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1. Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Paramount) Week 2 [3,448 Theaters] ... Estimated 3-Day Weekend $25.8M, Estimated 4-day Holiday $39.5M, Estimated Domestic Cume $71.5M, Estimated International Cume $105M
2. Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows (Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,703 Theaters] Estimated 3-Day Weekend $16.7M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $25M, Estimated Domestic Cume $83.8M, Estimated International Cume $27.1M
3. Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (Fox) Week 2 [3,726 Theaters] Estimated 3-Day Weekend $12.8M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $21.1M, Estimated Domestic Cume $58.1M
4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sony) NEW [2,914 Theaters] ... Estimated 3-Day Weekend $13.5M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $20M Estimated Domestic Cume $28.5M, Estimated International Cume $950K
5. The Adventures Of Tintin (Paramount) NEW [3,087 Theaters] Opened Wednesday December 21 ... Estimated 3-Day Weekend $8.8M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $14M, Estimated Domestic Cume $22M, Estimated International Cume (Sony) $240M ...
So Mr. Bird's film is doing solid business. The rodents are doing tepidly and fading. And the Boy Reporter isn't nearly as strong as he was in Europe, and will probably be fortunate to get near $100 million in domestic grosses.
None of the above seems a surprise when you take the stats over to the light and study them. Pure mo-cap -- separate from a live-action environment -- continues to be a tough sell.
Add On: The Wall Street Journal wraps up the weekend:
A Christmas miracle eluded Hollywood, as strong holiday ticket sales weren't enough to help the industry overcome year-end declines in both attendance and revenue compared with last year. ...
As the number of feature films released this year increased, the average film's box-office gross, when adjusted for inflation, dropped to $14.2 million, from $17.5 million in both 2010 and 2009 ...
"The Adventures of Tintin" and Twentieth Century Fox's "We Bought A Zoo," were beat by earlier December releases like "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" from Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Pictures and "Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" ...
And so it goes. The foreign markets grow, the domestic market is kind of ... stagnant.
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I'm glad Tintin is underperforming stateside. Hopefully, they'll cancel the sequel.
Mission will put that over-saturate puppetry of CG crap in it's place.
I wonder if anyone would have cared about MI III if someone other than Almighty Brad Bird had directed. I see that Pixar worship has extended to include non- Pixar films.
And what ever happened to all those Peter Jackson lovers who hyped tin tin so much in previous weeks?
Odd.
It seems like a few years ago, Pixar (brad bird I believe,) stated that story is all-important, and it does not matter if the film is CG, traditional cell animation, or mocap. Good story will always shine through.
Apparently, someone was wrong. Dead wrong.
What are you trying to say?
@ anonymous 2:38:00PM... "someone other than the Almighty Brad Bird" DID direct "MI III".
I've seen MI 4 (the current one), it's about as good as that sort of thing can get. Brad Bird has shown Hollywood what the rest of us knew... he can make a movie out of almost anything.
It seems like a few years ago, Pixar (brad bird I believe,) stated that story is all-important, and it does not matter if the film is CG, traditional cell animation, or mocap. Good story will always shine through.
M:I 4 has a good story...
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