May 31st, 2008 at 12:08 am
1. Indiana Jones 4: $145,840,212 ($185 million budget)
2. Narnia: Prince Caspian: $34,613,170 ($200 million budget, second week)
3. Iron Man: $30,457,656 ($186 million budget, fourth week)
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May 30th, 2008 at 12:20 am
As always, we have the upcoming movies in quotes for you. This week we can choose between the pink ‘Sex and the City: The Movie’ and the pitch black ‘The Strangers.’ Or we could just go with an oldie, like ‘Indiana Jones 4.’ The critics were quite mild this week. Although ‘Sex and the City’ didn’t pass the test, with a Metacritic score of 5.4. Even beaten by ‘The Strangers,’ which scored 0.1 higher, a 5.5. Hit the jump to see what those grumpy critics had to say.
Continue reading The upcoming weekend in quotes
May 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Those tears make Aslan look so sad. No need to cry though. As we saw in our ‘Prince Caspian’ box office story, the Disney blockbuster is doing well overseas and will still be very profitable. It might not make $750 million like the first movie, but it will soon have a bigger worldwide gross than its $200 million budget. Disney CEO Robert Iger however, found it necessary to defend Prince Caspian’s box office performance. Maybe because analysts have downgraded their forecasts for Disney’s next financial quarter.
He blamed the release date, which Disney themselves moved from Christmas to spring, for the weak showing in the US. Between ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Indiana Jones 4,’ ‘Prince Caspian’ got lost in the crowded market place. “There’s just too much out there,” Iger said. The question is, will they move the next Narnia back to the Christmas season, which was much more fitting for the movies’ atmosphere, or will they keep the May 7, 2010 release date?
