Weekend Estimates (WB $19.5M, SLP $8.1M, BTTH $4.5M, SUG $1.5M)

[Jake Gittes]

Some  milestones have been achieved. DU passed $150 mio, Lic $170 mio, Argo $120 mio, SLP $80 mio, TLS $10 mio.

Why even mention the first four? They all hopelessly pale in comparison to TLS' achievement.

[Cmasterclay]

That's a bad drop for the Last Stand, but just wait until the holidays start!

 

Also, I'm probably the only person on here who finds that Warm Bodies number slightly disappointing. I've been predicting 23 million for a month now, and considering the crowd last night, I though it would go higher than Chronicle. Still should have great legs though. 

[fishstick]

That's a bad drop for the Last Stand, but just wait until the holidays start!

 

Also, I'm probably the only person on here who finds that Warm Bodies number slightly disappointing. I've been predicting 23 million for a month now, and considering the crowd last night, I though it would go higher than Chronicle. Still should have great legs though. 

 

I`ll never get enough of "just wait until the holidays start" line.

[Jake Gittes]

Also, having passed A Beautiful Mind, Lincoln is now the highest-grossing biopic domestically... that is, unless you consider The Passion of the Christ and The Blind Side to be ones, too.

[Cmasterclay]

I`ll never get enough of "just wait until the holidays start" line.

Me either. It's even better than "bringing in numbers from Puerto Rico."

[lilmac]

Besides the holdovers from the 1980s (Willis, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger) we don't have action stars. Statham, Diesel, and The Rock can't open big on their own so I don't include them. The action STAR is a relic of the Past. Wow.

[The Futurist]

The Rock and Vin Diesel say a collective hello.

[fishstick]

The Rock and Vin Diesel say a collective hello.

 

Diesel is not the real action star. He has F&F and that`s it. The Rock`s presence in Fast Five helped the boxoffice considerably, though.

Edited February 3, 2013 by fishnets

[rockNrollaDIM]

Besides the holdovers from the 1980s (Willis, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger) we don't have action stars. Statham, Diesel, and The Rock can't open big on their own so I don't include them. The action STAR is a relic of the Past. Wow.

 

Hi.

 

 

 

[Cmasterclay]

Liam Neeson and The Rock are definite action stars, and when a guy like Denzel does pure B-Movie action he's there as well. 

[stuart360]

It does seem like super heroes are the action heroes of today, i think the recent trend of PG13 action films over the last 10 years or so has also had a big impact on action films. What a damn shame.

[fishstick]

TC is still an action star. MI4 was huge and Jack Reacher is doing a solid business that it wouldn`t have with a less prominent actor.

 

Eveyrone forgot Jeremy Renner!

[Fake]

Renner is on a roll.

[John Marston]

Renner, while I really like him, has little to do with the success of his movies

[rockNrollaDIM]

Renner is a franchise whore.

[TLK]

There is a reason why Harvey didn't acquire Perks. As well as SLP is doing right now it isn't expected to be a major winner at the Oscars this year and even with Harvey backing Perks, it wouldn't have won anything. Academy voters are a different breed and to expect them to back a teen romance/coming-of-age movie just isn't realistic.Harvey knows what he is doing and he wasted no time in buying "Fruitvale" at Sundance because it is a movie that should do well with the AMPAS members.

[fishstick]

Renner is a franchise whore.

 

This. He wants to create an illusion of opening power whereas it`s other factors that do the job that he takes credit for.

[JackO]

Dem SLP Legs.

 

Decent for WB. 

 

@ Bullet to the head

[rockNrollaDIM]

Gitesh Pandya
‏@giteshpandya

Stallone gems that opened better than BulletToTheHead: Oscar, GetCarter, Rhinestone, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot!

 

[4815162342]

Neeson, Denzel, Diesel, etc should start their own team-up of modern action stars to out-Expendable the Expendables