ROTTEN TOMATOES: Box Office Guru Wrapup: "Epic Movie" Conquers Box Office

Box Office Guru Wrapup: "Epic Movie" Conquers Box Office

by Gitesh Pandya | January 29, 2007

Summary

Proving that there's always money in spoof comedies, Fox's "Epic Movie" shot straight to number one over the weekend in its debut frame beating out three other new releases plus a handful of expanding Academy Award contenders. In fact, the immature laugher outgrossed all five Oscar nominees for best picture combined. Back to Article

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Banana Kid writes:
on Jan 29 2007 05:26 PM

I kind of want to cry right now.

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mizzoucritic writes:
on Jan 29 2007 05:55 PM

I think some of you people are forgetting that Pan's Labyrinth IS finding an audience, a surprisingly big one considering it's in Spanish, rated R, and has no big stars. It's made back it's budget already (worldwide) and no doubt it will win a few more awards, which will give it more money. When I saw it on Saturday, I was surprised how many people were in the theater with me and no doubt positive word of mouth will propel it further (from those people who didn't walk out, which there were a few). I know I've been talking it up and intend to see it once more.

The saddest part of all is that movies like Pan's, which was one of the best of 2006, only has 823 theaters. I'm sure there are more people who want to see it but Picturehouse and the smaller theaters aren't getting it wide enough. But Epic Movie's "success" only comes from its being in 2,801 theaters and having enough stupid teens out there who are willing to pay for it.

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tsrvanner1 writes:
on Jan 29 2007 11:57 PM

[b]Whats all the fuss about?[/b]
Of course an oddball parody movie beat out the oscar nomenies. Average people don't go to movies to be enlightened or expand their imaginations, they go to be entertained. How else do Fast and the Furious sequels get made? Plus Pans Labyrinth wasn't even that good. The only real problem is that the parody movies now adays are crap. What happened to Space Balls and Robin Hood: Men In Tights. Are the Mel Brooks days gone.

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tysonwritesel writes:
on Jan 30 2007 01:05 AM

*Groans in agony*

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fizzypulp writes:
on Jan 30 2007 05:15 AM

[b]Change of subject[/b]
to change the subject but isnt Freedom Writers, the new Swank movie, just an updated dangerous minds....sorry i got bored with all the EM/Pans talk

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Miro Stak writes:
on Jan 30 2007 09:35 AM

In reply to this comment (#854178)
Off topic, but the communists were involved. The USSR was the republicans' main ally and many units fighting the fascists were communist.

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the_don_of_yreka writes:
on Jan 30 2007 09:48 AM

has anyone seen Meryl Streep's speech at the Golden Globes ? she was telling us if our local theaters dont show great moives like "Pan's Labyrinth", "Dreamgirls" or "Notes on a Scandal", why not get off our asses and talk to our local theaters about getting them played there. i know would like to see epic moive but i do want to see the moives that make me feel smart or be motivaed about an isuse hollywood rarely sheds a light on.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Jan 30 2007 10:54 AM

Well Pan's Labyrinth and all the other nominated films that I want to see and haven't yet still didn't come to my city this last weekend. So I went and saw Smokin' Aces which was entertaining nonstop action(B), and Catch and Release which was allright(B-).

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arcadefire325 writes:
on Jan 30 2007 11:57 AM

[b]epic movie[/b]
i will not see this movie. this isn't a parody anyway. the movie is made up of different movie characters acting stupid. as a person said before, classics such as the mel brooks movies and monty python are gone. it is the same crap over and over again.

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fynejackie writes:
on Jan 31 2007 06:15 PM

Fuck Epic Movie, piece of crap- Smokin ACes did great this weekend, i hope it has the legs to be a smash hit.

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dopplergirl writes:
on Feb 01 2007 04:36 PM

[b]WTF???[/b]
I wasn't expecting Oscar calibur peformences when I went to see Epic Movie. I expected to laugh maybe a little. That didn't happen. This is probably the worst movie I've ever seen. EVER. I left the theater so pissed off. Pissed off because the creators of this piece of shit wasted my time; time which have been better spent cleaning my toilet and/or the litter box.

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Bane Of Anubis writes:
on Feb 02 2007 10:55 AM

In reply to this comment (#854190)
Usually anything below 10% means that most people won't enjoy the movie (unless it's camp material -- which parodies aren't).

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