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Posted Saturday, October 31st, 2009 - 11 Comments »

Friday Estimates by Klady – These Is Them

Title – Distrib – Gross * – Theater – % Change

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  1. marychan says:
    October 31, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Is the Box office performance of THAT IS IT may not be disappointing? Depend on different expectation of different people.
    But Sony and AEG had wished for much better result, so the performance is disappointing for them.
    By the way, it looks like THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY would become a good success for Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group. Congrats to SPWAG, Troy Duffy and other people involved in this film.

  2. martin says:
    October 31, 2009 at 10:55 am

    BD2 should have gotten a wider release this weekend. I know a lot of people that caught it on DVD, it’s kind of a cult classic. Would have done a solid 8-10 mill open if they’d gone over 2000 theaters.

  3. EthanG says:
    October 31, 2009 at 11:02 am

    So DP, is this a critique of AEG and Sony, which wildly overpaid/overestimated the potential for this film, thus setting off the media frenzy.
    It’s not the fact that $40 million won’t be great for a concert film…Michael Jackson was arguably the most famous person alive at the time of his death. And yet in North America he’ll do probably 25 million less than Hannah Montana…hilarious!!! Sony will make money off this, but not as much as it stands to make from “Zombieland.” Not by a long shot.
    Nice per theatre for “House of the Devil” considering it’s already VOD.
    Boondock Saints 2 is very disapointing. It could have done $5 million this weekend in 100 theatres if it had any kind of marketing whatsoever. Literally everyone that I know is shocked to hear it’s coming out this weekend…and in a frenzy to see it. Apparition has a way to go….

  4. marychan says:
    October 31, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    I don’t think it is the fault of Apparition. They just market/release this film with the P&A money from Sony. (In this case, I don’t think Sony gives too much P&A money to Apparition)
    THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY is actually from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group’s Stage 6 label. Most films from Stage 6 went straight-to-video, so it is lucky that SPWAG/Stage 6 agree to give THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY a very modest theatrical release.
    The very modest theatrical release of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY is clearly for helping drive DVD sales/rentals. About $5000 PTA (at the opening weekend) would be a success for this film. Afterward, this film would do much better in DVD/Blu-ray market (which is the film’s main market).

  5. The Big Perm says:
    October 31, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    So if Paranormal Activity isn’t the most profitable movie ever, what is? Not it terms of money made, but the ratio of how much spent vs how much made. Blair Witch? Halloween?

  6. martin says:
    October 31, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Mary, I disagree. Boondock could have done quite well in a standard theatrical release, it was not so niche that it needed to go directly to DVD (minus this token theatrical run). Money was left on the table due to this decision, IMO. Money that would have also paid off on ancillaries.

  7. EthanG says:
    October 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Top 5 (caveat on Paranormal Activity…it’s unknown how much the reshot of the last scene cost):
    1. Blair Witch-248 million worldwide on $35,000
    2. Tarnation-1.1 million worldwide on $218
    3. Paranormal Activity
    4. Mad Max
    5. Supersize Me
    6. Night of the Living Dead.
    7. Rocky
    8. Halloween
    9. American Graffiti
    10. Once
    Of course that doesn’t take into account P&A on the films, just the production budgets and worldwide gross.

  8. jeffmcm says:
    October 31, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    It’s likely that professional sound mixes on Blair Witch and Tarnation raised their budgets a bit above the $218 level.

  9. Lota says:
    October 31, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Deep Throat should be on that most profits list. Porn doesn;t have much P & A to cut into profit does it?
    ALso–there’s some other Indies that could be on that list and they are escaping me for the moment. Argh

  10. Telemachos says:
    October 31, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. What was the budget on THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY?

  11. Bob Violence says:
    November 1, 2009 at 12:22 am

    Deep Throat should be on that most profits list. Porn doesn;t have much P & A to cut into profit does it?

    There was no reliable tracking system for porn films, so nobody really knows how much it made. And mafia accounting is probably even more creative than the Hollywood kind.

    Tarnation and Blair Witch come closer to half a million each after post-production costs (clearances for Tarnation, reshoots for BWP, mixing for both).

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