Weekend B.O.

I'm going to be posting random thoughts over the course of the day---if you missed me, you won't mind, if you didn't--roll with it anyway!

First up is the weekend box office:

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (thanks Sergio!)

August 29–31, 2008

Studio Estimates

1) Tropic Thunder P/DW $11,500,000 Total; $83,834,000

2) Babylon A.D. Fox $9,700,000

3) The Dark Knight WB $8,750,000 Total: $502,421,000

4) The House Bunny Sony $8,300,000 Total: $27,851,000

5) Traitor Over. $7,900,000 Total: $9,401,000

6) Death Race Uni. $6,228,000 Total: $23,078,000

7) Disaster Movie LGF $6,170,000

8) Mamma Mia! Uni. $4,418,000 Total; $131,509,000

9) Pineapple Express Sony $3,390,000 Total: $79,773,000

10) Vicky Cristina Barcelona MGM/W $3,003,000 Total: $12,787,000

11) Star Wars: The Clone Wars WB $2,900,000 Total; $29,808,000

12) Mirrors Fox $2,825,000 Total: $24,893,000

First of all, I saw "Tropic Thunder" while on my hiatus. Come on people, has it really come to this? We are definitely in a Code 10 Man Down Situation about losing our humor.....the whole blackface thing was a complete non-issue for me, as well as any other offenses one could have taken viewing this movie. People that are worked up over anything in Tropic Thunder need some real hobbies, or some really good sex, or lots and lots of both--I'm just sayin'.

On another note, maybe Hollywood will get the message about the raw sewage they've been pumping out to the general public. After massive amounts of advertising, Babylon AD and it's monotone "star" Vin Diesel, only made 9 mil. Hopefully the folks that make the hot garbage like "Disaster Movie", "Date Movie", "Epic Movie" et. al. will finally, FINALLY go away. Did anyone really expect "The House Bunny" to make any real money? I mean, we've all seen "Legally Blond" by now, why see it again with a minor twist?

Another stinkbomb was "Deathrace". I saw the original one, "Deathrace 2000", which was a satire on the state of America and it's fan obsession and consumerism. Remakes almost always lose the point, replacing the messages with special effects. All I can say is Hollywood is completely brain dead and run by robots not to know by now that that formula does not work!

"Mirrors" is a certified flop-wasn't Robin Thicke's wife Paula Patton in that? Can we officially lay the Japanese to American horror flicks to rest? If you've seen one, you've seen them all. I watched the opening three minutes; the DVD was popped out, never to see the inside of my player again.

Poor Don Cheadle. I think it was Sergio who said that The Cheadle was in no way a leading man, and would never be able to carry a hit movie. Sadly, based on the returns of "Traitor", he might be right. Oh, and a short sidenote--Dear George Lucas: the well has run dry...move on!

btw, "anonymous" left a comment on my blog saying the cheadle was on the "down low", and can't understand why everyone can't see that. i say: what sucessful black man haven't they said was gay (excluding obvious hoecakes denzel and samuel jackson)?