Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I realize some would consider this heresy.<< Be sure and bookmark this topic, so you can spend hours searching in vain for anyone here saying that Cars wouldn't have any competition for the best animated feature Oscar.
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ "I think I read this morning that Cars surpassed the $200 million mark." That was this past Saturday - old news. "Cars finally had a smaller box office take, dipping below $2mil for the first time. Monday saw $1,406,766 in receipts." At this time, Monsters Inc had a few days already below $1,000,000. Looks like Cars may very likely coast along further than Monsters!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<Sorry if it got your Hawaiian shirts in a bunch.>>> "Ahhh, but you HAVE heard of me." -Jack Sparrow
Originally Posted By DlandDug This is amazing. Over a month after release, Cars INCREASED its box office take from Monday to Tuesday. Granted, Monday is the day of the week with the lowest attendance, but for a month old movie to increase its take by 14% is amazing. Cars-- not fading away.
Originally Posted By seanyoda 5 weeks into release and "Cars" is now at $212,160,461. It should pass the "Da Vinci Code" (which is at $213,991,24) either today or tomorrow and briefly take the #2 spot until "Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest" (which is at $196,019,502) passes it by.
Originally Posted By seanyoda One addendum... According to <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/</a>, Cars will be on 3,003 screens this week (today through Thrusday). Theatre owners are expecting at least one more decent week out of "Cars".
Originally Posted By cstephens Poor sputtering "Cars". It's been out for a month and a half, and POTC 2 has only been out for a week, but POTC 2 is about to roar past the total gross of "Cars" this weekend. What a disappointment. /cs
Originally Posted By TheRedhead And soon POTC will sail past just about every other Pixar film, and Disney will have to rethink the so-called success of all THOSE movies, and finally realize that those are disappointments as well. I would hate to be Disney right now.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Yep. I feel badly for Disney. They only have one ... maybe two ... Pirates movies to come and fill the coffers. Meanwhile, they're stuck with those Pixar losers forever. I bet my local Disney outlet store already is selling Ratatouille merchandise at 50% off!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <And soon POTC will sail past just about every other Pixar film, and Disney will have to rethink the so-called success of all THOSE movies, and finally realize that those are disappointments as well. I would hate to be Disney right now.< of course we'll just ignore the fact that Cars ran about $120M to produce whereas the closest thing to a straight answer one can get form Disney is that potc 2 cost $200 - $225M to produce -- possible as much as double Car's -- a little thing called profit margin. Disney paid the right price to get Lassiter and his creative force, it was badly needed to reinvigorate the Disney animation team .( no more Home on the Range's)...and keep the stable of characters created by PIXAR ..so they are not in court in the future over marketing rights like they are with the Slesinger's
Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2006&wknd=28&p=.htm" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/w eekend/chart/?yr=2006&wknd=28&p=.htm</a> According to early numbers Cars made 7.5 million this weekend. Good for a total 218 million so far. Whether it'll catch Toy Story 2 or Monster's Inc remains to be seen. P.S. I think the point has been made in this thread about whether or not this is a disappointment.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss It came in a little stronger than the estimates: Car is now at $220 million, zooming past The DaVinci Code, which is just under $216 million. Cars is now #53 domestic all time. Interesting to note that in three days, Cars has already exceeded the week six total receipts of The Incredibles by $1.5 million. The Incredibles stuck around for 11 weeks... I wonder how long Cars can last?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I saw Cars again last night (the first time in an indoor theater, but third time overall) and there were only about 6-10 people in the theater. Granted, it was the 9:30 showing, which is a little late for kids, and it was in a theater that opened less than two weeks ago without any large announcement of its opening, but I would say that it is near the end of its run. I also have to say that an eleven week run is (pardon the pun) simply incredible. I don't think that many movies could ever come close to that much time in theaters. (Now here come the stories about how many years the Sound of Music was in the theater near you) Also, after having seen it twice outside, I was very impressed with the sound. There was nothing wrong with the sound the other times I saw it, but there was no practical way to get surround sound, and this had a really good ammount of it. There were also little things in the background that I couldn't hear before, that made some other things make a little more sense.
Originally Posted By alexbook Cars just passed Aladdin and last year's King Kong remake in domestic gross. It's up to #153 all-time worldwide, and still hasn't opened in South Korea, the UK, Italy, or Germany.
Originally Posted By u k fan I understand why they are releasing Cars late over here to miss the World Cup, but I'm not sure it will help the BO with all the pirate copies that are floating around here. I overheard someone the other night saying that they already had it on DVD. I doubt they'll bother paying to see it in the cinema now!!!
Originally Posted By DlandDug Just read another site that had predicted a big loser in Pixar's Cars. This "watcher of media" has spun such a fantasy to explain that Cars is still not REALLY a hit film-- at least not the hit that Disney actually wanted! See, that opening weekend started the whole thing. Only $60 million. Then, the ONLY reason Cars picked up ANY more viewers is because Superman Returns did badly. (Understand? Cars did well, ONLY because another film did badly!) Then, the fact that Cars has stayed in theaters and has earned over $200 million is largely meaningless because (wait for it)... Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest earned over $200 so quickly. Yep. Cars is still a major disappointment, because PotC earned it's money up front. And that, my friends, is spin in its purest form.
Originally Posted By leemac <<This "watcher of media" has spun such a fantasy to explain that Cars is still not REALLY a hit film-- at least not the hit that Disney actually wanted!>> I wonder who that might be..... ))
Originally Posted By seanyoda "Cars" took in $12,377,977 this past week to put it at $224,538,438 domestic. This week it drops to 2,410 theatres. That combined with "Monster House" in release will likely mean that after this weekend, "Cars" will see it's string of million dollar days ended. FYI, it looks like "X-Men: The Last Stand" has concluded its domextic run. It's not listed on Box Office Mojo's theatre count list for this week. That would put its final domestic take at $232,631,145; "Cars" can definitely reach that figure and reach the number 2 spot for the year.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Well, it's good to know that a failure can do so well. I wonder how it compares to...
