Wednesday #s: ANCHORMAN 2 8.1M/ It's in a glass case of emotion / Hobbit (4.855m) / CF (1.243m)

[Bob Violence]

THR says 45m 5days.

 

I though at least 60M.

 

$45m is pretty much what Variety said too ("high $40 millions").

[MrPink]

I'm thinking we need to have a special award for the Best Overactor of the Year.We can call it the Jeremy, in honor of this fine manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4w__Vqdjg

 

I'm nominating the one guy who whipped Liam Hemsworth in Catching Fire.

 

Last year goes to John Daggett :wub:

Edited December 19, 2013 by MrPink

[Shawn Robbins]

Side note: I don't know why, but I'm watching Real Steel on FX. Not as boring as I thought it was the first time I rented it from Redbox.

[Plain Old Tele]

Ron Perlman should run away with it,

[Bob Violence]

If I remember correctly, Paramount didn't wanted to greenlight this, right? That is just fucking hilarious.

 

I think their reluctance makes a lot more sense when you consider that McKay/Ferrell originally wanted an $80m budget. Paramount greenlit it when they got it down to $50m.

[Shawn Robbins]

I think their reluctance makes a lot more sense when you consider that McKay/Ferrell originally wanted an $80m budget. Paramount greenlit it when they got it down to $50m.

 

I think the long-run will prove that even an $80m budget would have yielded a profitable movie, but I do agree with you that it's easy to see why Paramount was hesitant after the first film's box office (decent, but not great).

[AdamKendall]

Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya 32s

#Anchorman2 now tracking towards about $8-9M for opening day.

 

 

Rth ... any confirmation of those #s?

Edited December 19, 2013 by Adam

[ecstasy]

He said it didn't look like 10m to him.

[baumer]

No two ways about it, it's a really soft opening.  I think the weekend numbers will be much better but I was initially thinking of more like 12-14 OD.  But if it does 8-9 that's quite low.

[#ED]

Anchorman must have a big weekend coming up if no one is going up see it today.

[Plain Old Tele]

If it's really 8-9 then 4 should be a decent number for tomorrow.

[DAR]

I'm thinking we need to have a special award for the Best Overactor of the Year.We can call it the Jeremy, in honor of this fine manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4w__Vqdjg

That was hilarious, awful, awfully hilarious and hilariously awful Edited December 19, 2013 by DAR

[baumer]

If it's at 4 tomorrow, then it better jump by about 150% on Friday.  

[Cmasterclay]

There's no way to shake that anything lower than ten isn't a disappointing number, sadly.

Edited December 19, 2013 by Cmasterclay

[#ED]

There's no way to shake that anything lower than ten is a disappointing number, sadly.

Well we still have the release date card to play.

[iceroll]

Well where's BKB?  I wish you guys would have kept his Anchorman 2 > Catching Fire club open, it would have been hilarious.

[AdamKendall]

Personally, I've just felt the Anchorman 2 demand has felt forced and unnatural over the last year.  From the promos which didn't inspire my interest to now the blitz all over the media the last few weeks.

 

I guess I just feel they missed their window to truly capitalize on the first film by several years.

 

I was pretty positive about a big opening a few months back just because I thought others probably were more enthused, but now I'm not as certain.

 

 

... of course, it could skyrocket on Friday and I'll eat my words, but something doesn't feel right to me. (relatively speaking)

Edited December 19, 2013 by Adam

[Biggestgeekever]

Well where's BKB?  I wish you guys would have kept his Anchorman 2 > Catching Fire club open, it would have been hilarious.

The BKB curse strikes again.

 

Anyone brought up Shrek 2 yet?

[rockNrollaDIM]

JLaw on Babwa

[DAR]

Let's just wait and see for once