Movie Results!

SPOILER WARNING!!!!

1) An American Carol. Prediction = $8.9 million. Result = $3.8 million.
2) Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Prediction = $17.3 million. Result = $29.0 million.
3) Blindness. Prediction = $14.8 million. Result = $2.0 million.
4) Flash of Genius. Prediction = $12.9 million. Result = $2.3 million.
5) How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Prediction = $14.9 million. Result = $1.4 million.
6) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Prediction = $26.0 million. Result = $12.0 million.
7) Rachel Getting Married. Prediction = $16.3 million. Result = $0.3 million.
8) Religulous. Prediction = $13.8 million. Result = $3.5 million.

So one thing that I realized afterwards is that with ~8 new movies, nearly impossible for each of them to be above $10 million in revenue, people don't watch THAT many movies. Note to self...

An American Carol opened pretty weak, but fits given the lack of advertising. Unlikely to make back it's $20 million budget.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua proves that there are alot of stupid people on this planet (as opposed to my home planet of Xinhua). This is utter rape of all logic.

Blindness did fairly weak, but it's a super duper artsy kinda flick, forgot most people aren't smart enough for it (see prior).

Flash of Genius did pretty weak. Considering the amount of advertising behind it this is a certified flop. No idea how much it cost though, so who knows, Greg Kinnear ain't expensive.

No surprise with How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Zero advertising = zero revenue. Made $801 per theatre, so if you saw it, you were ~1% of that theatre's revenue!

I suppose Nick and Norah performed fairly well. Probably an el-cheapo film to make, $12 million's pretty good for a comedy.

So apparently Rachel Getting Married only opened in 9 theatres (for a rediculous $33,667/theatre revenue, 4x Beverly Hills Chihuahua). God damn you staggered release dates and your ability to endlessly confuse me!!!

Religulous didn't exactly shatter any records, but docs are also an el-cheapo catagory, so a few mill is probably quite good for it.



I was able to catch Flash of Genius over the weekend, and was quite happy with what I saw. Greg Kinnear does quite admirably. The script doesn't require any intense acting abilities, so it's a nice role for Kinnear to showcase himself into. Everything about the movie is very decent, zero disappointments.

My only negative thing would be that there's been alot of hoopla about how 'unlikeable' Kinnear's character is. Unfortunately, this didn't come through to me at all. All possible 'unlikeable' moments came at the same time as he was getting screwed around by a big auto company, so who wouldn't be unlikeable in that situation? One of my nicorette's (change the c to a g to get what I mean...) thought the film was like a TV movie, which is really quite true. It definietly has Hollywood production values and budget (or appearance of it) and such, but it definetly has a 'sensation' or 'feel' that you're watching a TV movie, there's a certain je ne sais quoi about the whole thing. There's also a few totally random moments where the camera will suddenly become handheld/docu-style, and start to whobble, do random zooms/pans/etc... Utterly jarring, and makes absolutely no sense in it's usage. Actually that would be the only negative thing, and which probably creates a beautiful TV movie sensation. Good job director, why you would want to make a TV movie is beyond me.

If you're looking to watch some good trailers, watch this 'fo 'sho, and refund your ticket later if you have zero interest in the actual movie. This is basically a hit list of the top films this awards season. Check 'em out, you'll have zero regrets.