Weekend#s BD2 $43.1M/$227M, Skyfall 36/221.7, Linc 25/62.2, Rise 24/32.6, Pi 22/30.2, Ralph 16.8/1

[JackO]

Great opening for Rust and Bone. Average for HitchcockGood weekend for SLP

[Moviedweeb]

Great opening for Rust and Bone. Average for HitchcockGood weekend for SLP

Kinda awful for Hitchcock, no? I was really looking forward to this one but it may be a disappointment.

[efialtes76]

Rise of the Guardians: Burn motherfucker.. burn!

[Deep Wang]

I didn't see how we could keep up yesterday's pace, and we aren't. Everything is just a smudge off from yesterday. Except for Ralph, that managed a slight increase in that first show.

[tupek]

That says more about Daniel Craig and his first good Bond film in 6 years than it says about TASM. I think Bond has always had the potential to make this kind of money, but either the product was substandard or followed a substandard film. Skyfall followed QOS, yes, but this is the first time the franchise has let enough time pass between editions to allow people to forget about the faults of the last one. Plus, CR was so good, it continues to bring in new converts.

without 3D.

[rockNrollaDIM]

I didn't see how we could keep up yesterday's pace, and we aren't.Everything is just a smudge off from yesterday.Except for Ralph, that managed a slight increase in that first show.

Yesterday was like a Saturday for most people. So I guess it makes sense. Still a sensational weekend.

[John Marston]

without 3D.

Skyfall has its own advantages

[CoolioD1]

The biggest advantage Skyfall has over TASM is probably the fact it's a good film. That helps.

[TLK]

Im confuse by this. Who do you think is Adeles market? She is popular with all ages and im sure 90% of males going to this movie know who she is. Her market is not 14 year old girls at all.

Adele's demographics is mostly female and most of them are between the ages of teens and 30s. I am mystified that people can't see the obvious here. It was a huge worldwide marketing effort that used London Olympics among other things to target (mostly males) action fans and it paid off. Nobody pays 10 bucks to see a movie just because their favorite singer is on the soundtrack.

[tupek]

The biggest advantage Skyfall has over TASM is probably the fact it's a good film. That helps.

Agreed.From est. 48m tickets to around 30m...... no, bad, bad....

[grey ghost]

Agreed.From est. 48m tickets to around 30m...... no, bad, bad....

So you're saying Spider-man 3 is better than ASM?Irrational ASM-hate is irrational. Edited November 24, 2012 by grey ghost

[grey ghost]

BTW, Spider-man movies always drop in ticket sales domestically.Always.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

I hear Craig is being asked to grow his hair so he can gel it up in that ridiculous Edward Cullen way that girls seem to like for whatever reason.

Craig doesn't have enough hair to do that.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

Why are people comparing Skyfall and TASM? Other than the fact that they share the same production company, they have little in common. Different demographics, different genres, different seasons. I can do that. Skyfall is no TDK. It doesn't come close, blah blah blah. Both Skyfall and TASM are successful films, one is just easier to hate than the other, regardless of their quality.

People tend to forget that the Raimi trilogy was ridiculed by many on the internet. SM2 was the only one people were even close to unanimous about(but even it had its online detractors). It wasn't until TASM was announced that people started deifying the entire trilogy. SM3 went from pure crap to "at least it's better than TASM". This is "retconning" history at its finest.

I guarantee TASM will hold up better to historic scrutiny than SM3, and it even has a slight chance at holding up better than SM1, depending on how well the second and third are received.

/rant

[ddddeeee]

I'd argue 'retconning history at it's finest' was the enormous increase in hate for SM and SM2 once TASM was announced.

Edited November 24, 2012 by Frankendddeeenie

[RichWS]

People tend to forget that the Raimi trilogy was ridiculed by many on the internet. SM2 was the only one people were even close to unanimous about(but even it had its online detractors). It wasn't until TASM was announced that people started deifying the entire trilogy. SM3 went from pure crap to "at least it's better than TASM". This is "retconning" history at its finest.

I thought only SM3 was ridiculed? Also, "at least it's better than TASM" is a perfectly fine statement to make. SM3 may be pure crap, but ASM is a bigger log.

[rockNrollaDIM]

The very idea of TASM represent everything I hate about Hollywood at the moment. Maybe it's not fair to that particular film, maybe it can stand on its own merits, but it doesn't matter. It shouldn't exist in the first place. Out with the old, in with the new.

[John Marston]

I thought only SM3 was ridiculed? Also, "at least it's better than TASM" is a perfectly fine statement to make. SM3 may be pure crap, but ASM is a bigger log.

ASM is way better than SM3. I don't see any reason to like SM3 over it

[ddddeeee]

SM3 is pretty brutal but it at least has some life about it. It has Raimi's kinetic camera style going for it and some singular good scenes. This is better than anything in TASM.

[RichWS]

ASM is way better than SM3. I don't see any reason to like SM3 over it

This sequence is more entertaining than anything in ASM.