Re: [scifinoir2] Grindhouse #4: A Box Office Horror
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=0id=40990 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Grindhouse #4: A Box Office Horror
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=0id=40990 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
