Saturday, December 24, 2011

Your Local Derby

Now with buttery-smooth Add On

Per the Nikkster:

1. Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Paramount) Week 2 [3,448 Theaters] ... Estimated 3-Day Weekend 25ドル.8M, Estimated 4-day Holiday 39ドル.5M, Estimated Domestic Cume 71ドル.5M, Estimated International Cume 105ドルM

2. Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows (Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,703 Theaters] Estimated 3-Day Weekend 16ドル.7M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday 25ドルM, Estimated Domestic Cume 83ドル.8M, Estimated International Cume 27ドル.1M

3. Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (Fox) Week 2 [3,726 Theaters] Estimated 3-Day Weekend 12ドル.8M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday 21ドル.1M, Estimated Domestic Cume 58ドル.1M

4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sony) NEW [2,914 Theaters] ... Estimated 3-Day Weekend 13ドル.5M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday 20ドルM Estimated Domestic Cume 28ドル.5M, Estimated International Cume 950ドルK

5. The Adventures Of Tintin (Paramount) NEW [3,087 Theaters] Opened Wednesday December 21 ... Estimated 3-Day Weekend 8ドル.8M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday 14ドルM, Estimated Domestic Cume 22ドルM, Estimated International Cume (Sony) 240ドルM ...

So Mr. Bird's film is doing solid business. The rodents are doing tepidly and fading. And the Boy Reporter isn't nearly as strong as he was in Europe, and will probably be fortunate to get near 100ドル million in domestic grosses.

None of the above seems a surprise when you take the stats over to the light and study them. Pure mo-cap -- separate from a live-action environment -- continues to be a tough sell.

Add On: The Wall Street Journal wraps up the weekend:

A Christmas miracle eluded Hollywood, as strong holiday ticket sales weren't enough to help the industry overcome year-end declines in both attendance and revenue compared with last year. ...

As the number of feature films released this year increased, the average film's box-office gross, when adjusted for inflation, dropped to 14ドル.2 million, from 17ドル.5 million in both 2010 and 2009 ...

"The Adventures of Tintin" and Twentieth Century Fox's "We Bought A Zoo," were beat by earlier December releases like "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" from Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Pictures and "Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" ...

And so it goes. The foreign markets grow, the domestic market is kind of ... stagnant.

Posted by Steve Hulett at 10:58 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm glad Tintin is underperforming stateside. Hopefully, they'll cancel the sequel.

Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:18:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Mission will put that over-saturate puppetry of CG crap in it's place.

Saturday, December 24, 2011 1:24:00 PM
Anonymous said...

I wonder if anyone would have cared about MI III if someone other than Almighty Brad Bird had directed. I see that Pixar worship has extended to include non- Pixar films.

And what ever happened to all those Peter Jackson lovers who hyped tin tin so much in previous weeks?

Saturday, December 24, 2011 2:38:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Odd.
It seems like a few years ago, Pixar (brad bird I believe,) stated that story is all-important, and it does not matter if the film is CG, traditional cell animation, or mocap. Good story will always shine through.

Apparently, someone was wrong. Dead wrong.

Saturday, December 24, 2011 2:42:00 PM
Anonymous said...

What are you trying to say?

Sunday, December 25, 2011 1:32:00 AM
Anonymous said...

@ anonymous 2:38:00PM... "someone other than the Almighty Brad Bird" DID direct "MI III".

I've seen MI 4 (the current one), it's about as good as that sort of thing can get. Brad Bird has shown Hollywood what the rest of us knew... he can make a movie out of almost anything.

Sunday, December 25, 2011 9:47:00 PM
Anonymous said...

It seems like a few years ago, Pixar (brad bird I believe,) stated that story is all-important, and it does not matter if the film is CG, traditional cell animation, or mocap. Good story will always shine through.

M:I 4 has a good story...

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:58:00 AM

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