> Information taken from Brandon Gray'
shttp://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
>
> 1 Shrek the Third $121,629,270 4,122 $29,507 $122,536,609
> 15 8 Meet the Robinsons $503,975 -72.0%% 941 -699 $535 $95,303,844
> 29 27 TMNT $148,070 -22.7%% 310 -94 $477 $53,717,378
> 58 52 Miss Potter $32,110 -28.8%% 51 -11 $629 $2,792,238
> 63 64 Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss $18,996 -7.6%% 12 -2 $1,583 $436,926
> 85 71 Aqua Teen Hunger Force COLON Movie Film for Theaters $6,156 -46.2%% 18 -18 $342 $5,485,893
>
> The "Shrek" franchise showed that it still held a lot of enthusiasm with
> the U.S. moviegoing public by becoming the second movie this year to have a
> $100M+ opening weekend. In fact, "Shrek the Third" surpassed the opening
> weekend of "Shrek 2". Movie reviews at
rottentomatoes.com, though, were
> especially dismissive. "Shrek the Third" scored only 42%%, comparable to
> "Chicken Little", and lower than "Aqua Teen Hunger Force".
Cinemascore for opening day was "B+", similar to Spiderman 3. I
believe Shrek 1 got an "A". Various interpretations suggest that "A"
means repeat business and good word-of-mouth is likely, but "B+"
suggests that it's unlikely.
I'm a little tired of these "best animated opening ever" statements.
What does it mean when the #3, #5, and #8 spots on an all-time Top 10
list are animated? It means animated films can open big and earn mad
money, too. Look at Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Incredibles, Lion
King, and the Shrek films. Animated films are tentpoles, obviously.
> This weekend "Paprika" opens, but only in New York, I think. I have no
> idea what the distribution plan is for this movie. :-(
Ugh. At least the Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes reviews are
positive:
94%% from 17 RT critics.
90/100 score from 10 Metacritics.
To show how much the two systems suck, my grade would be:
FRESH on RT
75 on Metacritic's scale, since I don't give 100s :-)
> - Juan F. Lara
Terrence Briggs, jokingly assuming that Armond White was just tweaking
David Denby for his positive Paprika review.
Peace to you...
