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Your Weekly Guide to New Movies for
July 7, 2006
By Edward Douglas -
Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend
Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Tune
in every Tuesday for the latest look at the upcoming weekend,
and then check back on Friday for final projections based on
actual theatre counts.
THE BATTLE CRY!
(If you have anything to say about this or anything else written in the column, feedback and Email is always welcome, and almost always responded to.)
Well, this is it,
the summer hump, and as we get over the halfway point, supposedly
it's all downhill from here.
Or at least that's what many people might think with the release
this weekend of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest,
possibly the last big event of the year. That's not to say that
nothing else will make money, but there are a lot more gambles
on the horizon and a lot fewer sure things.
So far, this summer has generally been better than last with only a few big bombs and a bunch of disappointments, but as we get into the hotter days of summer, the studios are hoping that a few of their less expensive movies will break out and help their third quarters.
Last year, the second half of the summer saw big budget hits like Fox's Fantastic Four and Warner Bros' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but more importantly, it found a number of breakout sleepers like the comedies Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wes Craven's airplane thriller, Red Eye. It also saw a bunch of devastating bombs from Michael Bay (The Island) and Rob Cohen (Stealth), which didn't help the "slump" talk that was bandied about all summer.
There's certainly room for at least one or two more comedy hits this summer, but whether the big one will be Owen Wilson's You, Me and Dupree or Will Ferrell's Talladega Nights is still up in the air. Heck, it could even be the Wayans' Little Man if you remember how well their similarly high concept comedy White Chicks did two years ago. There's also a bunch of smaller comedies without big name stars like Accepted and John Tucker Must Die, which will hope to get young people into seats for the concepts, rather than their casts.
Of course, the big thriller in the second half of the summer is going to be New Line's Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson, which has already started running commercials, but can Dimension's remake of the Japanese thriller Pulse find an audience a week earlier? And Michael Mann is returning to the ‘80s series he produced with Miami Vice, but will it be another serious crime drama ala Collateral or something more like Colin Farrell's previous TV remake S.W.A.T. Another film auteur, Oliver Stone, will try to avoid the stigmas faced by Paul Greengrass' United 93 when he releases his own 9/11 drama, World Trade Center, next month.
The biggest surprise this summer is the number of computer animated movies. Already, DreamWorks and Disney/Pixar have put their best foots forward, only to have disappointing box office showings compared to past movies, while Sony and Warner Bros. are hoping to get into the animated game with their movies Monster House and The Ant Bully. Paramount/Nickelodeon follows with Barnyard mere weeks later. Considering that the last time a computer-animated film opened this late in the summer was Disney's bomb Valiant, it's fairly worrisome, especially knowing how much these things cost to make.
Either way, we shouldn't give up hope that there may be some better movies on the way this summer, even if the first half has offered a lot of disappointments among the highly-anticipated sequels. Sometimes, the best movies come out of the unlikeliest of places.
THE CHOSEN ONE:
ONCE IN A LIFETIME: THE EXTRAORDINARY
STORY OF THE NEW YORK COSMOS (Miramax Films)
Starring Carlos Alberto, Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Cruyff, Rodney Marsh, Shep Messing, Steve Ross, Werner Roth, Clive Toye, Matt Dillon (Narrator)
Directed by Paul Crowder, John Dower; Written by John Dower, Mark Monroe
Genre: Documentary, Sports
Rated PG-13
Tagline: "Goals. Greed. Girls. And that's just the first half…"
Story: Chronicling the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, a football (soccer) superteam assembled by Steve Ross, the head of Warner Communications, which got the world's top players, but ultimately, came crashing down to earth due to the amount of egos and excess.
REVIEW (Coming Soon!)
If you haven't already figure it out, I'm a big fan of non-American football, what some like to call "soccer" (whatever that means), so I was pretty excited to hear about this new documentary, which looks at the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos. When I was a kid, I lived in Brazil for four years and I was there when they won the World Cup, so I was already a fan of Pelé, and it was huge news in the ‘70s when he joined the New York soccer team. The Cosmos were the Yankees of their time, often spending millions to bring in some of the greatest international players like Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer. It's pretty amazing to see a lot of things from my youth gorgeously recaptured via archival footage and interviews with many of those who were around at the time. The conflicting way that the Cosmos' story is told by the various people who were there at the time makes the politics and history more interesting than the actual gameplay. It's certainly interesting to see how hugely popular the sport was back then, which makes you wonder what it might take to see the sport return to its former glory in this country. What makes this doc so brilliant is the way co-directors Paul Crowder and John Dower combined the interviews and footage with a great selection of ‘70s music, some popular and some a bit more obscure. Crowder brings to the table the same chops he used when editing Stacy Peralta's skateboard movie Dogtown and Z-Boys, and this is just as exciting visually as the game itself.
If you've been getting into the World Cup over the last few weeks or just have a mild interest in soccer, I can't recommend this documentary enough. It opens in New York on Friday with expansions into other cities over the month of July.
NEW THIS WEEK:
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD
MAN'S CHEST (Walt Disney Pictures)
Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy,
Directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Ring, Mousetrap, Weather Man, The Mexican); Written by Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio (Small Soldiers, The Mask of Zorro, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Shrek)
Genre: Pirates, Action, Adventure
Rated PG-13
Story: Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan (Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) are back on another adventure, this time they're looking for Davy Jones' chest, its contents which will offer the owner their heart's desire. But Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) already gave Captain Jack Sparrow his ship, the Black Pearl, and he's ready to collect the debt along with his crew of man-creatures and a beast called the Kraken!
REVIEW
Five years ago, if you told someone at a studio you wanted to make a movie based on a theme park ride, they probably would have laughed in your face. If you said that it would be a pirate adventure, they would have you thrown out of their office. After all, straight pirate movies had not done very well with Renny Harlin's Cutthroat Island still being very present on many minds. Of course, that was before Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, masterminded by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, who had just helmed the hit horror remake, The Ring.
The summer of ‘03 had already seen two huge hit sequels in X2 and The Matrix Reloaded followed by Pixar's fifth hit Finding Nemo, but the second half of summer started out with a movie few people knew much about. Of course, the movie's star Johnny Depp had already had a long and illustrious career, but with only one movie, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, earning over $100 million domestically. It really didn't seem like Disney's latest effort could break the "pirate movie curse." Still, it opened on Wednesday, July 9, with a modest $13.5 million, and wound up making around $70 million in its first five days. That wasn't a particularly impressive opening, but positive word-of-mouth was in full effect and over the next three months, it never had more than a 35% drop-off from one weekend to the next. In less than a month, it had crossed the $200 million mark and a month and a half later, it had joined Finding Nemo as Disney's second $300 million blockbuster of the summer. Obviously, the world was ready for another pirate movie, especially one that appealed to adults, kids, men, and women alike.
Of course, with that sort of success, a sequel was predestined, and Gore Verbinski returned to the franchise in early '05, along with most of the cast, to begin work on two back-to-back sequels, done similar to The Matrix sequels.
Most people who loved the first movie will be returning to get more Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. As big a star as Depp was before the first Pirates movie, his performance in the first movie put him over the top, finding him an even bigger fanbase, as well as an unexpected Oscar nomination, something you don't normally get when appearing in summer blockbusters. Depp's growing popularity helped bring people to his next movie, based on Stephen King's Secret Window, and later that year, Depp received another Oscar nomination playing J.M. Barrie in Marc Foster's Finding Neverland. Last year, Depp reunited with Tim Burton to play Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, another massive summer hit, opening to over $55 million and making over $200 million total, but his third attempt at an Oscar nomination, the period drama The Libertine, wasn't able to find either critical or commercial success.
Of course, both Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom have gone onto other things since the first Pirates movie--you can read more about them in this week's Star Spotlight--but there's no discounting what they add to the movies even if Depp is still the primary draw. Having three strong stars allows three times as many talk show appearances to help raise awareness and anticipation in the movie. Both Newsweek and Rolling Stone even put Johnny Depp on the cover, proving the long reach of his character.
As far as the new members of the cast, the most prominent is actor Bill Nighy, who takes over for Geoffrey Rush as the movie's baddie, the legendary Davy Jones. Though he may not be recognizable with the CGI tentacles that cover his face, Nighy will probably best be remembered for his role as an aging rock star in Richard Curtis' Love Actually and among genre fans as the evil vampire Viktor in the Underworld movies. He's joined by Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (also in this week's Grendel & Beowulf) as Will Turner's long missing father, while Tom Hollander, who played Mr. Collins opposite Knightley in last year's Pride & Prejudice, plays a similarly sleazy role as Lord Beckett, who arrests and jails the romantic duo on their wedding day.
Unlike last week's Superman Returns, the Pirates sequel will have heavy interest across the board, since the first movie was so popular among a wide audience of men, women and children of different ages. Very few other movies can say that. Thanks to Disney's great marketing, the movie looks to be as much fun as the first one, being released in a summer where there are so many serious and/or dark movies, and like in 2003, it will seem like a breath of fresh air to moviegoers. Disney's been keeping things close to the vest on the movie, revealing just enough to get people interested but keeping enough secret to get them excited.
As it were, ticket sales have been brisk for the movie's opening weekend, and one can expect that it'll be getting a lot of screens in its 4,000+ theatres, making it the widest Disney release ever, and it can be safely assumed that many returning movies will be cast aside by theatres to make way for it.
With all that in mind, there's very little reason why Dead Man's Chest can't open huge, and without an earlier Wednesday or Thursday opening, thereby taking business away from the weekend, there's very little reason why it can't break Spider-Man's three-day opening record of $114.8 million. Sure, some could say that the long running time of over 2 and a half hours might cut down on the number of possible screenings, but last year's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was roughly the same length and that was still able to cross the $100 million mark in three days. With schools out of session on Friday and Monday, business is likely to be spread out over the weekend as fans try to see the movie as soon as possible.
Why I Should See It: No question that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was one of the biggest surprises of '03, still loved by millions, and the sequel promises more of the same action, adventures and laughs.
Why Not: When was the last time a sequel was as good as the original movie?
Projection: For the first time in four years, the Weekend Warrior is going on record to say that Dead Man's Chest will break Spider-Man's 3-day weekend record with $115 to 118 million over the weekend after a Friday opening in the $43 to 45 million range. Its legs may not be anywhere near to the first movie, but it should end the summer with over $300 million.
A SCANNER DARKLY (Warner
Independent)
Starring the images of Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane
Written and directed by Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Slacker, Dazed and Confused,
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Rated R
Tagline: "What Does a Scanner See?"
Story: It's seven years in the future and undercover narcotics agent Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) has been placed undercover to spy on his own junkie friends (Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson) and his celibate girlfriend (Winona Ryder), who are all addicted to the deadly Substance-D, but as Bob gets more involved, he becomes addicted himself, putting his mission into conflict.
REVIEW
Five years ago, Austin director Richard Linklater followed a stream of successful indie dramas with his first animated movie, Waking Life, which used a painted animation style similar to totoscope to enliven a number of philosophical conversations between various characters. Linklater has continued to be an indie pioneer, but he's also broken into the mainstream with studio films like Jack Black's School of Rock and the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears.
Published in 1977, A Scanner Darkly was the fifth novel from Philip K. Dick, the cutting edge science fiction writer whose work inspired movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall and Paycheck. Dick's work has always been very challenging, blending physics and philosophy to create memorable ideas, but instead of turning this novel into another big budget action flick, Linklater decided to remain faithful to Dick's eclectic storytelling style, using a similar animation technique as he did in Waking Life.
As always, Linklater has assembled an impressive cast, even if Ethan Hawke is nowhere to be found. Instead, he has Keanu Reeves in the title role, fresh from The Lake House, and continuing his run of cerebral work like Johnny Mnemonic and last year's Thumbsucker. To play the role of Reeves' untrustworthy drug friend, Linklater brought in Robert Downey Jr., who last appeared in the 2005 crime comedy Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and it seems like a match made in heaven considering Downey's proclivity to character/dialogue-driven indies. Scanner Darkly also reunites Linklater with character actor Rory Cochrane, who played Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused.
This drug-tinged futuristic drama is not going to be everyone's cup of tea because there's a lot of philosophical babbling, which makes it even stranger and less commercial, even by Phillip K. Dick standards. Maybe that's why Warner Independent is giving this long-anticipated film a very limited release in select cities in hopes that it will bring in enough Dick fans and generate enough word-of-mouth to warrant an expansion later in July. So far, reviews have been fairly bland, maybe because those seeing it don't really know what to expect going into it, but the open-minded may welcome the experience.
Why I Should See It: The thought-provoking worlds of Philip K. Dick and Richard Linklater come together in a very strange movie that combines wild performances with amazing animation.
Why Not: It's going to be too weird and confusing for all but the most intelligent of sci-fi fans.
BEOWULF & GRENDEL (Union
Station Media)
Starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley, Ingvar Eggert Sigursson, Benedikt Clausen,
Tony Curran, Martin Delaney, Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Rory McCann, Ronan
Vibert
Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson; Written by Andrew Rai Berzins
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rated R for for violence, language and some sexuality
Tagline: "Heads Will Roll"
Story: The 9th Century Anglo-Saxon poem about Beowulf (Gerard Butler) and his feud with the troll Grendel (Ingvar Sigurdsson) is brought to the screen by Iceland's Sturla Gunnarson, as the warrior must stop the creature that is trying to get revenge on Beowulf's king (Stellan Skarsgard) for the murder of its father.
Mini-Review (Coming Soon!)
Well before Robert Zemeckis' computer animated epic based on the mythic poem hits screens, this Icelandic-Canadian production brings together an impressive international cast from four or five different countries to tell the tale of a tribe of Vikings plagued by a vengeful beast and the hero who steps forth to save them. For Gerard Butler, it's a chance to show off his heroic muscle before the opening of Frank Miller's Greek epic 300 next year, and he's joined by other respected actors dressing up as Vikings, or in the case of Icealand's Ingvar Sigurosson, a giant troll-like creature. After playing various festivals, the movie was a big hit in Canada this past spring, and after a stealthy opening in Seattle following the festival there, it's finally opening in other select U.S. cities.
Why I Should See It: It could give you a good taste of what to expect from Butler in next year's 300.
Why Not: The tagline about heads rolling really isn't kidding.
STAR SPOTLIGHT: Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley
This week, we look at the Pirates sweethearts, the two young British
actors whose onscreen romance brought a lot of people into see the first
movie over and over again, and will probably have a large part in bringing
people into see the sequel, as well.
Just 21 years old, Keira really wasn't known here in the States before the first Pirates, but 29-year-old Orlando Bloom already had a growing fanbase of teen girls from his role as the elf Legolas in the first two The Lord of the Rings movies, which each grossing over $300 million before the first Pirates even hit theatres. Bloom also had a small part in Ridley Scott's war drama Black Hawk Down, which came out mere months after the first Lord of the Rings. The success of Pirates certainly helped the heartthrob's female fanbase grow by leaps and bounds, because Legolas certainly seemed to get more screen time in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the finale of the trilogy.
Meanwhile, Keira followed the first Pirates with another Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer production, playing Guinevere in the big budget reimagining of King Arthur, directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), with Clive Owen starring in the title role. It really did fairly miserably because Disney expected that Knightley would be the primary draw at the box office.
In May 2004, Bloom joined the ensemble cast of Wolfgang Peterson's epic Troy with Brad Pitt and Eric Bana--another Black Hawk Down vet--and it made over $46 million opening weekend despite its R-rating, which would normally keep away Bloom's younger female fanbase. Bloom finally got his chance for a solo starring role in 2005, when Ridley Scott cast him as the lead in his Crusades epic Kingdom of Heaven, but this time, the R-rating really kept Bloom's teenage fans away… or maybe none of them really believed Bloom could pull off the role of a tough warrior. It only made $19.6 million opening weekend and less than $50 million total, though it did much better internationally, grossing over $200 million worldwide.
Obviously, it was time for Bloom to appear in a PG-13 romantic comedy, because that would be just the thing for his young female fans, right? You would think so, but when Bloom starred in Cameron Crowe's long-awaited Elizabethtown alongside Kirsten Dunst, it was so badly trashed by critics that not even Bloom's fans were able to help it bring in more than $27 million last October despite a wide release.
While Bloom was struggling to get people to see a movie that didn't have Johnny Depp in it, Knightly had a really busy 2005, appearing in the thriller The Jacket opposite Adrian Brody, which bombed, as did her follow-up, the Tony Scott action drama Domino. Fortunately, Knightley closed off the year playing Miss Elizabeth in a new version of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, which appealed more to Knightley's female fans, and more importantly, it got her an Oscar nomination in the lead actress category, which upped her credibility as an actress. (Appearing nude on the cover of Vanity Fair alongside Scarlett Johansson upped a lot of other things.)
So far, this summer has generally been better than last with only a few big bombs and a bunch of disappointments, but as we get into the hotter days of summer, the studios are hoping that a few of their less expensive movies will break out and help their third quarters.
Last year, the second half of the summer saw big budget hits like Fox's Fantastic Four and Warner Bros' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but more importantly, it found a number of breakout sleepers like the comedies Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wes Craven's airplane thriller, Red Eye. It also saw a bunch of devastating bombs from Michael Bay (The Island) and Rob Cohen (Stealth), which didn't help the "slump" talk that was bandied about all summer.
There's certainly room for at least one or two more comedy hits this summer, but whether the big one will be Owen Wilson's You, Me and Dupree or Will Ferrell's Talladega Nights is still up in the air. Heck, it could even be the Wayans' Little Man if you remember how well their similarly high concept comedy White Chicks did two years ago. There's also a bunch of smaller comedies without big name stars like Accepted and John Tucker Must Die, which will hope to get young people into seats for the concepts, rather than their casts.
Of course, the big thriller in the second half of the summer is going to be New Line's Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson, which has already started running commercials, but can Dimension's remake of the Japanese thriller Pulse find an audience a week earlier? And Michael Mann is returning to the ‘80s series he produced with Miami Vice, but will it be another serious crime drama ala Collateral or something more like Colin Farrell's previous TV remake S.W.A.T. Another film auteur, Oliver Stone, will try to avoid the stigmas faced by Paul Greengrass' United 93 when he releases his own 9/11 drama, World Trade Center, next month.
The biggest surprise this summer is the number of computer animated movies. Already, DreamWorks and Disney/Pixar have put their best foots forward, only to have disappointing box office showings compared to past movies, while Sony and Warner Bros. are hoping to get into the animated game with their movies Monster House and The Ant Bully. Paramount/Nickelodeon follows with Barnyard mere weeks later. Considering that the last time a computer-animated film opened this late in the summer was Disney's bomb Valiant, it's fairly worrisome, especially knowing how much these things cost to make.
Either way, we shouldn't give up hope that there may be some better movies on the way this summer, even if the first half has offered a lot of disappointments among the highly-anticipated sequels. Sometimes, the best movies come out of the unlikeliest of places.
THE CHOSEN ONE:
ONCE IN A LIFETIME: THE EXTRAORDINARY
STORY OF THE NEW YORK COSMOS (Miramax Films)Starring Carlos Alberto, Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Cruyff, Rodney Marsh, Shep Messing, Steve Ross, Werner Roth, Clive Toye, Matt Dillon (Narrator)
Directed by Paul Crowder, John Dower; Written by John Dower, Mark Monroe
Genre: Documentary, Sports
Rated PG-13
Tagline: "Goals. Greed. Girls. And that's just the first half…"
Story: Chronicling the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, a football (soccer) superteam assembled by Steve Ross, the head of Warner Communications, which got the world's top players, but ultimately, came crashing down to earth due to the amount of egos and excess.
REVIEW (Coming Soon!)
If you haven't already figure it out, I'm a big fan of non-American football, what some like to call "soccer" (whatever that means), so I was pretty excited to hear about this new documentary, which looks at the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos. When I was a kid, I lived in Brazil for four years and I was there when they won the World Cup, so I was already a fan of Pelé, and it was huge news in the ‘70s when he joined the New York soccer team. The Cosmos were the Yankees of their time, often spending millions to bring in some of the greatest international players like Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer. It's pretty amazing to see a lot of things from my youth gorgeously recaptured via archival footage and interviews with many of those who were around at the time. The conflicting way that the Cosmos' story is told by the various people who were there at the time makes the politics and history more interesting than the actual gameplay. It's certainly interesting to see how hugely popular the sport was back then, which makes you wonder what it might take to see the sport return to its former glory in this country. What makes this doc so brilliant is the way co-directors Paul Crowder and John Dower combined the interviews and footage with a great selection of ‘70s music, some popular and some a bit more obscure. Crowder brings to the table the same chops he used when editing Stacy Peralta's skateboard movie Dogtown and Z-Boys, and this is just as exciting visually as the game itself.
If you've been getting into the World Cup over the last few weeks or just have a mild interest in soccer, I can't recommend this documentary enough. It opens in New York on Friday with expansions into other cities over the month of July.
NEW THIS WEEK:
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD
MAN'S CHEST (Walt Disney Pictures)Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy,
Directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Ring, Mousetrap, Weather Man, The Mexican); Written by Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio (Small Soldiers, The Mask of Zorro, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Shrek)
Genre: Pirates, Action, Adventure
Rated PG-13
Story: Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan (Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) are back on another adventure, this time they're looking for Davy Jones' chest, its contents which will offer the owner their heart's desire. But Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) already gave Captain Jack Sparrow his ship, the Black Pearl, and he's ready to collect the debt along with his crew of man-creatures and a beast called the Kraken!
REVIEW
Five years ago, if you told someone at a studio you wanted to make a movie based on a theme park ride, they probably would have laughed in your face. If you said that it would be a pirate adventure, they would have you thrown out of their office. After all, straight pirate movies had not done very well with Renny Harlin's Cutthroat Island still being very present on many minds. Of course, that was before Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, masterminded by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, who had just helmed the hit horror remake, The Ring.
The summer of ‘03 had already seen two huge hit sequels in X2 and The Matrix Reloaded followed by Pixar's fifth hit Finding Nemo, but the second half of summer started out with a movie few people knew much about. Of course, the movie's star Johnny Depp had already had a long and illustrious career, but with only one movie, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, earning over $100 million domestically. It really didn't seem like Disney's latest effort could break the "pirate movie curse." Still, it opened on Wednesday, July 9, with a modest $13.5 million, and wound up making around $70 million in its first five days. That wasn't a particularly impressive opening, but positive word-of-mouth was in full effect and over the next three months, it never had more than a 35% drop-off from one weekend to the next. In less than a month, it had crossed the $200 million mark and a month and a half later, it had joined Finding Nemo as Disney's second $300 million blockbuster of the summer. Obviously, the world was ready for another pirate movie, especially one that appealed to adults, kids, men, and women alike.
Of course, with that sort of success, a sequel was predestined, and Gore Verbinski returned to the franchise in early '05, along with most of the cast, to begin work on two back-to-back sequels, done similar to The Matrix sequels.
Most people who loved the first movie will be returning to get more Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. As big a star as Depp was before the first Pirates movie, his performance in the first movie put him over the top, finding him an even bigger fanbase, as well as an unexpected Oscar nomination, something you don't normally get when appearing in summer blockbusters. Depp's growing popularity helped bring people to his next movie, based on Stephen King's Secret Window, and later that year, Depp received another Oscar nomination playing J.M. Barrie in Marc Foster's Finding Neverland. Last year, Depp reunited with Tim Burton to play Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, another massive summer hit, opening to over $55 million and making over $200 million total, but his third attempt at an Oscar nomination, the period drama The Libertine, wasn't able to find either critical or commercial success.
Of course, both Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom have gone onto other things since the first Pirates movie--you can read more about them in this week's Star Spotlight--but there's no discounting what they add to the movies even if Depp is still the primary draw. Having three strong stars allows three times as many talk show appearances to help raise awareness and anticipation in the movie. Both Newsweek and Rolling Stone even put Johnny Depp on the cover, proving the long reach of his character.
As far as the new members of the cast, the most prominent is actor Bill Nighy, who takes over for Geoffrey Rush as the movie's baddie, the legendary Davy Jones. Though he may not be recognizable with the CGI tentacles that cover his face, Nighy will probably best be remembered for his role as an aging rock star in Richard Curtis' Love Actually and among genre fans as the evil vampire Viktor in the Underworld movies. He's joined by Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (also in this week's Grendel & Beowulf) as Will Turner's long missing father, while Tom Hollander, who played Mr. Collins opposite Knightley in last year's Pride & Prejudice, plays a similarly sleazy role as Lord Beckett, who arrests and jails the romantic duo on their wedding day.
Unlike last week's Superman Returns, the Pirates sequel will have heavy interest across the board, since the first movie was so popular among a wide audience of men, women and children of different ages. Very few other movies can say that. Thanks to Disney's great marketing, the movie looks to be as much fun as the first one, being released in a summer where there are so many serious and/or dark movies, and like in 2003, it will seem like a breath of fresh air to moviegoers. Disney's been keeping things close to the vest on the movie, revealing just enough to get people interested but keeping enough secret to get them excited.
As it were, ticket sales have been brisk for the movie's opening weekend, and one can expect that it'll be getting a lot of screens in its 4,000+ theatres, making it the widest Disney release ever, and it can be safely assumed that many returning movies will be cast aside by theatres to make way for it.
With all that in mind, there's very little reason why Dead Man's Chest can't open huge, and without an earlier Wednesday or Thursday opening, thereby taking business away from the weekend, there's very little reason why it can't break Spider-Man's three-day opening record of $114.8 million. Sure, some could say that the long running time of over 2 and a half hours might cut down on the number of possible screenings, but last year's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was roughly the same length and that was still able to cross the $100 million mark in three days. With schools out of session on Friday and Monday, business is likely to be spread out over the weekend as fans try to see the movie as soon as possible.
Why I Should See It: No question that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was one of the biggest surprises of '03, still loved by millions, and the sequel promises more of the same action, adventures and laughs.
Why Not: When was the last time a sequel was as good as the original movie?
Projection: For the first time in four years, the Weekend Warrior is going on record to say that Dead Man's Chest will break Spider-Man's 3-day weekend record with $115 to 118 million over the weekend after a Friday opening in the $43 to 45 million range. Its legs may not be anywhere near to the first movie, but it should end the summer with over $300 million.
A SCANNER DARKLY (Warner
Independent)Starring the images of Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane
Written and directed by Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Slacker, Dazed and Confused,
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Rated R
Tagline: "What Does a Scanner See?"
Story: It's seven years in the future and undercover narcotics agent Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) has been placed undercover to spy on his own junkie friends (Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson) and his celibate girlfriend (Winona Ryder), who are all addicted to the deadly Substance-D, but as Bob gets more involved, he becomes addicted himself, putting his mission into conflict.
REVIEW
Five years ago, Austin director Richard Linklater followed a stream of successful indie dramas with his first animated movie, Waking Life, which used a painted animation style similar to totoscope to enliven a number of philosophical conversations between various characters. Linklater has continued to be an indie pioneer, but he's also broken into the mainstream with studio films like Jack Black's School of Rock and the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears.
Published in 1977, A Scanner Darkly was the fifth novel from Philip K. Dick, the cutting edge science fiction writer whose work inspired movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall and Paycheck. Dick's work has always been very challenging, blending physics and philosophy to create memorable ideas, but instead of turning this novel into another big budget action flick, Linklater decided to remain faithful to Dick's eclectic storytelling style, using a similar animation technique as he did in Waking Life.
As always, Linklater has assembled an impressive cast, even if Ethan Hawke is nowhere to be found. Instead, he has Keanu Reeves in the title role, fresh from The Lake House, and continuing his run of cerebral work like Johnny Mnemonic and last year's Thumbsucker. To play the role of Reeves' untrustworthy drug friend, Linklater brought in Robert Downey Jr., who last appeared in the 2005 crime comedy Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and it seems like a match made in heaven considering Downey's proclivity to character/dialogue-driven indies. Scanner Darkly also reunites Linklater with character actor Rory Cochrane, who played Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused.
This drug-tinged futuristic drama is not going to be everyone's cup of tea because there's a lot of philosophical babbling, which makes it even stranger and less commercial, even by Phillip K. Dick standards. Maybe that's why Warner Independent is giving this long-anticipated film a very limited release in select cities in hopes that it will bring in enough Dick fans and generate enough word-of-mouth to warrant an expansion later in July. So far, reviews have been fairly bland, maybe because those seeing it don't really know what to expect going into it, but the open-minded may welcome the experience.
Why I Should See It: The thought-provoking worlds of Philip K. Dick and Richard Linklater come together in a very strange movie that combines wild performances with amazing animation.
Why Not: It's going to be too weird and confusing for all but the most intelligent of sci-fi fans.
BEOWULF & GRENDEL (Union
Station Media)Starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley, Ingvar Eggert Sigur
Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson; Written by Andrew Rai Berzins
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rated R for for violence, language and some sexuality
Tagline: "Heads Will Roll"
Story: The 9th Century Anglo-Saxon poem about Beowulf (Gerard Butler) and his feud with the troll Grendel (Ingvar Sigurdsson) is brought to the screen by Iceland's Sturla Gunnarson, as the warrior must stop the creature that is trying to get revenge on Beowulf's king (Stellan Skarsgard) for the murder of its father.
Mini-Review (Coming Soon!)
Well before Robert Zemeckis' computer animated epic based on the mythic poem hits screens, this Icelandic-Canadian production brings together an impressive international cast from four or five different countries to tell the tale of a tribe of Vikings plagued by a vengeful beast and the hero who steps forth to save them. For Gerard Butler, it's a chance to show off his heroic muscle before the opening of Frank Miller's Greek epic 300 next year, and he's joined by other respected actors dressing up as Vikings, or in the case of Icealand's Ingvar Sigurosson, a giant troll-like creature. After playing various festivals, the movie was a big hit in Canada this past spring, and after a stealthy opening in Seattle following the festival there, it's finally opening in other select U.S. cities.
Why I Should See It: It could give you a good taste of what to expect from Butler in next year's 300.
Why Not: The tagline about heads rolling really isn't kidding.
STAR SPOTLIGHT: Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley
This week, we look at the Pirates sweethearts, the two young British
actors whose onscreen romance brought a lot of people into see the first
movie over and over again, and will probably have a large part in bringing
people into see the sequel, as well. Just 21 years old, Keira really wasn't known here in the States before the first Pirates, but 29-year-old Orlando Bloom already had a growing fanbase of teen girls from his role as the elf Legolas in the first two The Lord of the Rings movies, which each grossing over $300 million before the first Pirates even hit theatres. Bloom also had a small part in Ridley Scott's war drama Black Hawk Down, which came out mere months after the first Lord of the Rings. The success of Pirates certainly helped the heartthrob's female fanbase grow by leaps and bounds, because Legolas certainly seemed to get more screen time in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the finale of the trilogy.
Meanwhile, Keira followed the first Pirates with another Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer production, playing Guinevere in the big budget reimagining of King Arthur, directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), with Clive Owen starring in the title role. It really did fairly miserably because Disney expected that Knightley would be the primary draw at the box office.
In May 2004, Bloom joined the ensemble cast of Wolfgang Peterson's epic Troy with Brad Pitt and Eric Bana--another Black Hawk Down vet--and it made over $46 million opening weekend despite its R-rating, which would normally keep away Bloom's younger female fanbase. Bloom finally got his chance for a solo starring role in 2005, when Ridley Scott cast him as the lead in his Crusades epic Kingdom of Heaven, but this time, the R-rating really kept Bloom's teenage fans away… or maybe none of them really believed Bloom could pull off the role of a tough warrior. It only made $19.6 million opening weekend and less than $50 million total, though it did much better internationally, grossing over $200 million worldwide.
Obviously, it was time for Bloom to appear in a PG-13 romantic comedy, because that would be just the thing for his young female fans, right? You would think so, but when Bloom starred in Cameron Crowe's long-awaited Elizabethtown alongside Kirsten Dunst, it was so badly trashed by critics that not even Bloom's fans were able to help it bring in more than $27 million last October despite a wide release.
While Bloom was struggling to get people to see a movie that didn't have Johnny Depp in it, Knightly had a really busy 2005, appearing in the thriller The Jacket opposite Adrian Brody, which bombed, as did her follow-up, the Tony Scott action drama Domino. Fortunately, Knightley closed off the year playing Miss Elizabeth in a new version of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, which appealed more to Knightley's female fans, and more importantly, it got her an Oscar nomination in the lead actress category, which upped her credibility as an actress. (Appearing nude on the cover of Vanity Fair alongside Scarlett Johansson upped a lot of other things.)
|
Title |
Release Date |
Theater Count |
Previous Box Office (in millions) |
Weekend Box Office (in millions) |
Average |
Total Box Office |
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl |
7/11/03 |
3,269 |
$24.00 |
$46.63 |
$14,264 |
$305.41 |
|
Elizabethtown |
10/14/05 |
2,517 |
$10.62 |
$4,219 |
$26.84 |
|
|
Kingdom of Heaven |
5/6/05 |
3,216 |
$19.64 |
$6,106 |
$47.39 |
|
|
Troy |
5/14/04 |
3,411 |
$46.87 |
$13,739 |
$133.23 |
|
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
12/19/03 |
3,703 |
$51.47 |
$72.62 |
$19,614 |
$377.03 |
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
12/20/02 |
3,622 |
$40.04 |
$61.50 |
$16,980 |
$340.48 |
|
Black Hawk Down |
1/18/02 |
3,101 |
$1.85 |
$33.63 |
$10,844 |
$108.58 |
|
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings |
12/21/01 |
3,359 |
$27.91 |
$47.21 |
$14,055 |
$313.39 |
|
Pride and Prejudice |
11/11/05 |
215 |
$2.87 |
$13,326 |
$36.32 |
|
|
Domino |
10/14/05 |
2,223 |
$4.67 |
$2,101 |
$10.14 |
|
|
The Jacket |
3/4/05 |
1,331 |
$2.72 |
$2,046 |
$6.30 |
|
|
King Arthur |
7/9/04 |
3,086 |
$8.43 |
$15.19 |
$4,924 |
$51.80 |
THIS WEEK'S "GUEST-PERT":
Although millions of people saw Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, I wanted to find a real-life superfan to talk about the sequel, so when 17-year-old Kristen Lopez contacted me having seen the first Pirates 16 times, I knew that we had found our latest guestpert. She obviously loved that first movie, and we just had to find out why that is, and what she's expecting from the sequel.
"I actually saw the movie 16 times in theaters, but I've probably seen it countless more times on DVD to the point where I can recite the entire film word for word," she told me proudly. "It's probably my favorite movie of all time. I actually didn't think it was gonna be any good after I saw the teaser because of the disappointment with the other ride-based films like Country Bears, but when I saw the first full trailer, I thought that this would be a great ride to adapt to screen.I couldn't remember the last decent pirate movie I had seen, but once I saw the special effects I knew there was something there. I also had never heard of Orlando Bloom, but once I saw him in the trailers, I knew I HAD to see it."
Ah, so Kirsten is in the Orlando Bloom fan camp? "I've always been a fan of Johnny Depp so I thought it would be interesting to see him in a more family friendly film but being a 13 year old girl at the time I would definitely have to say I was in it for the Orlando Bloom," she confessed. "The first Pirates definitely made me more interested in some of Johnny Depp's lesser known films like Blow and Nick of Time, but I've seen practically every Orlando Bloom movie and I became a Lord of the Rings fan after seeing Pirates. I'm practically the local authority in my tow, but I've also become a quasi Keira Knightley fan."
Kristen also told me what she was most anticipating in the sequel: "I'm definitely excited to see where the story is going to develop from the first, and I'm excited to learn more about references made in the first one to things in this one, especially the Bootstrap Bill stuff. I've seen the clips of the Kraken and I'm dying to see that, but I'm also a fan of Bill Nighy, so I'm excited to see how they can top the skeletal pirate effects with the Davy Jones stuff."
I wondered whether Kristen is doing like some of us at ComingSoon.net, avoiding all reviews and clips so she can be surprised when she sees the movie, but that wasn't the case. "When I saw the first movie it was all about watching the trailer 24/7 and watching clips," she said. "This time it's more of the same. I have all the upcoming interviews planned on my Tivo and the trailer is on my iPod. I've also read a couple reviews, and I've loved all the clips."
"I actually got tickets to the midnight showing, the first midnight showing of a movie that I've been to," she exclaimed, "and I'm definitely trying to break my record, I've been planning on doing that all year so I'm gonna try to see it 17 times in theaters. All my friends are being forced to go see it at least twice with me."
Well, hopefully Kristen will like it enough the first time to warrant so much of a demand on her friendships. Thanks, Kristen!
ALSO IN LIMITED RELEASE:
Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool) and Karen Young ("The Sopranos") star in Laurent Cantet's HEADING SOUTH (Shadow Distribution) playing older single women who travel down to Haiti on summer vacation in hopes of buying the attention of half-naked young Haitian men, and one young man named Legba (newcomer Menothy Cesar) in particular. Mini-Review: Beautifully shot and well acted, particularly the performances by Young and Cesar, this movie seems like it could have been so much more, but somewhere along the way, it kind of falls flat. Certainly, there are some interesting ideas involving the social and racial relationships between the Haitians and white tourists during the ‘70s, but most of it is fairly obvious and the women are so shallow that it's hard to think much of them. If nothing else, it's nice that they're finally adapting Harlequin romance novels into movies. Rating: 6/10
KILL YOUR IDOLS (Palm Pictures) is a documentary about the New York noise scene from ‘70s bands like Suicide to ‘80s icons Sonic Youth and more modern bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gogol Bordello. S. A. Crary's documentary opens at New York's Cinema Village on Friday. Mini-Review: While it's noble to try to document the evolution of the New York noise scene, this slopply-edited doc suffers from erratic production values and the fact that it reminds you that for every Sonic Youth, there's a hundred really bad and pretentious New York bands that can't play their own instruments. Just as it's getting into the history of No Wave, it jumps forward to 2002 to introduce a lot of really bad wannabe bands, the only thing really significant there being an early interview with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs before they completely sold out. As fun as it is hearing the old guard of Glenn Branca and Jim Thirlwell bashing all of these bad newer bands, there's still a sense of wanting to yell, "Shut up and play something already!" This really should have been better. Rating: 6/10
THIS WEEKEND IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY:
The weekend after the 4th of July has been a bit hit or miss, because it's coming after what is usually a long holiday weekend. Most new movies have to contend with the second week of the summer's big event movie, as well as many people returning to work. Of course, that won't be much of a problem for the week's one new movie in wide release, and looking at the list below, there are a number of movies that kicked off big franchises and did well enough to warrant sequels. Of course, the big one is Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which spawned this weekend's potential record-breaker and went on to make over $300 million, easily the biggest success for a movie opening in July.
Last year's Fantastic Four started off another potential franchise based on Marvel Comics characters for 20th Century Fox with an impressive $56 million opening, the most made by a movie opening the weekend after the 4th of July. Of course, one can't ignore the fact that both the first American Pie and the first Scary Movie were released in the weekend following 4th of July, the first of them generating two relatively successful sequels and the latter spawning three.
For whatever reason, this weekend has become one where two strong movies are often released trying to compete against each other. For instance, the action movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, based on the Alan Moore comic book, was released by 20th Century Fox the same weekend as Pirates and did significantly less business. Disney's horror remake Dark Water starring Jennifer Connelly didn't do as well last year when it was positioned against Fantastic Four. Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur hoped to repeat the success of Pirates in 2004 but fell to the rising star of Will Ferrell and his comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. In 2002, Tom Hanks' crime drama Road to Perdition took on the futuristic dragon movie Reign of Fire and the former beat the latter despite opening in 900 fewer theatres, another surprise to some.
Then there's Reese Witherspoon's Legally Blonde, which took on Robert De Niro and Edward Norton's crime drama The Score in this weekend in 2001. Both did decently opening weekend, making within a million of each other, but only the former did well enough where it felt worthy of making a sequel, although that didn't do much more business when released over 4th of July two years later.
The important thing to remember is that we're in the second half of the summer, all schools are out, and that means that people are going away on vacation and movies have to work a bit harder to get them to go to theatres when the weather's nice enough to go to the beach instead.
|
Title |
Release Date |
Theater Count |
Previous Box Office (in millions) |
Weekend Box Office (in millions) |
Average |
Total Box Office |
|
Fantastic Four |
7/8/05 |
3,602 |
$56.06 |
$15,564 |
$154.69 |
|
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
7/11/03 |
3,269 |
$24.00 |
$46.63 |
$14,264 |
$305.41 |
|
Scary Movie |
7/7/00 |
2,912 |
$42.35 |
$14,543 |
$157.00 |
|
|
Lethal Weapon 4 |
7/10/98 |
3,117 |
$34.05 |
$10,924 |
$130.44 |
|
|
Anchorman |
7/9/04 |
3,091 |
$28.42 |
$9,193 |
$84.14 |
|
|
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
7/11/03 |
3,002 |
$23.08 |
$7,687 |
$66.46 |
|
|
Road to Perdition |
7/12/02 |
1,797 |
$22.08 |
$12,267 |
$104.05 |
|
|
Legally Blonde |
7/13/01 |
2,620 |
$20.38 |
$7,778 |
$95.66 |
|
|
The Score |
7/13/01 |
2,129 |
$19.02 |
$8,933 |
$71.07 |
|
|
American Pie |
7/9/99 |
2,507 |
$18.71 |
$7,463 |
$101.74 |
|
|
Reign of Fire |
7/12/02 |
2,629 |
$15.63 |
$5,946 |
$43.06 |
|
|
King Arthur |
7/9/04 |
3,086 |
$8.43 |
$15.19 |
$4,924 |
$51.80 |
LET'S LOOK AT THE NUMBERS: (Final update 7.6.06)
Let the high stakes betting begin, because with the debut of Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the big debate this weekend will be whether the action-comedy sequel will break the three-day opening weekend record set by Spider-Man four years ago, as it smuggles over 4,000 theatres with some of the heaviest anticipation of any movie this summer bar-none.
I've already gone on record that it will break the record despite its long running time, because there's enough interest and anticipation to see the return of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow that many shows will be sold out in advance, with strong enough business to provide many sell-outs over the course of the weekend.
The fact that there's no other new movie in wide release shows what a powerful presence this movie has, and last week's #1, Bryan Singer's Superman Returns may take a pretty substantial hit, as will other movies to make way for what could be the biggest movie of the summer. Still, I wouldn't be too surprised if the record for the Top 10 cumulative gross is also demolished this weekend as there's a great potential for Dead Man's Chest to break attendance records. (Update: It is getting the third widest release after Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2.)
|
TW |
LW |
Title |
Weekend (in millions) |
Change |
# Of Theaters |
Average |
Week |
|
1 |
New |
Pirates: Dead Man's Chest |
$117.6 |
N/A |
4,133 |
$28,454 |
1 |
|
2 |
1 |
Superman Returns |
$25.0 |
-53% |
4,065 |
$6,101 |
2 |
|
3 |
2 |
The Devil Wears Prada |
$15.2 |
-43% |
2,882 |
$5,274 |
2 |
|
4 |
3 |
Click |
$9.5 |
-51% |
3,458 |
$2,747 |
3 |
|
5 |
4 |
Cars |
$7.8 |
-47% |
3,379 |
$2,308 |
5 |
|
6 |
5 |
Nacho Libre |
$3.1 |
-52% |
2,262 |
$1,370 |
4 |
|
7 |
6 |
The Lake House |
$2.6 |
-44% |
2,420 |
$1,074 |
4 |
|
8 |
7 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift |
$1.8 |
-61% |
1,862 |
$940 |
4 |
|
9 |
9 |
The Break-Up |
$1.4 |
-53% |
1,175 |
$1,191 |
6 |
|
10 |
8 |
Waist Deep |
$1.4 |
-59% |
864 |
$1,620 |
3 |
|
11 |
10 |
The Da Vinci Code |
$1.3 |
-47% |
1,012 |
$1,235 |
8 |
|
Est. Weekend Total |
Est. Avg. Drop-Off |
Est. Average PTA |
Next week, the month of July rolls along with two new comedies, Owen Wilson's You, Me and Dupree, which puts him in a third wheel situation with Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson, and "from the creators of White Chicks"--that's the Wayans Brothers--comes… Little Man! God help us all.
Copyright 2006 Edward Douglas
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