Actually, it opened where I expected. Films like that don't do big box office. Ironically, had it been a *real* piece-of-crap cheesy or gore-filled flick like "The Cave" or something, it'd have done twenty mill
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Grindhouse A Box Office Horror > > Grindhouse was a box-office horror over the Easter weekend, opening in a > disappointing fourth place with only $11.6 million, despite positive > buzz for the faux double feature from directors Robert Rodriguez and > Quentin Tarantino, the Hollywood trade papers and wire services > reported. The film seemed unlikely to recoup its estimated $53 million > production cost, at least domestically. > > Grindhouse opened lower than Disney's animated Meet the Robinsons, which > placed second in its second weekend of release, taking in $17 million > and raising its 10-day total to $52.2 million. > > Grindhouse fell well short of expectations: Forecasters had figured the > movie would premiere in the ballpark of Tarantino's two Kill Bill movies > and Rodriguez's Sin City, whose opening weekends ranged from $22 million > to $29 million, the Associated Press reported. > > The movie's three-hour-plus running time was an impediment, limiting the > number of screenings theaters could fit in. Grindhouse played to big > crowds on the East and West coasts, but failed to click with audiences > in the Midwest and South. > > Hilary Swank's horror movie The Reaping, meanwhile, also opened poorly, > taking fifth place and $10.1 million for the three days or $12.0 million > when including receipts from its opening day on April 5. > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=40990 > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
