holy hell -- that's a lotta money

the film is now considered the highest-grossing release ever in the cinematic categories of Romantic Fantasy, Vampire and Werewolf films.

I love that -- dig that knife in just a little bit deeper Jarrod, the guys will love ya for it

Meh.

Avatar will come out soon enough and the legion of squealing fanboys will obiterate any record a bad vampire movie set this year. Especially since it will be shown at the inflated 3D ticket prices.

If the producers of this vampire suckage were smart, they'd make the next movie in 3D and rake in even more babysitting money from the teenage girls in attendance.

I still dont understand someone decided to release a good movie like The Blind Side against Twilight. I know lots of people who did not go to the movie, who wanted to see Blind, just because they didn't want to have to deal with the Twlight crowd. I think if Blind had been held a little longer or went out a few weeks sooner if would have done alot better then it did.

I would really like to know how these terrible decisions get made and who is making them. I thought one of the major reasons movies are released is to make money. 

Blind has only been out a few weeks and has already made 100 mil at the box office.  That's probably 50 mil more than the studio thought it was going to make.  How well did you think it would have done if Twlight wasn't playing? 

It's tough to call it bad decisions when Twlight is over 200 mil already and Blind hit the magic 100 mil mark.  Seems like good marketing decisions to me. 

No offense littlemikey but your comments don't make any sense.

Hobbs, actually The Blind Side and the vampire suckage movie both opened on Nov. 20th.

Granted, I was actually surprised to see an emotionally manipulative 'disease of the week' movie like The Blind Side hit the $100 million mark in a week's time. If anything, all the sold out vampire showings probably pushed people to buy tickets to see Sandra Bullock suckage since there really wasn't anything new out there.

I agree there wasn't much competition out there this weekend.  Granted even if there were, the tennage girls would have still pushed the bo totals past 200 mil.  As I said last week you can't underestimate the power of teenagers.  Instead of boy bands they have Twlight now.  I think they might be listening to you when it comes to making the next one in 3-D.  Once Avatars totals come in every studio is going to want all their movies to be 3D. 

No one could've predicted what Blind Side is doing. I don't think Twilight had any affect on its performance, bottom line is that it's plain just a sleeper hit ala Hangover which wiped the floor with Land of the Lost I believe. 

Blind Side is your typical counter programming, aimed at an entirely different group than Twilight.

Thinking about checking Armored next week. I like the cast but the premise really isn't totally pulling me in. It's either that or staring at the AVATAR countdown

Only thing I saw this weekend was Boondock Saints 2, which finally made its way to Michigan.

Wiseguy, I'm with you man, I can't explain it but I'm think about seeing Armored.  No idea why.

 I have not seen anything listed here and most likely won't. Nothing seems of interest at all. Like the rest of you “Armored”, can't explain why but I seem to feel the need to check it out. 

I am going on limb though and saying I think “Avatar” will not do as well as people think. It has been a long time since Cameron and his ego had a major picture out plus every time I see a trailer it makes me think of “Ferngully” and plus with each trailer viewing I grow less and less interested in it… then again I do have a slew of free movie tickets so I may just use one up on the flick. 

Ummmm its Disney's a Christmas Carol, not an American Carol, just sayin.