Catching up – 2013 01 11 – A Haunted House, Dark Zero Thirty (wide), Gangster Squad

January 11 was the second weekend of a new year.

We had three openings.

This one, A Haunted House, was a comedy movie. MPAA rating was R.

Comedy spoofs seemed to have a loyal audience. They went to cinemas and had fun, no matter what experts or reviewers said.

I watched some comic TV programs made in US, but to be honest didn't know American audience taste in humor. I was okay (and I still am) to be wrong in predictions for this genre.

Shots:

Movie Critic Assasins from BreitBart go for 19 mln.
The movie went for 18,1 mln.     (2160 cinemas, $8380 per cinema)
BoxOffice staff went for 17,9 mln.
Donald Shanahan from Examiner went for 15 mln.
Ray Subers from BoxOfficeMojo went for 13,7 mln.
Damon Houx from ScreenCrave goes for 13,5 mln.
C.S. Strowbridge from The Numbers went for 13 mln.
Laremy Legel from RopeOfSilicon goes for 13 mln.
Perri Nemiroff from Shockya goes for 13 mln.
Bill Bonfanti from FilmGo went for 12 mln.
I went for 6,1 mln opening.     (2650 cinemas, $2300 per cinema)
I had no numbers from HSX, BoxOfficeGuru.

This one, Gangster Squad, was a drama movie. MPAA rating was R.

The cast was really solid in this movie. Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, they all were actors able to deliver interesting performance.

On the other hand, nothing stood out in the story, telegraphed in the trailer. Cops, crooks, a girl of a gangster - nice to see once, I guessed, but really, been there, done that.

Shots:

Bill Bonfanti from FilmGo went for 22 mln.
I went for 21,45 mln opening.     (3300 cinemas, $6500 per cinema)
Ray Subers from BoxOfficeMojo went for 21,4 mln.
Donald Shanahan from Examiner went for 21 mln.
C.S. Strowbridge from The Numbers went for 18 mln.
BoxOffice staff went for 17,8 mln.
Laremy Legel from RopeOfSilicon goes for 17,1 mln.
The movie went for 17,07 mln.      (3103 cinemas, $5501 per cinema)
Movie Critic Assasins from BreitBart go for 17 mln.
Damon Houx from ScreenCrave goes for 15 mln.
Perri Nemiroff from Shockya goes for 15 mln.
I had no numbers from HSX, BoxOfficeGuru.

 

This one, Zero Dark Thirty, was a wide release of a drama movie that went limited in December 2012. MPAA rating was R.

This movie should have been named as "How we tracked and killed the leader of terrorist organisation". Its value was totally media-dependent: one should go and see it, to have an opinion he/she could share in a water tank conversation or on Facebook. Transcribed into box office: a solid number.

Shots:

Laremy Legel from RopeOfSilicon went for 27 mln.
I went for 26,40 mln opening.     (3300 cinemas, $8000 per cinema)
C.S. Strowbridge from The Numbers went for 26 mln.
Ray Subers from BoxOfficeMojo went for 25,7 mln.
Movie Critic Assasins from BreitBart went for 25 mln.
BoxOffice staff went for 24,6 mln.
The movie went for 24,44 mln.     (2937 cinemas, $8321 per cinema)
Perri Nemiroff from Shockya went for 24 mln.
Bill Bonfanti from FilmGo went for 21 mln.
Damon Houx from ScreenCrave went for 19,5 mln.
I had no numbers from HSX, BoxOfficeGuru.
Donald Shanahan from Examiner didn't cover this one.