Pretty standard drop-off. Every heavily promoted movie has a big opening weekend and then a drop of 50% or more as people turn to the next film.
I went and saw it this weekend. Yawn
(BTW, I'm secure in my faith enough to read and watch movies that may cause weaker minds to take off their clothes and join in pagan celebrations)
It followed the book so closely there were no surprises, it was pleasant seeing some of the locales of the film, but not worth 8 bucks.
One scene that seemed unique to the film was the one where Sopie 'cures' Langdon of his claustraphobia. I don't recall that in the book at all and thought it was bit over the top to have her 'healing'.
I read the book a year or so ago, so my recollection may be faulty. Do any other freepers remember her 'healing' powers in the book?
Long and boring.
Which added to it's previous take makes it a huge success already.
And Christianity remains strong, church attendance hasn't dropped, and people remained secure in their faith. Who'd have guessed? :-)
From Box Office Mojo (as of May 29, 2006):
Production Budget: $125M
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $145,481,000
+Foreign: $319,500,000
=Worldwide: $464,981,000
We saw OTH this weekend and no one was buying DaVinci tickets. XMen3 was getting a lot of play.
The funniest thing from the weekend was the NY Daily News had a big article on Ten Big Movies to See this Holiday Weekend!! Half of those movies got horrible reviews from their own critics. Some of the movies to see included Poseidon, MI:III and Hoot (an irresponsible, damn-the-consequences, save-the-owls kiddie flick) along with other dreck.
I'm hoping to sneak out to see XIII soon, but I'll probably wind up seeing it on video.
Looks like wishful thinking on your part. So it came in second to "X Men" with it's $120 million opening weekend. I doubt anyone expected any different. The movie has pulled in almost half a billion dollars worldwide. It is, by any definition of the word, a huge hit.
It's sinking....from all I've read it's a lousy movie.
Or as the atheists call it "Roots" -- Jay Leno
This is definitely not a movie anyone will be paying to see more than once.
It cost $125 million to produce, less than $50 million to promote. So Sony's investment is $175 million.
The general rule of thumb is a 50-50 split between gross and net, exhibitors and distributors (many specifics vary, but the early weeks are weighted toward the distributor - sometimes as much as 90-10).
So anything above $350 million is profit for Sony. The picture has grossed $450 million world wide - already. It is already a huge success for Sony. This film will generate $600 - $800 million from all markets by the time it is done.
It's a smash. It's also an ugly anti-Christian screed, but some folks like that.
It's already swum, domestic grosses are above production cost. Yeah it's fading faster than they would have liked but the foreign box office is picking up the slack. And when you figure that most Hollywood analysts thought it was going to make around $50 mil opening weekend and instead it made $77 it's holding together nicely.
I'm beginning to question the integrity of the media...
Its not a great second week but its not bad considering the terrible reviews - Here are the five worst.
1 Undiscovered $676,048 -86.4%
2 Gigli $3,753,518 -81.9%
3 Bad Moon $607,081 -81.5%
4 Return to the Blue Lagoon $1,277,428 -80.8%
5 Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace $1,428,658 -79.8%
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/drops.htm?page=1&p=.htm
Da Vinci is not among the 300 worst. only six movies in history have actually gone up the second week following a major release like DaVinci (#000+ theaters)
"The Da Vinci Code" is to Theology what "Chariot of the Gods" is to Archeology: a crock.
>>>DaVinci Code" Box Office Drops 55.9% From Previous Week
So what does that say about United 93, which saw it's week 2 draw decline 53.4%?
Week 1 - $11,478,360
Week 2 - $5,347,860
Anti & Lukewarm.