Movie Audiences Go AWOL (Hmmmmmmmmm....)

IMDB.com ^ | 4-1-2003

[Paul Atreides]

Although the public apparently was no longer glued to television for war news over the weekend, it was not going back to the movies either. Ticket sales were down 20 percent from last weekend and 24 percent from the same weekend a year ago. The top film at the box office was the Chris Rock comedy Head of State, which debuted with just $14 million, according to estimates. Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, which had held the box-office crown for three previous weekends, slipped to second place with about $12.5 million. The sci-fi thriller The Core, which reportedly cost $85 million to $100 million to make, opened in third place with around $12.4 million. Another new film, the John Travolta-Samuel L. Jackson thriller Basic, basically flopped with $12.1 million. Sales for the top 12 movies totaled $87.3 million versus $114.2 million for the comparable weekend a year ago.

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. Head of State, $14 million; 2. Bringing Down the House, $12.5 million; 3. The Core, $12.4 million; 4. Basic, $12.1 million; 5. Chicago, $7.4 million; 6. Dreamcatcher, $6.4 million; 7. Agent Cody Banks, $6.1 million; 8. Piglet's Big Movie, $4.6 million; 9. View From the Top, $3.8 million; 10. The Hunted, $3.7 million.

[dila813]

Hollywood boycott is on!

[basil]

Looks like my boycott is finally paying off---LOL! I haven't been to a movie in literally years!

[CheneyChick]

Just wait til Susan Sarandon's next flick.

[NewYorker]

Ticket sales were down 20 percent from last weekend and 24 percent from the same weekend a year ago.

Can't imagine why!

[blackbart.223]

No surpise here. The leftist Hollywood idiots won't be able to figure out why either.

[BossLady]

'Piglet's Big Movie' looks the best to me....hehehe...

[conservativemusician]

Oh well. Hollywierd loses out to the real world.



BTW. What did you think of Sci-fi's COD?

[Paul Atreides]

I think it is that real life HEROES are more interesting to watch.

[cherry_bomb88]

You think they'll figure it out??????????????

[Brett66]

I went and saw The Core, it was pretty lame. At least I waited for the $4.25 matinee price.

[Paul Atreides]

I liked it. I held my nose during the Saranwrap scenes, but at least she got double-crossed at the end.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

no

[Black Agnes]

Message on the signboard of a church near my house...'Hollywood is for Satan'.

[conservativemusician]

I thought it was pretty cool.

Looks like they're settin' up for God Emporer.

That would be something.

[I_dmc]

Gee, its sure easier to just not go to the movies, rather than figure out if some US-haters will profit, if you do.

[xp38]

Somehow the Oscar show didn't boost ticket sales as planned. What could possibly have happened on that show that may have soured things?

[Hank Rearden]

I went and saw The Core, it was pretty lame. At least I waited for the $4.25 matinee price.

That's what I like about my lifetime pass; I can walk out of anything and the most it'll cost me is the popcorn. Which I can take with me for snax later on.

Except for Moulin Rouge - I think I threw the whole bag at the screen before walking out at the 45 minute point.

[abner]

Just wait til Susan Sarandon's next flick.

It was on last week on the Sci-Fi Channel. I skipped it, even though I loved the books. The Children of Dune. I skipped it only because of Sarandon. I know others that skipped it because of her too.