Wow. The Game Plan again? And at only a 29% drop you’ve got to figure the movie is actually good. I didn’t want to admit it before but I’ve got to now. It’s the Rock’s world. The rest of us are just paying rent.
#1 movie predicted correctly: Zero Weeks In A Row
They’ve got to be overjoyed over at Disney. $42m for a movie that couldn’t have cost more than $30 bucks to produce? Expect The Rock to get plenty of chances to do kid’s movies going forward. Him and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Result: $16.2 million (My rank: #2, $3.4m off)
This got pwned. In a big way. I think it was partly the R rating but also partly not having a strong female lead. If Jen Aniston was in this one, like she was in Along Came Polly this would have cracked $20m no problem. So let’s all blame the casting director.
Result: $14.0 million (My rank: #1, $9.9m off)
3. The Kingdom
I was pretty close here. It did a little better than I expected meaning that some of y’all told your friends. Nice job, but the other major story of the weekend was…
Result: $9.3 million (My rank: #4, $.7m off)
Notice what we haven’t seen yet? Where are you Seeker? Five million dollars between third and fourth place, from here on out we’ll be seeing films people accidently wandered in to.
Result: $4.3 million (My rank: #6, $1.2m off)
Hmmm, I clearly overrated this title. Both in my review and in my projection. Was the trailer horrid too? Are families not all about fantasy anymore? Did no one enjoy the “seek the signs” marketing promotion? 20th Century Fox’s default position on this title: “We’re very sad.”
Result: $3.7 million (My rank: #3, $6.0m off)
Wouldn’t it be funny if the studio did have to hold press conferences to announce their failures? This is at $29m overall so the press conference wouldn’t be terrible, but I think it’s a top notch notion overall. Like for the next title they would say…
Result: $3.5 million (My rank: #7, $.7m off)
“We just heard Jennifer Lopez is rumored to be pregnant. Did you know she was one of the producers?” See, they would say that because there is nothing to talk about on a film that has no one in it. And you wouldn’t be bragging about the $3.4m very much either.
Result: $3.4 million (My rank: Not Ranked)
8. 3:10 to Yuma
The Red Sox just went up 5-0 on the Angels. That means nothing to any of you folks but it means a lot to me. And since this Oracle was slightly disasterous I’m taking wins where I can get ’em.
Result: $3.0 million (My rank: #8, $.3m off)
So the guys who killed her fiancee and beat the hell out of her adopted her German Shepherd as they left her for dead in a tunnel. Surely that’s a positive thing, right?
Result: $2.3 million (My rank: #9, $.4m off)
10. Mr. Woodcock
I don’t even want to talk about Mr. Woodcock. Thus I am not going to.
Result: $2.0 million (My rank: #10, $.4m off)
