When your movie opens, you don’t want to see your film drop by more than 45% from the first weekend to the second weekend. That’s just common knowlege. HOWEVER, I always try to remind the people support that theory that you can’t apply that to films that have HUGE opening weekends… because it just means everyone has seen it.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 has dropped 55% from its first weekend to its second weekend. That’s bad right? Well… sure… if you consider $62 million a bad second weekend. Good grief!!!
When a movie opens to over $130 million dollars you can’t expect it NOT to drop by 50% or more (unless it’s the greatest film of all time). Because it means most people have already seen it. So who cares if Pirates dropped by that much? It’s USUALLY a good rule… but NOT in a situation like this one.
As a side note, Bosoffice mojo reports that Pirates 2 (which had the single biggest opening weekend in film history) has fallen to third place (Behind Shrek 2 and SPider-man) for all time best SECOND weekend. Who needs to look for buried treasure when the boxoffice is giving them all they can handle!
i think after the third keira knihgtley should be out, but bloom should stay. he still have lots of potential in POTC, his character is developing nicely, eventhough it is a bit cliche, it’s still realy good nad interesting. knightley on the other hand was boooorrriiiinnngg they should kill her on the third one and let bloom have adventures with jack. i dun think the two characters can be separated.
and john, i somehow don’t agree with u saying that it’s without charm. i love the 1st to death, and i was so sceptical bout the 2nd after u said that. so i watched it extremely judgemental, and i loved it. jack looked as if he was an asshole, but thing is, the first one was new. we were all like ‘is he on the bad side? oh wait he’s with the good guys now.. oh no he’s gone bad again’ but we already knew that jack is actually really good so there was no guessing, no intrigue anymore. he was not supposed to be so carefree as he was in the 1st one cos in DMC he was fearing for his life.
i thot his charcter in the 2nd one was justified. it made sense, it was real. whta do u say john ? am i wrong? =)
The big question is, with all the money they’re raking in (and Pirates 3 is going to be HUGE), will they be able to stop at just three films? Johnny Depp has said in interviews he’d love to carry on playing the character, so more are a real possibility.
The only way it would work, I think, is if you trim away a lot of the additional characters (Bloom, Knightley, that Norrington guy, those Artoo and Threepio pirates) and take Jack Sparrow somewhere new. I’d suggest space, but I ran that joke into the ground talking about Batman and Rocky. Also, it’s deeply stupid. How about da ‘hood?
Jack: I say, gents, do you know where a fellow can get some rum in these parts?
Cliche Gange Member #1: Rum is wack! Toke up on some a dis chronic shit, muthafucka!
Jack takes a nice big puff.
Jack (clearly stoned): Y’all is mah niggaz!
personally I think the reason Pirates is doing better than superman is because superman was fucking depressing…superman spens most of the film moping around about lois like a teenager…I hated seeing him being creepy and spying lois….and most of all I don’t want a 15 minute scene WHERE SUPERMAN IS IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL. THAT WAS TERRIBLE.TERRIBLE.TERRIBLE. films like superman should have awesome climatic scenes….not depressing scenes of the hero in hospital….the hospital scene is like something you imagine happening to the hero of a film after ythe the film has finished you know what I mean..imagine die ending with John Mclane killing hans gruber and then for 20 minutes we follow him in the ambulance as he gets stitches…..as jon peters would say “horseshit..don;t want to see it”
now having said all that I liked the film … i did but it is clear to see why pirates is doing better……superman is a bit of a downer and pirates is escapism action at is finest..it is fun and superman is not a fun film at all.
Can anyone tell me why the hell barbossa is still alive? Watched the first movie again and the only thing I can see is that he didn’t die before the monkey stole a gold coin from the chest, or he himself crawled back and stole another coin. Either way he’s cursed again, but he ate the apple so I don’t think he is, any ideas?
I agree with Loo_Sytsma on the out of character thing.
I can tell that John is mystificed as to why people like POTC2 so much and dislike Superman.
Beware, Jack Sparrow and his crew will be no match for…
MUTHAFUCKIN’ SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKIN’ PLANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
motherfucker! XD
i think the big story here is that in ten days pirates became the highest grossing film of the year……in ten days.
Who cares about the drop? Isn’t it, at the time I post this, still No#1 at the North American box office? It might even stick around for another week there. It’ll only get knocked down by Miami Vice at the end of the month.
Not much. You see the dog taking Sparrow’s place with the cannibals.
Loved the SFX. Not a big fan of the movie. The climax with Liz shackling Sparrow to the Black Pearl was soooooooo out of character. A cheap ploy to have Jack go down with the ship.
Jesus, end of the credits??!?!?! What did I miss that was shown at the end of the credits….Jeez…
Yeah, that’s an observation worth repeating. Why don’t people get this? There’s only a select type of movie that is going to enjoy repeat viewing 2 weekends in a row because of the fan it attracts, ala the Star Wars franchise, and maybe some of the comics-to-movie franchises ala Spiderman.
Anyhoo, me and my GF went to see Pirates this weekend at the drive-in, figuring everyone saw it last weekend cuz of the fantastic boxoffice $ it enjoyed… and the freakin place was packed this weekend too! We were lucky to get a good spot and we got there an entire fricken hour early! WTH!
p.s. Thanks for the tip on staying until the end of the credits – totally worth it! Whooohooo!
it already passed the amount of money made by Xmen 3 in 8 weeks
And even though it dropped 55% it is still like $40 million ahead of second place!