Box Office Analysis Week 38

Source: www.boxofficemojo.com & www.joblo.com

Sunny with a chance of #1

Matt Damon, Megan Fox and Jennifer Aniston sucked a big one this past weekend, as all 3 of their new films finished waaaaaay behind the latest 3D kid’s movie entitled CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, which managed to score over $30M worth of entries over the first 3 days of its release. I’m already putting down my option on the film’s sequel being entitled CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF NACHOS…baby!

Damon’s THE INFORMANT actually managed a decent showing in 2nd place and about $11M, which is also a good amount when you consider that the film apparently only cost about $20M to produce. It was, however, Damon’s lowest opening gross since 2006’s THE SHEPHERD (which surprisingly went on to make about $60M).

The Megan Fox parade might be ending very soon as well (and maybe even the Diablo Cody one) as her first major starring role in JENNIFER’S BODY, which seems like it’s been talked about for years now, was a major disappointment, opening in 5th place with only about $7M. I’m assuming Fox’s constant bitching about the industry and how she’s this and that, didn’t do her any favours. Somewhere Michael Bay is blowing something up and smiling though. In the film’s defence, it apparently only cost about $16M to produce, so it certainly won’t be a money-loser…but no major hit either.

The other parade I hope will soon be coming to an end is America’s love affair with one Jennifer “boring” Aniston. If you can give me 3 reasons why this woman is “interesting” in any way, shape or form, I’ll send you a dollar (and “having been married to Brad Pitt doesn’t count”, since that didn’t work out). Aniston’s latest film entitled LOVE HAPPENS (are they just drawing chick flick titles out of hats now??) opened weakly in 4th place with only about $9M in grosses. Again, in its defence, the film only cost about $18M to put together, so it likely won’t be losing much money either. Aniston’s ability to “open a film”, on the other hand, has been compromised. It was her lowest opening gross since 2005’s RUMOR HAS IT.

The 4 movies that were booted from the top 10 in order to make place for the new arrivals included GAMER ($19M), DISTRICT 9 ($112M), JULIE & JULIA ($88M) and WHITEOUT ($8M). At the same time, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS has become Quentin Tarantino’s highest-grossing film of all-time, surpassing PULP FICTION, which had made $108M back in 1994 (BASTERDS is at $110M).

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