4-Day Wknd Est: AS - 105.3M, Pad - 25.2M, TWR - 24.5M,Taken 3 - 17.44M (pg 109)

[grim22]

This teaser may end up being the most effective piece of marketing in 2014. One scene highlighted and left on a cliffhanger

 

[Jandrew]

It's still fucking mindblowing to me that Passion made nearly 400M. How did that happen?

Jesus and Mel Gibson? I mean its called Passion of the Christ afterall.

Edited January 18, 2015 by Jandrew

[AniNate]

Jesus and Mel Gibson?

 

...before everyone knew he was psycho

[Jack Nevada]

Jesus and Mel Gibson? I mean its called Passion of the Christ afterall.

Sure, but 370M is still an insane amount of money.

[AniNate]

It was also the subject of a year-long media circus before it came out.

[Jandrew]

Sure, but 370M is still an insane amount of money.

But: Jesus.

[MrPink]

But: Jesus.

 

The Last Temptation of Christ had Jesus and Scorsese backing it...but it didn't take.

 

Whomever said it was a movie for Christians was probably right. Often filmmakers take creative liberties with the story that tend to offend Christians and lose their support in the process.

Edited January 18, 2015 by MrPink

[Maxmoser3]

Rob Lowe dug it.

Rob Lowe ‏@RobLowe 13m13 minutes ago

So happy #AmericanSniper is crushing. This is what movies should be: original, with real acting, believable action and good story.

and I agree with Rob Lowe

[Ryan Reynolds]

Clint still got it

[forg]

The Passion of Christ was very controversial and had lots of media coverage before release so that is a factor as well for the big box offce

[The Panda]

I really can see how WoM on this is strong, I went to see it at 10:10 in an XD theater (seats 500ish I think) and it was sold out. Everyone sat through the credit montage silently and then there was a loud applause when the mon

[DAR]

The NFL shouldn't really have an impact. There's only a few teams still playing so the fans of all the other teams would have lost all interest.

50 million + watch those games.

That's not how the NFL works. Everyone still watches even when their team is out of it. Part of that has to do with gambling and part of that is because the NFL is so popular.

Last year both games had 50M and 55M viewers respectively. All movies continued to decrease 30%+ despite the Monday holiday. If NFL hasn't been hitting the box office on MLK Sunday then something else has.

The drop could be higher since the Packers are playing.

[DAR]

Passion of the Christ is one of those I saw it and don't need to see it again films

[grim22]

The drop could be higher since the Packers are playing.

 

The Cowboys aren't. Maybe the drop in Texas won't be as bad.

[Rthmessiah]

wait for it

[Rthmessiah]

AS Sat atm going with 32-34

 

Fri 8 of top 20 thrs in TX, Diego managed 2, also thrs in OK,AZ,DC, NM,KS, LA/NYC 1thr

AS Sat 35m

[DAR]

You have a green light Rth

[Donald]

Wtf!

[DAR]

Fuck me. Incredible

[MovieMan89]

AS Sat 35m

This is getting out of hand.