ROTTEN TOMATOES: Box Office Guru Wrapup: The Simpsons Movie Gobbles Up $72M Opening

Box Office Guru Wrapup: The Simpsons Movie Gobbles Up $72M Opening

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In their fifth weekends, Disney's Ratatouille and Fox's Live Free or Die Hard held up well grossing estimates of $7.2M and $5.4M, respectively. The Pixar toon dipped 34% and has banked $179.7M to date while the Bruce Willis sequel slipped only 25% pushing the cume to $125.1M. The new John McClane adventure is the actor's highest grossing live-action film since 1999's The Sixth Sense.

Two new flops rounded out the top ten. Sony's Lindsay Lohan horror flick I Know Who Killed Me bowed to an estimated $3.4M from 1,320 theaters for a weak $2,576 average. The R-rated torture pic was never tracking well and its star's recent arrests put the nail in the coffin for the film's release. MGM opened the golf comedy Who's Your Caddy? with an estimated $2.9M averaging only $2,846 from 1,019 sites.

Four films dropped out of the top ten over the weekend. The Warner Bros. romantic comedy License to Wed tumbled 64% to an estimated $1.3M lifting its cume to $41.7M. A mediocre $44M final should result for the Robin Williams pic. Rival comedy Knocked Up has been one of the year's top comedy performers and fell 48% to an estimated $1.2M giving Universal a superb $145.1M to date. The low-cost $30M production should finish its domestic run with just under $150M.

Horror hit 1408 dropped 54% to an estimated $1.2M giving MGM $70M thus far. As the year's second biggest fright flick after Disturbia, the John Cusack film should reach about $73M.

The Steve Carell epic comedy Evan Almighty grossed an estimated $1.1M, down 57%, pushing the tally to $96.3M. Produced for $175M, the PG-rated pic will have to work hard with second-run business in order to crack the $100M mark for Universal. It will also have to soar internationally and on video if it wants reach break-even.

A handful of films expanded into wider release this weekend. MGM's military drama Rescue Dawn grossed an estimated $1.7M from 500 locations for a $3,304 average and $3M cume. The sci-fi thriller Sunshine grossed an estimated $1.3M for Fox Searchlight resulting in a $2,750 average and a total of $1.6M. The Don Cheadle film Talk To Me averaged $6,986 from 115 playdates for a weekend estimate of $803,000. Total sits at $1.9M for Focus.

The top ten films grossed an estimated $165.7M which was up a potent 52% from last year when Miami Vice opened at number one with $25.7M; and up 58% from 2005 when Wedding Crashers rose to the top spot for the first time with $20M in its third frame.

Author: Gitesh Pandya, www.BoxOfficeGuru.com

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sickofitall writes:
on Jul 29 2007 08:03 PM

woohoo take that gay adam sandler movie

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The Witless Wonder writes:
on Jul 29 2007 08:15 PM

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think Potter 5 has the largest 19 day cume out of the other films right now. I can see this making the 290 mil that Goblet made. Hopefully more but I think it'll be around 280-290ish at the end.

I'll probably see Simpsons next week sometime, but I can't wait for Bourne!

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Product_of_You writes:
on Jul 29 2007 08:53 PM

Me and my friends seem to be the only ones that thought The Simpsoms' movie was just so-so. It is on par with the television series the last few years. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great.

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caryrocks2000 writes:
on Jul 29 2007 09:31 PM

yea...no it was great

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starscream69 writes:
on Jul 29 2007 10:13 PM

WOW, are there THAT many people who have bad taste in movies. The Simpsons movie was HORRIBLE!!!!!! It had numerious plot holes, it wasnt even that funny, and you would expect that after all these years that SOMETHING major would happen in this film, IT DOESNT. Its like a hour and a half episode of the show, personally, i want my money back from this piece of crap excuse for a movie,....ITS NOT A MOVIE, ITS A EXTENDED EPISODE OF THE SHOW!!!!

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jimmers_205 writes:
on Jul 29 2007 10:44 PM

More people should be going to see Hairspray! It is better than I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Transformers and The Simpsons Movie combined. People are missing out on a great movie, and a tremdenously entertaining film.

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Bloody Mathias writes:
on Jul 29 2007 10:44 PM

Wow, Simpson's have the most loyal fan base other than the Red Sox. $70 is mazaing for such a mediocre film. It guaranteed to hit the $200 mill mark which is something Ratatouille is struggleing to do.

And here I thought Bourne Ultimatum would be more successful. There's no way in hell Jason can top that. I guess i can take comfort in that Ultimatum won't let me down like the Springfielders, 100% tomato meter with an 8.3/10! Woo-hoo!

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aj1127 writes:
on Jul 29 2007 11:12 PM

"More people should be going to see Hairspray! It is better than I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Transformers and The Simpsons Movie combined. People are missing out on a great movie, and a tremdenously entertaining film."

Thanks but no thanks......I'd rather watch robots kick the holy hell outta each other for 2 hours any day as opposed to watching John Travolta in drag in some lame musical. Sorry I just find Hairspray stupid.

To think I read where many Simpsons fans thought that Simpsons may actually beat Titanic in all-time biggest grossing movie.

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lavatory love machine writes:
on Jul 29 2007 11:18 PM

I really liked the movie and I've every simpsons episodes, most of them 30 or 40 times

it was pretty funny, specially the first act, the alaska part was a little rush but what I liked most about it it's what people seem to like the less: it's not bloated, there's only one celebrity cameo (tom hanks), it's not that diffrent from an episode in the same way that die hard 4 is not that different from 24

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dystopiandweller writes:
on Jul 29 2007 11:39 PM

Ugh, the Sandler garbage shouldn't have even made that much. The shiit the public will see....

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jul 30 2007 12:00 AM

Yes Hairspray is garbage and the Simpsons and Sandler movie was great

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sickofitall writes:
on Jul 30 2007 01:32 AM

In reply to this comment (#988777)
go stick it in an *** a mans ***

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kendrith1975 writes:
on Jul 30 2007 02:39 AM

SIMPSONS may drop by more than 60% next weekend, and don't be surprised if the drop is 70% plus! There is no guarantee it will cross the 200 million mark if there is bad word of mouth from diehard Simpson's fans, but seriously, who would think there will be a lot of new ideas in limited-time movie??!! New ideas may alienate those who are familiar with the show anyway. It is much like the X-FILES movie or any other movies based on television shows.

Adam Sandler posted a not too shabby sophomore weekend drop of 44%, making him the most consistent comedian in this business now, and he managed this feat with each of his films receiving horrible reviews. Way to go Sandler, but I miss your work in PUNCH DRUNK LOVE.

Catherine Zeta Jones rarely headlined a box office dud off the gate, and NO RESERVATIONS prove that she still has a certain drawing power despite her low output.

HARRY POTTER 5 continue to dropoff at a high rate, and it becomes clear that this one will not cross the 300 million, meaning a record 5 300-million grossing summer pictures may not happen.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Jul 30 2007 03:10 AM

Wait who actually thinks that Simpsons will have a bad word of mouth? All us real Simpsons fans loved the movie, no real fan hated it. It will drop because of Bourne but 70% are you ****ing retarded?

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kendrith1975 writes:
on Jul 30 2007 03:25 AM

In reply to this comment (#990462)
Dropping 70% is not unheard of, especially when your movie has huge frontload business coming off a huge weekend. Think X-MEN 3! By bad word of mouth, I am only commenting on some of the posters who claimed to be SIMPSON's fans and think the movie was mediocre at best, although I already counter argue that movies based on televsision series cannot have too much departure from the original material source anyway.

Still, you are taking this way too personally when you call me a retard just because I am forecasting a 70% dropoff. I am not here to offend anybody who love the Simpsons, as I am going to see it soon too.

I think your offensive bad tempered behaviour ought to stop now.

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Simsgil writes:
on Jul 30 2007 04:35 AM

Hey, I'm a Simpsons fan, but that movie was no big deal. I'm telling friends not to waste their money; wait for cable.

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Boss Fan writes:
on Jul 30 2007 04:45 AM

It won't drop 70% That is a huge drop in any respext and hardly ever happens. Plus word of mouth has been excellent (no matter what some haters will say) overall. I know older people who have never watched the show other than in bits and pieces over the years, but are avid movie-goers who have seen the good reviews and heard the word of mouth and went based off that despite not being a diehard fan. Yes, I'm sure the grosses were front loaded to some extent and the big fans and crowds came out right away, but the movie will have legs and repeat viewers in the form of younger children who have no other options on the horizon. It'll do fine...

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 30 2007 05:03 AM

In reply to this comment (#990535)
Also, I heard that if every fan watched the movie who watched the show last year it would have only grossed a little more than 58 mil. That tells me old time fans and new people turned out for the movie. I thought the movie rocked. Loved every minute of it in fact. Definately not the failure all the haters were predicting, frankly I think there are worse things than being just like the longest running animated show in television history.

P.S. there were actually two celebrity cameo's Hanks and Green Day.

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Gimy writes:
on Jul 30 2007 05:38 AM

not a real shocker, haven't seen the simpsons yet but i will. quite frankly this is just wait-time until a really great movie comes out, Bourne. hopefully it makes a RIDICULOUS amount of money(it will) and Damon is convinced to make one more in the series. doubtful since he's been straight forward for a few years now, its a trilogy...nothing more, but it could happen...

the simpsons COULD drop 70%(ANYTHING's possible!), but it probably won't because a "die hard" simpson fan is a person who STILL thinks the show is funny. basically...delirious. kinda like the Comic Book Guy, doesn't really care if its crap...but he'll watch it because he's OCD. the dude who's seen "every" episode, "most of them 30-40 times"...is exactly the kind of guy i'm talking about. jesus christ...i hope you're exaggeratin' bra...

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smartmoviekid writes:
on Jul 30 2007 06:28 AM

imma see Simpsons this week to ill help out with its 2'nd week gross. by the way i thought "Chuck and Larry" was suprisingly hilarious even thoguh i understand y ppl won't like it ( it does have humor ppl expect, but its still funny nonetheless)

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