May 28th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
The box office weekend starts so soon when you have a Memorial Day and the overseas market opening early. Just yesterday we posted the US tracking numbers and now the actual numbers are beginning to roll in. ‘Sex and the City: The Movie’ is starting off well overseas. Pink lady nights brought in $4 million in the U.K. at just 460 screens. If we do the math, that’s a whopping $8700 per screen on a week day. Was my buzz-meter right this time? Is it really going to beat all expectations?
France was a little less excited, with a decent $800,000 at 540 screens. But will the ladies in the U.S. be just as hyped as the ones in the U.K., where the movie premiered last week. Or will the mediocre reviews affect the box office numbers.
I personally don’t think the target audience will check a lot of review, but we’ll know in a couple of days. ‘Sex and the City’ won’t be out in the U.S. until Friday.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
 | | The left picture should of course say ‘IV’ and not ‘IIII,’ but I don’t think anybody would’ve noticed if I didn’t just mention it. But I’m getting awfully off track here. Paramount thought, if a 65 year-old Harrison Ford can do it, so can the still young Eddie Murphy. And after the box office success of ‘Indiana Jones 4,’ they’ve greenlit ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4.’
The first three films came close to grossing $1 billion worldwide and 16 years later, Paramount is planning to release a another ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ during the summer of 2010. Eddie Murphy will reprise his role as detective Foley and Brett Ratner is in talks to direct.
Can we get excited about yet another sequel?
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May 28th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
These shots were taken at the set of Johnny Depp’s new film ‘Public Enemies.’ The $80 million movie is shooting in Chicago with Michael Mann, also creator of ‘Miami Vice,’ ‘Collateral’ and ‘Ali,’ directing.
The crime drama is set during The Great Depression and revolves around FBI agent Melvin Purvis in his attempt to stop criminal John Dillinger. The story is based on the book by Bryan Burrough, with Johnny Depp playing John Dillinger. He is co-starring with Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis. Shooting will take place until the end of June and ‘Public Enemies’ will hit theaters after one year of post-production.
Also notice how the bakery is actually a book store. Don’t let the cinema fool you!
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