Box wrote:
O wrote:
I don't think 2008 has a good chance at keeping up with 2007 at this point. There are too many films I see massively disappointing that are being set up as tentpoles:
-Hellboy 2 (not necessary)
-Mummy 3 (people will already get their fix for this type of film from IJ4)
-The Hulk (way too soon, I don't care if it was "reimagined," audiences are going to reject this)
-Speed Racer (they should have done more of a Fast and the furious touch to it rather than pure cartoon, as family audiences will move on to Narnia in its 2nd week)
-The Love Guru (as much as I find this to be interesting, I'm not sure how much the hockey theme will resonate...)
Nobody cares about those stupid films. There are dozens of others that are bound to exceed. The Dark Knight and Wall-E, hello?!
2007 had 14 straight weekends during the summer where one of the openers opened to $30 m +. Out of 18 weekends, 16 had openers of $26 m or more. Thus, overall for summer 2007, there was constantly a film opening each weekend to solid business more or less ($30 m openers constantly). With some of the lackluster 2008 tentpoles, it will be hard for Dark Knight/Wall E to make up for their craptacularness!
