SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 1/27/12

[Brockster]

Thank god, I was pissed last week.

[Shrykespeare]

Weekend Actuals

Top 10:
5 points - The Grey, $19.7M
4 points - Underworld Awakening, $12.4M
3 points - One For the Money, $11.5M
2 points - Red Tails, $10.4M
1 point - Man on a Ledge, $8.0M
Extremely Loud, $7.0M
Contraband, $6.7M
The Descendants, $6.4M
Beauty and the Beast, $5.3M
Haywire, $4.0M

PTA (Nov/Dec leagues):
5 points - A Separation (20 total)
4 points - We Need to Talk About Kevin (16 total)
3 points - The Grey
2 points - Coriolanus
1 point - One For the Money

PTA (Jan leauges):
5 points - The Grey
4 points - Coriolanus
3 points - One For the Money
2 points - Red Tails
1 point - Underworld Awakening

Declaration of War tanked with a PTA of $2,132 in 6 theaters.

[Geezer]

Shryke, just watched Lucky Number Slevin again today, your signature is the best line!

[Shrykespeare]

There were a lot of great lines. It was an awesome movie. Glad you like it. (I'm assuming you like it, or else you wouldn't have watched it again.)

[Geezer]

Oh yeah, love it. Been a couple years since I've watched it, but its the type of movie that is better that way, because some things get to surprise you all over again.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Damn you, Declaration of War!

[silversurfer19]

Damn you, Declaration of War!

I know, I got sucked into the hype on here over the last week or so and threw it onto a few slates. Thank God Coriolanus is coming good, while The Grey is exceeding every expectation I had for it, easing my PTA worries in one fell swoop. Heck even Underworld is still pulling in a few points!

[Chienfantome]

I'm appalled by the numbers of Declaration of War. It's a shame. How could this happen ? This is one of the best films of the year, this has got great word of mouth and reviews, this was at Cannes, this represented France for the Oscars - even though it wasn't nominated -, heck, it takes much less of a pedrigré for a French film to usually succeed at the US BO ! So what happened with that one ? How come american cinephiles didn't bother to go watch it ? Damn you, American film buffs !!!!

[Ron Burgundy]

Hmmm, well well well. I guess im not listening to your advice anymore Chien. Haha, declaration of war.....although the cinema count before the weekend was 3, and then jumped to 6, so maybe that had an impact, if ever so small. Beauty and the Beast wasnt quite The Lion King either, but yeah this is indeed a strange January. But then you were right about The Devil...

The Grey looks like the bets of Jan, Contraband was a great pick for what its worth, the trailer looked average but i guess you cant tell a book by its cover blah blah blah.

Im wondering how Titanic 3D will go, and Star Wars too, but they both seem a touch too expensive, if either were $2 cheaper id prob snap both up no worries.

And wow, im putting last year behind me, off to a half decent start

[Buscemi]

On Titanic 3-D: a set of previews being done on Valentine's Day managed to sell out in less than 24 hours (the servers even crashed due to the demand). So watch out for it.

[Chienfantome]

You may be right about not listening to me anymore Ron
I don't know what to believe in now that American audiences have spit on Declaration of war