With licorice Add On.
Tim Burton continues to frolic at the top of the box office chart.
Alice In Wonderland -- $9.9 million
Bounty Hunter -- $7.65 million
Diary of a Wimpy Kid -- $7.4 million
Repo Men -- $2.2 million
She's Out f My League -- $1.9 million ...
A remarkably under-powered Friday, to my way of thinking. Next week, of course, How To Train Your Dragon springs forth.
Add On: At the wire, Alice in Wonderland again gallops ahead of the filed, taking $34.5 million into the winner's circle.
Back behind, the other entrants finish as follows:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid -- $21.8 million
The Bounty Hunter -- $21 million
Repo Men -- $6.2 million
She's Out of My League -- $6 million
Green Zone $5.9 million (-58.3%)
Shutter Island -- $4.8 million
Avatar -- $4 million.
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Yeah Alice tops again. (sarcasm)
I'm looking forward to Dragons though, heard it was good.
You know what I thought it was a bad move by Disney to have Tim Burton do Alice in Wonderland. I liked the movie, but it was mediocre at best. I just wish they did a sequel to the original Alice in Wonderland instead, based around Through the Looking Glass.
They are starting to push Titans big time. Wonder how that will affect the high price tixs dragons is going after. I think dreamworks has a clean week before it hits the fan. Guessing many Alice 3D theatres will let it go by then.
We definitely need more 3-D systems installed in theatres - especially in towns without them - all around the country and around the world for that matter as 3-D is here to stay. Now it will be a battle for the scheduling of release dates for these films to maximized the profits during their 3-D runs. But I still feel that we have yet to see a movie utilitizing the 3-D process to its full glory in story and characters.
They are starting to push Titans big time.
I think dreamworks has a clean week before it hits the fan
Some ShoWest bloggings say that Titans' artificial 3-D conversion looks even faker-quality than Alice's--But at this point, that doesn't really matter...
Enter #2 of a series of three year-long geek-hype pilgrimages between March and May, regardless of the movie, and sorry, DW, their fanboys can beat up your fanboys.
I already have a $50 bet with a friend that Dragons will crush Titans. Titans has all the feel of another overhyped, very expensive miss.
Another friend saw the Titans' trailer and asked, "Didn't DreamWorks already make that movie and call it Sinbad?"
No, given the usual DW "theft" theories common at the time, Sinbad was referred to as "The only compliment Treasure Planet ever got." ;)
As for Titans...you can only take DW spin-doctory so far:
Like Alice two weeks ago and "Kick-Ass" three weeks from now, this has had a year of hyped-up geek-demographic fanboys already lined up to see the movie they'd already pictured in their imaginations--And any discussion of quality is like trying to stop an iron-plated rhino.
I'm not saying that's a good thing (I'm a Harryhausen fan who cringes at the new 300/God of War plagiarisms), just that these are the conditions that prevail.
Sinbad and Treasure Planet had as much in common with each other as they both do with Pirates of the Caribbean. Despite the presence of pirates in all three, they have absolutely nothing in common.
As for my prediction that Dragons will leave Clash of the Titans in the dust, we only have to wait a few weeks to see if I'm right. It's not spin doctoring to say I've seen it, and it's amazing, whereas the trailers for Titans look pathetic. Hopefully you'll be man enough to come back here and admit how totally and completely wrong you are about a month from now. ;)
I had the opportunity to visit with many of the film makers at DreamWorks today.
They have a hit film and I'm sure they know it. Congratulations to all of them on a job well done.
"Hopefully you'll be man enough to come back here and admit how totally and completely wrong you are about a month from now. ;)"
Sure, and Amid will suddenly say something positive about a DW film...
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