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Posted Saturday, March 25th, 2006 - 19 Comments »

Klady's Friday Estimates – 3/25/06

Okay… get this… the Friday estimate for Spike Lee

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19 Responses to “Klady's Friday Estimates – 3/25/06”

  1. jeffmcm says:
    March 25, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    I’m assuming those dogs must have more personality than Paul Walker (because they’d have to).
    I don’t expect V for Vendetta to uptick much…seems like it’ll top out around $60?
    And as David Spade said, shouldn’t they have called it “Larry the Health Inspector”?

  2. Tofu says:
    March 25, 2006 at 1:23 pm

    Pretty much a given that Inside Man was going to open higher than Vendetta. Vendetta hopefully upticks to a 40-something% drop. $70 million is the likely landing point here.
    I’m actually on the team that thinks Disney didn’t expose Eight Below enough. Like any Miyazaki movie, it just could’ve found even more of an audience but Disney doesn’t take the bait.
    The question now is if Vendetta or Stay Alive will be #2. I’m siding with Vendetta because of last week’s Saturday rise, Horror movies going all over the place on Saturday’s, and personal bias. Hehehehe.

  3. Jimmy the Gent says:
    March 25, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Mr. Poland,
    Which’ll be remembered in a decade, Vendetta or Brokeback? Thought I’d just stir up some debate.

  4. James Leer says:
    March 25, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    Oh, no. Can’t they both be?
    There’s plenty of other debate in the thread “The First Gay Superhero Movie,” Jimmy. Sink your teeth into it.

  5. martin says:
    March 25, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    agreed, 8 Below did a lot of money with very little advertising support outside the core demo. That was $125-150 money maker that they took the quick and cheap approach with. THe film never had much buzz and still made a ton of cash.

  6. martin says:
    March 25, 2006 at 4:50 pm

    probably neither, the public seems to be over the love affair with Brokeback and Vendetta just hasn’t caught on outside the trades.

  7. jeffmcm says:
    March 25, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    (sigh)
    What makes you say the public seems to be over Brokeback? Just because it’s not in the headlines anymore?

  8. martin says:
    March 25, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    i think the ugly oscar loss confirmed what a lot of the public thought about brokeback – that it was overrated. Between the two though, I’d say Brokeback has a better shot at being remembered in 10 yrs. “Gay cowboy movie” is going to be harder to get out of public conciousness than “fey anarchy flick”.

  9. jeffmcm says:
    March 25, 2006 at 5:59 pm

    And what is your source for your notion that the public thought it was overrated? It’s in the top 250 on IMDB (granted, just barely, but still).

  10. Crow T Robot says:
    March 25, 2006 at 7:04 pm

    Go Spike!

  11. jeffmcm says:
    March 25, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Yeesh, I didn’t realize that Malcolm X was his highest-grossing movie ever, with $48m…Inside Man will easily pass that after next weekend or so.

  12. Joe Leydon says:
    March 25, 2006 at 10:08 pm

    R.I.P. Richard Fleischer at age 89. I know he’ll likely be remembered best for “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “Fantastic Voyage,” but I must admit that “The Last Run” will always have a more important place in my heart. If you’ve ever seen it, you’ll know what I mean. Especially when George C. Scott tells Trish Van Devere, after she tells him she won’t run off with him: “Well, I never really thought you were going to…”

  13. Sam says:
    March 26, 2006 at 7:40 am

    Clive Owen is plural now?

  14. Lota says:
    March 26, 2006 at 1:49 pm

    wow. nice one, Spike.

  15. palmtree says:
    March 26, 2006 at 11:51 pm

    Yeah, that movie totally worked and was also a continuation of Spike’s cultural explorations. Hope he does more great stuff now that he has some more box office validity.

  16. Crow T Robot says:
    March 27, 2006 at 12:48 am

    I agree. Inside Man is genetically as much of a Spike Lee film as Do The Right Thing, and even when character motivations fly off the tracks, there’s never an uninteresting moment in the film. The whole way through I got the sense my theater’s intelligence levels were being met and challenged.
    When his indulgences are put in check, Lee can work wonders.

  17. Josh Massey says:
    March 27, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    How many people, though, do you think saw “Directed by Spike Lee” in the opening credits and were surprised? The ads ran like hell from promoting the fact Lee was behind it.

  18. Cadavra says:
    March 29, 2006 at 10:31 am

    A brilliant move on their part. Does anyone really think it would’ve opened to 29 mill with Spike’s name plastered all over the ads? (And props to Spike for recognizing that fact and agreeing to it.)

  19. KamikazeCamelV2.0 says:
    March 31, 2006 at 12:27 am

    The fact that Denzel and Jodie were in it practically sealed it’s fate no matter who directed it. Add in Clive Owen and, yes, Spike Lee and you got success. Seriously, I love that Jodie Foster is still one of the movie-worlds most consisted draws.

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