This week we have two openings. Both of them can find their way in theaters, Iron Man 3 should not hurt them. More on that -- on Wednesday, as usual.
The final shots -- on Friday, as usual.
THE GREAT GETS-BY
This one, The Great Gatsby, is a drama movie. MPAA rating is PG-13.
I watched the trailer for this movie and I can't point out what it is about. In a way it is a story of 'getting fame and fortune, from rags to riches'. It could be a mystery of 'what secret this great man hides' but Tobey Maguire's character doesn't take that much screen time in the trailer to serve as an effective mystery-solver. It finally could be a love story, two young hearts, made apart from each other long time ago, now get together again but a tragic accident stops their rekindling love.
It looks that this movie tries to be all of the above during its 120+ minutes. The problem, though, is that there is not a clearly visual opponent for di Caprio's character. Since there is no opponent, there is no tension strong enough to carry the movie. Since this is the reason people want to see drama movies, The Great Gatsby completely misses the point of creating it in first place.
I think it can gather something about $7000 per theater, but the credit for this goes entirely to di Caprio's casting and great visuals from the era.
Shots:
67 mln -- Donald Shanahan, Examiner
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50,08 mln -- the final weekend number of the movie (3535 theaters, $14,168 per theater)
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42,4 mln -- Ray Subers, BoxOfficeMojo
41,5 mln -- BoxOffice team
37 mln -- HSX
35 mln -- Laremy Legel, RopeOfSilicon (3350 theaters, $10448 per theater)
35 mln -- Sensei White Lotus, MovieCriticAssassins
34 mln -- C.S. Strowbridge, The-Numbers
33 mln -- Bill Bonfanti, FilmGo (number via HSX)
31 mln -- Gitesh Pandya, BoxOfficeGuru
27 mln -- Perri Nemiroff, Shockya26,5 mln -- Damon Houx, ScreenCrave
25,22 mln -- Mario Ludwinski, USBOPredictions2013 (3535 theaters, $7133 per theater)
UPDATE: From this post, MovieCriticAssasins of BreitBart are renamed more correctly as Sensei White Lotus of MovieCriticAssassins.com.
WHY WOULD I GIVE BILL COSBY $20,000?
This one, Peeples, is a romantic comedy movie. MPAA rating is PG-13.
Does it touch commonly shared fear of meeting the girl's parents and making a funhole of oneself? Yes, it does.
Do all of actors share a skin tone? Yes, they do.
So, can it be described as an ethnic version of Meet the Parents? Yes, it can.
Having established these basic facts, I'm still scratching my head while trying to come up with some number for this movie.
I give $1000 per theater for Kerry Washington.
I give $2000 per theater for mean father and the whole comic setting.
I give $1000 per theater for being an ethnic-centric offer for cinema fans.
I give $800 per theater for Craig Robinson's stand-up background.
This is all I can see in this movie, but I can feel there is something more. $4800 per theater is smaller than Tyler Perry's Good Deeds, and this movie deserves more.
I'd give $20,000 per theater if Bill Cosby played a role of the mean father.
Ok, now I'm done. I don't feel bad anymore writing such low number.
Shots:
18 mln -- C.S. Strowbridge, The-Numbers
18 mln -- Laremy Legel, RopeOfSilicon (2000 theaters, $9000 per theater)
17 mln -- Perri Nemiroff, Shockya
17 mln -- Sensei White Lotus, MovieCriticAssassins
16 mln -- Bill Bonfanti, FilmGo (number via HSX)
16 mln -- HSX
14,2 mln -- Ray Subers, BoxOfficeMojo
14 mln -- Gitesh Pandya, BoxOfficeGuru12,5 mln -- BoxOffice team
9,8 mln -- Mario Ludwinski, USBOPredictions2013 (2041 theaters, $4800 per theater)
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4,61 mln -- the final weekend number of the movie (2041 theaters, $2259 per theater)-----------------------------------------------
Donald Shanahan of Examiner, and Damon Houx of ScreenCrave didn't post numbers for this movie.
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