SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 9/21

[Chienfantome]

the arthouse snob crowd

Don't be such a cliché, Tranny, invariably associating "arthouse" and "snob". It makes you appear like a snob yourself you know

[Shrykespeare]

Official theater counts:

Trouble With the Curve - 3,212
House at the End of the Street - 3,083
End of Watch - 2,736
Dredd - 2,506
How to Survive a Plague - 4
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 4
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel - 2


Estimates for next week:

Hotel Transylvania - 3,300
Looper - 2,800
Won't Back Down - 2,500
Pitch Perfect - 335
Bringing Up Bobby - 1

[Shonenbat]

End of watch looks exactly like an episode of Southland. Love that show.
Trouble With the Curve looks generic and boring as hell.

I hope The Master manages a decent pta despite the 800 theater expansion...
The Perks of Being a Wallflawer is the clear winner of the pta race. It's expanding in almost 20 cities next week and it's going wide on october 5th. A 9 pta total is what I'm hoping for.

[Shrykespeare]

Stock Report:


Ultimate FY (R7, R8, R9 - 26 players)

Curve - 14, 3, 4
House - 3, 2, 2
End - 5, 1, 3
Dredd - 0, 1, 1
Perks - 3, 7, 8
Plague - 4, 1, 1
Travel - 2, 0, 0


Ultimate HY (R2, R3, R4 - 36 players)

Curve - 16, 8, 6
House - 4, 3, 2
End - 3, 1, 3
Dredd - 1, 2, 1
Perks - 4, 7, 10
Plague - 4, 3, 3
Travel - 1, 0, 0


Bankrupts, 3rd Quarter (Ult - 19 players; BO - 22 players)

Curve - 0, 1
House - 3, 1
Dredd - 5, 10


Box Office FY (R7, R8, R9 - 29 players)

Curve - 4, 9, 7
House - 3, 8, 4
End - 4, 1, 2
Dredd - 0, 0, 0
Perks - 2, 2, 1
Plague - 2, 0, 0
Travel - 0, 0, 0


Box Office HY (R2, R3, R4 - 36 players)

Curve - 6, 9, 6
House - 5, 7, 3
End - 5, 1, 1
Dredd - 0, 1, 1
Perks - 2, 5, 4
Plague - 0, 3, 0
Travel - 0, 0, 0

[Buscemi]

Right now (according to The Hollywood Reporter), Trouble With The Curve, The House at the End of the Street and End of Watch are in the $11-14 million range while Dredd is flopping with $7-8 million. The Master is looking at $5 million.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

This is the first weekend in months where I wanna see all the releases.

[Geezer]

But, they don't know that I'm going to see Trouble With The Curve tomorrow!

[undeadmonkey]

Hotel Transylvania looks kinda funny, i might go see that next weekend

[Buscemi]

I'm seeing The Master tomorrow. With only one theatre in the whole area running it (but four theatres here somehow still running The Last Ounce of Courage, which bombed last week), it should be crowded.

[transformers2]

This is the first weekend in months where I wanna see all the releases.

Yeah I saw Dredd last night and I still want to see End of Watch and Trouble with the Curve. I can't think of the last time there was a weekend where I was interested in three or more releases that were coming out.

[Shrykespeare]

Friday estimates:

House at the End, $4.6M
End of Watch, $4.6M
Trouble with the Curve, $4.2M
Finding Nemo, $2.4M
Dredd, $2.2M
Resident Evil, $1.9M
The Master, $1.4M
The Possession, $815K
Lawless, $704K
Bourne Legacy, $479K


Weekend Projections:

Trouble with the Curve, $13.6M
End of Watch, $13.5M
Hosue at the End, $13.0M
Finding Nemo, $8.7M
Resident Evil, $6.5M
Dredd, $6.3M
The Master, $4.3M
The Possession, $2.6M
Lawless, $2.3M

[Chienfantome]

Damn, what kind of disappointing numbers are those for TWTC ? Damn, I wish I hadn't put it on so many slates, suddenly...

[Buscemi]

I told you Eastwood's appearance at the RNC would hurt it.

[Geezer]

I told you Eastwood's appearance at the RNC would hurt it.

No, it didn't. This is idiotic. His movies are ALWAYS legs films. They don't break out in their opening week, they rely on strong word of mouth and grow, like most films aimed at older audiences do.

[Buscemi]

If his movies are legs films, then how do you explain the low numbers on Invictus and J. Edgar? And Gran Torino had a big opening when it went wide (and wasn't hampered by bizarre appearances).

The film will be lucky to hit $50 million now (seeing that this is a film that Warner Bros. expected to be big).