Originally Posted By kennect I keep up with Box Office Guru which didn't seem to even feel the need this weekend to report anything about the film...That I thought was dissapointing since it does seem to have done some decent numbers....What is the deal with the overseas release...Has it gone wide or is it still somewhat limited?
Originally Posted By seanyoda <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/</a> lists the overseas take so far as $15,267,000 and domestic take as $118,235,000.
Originally Posted By Imagineer This Titanic is the one to beat for adult movies. What is it for a live action kids/family movie? Which is the highest grossing CGI movie? Is it Shrek or Pixar? It sure aint Chicken Little. If Chicken Little makes $500 million then I will agree that you are all right and that I am wrong. )
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 CHICKEN LITTLE IS NOT A FLOP!!!! NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION!!!! AND LIKE WE HAVE ASKED FOR THE LAST THREE OR FOUR WEEKS HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVIE??? YOU'RE OPINION IS NOT VALID UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE!!!! Sorry for yelling.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 If $500M is your measuring stick then basically you are saying every movie except Titanic ( which I hated btw) - sucks -- as it is the only one over $500M --- what a ridiculous measure.... someone please call George Lucas and tell him all of his movies suck -- as well as Peter Jackson - and all of the Harry Potter movies -- geez, get over it ! <a href="http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/ alltimegross</a>
Originally Posted By vbdad55 btw - Chicken Little is number 234 all time and cliimbing -- will probably move up another 40 + slots -- what a failure huh
Originally Posted By electra hey I kinda know how Imagineer This feels. I was kinda hoping CL would flop too, since Im peeved at what Disney did to their traditional animation dept. But, who am i kidding, I knew the minute they released that silly trailer with the breakdancing bird that audiences would eat this up & the movie was gonna be huge...meanwhile I havent seen it yet so Im restraining myself from giving any opinions(thought I had given tons of opinions on the trailer) on it here until i actually see it...which probably wont happen in a looong time(got way too many other dvd's Im more interested in watching right now)...
Originally Posted By idleHands Sooo... as of Dec 22, CL's domestic box was still under $130m. Still 7 mil short of Dinosaur's domestic box total of $137.7m, back in 2000. Ticket sales basically ground to a halt, once Narnia opened.
Originally Posted By Imagineer This It was not an outright flop, but it was not a monster hit like Shrek. It was modest at best. Look at the numbers. $100 million to $130 million is nothing these days. And the media stopped talking about CL after 3 weeks. It is forgotten already by the mainstream media and the public went on to Harry Potter and Narnia.
Originally Posted By JeffG The industry generally has been viewing the film as a success. The point that some of you seem to be missing is that the film was never really >expected< to generate business comparable to "Shrek" or the Pixar hits. It met or exceeded most of the industry expectations and, most importantly, it made a fair amount of money for Disney. Long term, I doubt the film will be viewed as being a classic, but it certainly takes a lot of stretching to try and spin it as less than successful. -Jeff
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Look at the numbers. $100 million to $130 million is nothing these days< simply not true -- box office numbers so bad the last few years $130 M gross domestic is very very good. Look at the top 20 movies at the box as of this last weekend and you will find very few close to $50M total let alone $100. Also CL is the only movie in the top twenty older than 5 weeks after release ( 8 weeks ) -- so while not Potter ( also CL much more limited overseas releases yet) consider this: Kong $118 Domestic yet I don;t see anyone telling Peter Jackson his movie is a flop ( budget $207M - 3 1/2 times budget of CL - and far less kids tickets Kong $118M Domestic + $153 Overseas for $271 ( or 31% over budget of $207M) Narnia $153M domestic + $78 overseas for $242M ( 34% over budget of $180M) Chicken Little $130M domestic + $66M overseas for $196M ( 227% over budget of $60M) Potter $260M domestic + $497M overseas for $759M ( 406% over budget of $150M) now short of Potter find another movie with returns of that % over budget in 2005. War of the Worlds and Charlie & Chocolat Factory both costing twie as much. CL is no classic for the ages - but by next week it will move in to the top 300 movies of all time box office wise- and after more overseas release settle in maybe 225 -- a flop ? nope
Originally Posted By cstephens Imagineer This wrote: > $100 million to $130 million is nothing these days. Really? I imagine there are very many execs in all the studios who would seriously disagree with you and would love to have all of their pictures be $130 million "not outright flop" "modest at best" releases. /cs
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<Really? I imagine there are very many execs in all the studios who would seriously disagree with you and would love to have all of their pictures be $130 million "not outright flop" "modest at best" releases.>> Yeah tell that to the makers of Kingdom of Heaven, Cinderella Man, the Island and Stealth. If I remember the budgets for each film were 140 million, 90 million, 120 million and 130 million. Respectively they grossed 45,62,36 and 30 million. I'm sure they would have loved to hit 130 million. Even though some would still be in the red.
Originally Posted By seanyoda Given that, at $130 million in domestic take, Chicken Little is #2 in animated films this year (<$63 million behind Madagascar, and $2.5 million ahead of Robots), you can't call it a dissapointment. In terms of success, I think most would agree that the goal for Chicken Little was to compete enough so that studio execs would not regret the decission to switch to computer animation and to be able to say to critics, "See! We can pull this off ourselves." Chicken Little has done well enough to meet that goal, and thus is a success.
