And there's no slump... last week was up from the same weekend last year....this weekend will probably come close if both movies can do over $20 million (which doesn't seem to be happening). I think next week with Da Vinci and Over the Hedge will beat Star Wars EP3 weekend and then Memorial Day, fuggedaboutit! Poseidon seems to have tanked, but I don't think we'll necessarily carry over the rest of summer... it's pretty scary though, again, considering how many people I know who told me they wanted to see Poseidon.

Lakewood Regal 15
9:40 Showing
M:I:III
175 seats (95% full)
trailers:
Superman
Xmen
Click
Over the Hedge
Pirates

Trailers: Non-stop action. Not enough time for the plot holes to show all the way through. Your typical summer popcorn movie fare.

Grade: B-

Mission: Impossible III - 5/13/06
1:40pm showing
35% full (432-seat auditorium)

TRAILERS
Over the Hedge (some laughs)
The Break-Up (laughs)
Waist Deep (some talk)
Click (lots of laughs)
Nacho Libre (laughs and talk)

Even better the second time around.

I don't see how that can be because GHOST WORLD had amazing reviews and this has relatively poor ones . I LOVED GHOST WORLD and it's one of my favorite films, but ART SCHOOL looks terrible! It looks like it should have been called National Lampoon's ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL and been released STV.

The Box Office has been in a slump for awhile now and keeps getting weaker and weaker, it's not just these two weeks.

2006 is ahead of 2005 by 5%, and it's getting better and better each day.

How is that a slump?

It is in silly people talk of course.

To those that hoped for a 3x multiplier for Poseidon this weekend...

Poseidon
7:00 show, 300-seat auditorium, only about 40 people.

Trailers
The Lake House
Superman Returns
Invincible
Lady in the Water
The Devil Wears Prada

Movie
And here we have Poseidon, one of the most hysterically awful, unintentionally funny features I have seen in years. The movie has two things going for it - periodically dazzling special effects and moments where all I could do was say "what the hell?!" and giggle. Oddly, there is hardly any set-up at the beginning of the movie; it almost felt like it just started with the wave hitting the cruise liner (there isn't even set-up for the wave itself, you hear someone go "Oh my god!" and then it hits...exciting). The movie is excellent for about 5 minutes as the wave causes havoc in the boat and causes it to turn upside down (watching all the lights go out simultaneously as it is underwater is pretty breathtaking). Then, for an agonizing period of time, we watch a bunch of cardboard cut-out characters climb up things, climb across things, escape from water, hold their breath, hold their breath some more, climb up more things and get generally wet. Finally, Poseidon stumbles to a merciful end rather abruptly. Perhaps there would have been more excitement if screenwriter Mark Protosevich actually created characters that you either cared about or not wanted to shut up every time they spoke. I can only assume most of the actors in this movie participated because they thought it would be "fun" or they were in need of a paycheck - Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel and Mia Maestro, among other cast members - seem to be doing the best they can with exceptionally cliched and dull characters. Under normal circumstances, I would probably grade this lower, but it did have good special effects and I did enjoy it in a "this is so, so, so bad" sort of way. D+

Saw a 9:45 Mission Impossible. About 90% full in a 200-seater.

It was meh.

Why don't you see the movie before making assumptions? It is far from what you say it is and is actually a very good film that mixes many genres.

Personally, I totally agree with Mike, and I have seen both. Ghost World is one of my favorites, and Art School Confidential is so fucking weak it made me want to cry. Because I've loved every Zwigoff film.

You do the same thing with movies you don't want to see. And if it's actually a good movie they do a hell of a job of hiding it in the trailer because it couldn't be less unfunny. It seems nothing like Ghost World from them. I'll probably see it on DVD but I really doubt I'll like it.

So you say but I'm never so close-minded as you which is funny considering...

At my theater today.

Poseidon
12:00 - 38
12:55 - 55
1:50 - 61
2:40 - 67
3:35 - 64
4:25 - 70
5:25 - 51
6:15 - 98
7:10 - 105
7:35 - 95
8:00 - 142
8:55 - 334
9:50 - 205
10:15 - 137
10:40 - 150
11:35 - 213
(This increased 15% from yesterday, and was the highest performer of the day)

Just My Luck
12:15 - 10
1:45 - 43
2:45 - 39
4:15 - 66
5:15 - 55
6:45 - 76
7:45 - 76
9:15 - 90
10:20 - 78
11:45 - 62
(This went up 20% from yesterday).

Goal (upgraded to a 400 seater)
2:10 - 65
4:55 - 77
7:40 - 281
10:25 - 319
(It went up 40% from yesterday, so no frontloadness here).

Art School Confidential
12:45 - 13
3:15 - 13
5:45 - 15
8:15 - 19
10:45 - 39
(Still not doing great).

Keeping up with the Steins did 71 admits all day.

Saving Shiloh did 12 admits today (up from 4 yesterday). It made $88 today.

Holdovers coming up next.

MI3
12:25 - 45
12:55 - 28
1:25 - 36
1:55 - 22
2:25 - 54
3:25 - 66
3:55 - 77
4:25 - 44
4:55 - 71
5:35 - 88
6:25 - 87
6:55 - 67
7:25 - 82
7:55 - 107
8:30 - Sold Out (135 seater)
9:25 - Sold Out (160 seater)
9:55 - Sold Out (155 seater)
10:25 - 255 (400 seater)
10:55 - 133 (190 seater)
11:30 - Sold Out (135 seater)
(Still doing it's thing, though even with an extra screen, it came behind Poseidon today. It did, however, increase 44% from yesterday).

Amercian Haunting (up to a 240 seater)
12:20 - 33
2:35 - 51
4:50 - 83
7:05 - 105
9:20 - 156
11:35 - 172
(What a difference late at night can get for these movies. For being upgraded, it's tough to tell what kind of increase this will did, considering that it was in a 95 seater yesterday).

Hoot did 49 admits the whole day (33 better than yesterday).

Ice Age went up 93% today. It sold out the 9:30 (95 seater), and near sold out the 7:15.

Promise did 61 people for it's two shows, 26 better than yesterday.

RV went up 97% from yesterday. The 7:25 show got 80% full (110 seater).

Benchwarmers, despite being upgraded, went up a scant 17% today. The 7:20 and 9:35 got 54 people.

Akeelah and the Bee went up 89% today. The 5:30 and 8:05 got 75% full (90 seater). This free teacher thing is helping.

La Majer's 10:30 show got 59 people.

Lucky Number Slevin did 38 people for it's two shows (13 better than yesterday).

Thank You for Smoking peak show (7:50) got 55% full (95 seater). It almost tripled from yesterday.

Scary Movie 4 went up 83% today. The 10:10 got 52% full (190 seater).

Inside Man doubled from yesterday. The 10:00 got 55% full (95 seater). In fact, it did better than last Saturday.

The Wild got a 97% increase. the 7:40 got 70% full (95 seater).

The Sentinel went up 40% from yesterday. Though the peak show got 27 people (tick tock)

Silent Hill did 48% better than yesterday. the 7:20 got 66% full (160 seater).

Stick It increased 27% from yesterday. The peak show got half full (160 seater).

And finally, United 93 got half full for it two night shows (95 seater). It went up 60% from yesterday.

All in all, business went up 45% from yesterday, but still not impressive for a Saturday.

The poor performance of this week's openers means Over the Hedge and Da Vinci will have no help from the holdovers next week. It's them only against the Sith. May the force be with them.

Wow, who the hell is going to see RV still!?! Hopefully, Over the Hedge will put a stop to that.

Well I don't think there's anything wrong with having an opinion about how a movie looks from the ads. How else are we going to anticipate some and dread others? If we didn't then we'd be seeing anything because it wouldn't matter since we don't have an opinion one way or another about how it looks. Everyone thinks some movies look really good and some look really bad, it's impossible not to when you've seen ads for them. You're bound to have some kind of opinion anyway. It's stupid when people say to see the movie before making assumptions when I'm just saying how I think it looks from the ads, and that is one way we sort out what we want to see from what we don't want to see.

Fair enough.

Now knowing this movie was being absolutely destroyed in the reviews, how come you wasted your $$$ on this??? Do you see every new release that comes out every weekend??

I thought I had made it clear that seeing this was not my choice.

No where in your review does it state you had no choice in this, even after reading it twice now, but that's alright.. It's not that big a deal..

Mothers Day Report

Poseidon
12:00 - 37
12:55 - 60
1:50 - 127
2:40 - 114
3:35 - 136
4:25 - 112
5:25 - 122
6:15 - 104
7:10 - 137
7:35 - 107
8:00 - 89
8:55 - 132
9:50 - 76
10:15 - 68
10:40 - 49
(Mother's Day was certainly kind to this. It dropped only 24% from yesterday).

Just My Luck fell 47% from yesterday. Mother's day was not kind to this.

Goal went down 22% from yesterday, sensing an overestimation.

Keeping Up with the Steins went down only 10%.

Saving Shiloh did $164 dollars today, almost double from yesterday.

MI3 dropped only 24% too.

RV actually increased today (42% to be precise).

Ice Age went down 31% today.

Amercian Haunting went down 48% today.

Sentinel slipped only 16% today.

United 93 went down a scant 9%.

Stick It slipped 38% today.

and Akeelah went down 13% today.

All in all, business went down 25% today.