“‘I’m very proud of John Carter . Box office doesn’t validate me as a person, or as an actor. I’d love to go do John Carter 2 . I really would. It’s just shitty I don’t get to work with the [ John Carter ] family. It really was a special thing.” [ EW ]
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Lionsgate needed it, and Lionsgate got it: The beleaguered studio’s Hunger Games gamble paid off in record-shattering fashion over the weekend, milking smart social-media strategy with old-fashioned saturation marketing — not to mention an honest-to-goodness good film — on the way to $155 million in three days. $155 million . As in the third biggest opening ever . You weekend receipts are here. 1. The Hunger Games Gross: $155,000,000 (new) Screens: 4,137 (PSA $37,467) Weeks: 1 And let’s not forget the nearly $60 million pulled in abroad, bringing the first adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian bestsellers to an early $215 million tally overall. I have a few things to say about this a little later in the day, but for now let’s just tip our caps and/or stew jealously at the volume of the numbers here — the third-largest opening ever behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and The Dark Knight and the runaway biggest opening for a non-sequel. All that’s left now is to predict the week-two drop. 55 percent? 60 percent? Less? Take your best shot in the comments. 2. 21 Jump Street Gross: $21,300,000 ($71,051,000) Screens: 3,121 (PSA $6,825) Weeks: 2 (Change: -41.3%) In other, vastly secondary but still-intriguing box-office news, how about 21 Jump Street holding on with a decent week-two score against outrageous competition? Watch them wind up counterprogramming sequels against Hunger Games films through at least 2016. 3. Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Gross: $13,100,000 ($177,300,000) Screens: 3,677 (PSA: $3,563) Weeks: 4 (Change: -42.5%) Another solid week. Now pinch your nose, because… 4. John Carter Gross: $5,014,000 ($62,347,000) Screens: 3,212 (PSA $1,561) Weeks: 3 (Change: -63.1%) Money hemorrhaging aside, I had every confidence after week one that Disney could muscle this to $100 million in the States. At this rate, however — I mean, a 63 percent drop ? Even against Hunger Games that’s outrageous — John Carter will be lucky to make it to $90 million. On the bright side, Disney is doing nearly triple the business overseas, enough to make $325 million overall a possibility. Feel free to bet on that while you’re at it. 5. Act of Valor Gross: $2,062,000 ($65,942,000) Screens: 2,922 (PSA $931) Weeks: 5 (Change: -44.8%) I went back a couple years before essentially losing interest in the previous film to finish in the weekend top five with a PSA under $1,000. It’s rare! Congrats to Relativity as well, I guess. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Weekend Receipts: Hunger Games Claims Insane $155 Million
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Stephanie Zacharek already kind of addressed this phenomenon in her review , but as John Carter postmortems go, yeesh : “[W]hat’s really sad is when you look at the Rotten Tomatoes pages for The Lorax and John Carter . Among ‘top critics,’ The Lorax has a 48 percent fresh rating, and most of the reviews I’ve seen have been pretty respectful. (Except for the New Yorker , which says ‘The badness of the picture is a shock,’ and the New York Times , which called it ‘a noisy, useless piece of junk.’) And critics pretty much piled onto John Carter — among ‘top critics,’ it’s at 35 percent fresh, with people outright gloating about how expensive it was and how much it falls short. It’s like there’s a collective agreement that The Lorax is too big and too much of a mainstream juggernaut to call out — but the herd decided it was okay to feed on John Carter .” [ io9 ]
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The Great Lorax/John Carter Hypocrisy
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Despite the stiff competition of the NCAA tournament and the local bar, the multiplex fared all right over St. Patrick’s Day weekend: The single new wide release 21 Jump Street was a hit, and The Lorax retained its blockbuster status in its third week of release. Not bad! Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. 21 Jump Street Gross: $35,000,000 (new) Screens: 3,121 (PSA $11,214) Weeks: 1 Despite (or because of?) its R-rating, the TV reboot/adaptation scored in a terrific per-screen average and stands to come in a sturdy (if distant) second next weekend to The Hunger Games . Great job, Sony! Next up: T.J. Hooker , starring Danny McBride. OK, never mind. 2. Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Gross: $22,800,000 ($158,400,000) Screens: 3,769 (PSA: $6,049) Weeks: 3 (Change: -41.3%) The domestic total is extraordinary, but factor in the 30 or so foreign markets where The Lorax has yet to open (or at least be reported), and we might be on the cusp of a half-billion dollar phenomenon. In which case, how do we sequelize Seuss? Do we sequelize Seuss? 3. John Carter Gross: $13,515,000 ($53,172,000) Screens: 3,749 (PSA $3,605) Weeks: 2 (Change: -55.2%) Decent overseas numbers notwithstanding, you can cry for John Carter now. 4. Project X Gross: $4,005,000 ($48,131,000) Screens: 2,922 (PSA $1,371) Weeks: 3 (Change: -64.1%) It’s not too often that you see a film averaging less than $1,400 per screen coming in fourth overall, especially after a 64 percent drop. It’s even rarer to… 5. A Thousand Words Gross: $3,750,000 ($12,103,000) Screens: 2,952 (PSA $1,979) Weeks: 2 (Change: -39.3%) …surpass a fifth-place finisher with a higher average on virtually the same number of screens. And a mere 39 percent drop. Fluke of the Irish, etc. etc. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Weekend Receipts: Jump For Joy
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Forget John Carter ‘s controversial budget woes and terrible tracking for a minute; Wrath of the Titans has been threatening to be the first big biff of 2012 since it was announced, thanks largely to its poorly received predecessor, Clash of the Titans . The sequel’s initial Marilyn Manson-themed trailer didn’t help, either, but Warner Bros. have thankfully tightened things (and stopped lingering on Sam Worthington’s Kenny Powers ‘do) for a new trailer that actually promises some fantastic CG creature work. Bring on the lava monster thingy! Wrath of the Titans picks up ten years after the events of Clash , with Perseus (Worthington) tapped once again by Zeus to save the world, this time from the nefarious Titans and Olympian plotters we glimpsed in Immortals . (Thanks for that primer, Tarsem!) This time around Rosamund Pike is along for the ride as the warrior queen Andromeda, as well as folks like Toby Kebbell and Bill Nighy. This trailer tightens things up a bit, explaining the set up (Liam Neeson’s Zeus is under attack!) and packing a ton of CG creature looks into the span of a minute and a half. Honestly, that’s shaping up to be the draw of this Jonathan Liebesman-helmed sequel. All I want to see is some believable lava smoke monster giant action. The movies never get those guys quite right. Wrath of the Titans will debut March 30. [via ComingSoon ]
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CG Monsters, Villains Star in Slightly More Coherent Wrath of the Titans Trailer
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Forget John Carter ‘s controversial budget woes and terrible tracking for a minute; Wrath of the Titans has been threatening to be the first big biff of 2012 since it was announced, thanks largely to its poorly received predecessor, Clash of the Titans . The sequel’s initial Marilyn Manson-themed trailer didn’t help, either, but Warner Bros. have thankfully tightened things (and stopped lingering on Sam Worthington’s Kenny Powers ‘do) for a new trailer that actually promises some fantastic CG creature work. Bring on the lava monster thingy! Wrath of the Titans picks up ten years after the events of Clash , with Perseus (Worthington) tapped once again by Zeus to save the world, this time from the nefarious Titans and Olympian plotters we glimpsed in Immortals . (Thanks for that primer, Tarsem!) This time around Rosamund Pike is along for the ride as the warrior queen Andromeda, as well as folks like Toby Kebbell and Bill Nighy. This trailer tightens things up a bit, explaining the set up (Liam Neeson’s Zeus is under attack!) and packing a ton of CG creature looks into the span of a minute and a half. Honestly, that’s shaping up to be the draw of this Jonathan Liebesman-helmed sequel. All I want to see is some believable lava smoke monster giant action. The movies never get those guys quite right. Wrath of the Titans will debut March 30. [via ComingSoon ]
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CG Monsters, Villains Star in Slightly More Coherent Wrath of the Titans Trailer
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Willem DaFoe is spotted at John Carter movie premiere.
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Joan Rivers and daughter, Melissa Rivers, do the ‘Extra’ show at The Grove.
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The new poster for the long-delayed Disney caper John Carter , based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ old series, is awesome in three ways: 1) It is quite red. 2) It is quite bold. 3) It looks like a Super Nintendo/Playstation video game cover. Maybe an RPG featuring shirtless warriors and choppy computer-animated sequences? And the vocals talents of Dana Gould? Or maybe it just resembles the video for Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy.” Whatever, all of these. Click ahead.
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New John Carter Poster: Red Dawn
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