Box Office Update: THUNDER Strikes Twice at B.O.

Box Office Report Lite?

Mania. You really need to tone down your web page. I have a super computer and it takes about 10 seconds for a page to open up because you have all this crap on it. It's even worse with my work computer. Anyways.... Summer is coming to an end...as far as huge money makers go. Nothing really surprising though I was personally interested in seeing how Death Race would do. Next up, you have the Vin Babylon movie out next week. I just finished the book this last week and really enjoyed it...I have a feeling I'm going to regret reading it first because movies never live up to a book but I'll still see it. Other than that anyone have any guess as to the next HUGE movie coming up?

I do, it's called Quantum of Solace. WTF, did anyone read last week's EW? It has a spoiler regarding QoS and didn't say nothing about it. Or maybe I didn't know about it and everyone else knows. Anyway ********Spoiler******** Apparently QUANTUM is the new organization Bond will be battling a la SPECTRE. ********End Spoiler******* TDK got beat by The House Bunny? WTF!! Staying away from the movies till Eagle Eye opens up.

Hanso, you're NOT gonna see Traitor, Rightous Kill or Burn After Reading? They all come out before Eagle Eye and to me, personally, they all look more interesting. As for QoS, I caught that blurb in EW. They were having a hard time figuring out what Q.U.A.N.T.U.M. is going to stand for. I dig the name though. How the FUCK did House Bunny make $15 mil? Perplexing to say the least.

I think there's going to be two big movies (in terms of box office) during the next couple of slow months before the new Bond movie opens. The first is High School Musical 3. Keep in mind the first two movies originally aired on the Disney Channel, so this is the first theatrical opening. The HSM phenomenon keeps on chugging along quite strongly, and with the Disney promotional machine behind it, I think it's going to do the business of a fair-to-middling summer blockbuster. The second is Madagascar 2, which beats the holiday rush by a couple of weeks. It will probably rival the new Bond movie for best box office in November. Don't underestimate the power of a heavy marketing campaign combined with millions of homes with the DVD of the first movie on heavy rotation, and kids who love to sing the "Move It, Move It" song. Given the abrupt absence of a Potter flick, the holiday movie season looks like a bunch of wildcards. I think the winners (apart from Bond, which is a given) will be the 3D animated Bolt, the vampire movie Twilight, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Is that 3D animated Bolt film about the Jamaican guy? Flint - Yea man, I'm probably gonna miss out on those until they hit DVD. Traitor looks nice but I doubt the Mrs will wanna go see it. Burn After Reading is not something I'd go see at the movies. I had forgotten about Righteous Kill, that maybe the one I end up seeing out of those you mentioned. Maybe the House Bunny shows boobs. Only way to explain it.

I think those all sound good, but I agree that Bond is the next huge movie. Madagascar will do ok though. Yeah Bolt runs faster than any cartoon dog. Did I just type that? So THE ROCKER made a whole 2.75 million opening weekend, wow, that is really bad. And Death Race got beat by the Bunny, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Classic. I stayed home this weekend and watched a harry potter movie with my daughter and also watched The Great Raid. I'm looking forward to Miracle at Santa Anna or whatever Spikes movies called, so I popped in a WWII movie to holf me over.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua is going to own the rest of the year, SON!<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />hanso, TDK 6 weeks out, HB 1st weekend out. That's how it beat it. TDK'll probably top it next week.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />I think there are plenty of possibly decent films coming out, just no big budget films outside of QoS and The Day the Earth Sood Still.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />Bagkok Danderous, Max Payne, Punisher, Valkyrie, Spirit, Bolt, Benjamin Button, Transporter, Miracle at St Anna, City of Ember and RockNRolla. <BR itxtvisited="1" />Oh and what I'm predicting to be the biggest let down in relation to hype, Twilight.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />I see Jarrod wasn't around to write the b.o. report, that's probably why it's so abbreviated. Even J deserves a day off or two. Hope all is well.

Glad to see TT repeat, best comedy of the year, ahead of Step Brothers.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />Saw Death Race, it was ok. The kind of stuff you expect from Statham, fun and action filled but really not much more.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />Also caught TDK for the 4th time yesterday, still not buying it. But obviously still enjoy it otherwise I would've caught House Bunny.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />Today I've been watching TNT and LOTR trilogy most of the day. Best trilogy ever, bar none. And really looking forward to The Hobbit films.

No Wiseguy. House Bunny beat TDK because it probably shows boobs. TDK no boobs, it's the movie's only flaw. Might be why it doesn't beat the Titaic. Titanic had boobs. I think you may be under estimating the drawing power of boobies. You know what I saw, caught a bit of Superman Returns on HBO. Why the hell did Lex wanna create a kryptonite laced continent? I mean, sure it keeps Supes out but what about the US Army? What was he gonna do with that continent? I watched about 10-15 mins of the film towards the end and I gotta be honest, I kinda felt bad for Routh cause due to the reboot it's back to waiting tables for the poor bastard. Now that Almost mentioned Miracle on St. Anna, are there any white people in that movie? Clint's gonna be pissed. "Shut yo face!"