Originally Posted By idleHands How many times do I have to state this? BOILED CUSTARD! BOILED CUSTARD! BOILED CUSTARD! The man's an addict. Send him to rehab. Please.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Arrrrgh! I was bein' nice and savin' that fer somebody! *raises arms back up*
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy And by the way, were you insinuating that my armpits smell like boiled custard? Thank you. *sniff sniff...sniffffffffff* AHHHHHHhhhhhhhh...
Originally Posted By idleHands "Do you know how hard it's getting just to tell people I know you?" -- Jerry Seinfeld
Originally Posted By Dlmusic Back on topic, Cars again had a great weekday with Tuesday bringing in $4 million dollars. Currently it's running only 30% behind last week's numbers and that could mean a small drop for the weekend and solid 2nd place numbers (Click will certainly be #1). In fact by Thursday it will have caught up with what Monsters Inc had made at that point, and with Monsters Inc final tally at over $250 million, Cars could have quite a lot of territory ahead of it.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Cars brought in another $4.1 million on Wednesday: <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=vs-pixar.htm" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/s howdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=vs-pixar.htm</a>
Originally Posted By DlandDug ALso interesting to note that the box office is up on Wednesday from Tuesday. This is the first time that has happened on a weekday for Cars. I do know that kids got out of school early in California. This week marks the end of the school year here. So... we shall see how the numbers look for the next couple of days and next week.
Originally Posted By leemac ^^ Good point. It definitely looks like it has staying power at this point which is great news. I hope it proves you don't need to open huge in the summer blockbuster season to have a success. It will be interesting to see how the juvenile-looking Click and (later next week) the very adult Superman impacts Cars.
Originally Posted By seanyoda Well, $6,460,000 estimate for Friday, finishing second to Adam Sandler's "Click" (no surprise there). "Cars" should pass Over the Hedge this weekend on the 2006 all-time list. "Cars" is at $139.8 million while "Over the Hedge" is at $142.5 million. The top grossing animated film for 2006 -- "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" -- is currently at $193 million. At it's 15th day of release (which is where "Cars" is at), "Ice Age 2" had a domestic gross of $135.1 million.
Originally Posted By leemac BVPD are reporting a $22.5m weekend for Cars which is pretty awesome for a third weekend. Click definitely didn't score as well as Sony would have liked (about $40m). Around about $155m to date and it should have another good week.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I think I saw a funnier version of Click a few years ago ... yeah, it was called Bruce Almighty.
Originally Posted By Dlmusic <<Click definitely didn't score as well as Sony would have liked>> Well I hope their expectations weren't too high: Opening Weekends Mr Deeds - $37 million Anger Management - $42 million 50 First Dates - $40 million The Longest Yard - $48 million Click - $40 million Honestly Click while ridiculously overpromoted seemed to do about average for an Adam Sandler release. I guess they were hoping for a wider audience? Meanwhile Cars keeps chugging along, bringing in a very nice third weekend. At this point it's tracking right along with Monsters Inc and ahead of Toy Story 2. That means depending on how well it fares against Superman Returns and POTC, Cars could still make in $245-250 million range.
Originally Posted By seanyoda Actuals were $23.285 million for the weekend with domestic total of $156,664,916. It has passed "Over the Hedge" and is now 4th for 2006. Through it's first 17 days, the number 3 film -- Ice Age 2 -- had taken in $147,226,916 domestically.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Cars has now reached $182 million Domestic and passed $200 million Foreign. It will likely pass 200 Domestic this week. <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=cars.htm" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/m ovies/?id=cars.htm</a> Anyone at this late date still want to explain what a great disappointment this is...?
Originally Posted By leemac <<Anyone at this late date still want to explain what a great disappointment this is...?>> You keep saying that Doug but ultimately the Studio is disappointed in the box office gross. A $120m movie that takes a month to get to $200m domestically is not a home run by any stretch of the imagination.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>but ultimately the Studio is disappointed in the box office gross<< You keep saying that, yet I don't know what you're basing that on. Have you got a link to someone at 'the Studio' saying how very disappointed they are in this movie's results?
