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Home Movie Pages Movie Release Dates DVD Release Dates Movie Reviews
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Undeserving 'Sara' |
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Although 'Serving Sara' was not expected to gross huge numbers, the comedy still managed to finish underpar this weekend with a total of $6 million. by Mark Whipkey |
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This week's releases came in with a wimper. They left there mark bringing up the rear at the box office this weekend. Thus proving this summer's big releases have already been released, resulting in the end of the summer movie season. |
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Serving Sara was expected to pull in $10 - $12 million this weekend, but if you cut that number in half that is what the movie actually grossed. What went wrong? Well one could say that the audiences have more action packed and more exciting movies to choose from at the moment. Or you could look at the Elizabeth Hurley and Matthew Perry's track record. Elizabeth Hurley has some modest successes but nothing to prove that she carry a movie to the top. She starred in 2000's Bedazzled($37.8 million), EdTV($22.5 million) and My Favorite Martian($36.8 million) both in 1999. So maybe she is on her expected route at the box office. Matthew Perry has had only one movie make it into the top 100 grossing movies of its release year, a feat not very hard to accomplish considering a movie only has to make about $10 million to make it. This was his 2000 movie The Whole Nine Yards($57.2 million), which spawned a sequel in the works. So with this movie Perry might be on the path to higher things, perhaps.
Another big dissapointment this week was Al Pacino in Simone. This movie was expected to finish the week with around $16 million this weekend. It grossed only $4 million. A big difference from his last |
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outing in Insomnia which opened with $16 million and has grossed $66 million thus far. Al Pacino is just as surprised as we are on that one. Well let's hope his next movie The Recruit will have a better response when it comes to theaters on January 31. Rebecca Romijin-Stamos has not been able to pull out of her slump at the box office since X-Men. Her other movie this year was Rollerball, which also flopped opening to $9 million and finishing with a mere $19 million. Her new movie Femme Fatale, due on November 8, should be postponed till after X-Men 2 comes out, so that audiences will be ready for Mrs. Stamos again.
The third and final stinker this week was Undisputed. It opened with $4 million, just a little more than Simone this week. This movie was not as much of a surprise of a flop as the first two, but still it did go under expectations as well. Wesley Snipes has not had much success at the box office as anything else but Blade. It maybe to blame on bad career choices or just bad timing. With two recent |
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movies going direct to video, Liberty Stands Tall and Zig Zag, Snipes may need to stick with the Blade series.
So none of the openers came out on top, but a recent success returned to the top once again. Signs stood atop the box office this week with $14.3 million finishing with $173.2 million. In second was XXX with another $13.7 million totaling an impressive $106.7 million. Spy Kids 2 came in third with $7.8 million totaling $58.5 million. Fourth was My Big Fat Greek Wedding steadily climbing up the box office ladder with $7.5 million totaling an astounding $64 million for a low profile movie. And rounding out the top five was Blue Crush with $6.5 million finishing out the week with $26.4 million. As for the openers, Serving Sara came in sixth, Undisputed in eighth, and Simone came in a poor ninth.
As for next week, Oh the horror. Prepare to be scared to or away from the movies next week as Feardotcom opens alone. This movie does have potential to open at number one, but it really doesn't have the star power for it. Starring Stephen Dorff, if you can remember him as the original Blade's bad guy, stars in this movie from the guys who brought you 1999's House on Haunted Hill. We could be looking at another week of old favorites topping the box office charts. |
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