ROTTEN TOMATOES: "Silent" is Golden on a Slow Box Office Weekend

"Silent" is Golden on a Slow Box Office Weekend

by Scott Weinberg | April 24, 2006

Sony rode a press blackout to first place with their video game horror flick "Silent Hill." The gothic creepfest earned an estimated $20.2 million from 2,900 theaters, handily knocking last week's champ, "Scary Movie 4," into second place.

Chapter numero cuatro in the seemingly endless spoof series, "Scary Movie 4" grabbed another $17 million, placing its total somewhere in the range of $67.7 million. Debuting in 2,800 theaters (and third place) was Fox's secret service thriller "The Sentinel," with $14.7 million.

Silent Hill

Fourth and fifth place went to a pair of animated animal-fests: "Ice Age: The Meltdown" ($12.8 million weekend, $168 million total) and "The Wild" ($8.1 million weekend, $22 million total), respectively.

Keifer Sutherland and Eva Longoria in "The Sentinel"

Arriving next weekend are the last four flicks before May kick-starts the "summer" movie season: Lionsgate's family drama "Akeelah and the Bee," Sony's slapsticker "RV," Disney's tween-sports flick "Stick It," and Universal's inevitably controversial 9/11 drama, "United 93."

For a more thorough examination of this past weekend's box office results, please do click by the Rotten Tomatoes Box Office Page.

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Senh Duong writes:
on Apr 24 2006 05:02 AM

The Sentinel did a lot better than I expected. I guess Sutherland's popularity from "24" is translating into the big screen. Considering the types of films that debuted over the weekend, I thought it was a solid week at the box office. This is the fifth consecutive week where the box office is ahead of last year at the same time frame.

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South_park300 writes:
on Apr 24 2006 05:13 AM

i was actually surprised Silent Hill got number one, since it was rated R. Maybe this means a R-rated horror movie Renaissance?
plus with PG-13 scary movie 4 still out there and all...

ok, rambling done

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Senh Duong writes:
on Apr 24 2006 05:27 AM

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[b]Haha...[/b]
We are sorta in a Horror genre Renaissance in the recent years. Horror films, overall, have done really well at the box office, despite bad reviews.

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Jeliel� writes:
on Apr 24 2006 06:23 AM

[b]Indeed[/b]
But I like R rated movies gettng #1, that way we get more than watered down movies

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adml_shake writes:
on Apr 24 2006 06:59 AM

[b]I'm starting to think....[/b]
That the movie critics are out of touch with the people. Silent Hill was a great movie, I usually hate this type of film, but after being drug by my friends I have to say that I really liked this flick...

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jarek writes:
on Apr 24 2006 08:24 AM

Silent Hill could have been a good movie, with the elements they had in place. The scenes in the "dark" were tensely directed, art direction/set design was great, music was cool, FX were good. But the script made it horrible. Some of the laziest storytelling I've seen in a long time, and dialogue that's so expository it's laughable. I remember the days when screenwriters actually used proper story mechanics, showing instead of saying. I guess those days are dead.

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thadeus_79 writes:
on Apr 24 2006 11:13 AM

I agree with jarek on the dialogue, one of my friends leaned over to me in the movie, and remarked that the dialogue was very pornish, especially between Rose and the coplady. I didn't mind the movie, the one thing that I really liked though was the jet-black shot during the movie. It was such an easy special effect, and it was so abnormal, people thought the movie stopped.

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lovelykeira writes:
on Apr 24 2006 02:02 PM

Silent Hill sucked, worst film of the year so far that I've seen. RV might be ok, but I'm kinda glad that Kinky Boots is expanding and I'm really glad that Hard Candy is expanding because I really want to see it. I'm ready for the fun blast that will be May.

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South_park300 writes:
on Apr 24 2006 04:31 PM

i hope you mean the worst film YOU have seen this year. i hardly think silent hill was worse than Larry the Cable Guy, or Basic Instinct 2.

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eternity. writes:
on Apr 24 2006 05:51 PM

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That is really good. An actually good movie at #1 for once (3rd time this year)

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Spike1967 writes:
on Apr 25 2006 09:04 AM

Silent Hill was awful. One of the reasons it did well was the massive marketing campaign and it's loyal followers of the video game.
The movie started off pretty good then went south in the last half. Terrible script and acting all around. No wonder it wasn't screened for critics.
R.V. looks awful as well.

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