Friday Box Office: Glorious Basterds
Inglorious Basterds is predictably perched at the top of Friday's box-office standings, but its estimated numbers are anything but predictable: $14.3 million all told, setting it up for minimum $40 million debut weekend. It would be Quentin Tarantino's all-time best bow, and looks likely to exceed Scary Movie 4 as the Weinstein Company's best opening since its launch in 2005. Harvey is sending Bob to buy champagne as I write this, and the Sony gang is nursing a bit of vertigo after District 9 looked set to drop as much as 60 percent in week two. And people are still watching G.I. Joe. View Friday's full top 10 after the jump.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS: $14,350,000 (new)
DISTRICT 9: $5,500,000 ($60,091,000)
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA: $3,625,000 ($111,656,000)
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE: $3,310,000 ($30,733,000)
JULIE & JULIA: $2,625,000 ($52,913,000)
SHORTS: $2,050,000 (new)
G-FORCE: $1,250,000 ($104,360,000)
POST GRAD: $1,025,000 (new)
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE: $945,000 ($287,705,000)
THE UGLY TRUTH: $830,000 ($80,867,000)
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Scary Movie 4 is the Weinstein Company's best opening? My faith in humanity continues to falter.
Not only that, but barring catastrophe, Basterds will become the Weinsteins' third highest-grossing film ever in three days flat. Heady!
over 40? so you're expecting to make 14mil each day of the weekend. Bit of an overestimation don't you think? 30-35 is more accurate.
While that does sound like a sign of impending doom, you have to remember "The Weinstein Company" has only been around for 4 years. All of those wonderful Miramax films that Bob and Harvey shepherded into release aren't included.
I'm no cheerleader, but the reaction this movie got in the theater I saw it in was pretty damn positive--a burst of applause at the end. I haven't heard applause in a theater in quite a while...
Actually ... the word of mouth for Inglorious Basterds is pretty dang good, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it get more for Saturday and Sunday than it did on Friday ...
I haven't seen it yet, but some friends did and said it was hilarious and probably as good as Pulp Fiction when it comes to comparing it to other Tarantino works ...
That's the most depressing-looking Top 10 I've seen for a long time.
Bring on Avatar, hype or not.
Really? What makes it more depressing then, say, last week or the week before that?