Happy Feet has better Tuxedoes
Posted by John Campeaon 19. 11. 2006in News Chat
Looks like an army of dancing tuxedoes is all it takes to dethrone the most anticpated tux clad superspy in generations. The new James Bond movie Casino Royale has been getting rave reviews and what seemed like a sure victory at the boxoffice turned into a brilliant #2 spot for openning weekend.
James Bond has met his match not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp “Happy Feet” debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend’s No. 1 slot over Sony’s Bond adventure “Casino Royale,” which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Now John has said before that the power of a solid family movie is enough to take out ANY other genre in the openning weekend, and once again this proves to be right.
Right on the tail of a rare increase for its second week in theatres, Happy Feet and Casino Royale pushes Borat to third place at a still respectable $14.3million.
Santa Clause 3 and Flushed Away made generous efforts to round out the top 5
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Oh boy, you know it ain’t over till it’s over, I will be waiting until tomorrow night’s final figures before I start showing off… To the 10.5% of movie-bloggers who voted Happy Feet – I hail you!
Fucking penguins.
Bond did alright, only lost by $2.3 mil. Still a success in my book.
Bond will have a better hold next week I think due to the good reviews, I think 007 will be the winner in the bigger picture.
Bond will overcome I think when all is said and done. But for this weekend, the march of the penguins carry on.
By the way, Bond is good, but NOT worthy of a 96% on rottentomatoes, essentially making it the most critically acclaimed movie of the year; which is of course ridiculous.
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Personally, I’d like to see Casino Royale beat the penguins, but i doubt that’s going to be the case, this weekend, or in the long run. The drop-off next week will be much bigger for Bond, than for penguins.
PWND!
Were those numbers wordwide figures? I can see Bond being beaten by a bunch of penguins in America, where Bond ain’t as popular due to it being a British film, but in the UK, I honestly refuse to believe that Bond got beaten last weekend….
Word of mouth will evetually save Casino Royale. It is actually the best reviewd movie of 2006
Bond may be a British Character, but it is a Hollywood Studio that is producing and creating these movies FOR an American audience. (Sony/MGM/Columbia/Revolution)
Yanks might not enjoy Dr Who as much as the Brits, but they still consider Bond to be an American film.
I haven’t seen either of them, and don’t want to, but HF will have an edge going into the holidays, I believe. Parents want to dump their bastards at the theater to make them shut the fuck up, so they’ll take them to a cartoon. Do people want to go see James Bond during Thanksgiving or some fuzzy penguins?
I don’t care which wins the contest. I don’t expect Bond films to be highly rated. I’m just happy to have a decent Bond movie for a change that is half-way believable.
Bond did great here, most of the shows were sold out. Happy Feet is not out here yet, but those kid shows always do so well. Hoodwinked has been out for over a month now and the show the other day almost sold out.
While I think the idea of “never underestimate family movies” is overrated by John, Rodney, and others at The Movie Blog – I think it’s time to point something out.
Was “Happy Feet” 2 hours and 30 minutes long?
Nope.
But Royale was. Thus the pengies had more screenings.
Borat had SIGNIFICANTLY less screenings in fewer cities on fewer screens.
It made more than EVERYONE ELSE combined in its openning week.
I was actually a little surprised to see Happy Feet take the box office. I thought for sure Bond had it in the bag but, as usual, the kids movie won. Goes to show, the family film will ALWAYS win the box office battle.
Don’t forget that Bond opened on 3,434 screens and Happy Feet opened on 3,804 screens. Bond had a better per screen average $11, 890 to Feet’s $10,918. If Bond opened on more screens I think it would have beaten Happy Feet. By the way, Casino Royale was great!! Worthy of the 96%.
For Happy Feet to be that close to Bond on per screen average, it must have been PACKED if you consider the larger amount of screens and the little entry ticket price for all the kiddies compared to all adult fares for Bond. Happy Feet’s theaters were more packed over the week-end, no doubt!