Not a real video. Disney's Wreck-it Ralph easily took the top spot this weekend with $49.1 million, besting the opening of last year's Tangled from the same studio. Since most of the characters are from popular 80's videogames, this was an easy pick for adults to experience nostalgia using the kids as an excuse to go watch it. The film got favorable reviews and good word of mouth and probably will end its run with $200 million. The Flight had also a very solid debut with $25 million. The Denzel Washington R rated movie also had good word of mouth and could end up making close to $100 million. Argo fell to the third spot, but with only a 15% decline which is very good news for the Ben Affleck production team. By adding $10.2 million the film's total is now $75.8 million and is enroute to beat Affleck's most successful directorial film, The Town, which completed its run with $92 million. On the other hand The Man With The Iron Fists had a less than stellar opening in the fourth spot with $8.2 million. Since the film cost only $15 million it will probably recoup its investment. Taken 2 made $6 million and its total is now $125 million. Cloud Atlas fell from the #2 spot to the #6 spot with $5.2 million with a 45.2% decline fromlast week. The film has grossed only $18.2 million in 10 days which is disastrous for over $100 million scifi film. In other news Skyfall has already broken previous franchise records overseas and has grossed so far $287 million. The film will open in USA this coming Friday.
Saw "Wreck It" with the family this weekend. I thought it was kind of a ho-hum, disappointing effort from Disney. It was trying to be sort of a "Toy Story" for Video Games, but it didn't really push the concept enough to be interesting at all.
Well, there was a zombie, but technically he was already dead, sooooooooooo...............that doesn't really count. Might have been nice to kill a few characters off, since they did dangle the possibility out there, but didn't have the balls to go through with it.
I couldn't even finish the trailer for Wreck-It-Ralph so no way do I plan on seeing the film. Looking forward to the Dispicable Me sequel though. Right now Flight is the film I'm most looking forward to seeing, too bad I have to wait until March before it actually comes to theaters over here in Japan.
Wreck-it Ralph Looks like a great animation movie [video=youtube;btB8tb8fLYM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btB8tb8fLYM[/video] - + *
I thought it was quite cute. Toy Story hit the nostalgia buttons better, but the Bad Guy Anon was quite cute.
I disagree on the nostalgia part. There were more recognizable characters in Wreck-it Ralph. There is not one character in Toy Story I had ever heard off before watching the film. The litle soldier toys were recognisable though.
When Buddy mentioned "nostalgia", I don't think throw-away pop culture references was quite what he had in mind. :nono:
I often am, but for movies like this I prefer to wait and watch at the theater. Thanks for the heads up.