Summer Movies 2006

[Ananas]

I'm pretty sure it being the best selling book I think ever since The Bible and one of the biggest worldwide B.O. earners ever released, shows that a lot of people disagree with your opinion.

[therockbox]

Who?

[livid]

Who?

Edited May 28, 2006 by Livid

[Pepsi]

I'm pretty sure it being the best selling book I think ever since The Bible and one of the biggest worldwide B.O. earners ever released, shows that a lot of people disagree with your opinion.

"Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" is the second best selling book of all time, with over 1 billion copies in print. The "Da Vinci Code" is massively popular yes, but not that popular.

[fineintent]

I'm pretty sure it being the best selling book I think ever since The Bible and one of the biggest worldwide B.O. earners ever released, shows that a lot of people disagree with your opinion.

"Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" is the second best selling book of all time, with over 1 billion copies in print. The "Da Vinci Code" is massively popular yes, but not that popular.

[Pepsi]

I'm pretty sure it being the best selling book I think ever since The Bible and one of the biggest worldwide B.O. earners ever released, shows that a lot of people disagree with your opinion.

"Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" is the second best selling book of all time, with over 1 billion copies in print. The "Da Vinci Code" is massively popular yes, but not that popular.

Ok, Best Selling Fiction book next to the bible. (Y)

[Numbahs]

Nope, I did.

Awful....and not "funny awful" either.

[Ananas]

I'm pretty sure it being the best selling book I think ever since The Bible and one of the biggest worldwide B.O. earners ever released, shows that a lot of people disagree with your opinion.

"Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" is the second best selling book of all time, with over 1 billion copies in print. The "Da Vinci Code" is massively popular yes, but not that popular.

[mikevandam]

Over the hedge for me

[ROC]

First, Cars was the weakest Pixar movie to date. Didn't stop it from being fun, but it's too lazy of an effort for what would be expected from Pixar. That said, the new film Ratatouille looks tremendous.

So, June 16th is a strange weekend. It's the time of year where the niche pictures have their day rather than the extravaganzas. So far, Nacho Libre is winning the weekend with $11 mill on Friday, which will probably be $30-35 mill by the end of the weekend with Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift not far behind. Then there's The Lake House and Garfield 2. LH is only around $5 mill while Garfield 2 is around $2.5 mill and looking to tank fast.

So, there's the amateur box office report from the ROC. Feel free to discuss summer shizzle again.

[Laice07]

So far nothing spectacular in the theatres.....until next week when Superman Returns. Cars takes the number 1 spot at the Box office, and I still haven't seen it.

[Guest Simply Red]

Isnt Rocky 6 coming out this summer? Anyway I watched MI:3 And Di Vinci code and both where just avrage movies.

Edited June 21, 2006 by Simply Red

[ROC]

I believe the new Rocky's planned to be out in February 2007.

[ROC]

And now, the weekend box office for the June 23-25 weekend, courtesy of IMDB.

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary

23 June 2006 (Sunday Estimates)

Rank Title Weekend Gross

1. Click (2006) $40M $40M

2. Cars (2006) $22.5M $156M

3. Nacho Libre (2006) $12.1M $52.7M

4. Waist Deep (2006) $9.45M $9.45M

5. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) $9.2M $42.6M

6. The Lake House (2006) $8.3M $29.2M

7. The Break-Up (2006) $6.1M $104M

8. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) $4.75M $16M

9. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) $4.4M $224M

10. The Da Vinci Code (2006) $4M $206M

[Pepsi]

We walked out of Click and went to a dance club where I was hit on by this greasy guy who kept following me around the rest of the night and wouldn't leave me the hell alone.

Yet it was still more fun then sitting through Click.

[ROC]

We walked out of Click and went to a dance club where I was hit on by this greasy guy who kept following me around the rest of the night and wouldn't leave me the hell alone.

Yet it was still more fun then sitting through Click.

[Hellfire]

Only movie I'm going to see this week is Waist Deep. I'll give a call to my friend and see if I can get tickets for Superman Returns, but if I have to wait until next week its not a big deal.

[slain]

Click.......RULED! (Y) Probably the best movie ive seen in a veeeerrrry long time! The Break Up wasnt bad either, I couldnt get into it because my girlfriend was with me and , Anyways, both movies are great!

[zero]

Well, I just watched the teaser for the live action Transformers movie. Couple that with Spidey 3 and while this Summer may suck ass, at least we got next year.

[ROC]

From AP/Yahoo

'Superman' Soars to $52 Million Opening

Sunday July 2 1:19 PM ET

Superman may not be the world's greatest superhero at the box office, but the Man of Steel still flies high. "Superman Returns" took in $52.15 million over opening weekend, lifting its five-day total since its debut Wednesday to $84.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

That puts the Warner Bros. film ahead of the premiere of last year's "Batman Begins," another Warner superhero revival, which took in $48.7 million over its opening weekend and $72.9 million in its first five days. But "Superman Returns" finished far behind Sony's "Spider-Man 2," the record-holder for best five-day openings, with $152.4 million over Fourth of July weekend in 2004.

The weekend's other new wide release, 20th Century Fox's "The Devil Wears Prada," debuted far stronger than expected to come in second with $27 million. Industry analysts had expected the movie, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, to debut at less than $20 million.

The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, Sony's Adam Sandler comedy "Click," fell to third place with $19.4 million, raising its 10-day total to $77.9 million.

Hollywood's overall revenues rose for the seventh straight weekend. The top 12 movies took in $140.1 million, up 5 percent from Fourth of July weekend last year. If estimates hold, it would be the second-best Fourth of July weekend ever, behind the $158.4 million haul in 2004, according to Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

The first big-screen adventure for the Man of Steel in 19 years, "Superman Returns" traces the comic-book hero's homecoming after a mysterious five-year absence. Played by newcomer Brandon Routh, Superman finds lady love Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has a son and a new man in her life, while archenemy Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) has hatched a plot to control the world.

Directed by Bryan Singer, who made the blockbusters "X-Men" and "X2: X-Men United," "Superman Returns" earned favorable reviews. A Superman fan since boyhood, Singer passed on doing a third "X-Men" to make "Superman Returns" after Warner let him throw out previous Man of Steel scripts and start from scratch with his own story.

"Bryan is just such a bright and creative individual. He had his own vision, and he was right and did a great job," said Dan Fellman, Warner head of distribution.

The movie should hit $110 million by Tuesday, Fellman said.

"Superman Returns" had big returns in 76 huge-screen IMAX theaters, most of which ran the movie incorporating 3-D footage in many action sequences. About $5 million of the film's grosses came from IMAX theaters.

"The Devil Wears Prada," adapted from Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel, stars Hathaway as an aspiring journalist who reluctantly takes a job at a top fashion magazine, where she works for a tyrannical editor (Streep).

The movie's audience was four-fifths women, who turned out in far bigger numbers than 20th Century Fox had predicted.

"I don't know what to say. This is beyond my expectations," said Bruce Snyder, the studio's head of distribution.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures through July 4 will be released Wednesday.

1. "Superman Returns," $52.15 million.

2. "The Devil Wears Prada," $27 million.

3. "Click," $19.4 million.

4. "Cars," $14 million.

5. "Nacho Libre," $6.2 million.

6. "The Lake House," $4.5 million.

7. "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," $4.4 million.

8. "Waist Deep," $3.3 million.

9. "The Break-Up," $2.8 million.

10. "The Da Vinci Code," $2.3 million.