Taken 2 decimates, Tim Burton Flops

Taken 2 the Liam Neeson sequel to his surprise action hit had no resistance from the competition and easily grabed the top spot with a third all time best opening for the month of October with $50 million. The film also made $67 million overseas for a worldwide total of $117 million in a span of just a few days. Very impressive numbers for a $45 million budget sequel (are you listening, Hollywood suits?). In the second spot, last week's sleeper hit, Hotel Transylvania, is holding nicely with just 38% decline or $26.3 million. The animated spooky comedy film has become the obvious choice for families during the Halloween month, beating the studio expectations that wrongfuly thought a certain Tim Burton film will be the one (more on that later). The chick flick Pitch Perfect added more screens this week and improved its numbers by jumping from the #6 spot to #3 with $14.7 million. It might not become a bonafide hit, but it will show some profit for its makers. In the fourth spot, Looper descended from #2 last week with $12.2 million. The scifi action film might have been hurt by the release of Taken 2. It will probably finish its run with over $60 million. Debuting and bombing in the fifth spot Disney's & Tim Burton's Frankenweenie failed to meet its expectation of going mano a mano against Taken 2 for the top spot. Instead it even failed to register even half of Hotel Transylvania's numbers it its second week. With an abysmal $11.2 million, the Tim Burton vanity project just proved that no amount of advertising can save a bad concept from meeting its deserved doom. This film was a mere extended version of Burton's short film from the 80's which has been seen by practically everybody since the creation of the internet. Even with a low budget (for this kind of film) of $39 million the film will not show a profit since Disney spend more than that on advertising.

As for the rest of top ten films...who cares?

 

GOOD....TAKEN 2 is EXCELLENT STUFF..fuck the critics those fat mofos don't know shit...

 

Taken 1 was pure crap. No way I'm spending a dime to watch Taken 2. I might care enough to catch it on HBO next year. Might.

 

Paranormal Activity 4 is gonna blow Taken 2 away. It's got a large fanbase.

 

I thought Taken 2 was amazing. The original Taken had a better story and was more unpredictable, but Taken 2 in terms of action and unpredictability was also amazing.

Paranormal Activity 4 is gonna be worth watching too I think.

 

I knew Taken 2 would do well. Believe it or not the first Taken did very good at the theaters as well, but I think it really earned a huge following from it's DVD release.

 

plus it has Rade Serbedzija.
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Is Taken better than Commando? What's the difference between the two?

 

Agreed... Precious, Kitschy shite

 

Hanzy gets Taken up the ass every day by LOK.