it's worth weighing the positives of Good to great movies more so than the negatives, even when being critical. And in a way, giving it the benefit of the doubt.

The $41 million Public Enemies has so far is solid. The movie would have had at least $26 million on any weekend of the year so we'll see how well it holds week to week.
Bruno and I Love You Beth Cooper come out next weekend (ILYBC probably doesn't have the same audience anyway; Bruno will take away audience, but will it be a greater share it takes away than any other higher-profile new release?)
Then Harry Potter opens in a week and a half.
After that:
G-Force, The Orphan, The Ugly Truth, Aliens in the Attic, The Collector, The Janky Promoters, and finally Funny People.

I'm want to see Public Enemies do well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:40:15 +0000

"...he'll probably be forced to do a comic book movie or sequel or something."

Batman 3 perhaps? Didn't Nolan say that HEAT was an influence on TDK?