what was wrong with the flick? How does it compare to "The Omega Man"? How does it compare to the book? aren't critics for the most part liking it?
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Mike Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think it's a mixture of Will Smith, Zombies, and the hope for an action flick. Plus a lot of people are already on vacation. I saw the movie last night in Harlem and for the most part the audience hated it. THe acting was good but I thought the story could have used a lot of work. On Dec 16, 2007 5:01 PM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either guns and zombies are big sellers, or there's nothing else out > there worth watching... > > Mike Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <streetforce1%40gmail.com>> wrote: > Will Smith's `I Am Legend' Opens to $77 Million in Ticket Sales > > > By Andy Fixmer and Bradley Keoun > > Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- ``I Am Legend,'' the science-fiction thriller > starring Will Smith, opened as the top film this weekend, garnering $76.5 > million at the domestic box office for Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. > studio. > > New releases ``Alvin and the Chipmunks'' from News Corp.'s Fox opened in > second place with $45 million, box-office tracker Media By Numbers LLC > said > today in a statement. Time Warner's ``Golden Compass,'' the prior > weekend's > No. 1 movie, dropped to third with $9.03 million in sales, while Walt > Disney > Co.'s ``Enchanted'' fell to fourth from second with $6 million. > > Time Warner scored for a second-straight week with a movie debuting at No. > 1 > in U.S. and Canadian theaters, following the Dec. 7 release of ``The > Golden > Compass.'' As of Dec. 14, the world's largest media company had $1.7 > billion > in box office sales this year, the most among its competitors, according > to > researcher Box Office Mojo LLC. > > ``This is the perfect movie for Will Smith. It's sci-fi, yet it's an > intelligent film,'' Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers, > said > in an interview. > > In ``I Am Legend,'' Smith portrays one of the last humans to survive a > virus > that turns people into flesh-eating monsters. Smith works on a cure during > the day and hides from the demons in a barricaded New York townhouse at > night, when they hunt. > > Exceeds Sales Estimate > > Ticket sales for the movie beat the $51.5 million estimate of Burbank, > California-based Box Office Mojo. As of Dec. 14, ``I Am Legend'' received > lukewarm response, with 65 positive reviews out of 110 tracked by > RottenTomatoes.com. > > ``Alvin and the Chipmunks,'' based on the 1980s cartoon series, features a > computer-animated version of the high-pitched singing trio. > > The movie received poor reviews, with New York Post's Lou Lumenick > writing, > ``For adults, it's like being hit over the head with a mallet every 10 > seconds for 90 minutes. Two days later, I still had a headache.'' > > Luckily, children will drive ticket sales, Dergarabedian said. ```Alvin > and > the Chipmunks' will do very, very well,'' he said. ``It's irresistible to > kids.'' > > ``The Golden Compass,'' made for about $150 million by Time Warner's New > Line Cinema, missed the $35.4 million opening weekend estimate of > Hollywood > Stock Exchange.com, where participants bet play money on a film's > performance. The film tells the story of a young girl who uses a unique > ability to discern truth in a cosmic battle over free will. > > ``It didn't have that built-in fun factor that a `Narnia' or a `Lord of > the > Rings' has,'' Dergarabedian said. ``Something about that movie didn't > compel > audiences to go out in large numbers.'' > > `Enchanted' > > ``Enchanted'' stars Amy Adams as a princess banished from her fantasy > world > to modern New York. The film has taken in $92.3 million since its release > Nov. 21. Susan Sarandon co-stars as the evil queen who engineers her > departure. ``No Country for Old Men,'' with $3 million for Disney's > Miramax > studio, ranked fifth. > > Rounding out the top 10 were: ``The Perfect Holiday,'' which opened with > $2.97 million for Yari Film Group; ``Fred Claus,'' from Time Warner's > Warner > Bros., with $2.31 million of sales; Sony Corp.'s ``This Christmas,'' with > $2.3 million; ``Atonement,'' from NBC Universal's Focus Features, with > $1.85 > million, and ``August Rush,'' in its fourth weekend from Warner Bros., at > $1.79 million. > > Among the top 10, ``Atonement,'' starring Keira Knightley, had the biggest > surge, climbing from the prior weekend's 15th place after garnering seven > nominations for Golden Globe awards on Dec. 13. > > Sales for the top 12 films rose 39 percent this weekend to $153.6 million > from a year earlier, according to Encino, California-based Media By > Numbers. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get > organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A > Country" > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! 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