Troy had almost a 17 million opening night, is that good?

[rumguy]

It cost like 250 million to make...

What would be considered a good opening night, or weekend for such a movie?

[rusty charly]

1. googled this

Whatever you think about Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," it's clear that everything Hollywood insiders knew was wrong. After a massive opening on Ash Wednesday last week—the film took in more than $26 million that day...

[rusty charly]

4. Biggest Single Days at the Box Office

1
5/4/2002
Spider-Man
$43,622,264

2
5/15/2003
Matrix Reloaded, The
$42,508,303

3
5/3/2002
Spider-Man
$39,406,872


4
12/17/2003
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
$34,450,834

5
5/17/2003
Matrix Reloaded, The
$34,389,237


6
11/16/2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
$34,213,803

7
11/17/2001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
$33,512,941

8
2/28/2004
Passion of the Christ, The
$33,077,939


9
11/16/2001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
$32,333,203

10
5/3/2003
X2: X-Men United
$32,000,629

[rumguy]

5. so I gues 17 mill. while not awesome, is still solid?

[NightTrain]

2. Troy who?

[rumguy]

3. the new pitt movie

I think it's called Troy

[Paul Hood]

6. Box Office Prophets

is a pretty good site to check out if you want to know what's going on with a particular film.
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?colum...
And you can get a joke by holding the cursor over any picture on the website.

[rumguy]

8. great analyis there

thanks for the link

[Paul Hood]

10. You're welcome.

[supernova]

7. Seems pretty good

but Troy has to have a lot of staying power to recoup the investment. It has to become this year's Pirates of the Carribean, IOW.

If they take in 40-60 mil this weekend, they'll be in good shape.

[MikeG]

9. Think of all the new people who might actually read Homer after this?

[wtmusic]

11. In a word, no

A good rough estimate--a film can be expected to do three times whatever it's opening week is. If opening week is $50M, the total box would be $150M, of which the studio would take home ±$75M. Not a good return on a $250M investment.

[qwertyMike]

12. Just saw it at a packed house

It sucked

[wtmusic]

13. Why?

just curious. I was going to go see it.

[LostInAnomie]

14. I thought it was pretty good....

... It can't live up to the original story but for a short version where Gods are removed its not bad.

[wtmusic]

15. The Gods are removed??? WTF???

That's half the God-damn story!

[LostInAnomie]

16. Yeah

they don't start out from the beginning. The first time you see Paris he is already a prince of Troy (no contest between goddesses or anything). They take a lot of liberties with the story but for someone who is ignorant of the real story it is not bad.

[qwertyMike]

17. Sucked

OK if you like scenes of Pitt's glistening muscles.
Daliogue limp.
Jerky pacing.
I was looking for a real summer popcorn movie. The battle scenes didn't have the energy of Lord of the Rings for example.
Orlando Bloom wouldn't have won the love of the Face that launched a 1,000 ships, but he's still shooting arrows well.

Achilles (Pitt) had a bit of depth.

OK movie - but not the $200 million duster I expected.

I didn't expect a lot of it, so maybe that's why I was disappointed when it didn't deliver.

Audience laughed a few times when they weren't meant to.
FULL House though.