SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 11/16/11-11/18/11

[Brockster]

I think you guys should have a dance off to settle this.

[numbersix]

I dunno, Brock, I do a mean robot

[numbersix]

But didn't Fantastic Mr. Fox do well in the UK (where it opened first) because it was marketed to children?

It did better because Roald Dahl is huge amongst children, so I suspect that was the main factor.

[Ron Burgundy]

Ok, ill lend you my future psychic powers, but just this once....

Muppets: 85Mil
Arthur Christmas: 50mil
Hugo: 105mil
Chipmunks: 160mil
Tintin: 170mil
Warhorse: 60mil
Beauty and the Beast 3D: 45mil

i hope beauty and the beast is on the Jan leagues

[Ron Burgundy]

and twilight: 120mil, 280 finish

[Brockster]

Word on the street (and by that I mean HSX) is that Hugo is tracking poorly and the studio is starting to pull back on the print ads. Take it for what it's worth (website gossip )

[Brockster]

Six wrote,

I dunno, Brock, I do a mean robot

Yeah, you're not the only one doing a mean robot:

[Buscemi]

Ron, keep in mind that Hugo's only opening in 1,200 theatres. Paramount seems to be thinking legs rather than a high opening (that or Paramount's like every other studio this year and dumping indie pickups).

And the poor tracking is all Paramount's fault. They've done a bad job marketing it (it probably would have been better marketed had Columbia kept the film and moved Arthur Christmas to a different date).

[Ron Burgundy]

The fact that it opens with 1200 is a good thing, it will do a similar thing to other success stories that opened low, not sure i can remember a family flick doing that though. Remember it is made by Martin Scorsese, who i honest think will not make a bad film until the day he dies, and it has a steller cast including Sacha Baren Cohen, Jude Law, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer and Ray Winstone, not to mention yound up and comer Asa Butterfield.
Paramount know what they are doing. And its in 3D.

[Ron Burgundy]

yeah, you mentioned legs, thats what it will have

[Buscemi]

Sweeney Todd had a similar opening four years ago and did decently (it didn't break even until DVD though).

[Chienfantome]

But Sweeney Todd was a horrible, horrible, horrible film Boosch

[Buscemi]

American audiences liked it though.

[Chienfantome]

I cannot believe that.

[undeadmonkey]

I thought sweeny todd was hilarious, was that not the intention or did i miss the memo?