ROTTEN TOMATOES: Box Office Guru Wrapup: Superbad Opens Big at #1

Box Office Guru Wrapup: Superbad Opens Big at #1

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Paramount's fairy tale adventure Stardust fell 43% to an estimated $5.2M for a ten-day sum of just $19.1M. A $30-35M final seems likely. The musical smash Hairspray joined the century club over the weekend grossing an estimated $4.3M for New Line, down just 33%, for a total of $100.7M. Disney's Underdog dropped 43% to an estimated $3.6M to boost its tally to $31.7M.

Falling to ninth place was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which took in an estimated $3.5M, off just 35%, giving Warner Bros. $278.6M from North America. Overseas, the fifth wizard tale collected an estimated $16.2M from 61 territories boosting the international cume to $594M and the global gross to a stunning $873M. Rounding out the top ten was Adam Sandler and Kevin James in the Universal comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry which made an estimated $3.5M, down 41%, for a total of $110.4M thus far.

Opening with weak results outside of the top ten was the historical epic The Last Legion starring Ben Kingsley, Colin Firth, and Aishwarya Rai which launched with an estimated $2.6M from 2,002 playdates for a dismal $1,297 average.

Debuting with respectable results in limited release was MGM's Death at a Funeral which bowed to an estimated $1.3M from 260 theaters for a $5,012 average. Warner Independent platformed Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary The 11th Hour in New York and Los Angeles and generated a strong start. The PG-rated pic looking at environmental problems grossed an estimated $56,000 from four sites for a muscular $14,000 average. Hour expands to the top ten markets on Friday.

Two films dropped out of the top ten over the weekend. The Warner Bros. pic No Reservations took in an estimated $2.3M, off 39%, giving the Catherine Zeta-Jones film $36.5M to date. A $40-43M final seems likely. Sony's Daddy Day Camp fell 47% in its second outing to an estimated $1.8M for a weak $8.8M after ten days. The Cuba Gooding Jr. sequel should stumble to a final take of just $12M which will be a far cry from the $104.3M of Eddie Murphy's Daddy Day Care in the summer of 2003.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $104.9M which was up 21% from last year when Snakes on a Plane opened in first place with $15.2M; and up 13% from 2005 when The 40-Year-Old Virgin debuted in the top spot with $21.4M.

Author: Gitesh Pandya, www.BoxOfficeGuru.com

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Bloody Mathias writes:
on Aug 19 2007 04:28 PM

Despite the big three being a disappointment, this summer is ending strong.
Glad Superbad and Ultimatum are doing great 'cause they really are one of the best flicks of the summer.

I was one of the few optimistic ones who knew a $30 mill opening was in store for Superbad. Yay me.

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tyler8186 writes:
on Aug 19 2007 04:55 PM

2 older ladies sat right in front of me
before the movie started, my buddy and I exchanged glances of "do they know what they're in for?"
but they laughed as hard, possibly harder than the other younger males in the audience
the film is classic, fast times at ridgemont high classic

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DanielLee8793 writes:
on Aug 19 2007 05:19 PM

I just saw it for the 2nd time, good for them, this movie was well worth my 10 bucks!

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thamoviemann writes:
on Aug 19 2007 06:28 PM

The second half movies of the summer (Superbad, bourne ultimatum, simpsons, rush hour 3) are way better than the first half of the summer; spiderman, shrek, and pirates were disappointments movie-wise not B.O. wise (the best film of the first half was Knocked up-which was excellent).

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Brad 3000 writes:
on Aug 19 2007 06:38 PM

"The second biggest opening ever... in the second half of August" Good lord, how specific are people willing to go to claim a Box Office record?

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South_park300 writes:
on Aug 19 2007 06:53 PM

@ thamoviemann, i agreed with ur statement until Rush Hour 3...

anyways, Superbad rocked, and i'm happy to see it doing well!

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Z-Man writes:
on Aug 19 2007 07:31 PM

I just got back from Ultimatum, and it deserves its success. It's on pace to easily break 200 million. If Superbad holds up, it could do Knocked Up-business (140-150 million). Why hasn't anyone mentioned Harry Potter? It too was much better than some of the early summer releases and looks like it might inch past Goblet of Fire in the long run.

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TheIceGhost writes:
on Aug 19 2007 07:43 PM

It really did go from an abysmal summer season to a pretty good one, didn't it? (I mean memorable movies, not BO) Funny how that stuff works out...

I'm with ya' on Potter too, Zee-Mann. I mean, Gary Oldman with magic powers - 'nuff said.

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bjorno27 writes:
on Aug 19 2007 08:31 PM

is there a arrested developement movie in production?

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yowazup13 writes:
on Aug 19 2007 08:55 PM

Ultimatum and Superbad are both well made movies, even down to the smallest details. They both deserve to do well, and its good to see, that with the huge blockbusters fizzing out in the early months of summer, movie goers are going through the trouble of finding out what kind of movies they should be giving their money towards. Yay!

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PlanBFromOuterSpace writes:
on Aug 19 2007 09:41 PM

Harry Potter did about what it was expected to do though, no more or less really. Aside from the first film, which did a little over 300 million, the rest of them have finished in the 250-280 range. They're solid performers, but there seems to be a ceiling to what they can make in the U.S., as the Harry Potter movie audience doesn't really seem to be expanding any.

This summer, it was all about the perfect storm of Spider-Man, Shrek, and Pirates, all hitting at basically the same time because each franchise, in separate years, had had the highest grossing movies of the year. Everyone else was afraid to put their movies out at that time, so there wasn't much in the way of variety, and then all of the "threequels" seemed to fail to live up to expectations, so that first half of the summer ended up being really, really uninteresting despite the fact that it produced the 3 highest grossing movies of the year so far. It's still impressive that 3 movies could all crack 300 million all at about the same time, regardless of what you actually think of them.

But yeah, I honestly don't think that anyone expects anything special, in terms of performance, from Harry Potter films, as they're solid and consistent moneymakers that seem to please the fans.

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kendrith1975 writes:
on Aug 20 2007 05:10 AM

I like to point out that Catherine Zeta Jones has been a consistent box office draw. NO RESERVATIONS is quietly going to end with close to 4 times its opening weekend. It is already doing better than INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, her costarring effort with George Clooney.

This summer has been so great for Hollywood! Other than EVAN ALMIGHTY, there is no real box office bombs that are considered big money losers. Not even FANTASTIC FOUR 2 or RUSH HOUR 3!

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kendrith1975 writes:
on Aug 20 2007 05:14 AM

Oops. I think I forget to mention this weekend box office bomb: THE INVASION, as well as last weekend's STARDUST. We do have a few box office duds, but just there are a lot of upsides this summer.

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SpikesInMySkull writes:
on Aug 20 2007 05:34 AM

In reply to this comment (#1056608)
And of course The Invasion looked liked pure crap, and was reviewed as such.... however Stardust, good reviews, positive word of mouth from those who saw it... and yet it still bombed (presumably because people unfamilier with the source material didn't understand the draw, which is actually understandable). Major dissapointment, and set's a bad precedent for that kind of fantasy, as well a green lights the next 10 cross-culture buddy cop crap-fests, since that's obviously what the american audiance wants to see.

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jimmers_205 writes:
on Aug 20 2007 08:57 AM

I'm glad to see Hairspray is doing well. It was easily the most entertaining movie of the summer and more people should really be going to see it.

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SukmyPikachu writes:
on Aug 20 2007 10:31 AM

This summer has been pretty bad. Shame my friends don't want to watch anymore movies because of how bad this summer was.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Aug 20 2007 10:40 AM

Just saw Stardust this weekend and it's easily one of the years best. It's really to bad that it's flopping, you all should go see it, it's well worth it.

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