Schadenfreude, baby...
Posted on 11/11/2007 5:06:13 PM PST by tobyhill
LOS ANGELES - Jerry Seinfeld turned more honey into money as his animated comedy “Bee Movie” buzzed to the top of the box office in its second weekend.
The DreamWorks-Paramount flick, which had debuted at No. 2 behind Universal’s “American Gangster” the previous weekend, packed in family crowds to pull in $26 million, raising its total to $72.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“American Gangster,” starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, was a strong No. 2 with $24.3 million in sales, lifting its total to $80.7 million.
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Costing a modest $35 million to produce, “Lions for Lambs” was aimed at an older, thinking-person’s audience compared to the crowds that turn out for Cruise’s action movies. Just over two-thirds of the audience was 35 or older, according to MGM."
“Older audiences don’t necessarily come out the first weekend, so we’re looking to get a very solid run all the way through the Thanksgiving holiday,” said Clark Woods, MGM head of distribution.
Too bad, so sad.
"America is Evil, and God Doesn't Exist."
It would be so much more honest than all this dancing around his "issues."
Schadenfreude, baby...
Available on DVD in three weeks.
I said it yesterday, and again now. Why was Redford’s film released on Veterans Day weekend? Is it his way of honoring our vets?
As for the new Tommy Lee Jones movie mentioned in the article, I will never watch another one of his movies ever again. He did a film not too long ago about the border patrol, where agents had nothing better to do but sitting around in their trucks with Hustler magazine doing you know what. The border patrol agent was played by Barry Pepper, who did a great job as the American sniper in Saving Private Ryan. He is also on my “do not watch” list.
So if I don't go, I must be younger than I thought.
This movie needs more advertising. There should be ads all the way until Thanksgiving for this. Spare no expense, guys.
It’s getting a D grade, thanks to all the F’s. Heart-warming, truly!
When’s the last time a #4 only had $6.7 million? I think it’s official, Hollywood’s dead.
They’re looking for the dead crowd.
“Lyings for Lambs”
Perfect description for the 60s protesters...
Anyone see the Bee thing. The promos didn’t make me wanna rush out and see it. At least it wasn’t about a rat.
The Bee movie was fun.
The Rat movie was good too....(Ratatouille)
I actually loved the Bee Movie. I just took the kids this weekend. Seinfeld wrote the script, so it is very funny. The kids also loved it. It also, to me seemed to have a simple, sweet and original storyline. A bee tries to sue a honey producer for ‘stealing’ honey from bees, but he runs into the law of unintended consequences.
Shame of it that one of the ones closed is "The Grinch", which is cute (saw it last year) and lots of families traveled a long way to get to the city and find that the show was canceled. And that's a limited run, obviously, so they can't get new tickets after the strike.
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