The soft post-weekend box office dropJune 12th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Another week, another look at the post-weekend box office drop, where we compare the weekend with the week to see how long the new movies will stay around.
1. Sex and the City
Saturday and Sunday: $13,910,620 million
Monday and Tuesday: $5,354,732 million
Drop: 61.5%
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‘The Strangers 2′ already being plannedJune 12th, 2008 at 2:22 am
 | | Who would’ve thought the low-budget ‘The Strangers,’ with its $9 million budget, would gross $40 million within two weeks? When an independent studio makes this kind of money, talks about a sequel soon emerge. And Bloody-Disgusting has ‘100% confirmed’ these talks have begun.
‘The Strangers 2′ is being talked about, but I’m not sure if they can repeat the success. Can such a sequel ever? I don’t even know where the buzz for the first movie came from.
Did people really anticipate it or was it just timing, when the audience wanted something different than the all blockbusters currently around? We’ll see I guess.
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The box office weekend in a graphJune 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
The weekend ended as expected. $60 mill for ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and $40 for ‘You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,’ the studios reported earlier today. Both DreamWorks Animation and Adam Sandler can be pleased. DreamWorks only opened higher with ‘Shrek 2′ and ‘Shrek the Third’ and Sandler had his usual $40 million opening. Nothing to be ashamed of, I’d say.
We noted how ‘Indiana Jones 4′ and ‘Sex and the City’ swapped places yesterday, and they didn’t swap back this Sunday. Indy did $6.7 million on Sunday, while ‘Sex’ grossed another $6 mill. Their totals were respectively $22.8 million and $21.3 million. A close call and I expected a higher second weekend for ‘Sex and the City,’ after it held up so well during the weekdays. Monday and Tuesday will show its definite staying power. I personally expect it to hop to the third place again, maybe even passing ‘Zohan.’
‘The Strangers’ came in last, but not least. Considering the $9 million budget, it had an amazing second weekend. It topped its budget with $9.3 million and now stands at a total of $37.5 million. This must give Liv Tyler a lot of credit at the box office.
Next week is another big one. Will ‘The Incredible Hulk’ smash into the box office? And does ‘The Happening’ even stand a chance?
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