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2003-07-07
h, 2003, From Justin to Kelly earned $10,424 at the box office. This may not seem like much, but a day earlier it earned only $5,092. That jump was the first day-to-day increase in its box office, a feat that didn’t happen until 16 days into its release.
Most movies go through a very predictable pattern at the box office. Big opening on Friday, bigger box office on Saturday. Then they see a drop on Sunday and Monday but tend to fluctuate during the week. And by Friday their box office jumps up again and the pattern repeats (albeit, with smaller and smaller amounts at the box office.)
However, recently it has become increasingly common for movies to open big on Friday and see a drop on Saturday. In June alone, six of the eight wide releases showed this pattern. This is usually caused by one of two factors: The Fanboy Effect, everyone who wants to see the movie is such a rabid fan they see it as soon as it opens; Hollywood Hype, the quality of the ad campaign exceeded the quality of the movie. (And something it's both.) However, even when this happens there’s usually at least one day during the week in which the movie sees some day-to-day improvement. And in cases were there isn’t the weekend always brought an improvement.
That is, until To Justin From Kelly came along. Not only did its box office drop from Thursday to Friday it did it without an appreciable drop in its theatre count. Then it did it again the next week. Fourteen straight days of declining figures at the box office is a record that will last a long, long time. To be fair, I thought the same thing when 8 Mile dropped 62.25% after finishing first at the box office; we're barely half way through 2003 and that's been beat 3 times.
Here's a breakdown of the movie's daily box office.
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Date |
Daily Box Office |
Daily Change |
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Friday, June 20th |
$1,179,909 |
- |
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Saturday |
$919,135 |
-22.10% |
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Sunday |
$616,804 |
-32.90% |
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Monday |
$338,149 |
-45.20% |
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Tuesday |
$323,478 |
-4.30% |
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Wednesday |
$293,415 |
-9.30% |
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Thursday |
$288,218 |
-1.80% |
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Friday |
$231,146 |
-19.80% |
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Saturday |
$227,673 |
-1.50% |
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Sunday |
$166,650 |
-26.80% |
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Monday |
$132,028 |
-20.80% |
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Tuesday, July 1st |
$116,079 |
-12.10% |
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Wednesday |
$11,112 |
-90.40% |
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Thursday |
$9,810 |
-11.70% |
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Friday |
$5,092 |
-48.10% |
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Saturday |
$10,424 |
104.70% |
Submitted by: C.
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2003-06-16
, and all three movies bombed, to one degree or another. This and larger than expected drops for the rest of the holdovers led to a collapse at the box office. It was down more than 25% from last week, and nearly 25% from the same weekend last year.
As predicted, Finding Nemo returned to first place. However, the numbers were not quite as good as was predicted on Friday. $28.4 million was still an excellent box office, and beating Monsters Inc. record for Computer Animation film is definitely in sight.
2 Fast 2 Furious didn’t drop as far as I thought in the standings, but it dropped harder at the box office. Its plunge to $18.7 million was a whopping 63% drop from its first weekend. This could be the worst second week drop-off of a first place movie, ever. It beat recent examples like Cradle 2 the Grave (60.44%) and 8 Mile (62.25%).
Also earning a lower than predicted box office was, Bruce Almighty. However, it was two places higher on the charts than what I thought. This says more about the weak performances of the new movies than anything else.
On Friday I predicted The Rugrats Go Wild would be the lowest of the new movies, and it actually earned less at the box office than I predicted. However, with a box office of $11.6 million it was the highest wide opener of the week. It also had the best-reviews, but at only 43% it’s nothing to brag about.
Only able to grab half of what I predicted was, Hollywood Homicide at $11.1 million. For a movie that cost more than $100 million to make and advertise, this is nothing short of disaster. The next Indiana Jones movie can’t comes soon enough for Harrison Ford.
The last of the new movies to open wide was Dumb and Dumberer. With only $10.8 million in its first weekend, the pseudo-prequel wasn’t able to match the original’s opening and its reviews were much worse .
Submitted by: C.
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2003-03-23
h 23rd, 2002) the 75th Annual Academy Awards were handed out in a star-studded gala event hosted by Steve Martin. The big winner of the night was Chicago with 6 awards.
And now on to the awards …
Best Picture: Chicago
Best Director: Roman Polanksi for The Pianist
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Nicole Kidman as “Virginia Woolf” in The Hours
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Adrien Brody as "Wladyslaw Szpilman" in The Pianist
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Chris Cooper as "John Laroche" in Adaptation
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Catherine Zeta-Jones as "Velma Kelly" in Chicago
Best Animated Feature Film: Spirited Away
Foreign Language Film: Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
Documentary - Feature: Bowling for Columbine
Documentary - Short Subject: Twin Towers
Short Film - Animated: The Chubbchubbs
Short Film - Live Action: This Charming Man
Art Direction: John Myhre and Gordon Sim for Chicago
Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall for Road to Perdition
Costume Design: Colleen Atwood for Chicago
Film Editing: Martin Walsh for Chicago
Makeup: Beatrice De Alba and John E. Jackson for Frida
Music - Original Score: Elliot Goldenthal for Frida
Music - Original Song: "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile
Sound: David Lee, Michael Minkler and Dominic Tavella for Chicago
Sound Editing: Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Visual Effects: Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Screenplay - Adaptation: Ronald Harwood for The Pianist
Screenplay - Original: Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her
Also presented was a special award to Peter O’Toole for a lifetime of work. And despite his earlier objections he did show up and accept the award.
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2003-02-11
ruary 11th, 2002) nominations for the 75th Annual Academy Awards were announced by Academy President Frank Pierson and Marisa Tomei. Chicago lead all nominees with 13 nominations. Gangs of New York and The Hours nearly tied for second with 10 and 9 nominations respectively.
Best Picture:
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Pianist
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Director
Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her
Stephen Daldry for The Hours
Rob Marshall for Chicago
Roman Polanksi for The Pianist
Martin Scorsese for Gangs of New York
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Selma Hayek as “Frida Kahlo” in Frida
Nicole Kidman as “Virginia Woolf” in The Hours
Diane Lane as "Connie Summer" in Unfaithful
Julianne Moore as "Cathy Whitaker" in Far From Heaven
Renée Zellweger as "Roxie Hart" in Chicago
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody as "Wladyslaw Szpilman" in The Pianist
Nicolas Cage as "Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman" in Adaptation
Michael Caine as “Thomas Fowler” in The Quiet American
Daniel Day-Lewis as "Bill the Butcher" in Gangs of New York
Jack Nicholson as "Warren Schmidt" in About Schmidt
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Chris Cooper as "John Laroche" in Adaptation
Ed Harris as "Richard Brown" in The Hours
Paul Newman as "John Rooney" in Road to Perdition
John C. Reilly as “Amos Hart” in Chicago
Christopher Walken as "Frank Abagnale Sr." in Catch Me If You Can
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kathy Bates as "Roberta Hertzel" in About Schmidt
Queen Latifah as "Mama Morton" in Chicago
Julianne Moore as "Laura Brown" in The Hours
Meryl Streep as "Susan Orlean" in Adaptation
Catherine Zeta-Jones as "Velma Kelly" in Chicago
Best Animated Feature Film
Ice Age
Lilo & Stitch
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Spirited Away
Treasure Planet
Foreign Language Film
The Crime of Father Amaro (Mexico)
Hero (China)
Hotel Paraiso (Netherlands)
The Man Without a Past(Finland)
Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
Documentary - Feature
Bowling for Columbine
Daughter From Danang
Prisoner of Paradise
Spellbound
The Travelling Birds
Documentary - Short Subject
The Collector of Bedford Street
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Twin Towers
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
Short Film - Animated
The Chubbchubbs
Das Rad
Katedra
Mike's New Car
Mt. Head
Short Film - Live Action
Gridlock
J'attendrai le suivant...
Inja
Johnny Flynton
This Charming Man
Art Direction
John Myhre and Gordon Sim for Chicago
Felipe Fernández del Paso and Hannia Robledo for Frida
Dante Ferretti and Francesca LoSchiavo for Gangs of New York
Grant Major, Dan Hennah and Alan Lee for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh for Road to Perdition
Cinematography
Dion Beebe for Chicago
Edward Lachman for Far from Heaven
Michael Ballhaus for Gangs of New York
Pawel Edelman for The Pianist
Conrad L. Hall for Road to Perdition
Costume Design
Colleen Atwood for Chicago
Julie Weiss for Frida
Sandy Powell for Gangs of New York
Ann Roth for The Hours
Anna B. Sheppard for The Pianist
Film Editing
Martin Walsh for Chicago
Thelma Schoonmaker for Gangs of New York
Peter Boyle for The Hours
D. Michael Horton for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Hervé de Luze for The Pianist
Makeup
Beatrice De Alba and John E. Jackson for Frida
John M. Elliott Jr. and Barbara Lorenz for The Time Machine
Music - Original Score
Elmer Bernstein for Far from Heaven
Philip Glass for The Hours
Elliot Goldenthal for Frida
Thomas Newman for Road to Perdition
John Williams for Catch Me If You Can
Music - Original Song
"Burn It Blue" from Frida
· Music by Elliot Goldenthal
· Lyric by Julie Taymor
"Father and Daughter" from The Wild Thornberrys Movie
· Music and Lyric by Paul Simon
"The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York
· Music and Lyric by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
"I Move On" from Chicago
· Music by John Kander
· Lyric by Fred Ebb
"Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile
· Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto
· Lyric by Eminem
Sound
David Lee, Michael Minkler and Dominic Tavella for Chicago
Ivan Sharrock, Tom Fleischman and Eugene Gearty for Gangs of New York
Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, and Hammond Peek for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Bob Beemer, Scott Millan and John Pritchett for for Road to Perdition
Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Ed Novick for Spider-Man
Sound Editing
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom for Minority Report
Scott Hecker for Road to Perdition
Visual Effects
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
John Frazier, John Dykstra, Anthony LaMolinara and Scott Stokdyk for Spider-Man
Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and Ben Snow for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Screenplay - Adaptation
Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz for About a Boy
Charlie Kaufman &Donald Kaufman for Adaptation
Bill Condon for Chicago
David Hare for The Hours
Ronald Harwood for The Pianist
Screenplay - Original
Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her
Todd Haynes for Far From Heaven
Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan for Gangs of New York
Nia Vardalos for My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón for And Your Mother Too
Submitted by: C.
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2003-01-21
p://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,715132,00.html?src=redirsearch&artist=Eminem">Eminem’s acting debut in 8 Mile is pulling in some surprisingly large numbers overseas. With $7.2 million it managed first place in the UK and Ireland, $500,000 was also first place in Switzerland. (In both countries 8 Mile dethroned The Two Towers for top spot.) 8 Mile also saw strong debuts in Australia, the Netherlands and Denmark.
All in all, 8 Mile has made $28 million overseas, but before the execs at UIP celebrate they must remember that 8 Mile started just as surprisingly strong domestically. It made more than $50 million during its opening weekend; however, in the following weeks the box office collapsed. It’s too early to tell if 8 Mile’s international run will take the same road, but it is something to watch out for.
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
