From usatoday, Not a raucous rock star, a talking dog, a mutant creation nor Ashton Kutcher could save the box office this weekend. For despite their valiant efforts, Get Him to the Greek, Killers, Marmaduke and Splice had nothing on a green ogre this soft weekend at the movies. Greek got the closest to knocking Shrek off the perch he has held now for three weekends but even the Russell Brand, Jonah Hill-starring comedy came in some $8 million beneath Dreamworks Animation’s final installment of the high-grossing animated franchise. As for holdovers Sex and the City 2 and Prince of Persia, both films fell north of 50 percent from their opening weekend, with SATC 2 dropping off close to 60 percent for the frame. Here’s hoping that next weekend’s 80s reboot of The Karate Kid and The A-Team can do something to improve this dismal summer season.
Shrek Forever After grossed $25.3 million this frame, down 42 percent since Memorial Day weekend. The film has now earned $183 million but that pales in comparison to its past two predecessors. If the film can’t cross the original Shrek’s $267 million, it will end up being the lowest-grossing movie of the series. Get Him to the Greek earned an estimated $17.4 million in its opening weekend in theaters. From writer/director Nicholas Stoller, the R-rated comedy from Universal Pictures generated a per-theater average of $6,460 and a B from exit pollster Cinemascore. The film, budgeted at $40 million, is on track with its predecessor Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which opened to $17.7 million back in April 2008 and should hold up well for a few weeks until the Adam Sandler, Kevin James-starring comedy Grown Ups hits theaters on June 25.
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3 comments:
"Dismal summer season?" Really?
"If the film can’t cross the original Shrek’s $267 million, it will end up being the lowest-grossing movie of the series." Oh dear. It's only made 183 million? What a loser movie!
I'm feeling a little bit of drama queen off this guy.
Went to see Killers to support my friend Bob DeRosa, who wrote it. It was a fun night, and the Arclight theater guy who intro'd the movie said, "And we have a special treat tonight, since the writer is here in the audience." It was really fun.
Sadly, Bob got so amazingly rewritten that in the end, he had to go to arbitration just to get writing credit for the film, and he ended up sharing that credit. And his original spec (which I got to read) was much, much stronger and cleaner than the version that made it to the screen. Still, go see it. Bob is a great guy and I'm really happy for him. The whole story was very instructive for me--you hear that these kinda things happen, but then when you meet someone, and it all actually happens to him, it still kinda blows your mind what a strange business this is.
I watched "Splice" and thought it stunk.
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