Box Office Results 8/26

[MickeyMoose15]

Here are the estimates for the box office weekend of 8/26:

1) American Pie 2 --- $12.8
2) Rush Hour 2 --- $11.4
3) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back --- $11.1
4) The Others --- $8.6
5) Rat Race --- $8.3
6) Summer Catch --- $7.5
7) The Pincess Diaries --- $6.7
8) Captain Corelli's Mandolin --- $3.8
9) Ghosts of Mars --- $3.8
10) Planet of the Apes --- $3.5

Very slow box office weekend this weekend. Notice that Bubble Boy is not anywhere on the top 10. I guess the boycott of it did have an affect on the results.

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Totals for the Top 10 movies:

1) American Pie 2 --- $109.6 million
2) Rush Hour 2 --- $183.3
3) Jay and Dilent Bob Strike Back --- $11.1
4) The Others --- $46.1
5) Rat Race --- $25.6
6) Summer Catch --- $7.5
7) The Princess Diaries --- $82.5
8) Captain Corelli's Mandolin --- $14.0
9) Ghosts of Mars --- $3.8
10) Planet of the Apes --- $167.8

 

[wdwmaniac]

Looks like the Princess Daries did good. How is that new movie Max's Big Move?

 

[MrPromey]

Originally posted by MickeyMoose15

Very slow box office weekend this weekend. Notice that Bubble Boy is not anywhere on the top 10. I guess the boycott of it did have an affect on the results.

That or the reviews did. I think it got an "F" from the reviewer of the local paper. I've seen them give a lot of D's and I've seen some of those movies and thought they deserved and F. I don't recall ever seeing them rate anything an F before though so this one must be a real stinker... What I don't understand is why Disney released it to theatres. They knew there was a lot of controversy over it and if it was really that bad of a movie, they must have realized before it was released. Wouldn't it have been something better suited towards a direct to video release? Isn't that what they ended up doing with Mr. Magoo because they were getting blasted for making fun of the blind? From what I understand, (though I never saw it - no pun intended) Mr. Magoo wasn't even all that bad of a movie. If this movie was such a stinker, you would think that Disney could have saved a lot of face and probably money by sending it straight to video....

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Disney had already spent money on it when the boycott started, so they thought they at least make some money, no matter how small that is.

The Princess Diaries is doing extremly well for a Walt Disney Pictures film. It's not going to beat out the Remember the Titans' $120 million but oh well.

 

[MrPromey]

Yes but the same thing happened with Mr. Magoo and they sent it straight to video. It had been planned for a theater release, too...

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Walt Disney Pictures did release Mr. Magoo in theaters but because of its little success, it didn't stay around too long.

 

[wdwmaniac]

Didn't Mr. Magoo and Flubber come to theaters nere teh same time?

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Magoo was relased during the summer and Flubber was released during October or November. I don't remember what year they were released.

 

[wdwmaniac]

I think 1998?

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Either way they were both unsuccessful.

 

[DisneyFreak]

Originally posted by MickeyMoose15
I guess the boycott of it did have an affect on the results.

I think maybe because the movie sucks might have had something to do with it.

 

[MickeyMoose15]

It did look like it sucked but if they hadn't boycotted it, I would have said that it looked like it would make the Top 10 at least.