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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT
05.07.06
By Dave Davis
Contributing sources: Box Office Mojo
1 Mission: Impossible III $48,000,000
2 RV $11,100,000
3 An American Haunting $6,300,000
4 Stick It $5,500,000
5 United 93 $5,200,000
Is Tom Cruise's increasingly dire public persona impacting his box office potential? Are people growing bored with the "event movie"? Did most people think Mission: Impossible 3 looked like little more than a long Alias episode? Or were they just confounded by the M:I:III posters? Or did the toothsome celeb simply forget to have his negative thetans audited last week?
Whatever the case, the explody new spy flick fell short of expectations with $48 million -- no small amount for an early May opening, but hardly the $70 million some (including its diminutive superstar) had hoped for. Still, the movie mopped up overseas, so Cruise retains some amount of global appeal.
The week's other new releases had a difficult mission of their own, but the budget spooker An American Haunting handled defeat much better than the eco-comedy Hoot. United 93 is already circling for a landing, but the CG beasts of Ice Age: The Meltdown keep trundling forward.
From Box Office Mojo:
'Mission: Impossible III' Doesn't Thrill in Debut
by Brandon Gray
May 7, 2006
This franchise will self-destruct in three movies.
Count Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible among the mega-movie series that faltered by the third outing, joining Beverly Hills Cop, The Matrix and The Terminator among others.
Mission: Impossible III detonated with an estimated $48 million, below such other recent spy pictures as The Bourne Supremacy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. At 4,054 theaters, the $150 million action spectacle had the fourth widest launch ever but did not achieve a commensurate height in box office, trailing its predecessors by a wide margin in terms of attendance.
Released ten years ago, the first Mission: Impossible's $45.4 million opening weekend would equal around $67 million today, adjusted for ticket price inflation, while the second's $57.8 million from 2000 would be about $70 million. To be fair, both bowed on Memorial Day weekend when Sunday is as potent as Saturday, but both also burnt off demand with Wednesday debuts. Mission I went on to gross $181 million, or $266 million adjusted, and Mission II did $215.4 million, or $260 million adjusted.
According to distributor Paramount Pictures' exit polling, Mission: Impossible III's demographic breakdown was identical to the previous movies, with 64 percent of the audience over 25 years old and 56 percent male.
Prior to the weekend, a Paramount spokesperson suggested an opening between Mission: Impossible II and War of the Worlds ($64.9 million) as the bar for Mission: Impossible III's success, compared to media and industry expectations that had ballooned past $70 million. On Sunday morning, a hopeful Paramount likened Mission: Impossible III's potential to Batman Begins, which had a weaker-than-expected $48.7 million first weekend but went on to earn $205.3 million. Both sprung from dormant franchises with baggage—Batman and Robin for the latter and Cruise's overblown off-screen antics in Mission's case.
Waiting more than a few years to produce a sequel is always risky business in franchise movie-making. For every Bad Boys II, there's a Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines or a Legend of Zorro. What's more, the first two Mission: Impossibles were ephemeral thrill rides, not movies that many continued to love through the years, and they didn't establish compelling characters beyond Cruise's star power, like a James Bond, Jack Ryan or Jason Bourne.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT
05.07.06
By Dave Davis
Contributing sources: Box Office Mojo
1 Mission: Impossible III $48,000,000
2 RV $11,100,000
3 An American Haunting $6,300,000
4 Stick It $5,500,000
5 United 93 $5,200,000
Is Tom Cruise's increasingly dire public persona impacting his box office potential? Are people growing bored with the "event movie"? Did most people think Mission: Impossible 3 looked like little more than a long Alias episode? Or were they just confounded by the M:I:III posters? Or did the toothsome celeb simply forget to have his negative thetans audited last week?
Whatever the case, the explody new spy flick fell short of expectations with $48 million -- no small amount for an early May opening, but hardly the $70 million some (including its diminutive superstar) had hoped for. Still, the movie mopped up overseas, so Cruise retains some amount of global appeal.
The week's other new releases had a difficult mission of their own, but the budget spooker An American Haunting handled defeat much better than the eco-comedy Hoot. United 93 is already circling for a landing, but the CG beasts of Ice Age: The Meltdown keep trundling forward.
From Box Office Mojo:
'Mission: Impossible III' Doesn't Thrill in Debut
by Brandon Gray
May 7, 2006
This franchise will self-destruct in three movies.
Count Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible among the mega-movie series that faltered by the third outing, joining Beverly Hills Cop, The Matrix and The Terminator among others.
Mission: Impossible III detonated with an estimated $48 million, below such other recent spy pictures as The Bourne Supremacy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. At 4,054 theaters, the $150 million action spectacle had the fourth widest launch ever but did not achieve a commensurate height in box office, trailing its predecessors by a wide margin in terms of attendance.
Released ten years ago, the first Mission: Impossible's $45.4 million opening weekend would equal around $67 million today, adjusted for ticket price inflation, while the second's $57.8 million from 2000 would be about $70 million. To be fair, both bowed on Memorial Day weekend when Sunday is as potent as Saturday, but both also burnt off demand with Wednesday debuts. Mission I went on to gross $181 million, or $266 million adjusted, and Mission II did $215.4 million, or $260 million adjusted.
According to distributor Paramount Pictures' exit polling, Mission: Impossible III's demographic breakdown was identical to the previous movies, with 64 percent of the audience over 25 years old and 56 percent male.
Prior to the weekend, a Paramount spokesperson suggested an opening between Mission: Impossible II and War of the Worlds ($64.9 million) as the bar for Mission: Impossible III's success, compared to media and industry expectations that had ballooned past $70 million. On Sunday morning, a hopeful Paramount likened Mission: Impossible III's potential to Batman Begins, which had a weaker-than-expected $48.7 million first weekend but went on to earn $205.3 million. Both sprung from dormant franchises with baggage—Batman and Robin for the latter and Cruise's overblown off-screen antics in Mission's case.
Waiting more than a few years to produce a sequel is always risky business in franchise movie-making. For every Bad Boys II, there's a Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines or a Legend of Zorro. What's more, the first two Mission: Impossibles were ephemeral thrill rides, not movies that many continued to love through the years, and they didn't establish compelling characters beyond Cruise's star power, like a James Bond, Jack Ryan or Jason Bourne.
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Date: 2006-05-08 11:04 am (UTC)I hope Katie got a good pre-nup, because you know Tom'll divorce her within approximately 9.5 years so that pesky California community-property law won't kick in.
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