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Post by Norwesterner on Aug 18, 2008 16:27:47 GMT -5
The Weekend Actuals just came out on BoxOfficeMojo.com, and yes, sadly WALL•E has dropped from 9th to 13th among top grossing films in America . . . despite my patronage! But with five new releases placing in the Top 10 this weekend, it was going to be very difficult for WALL•E to remain at #9 no matter what, unless it had a big bump-up in audiences.
Fortunately, though other films around it seem to be dropping both harder and faster. HANCOCK has now fallen behind WALL•E from #8 to #14 (and WALL•E is almost within $10 million of catching up with HANCOCK in total gross), and SWING VOTE, in just its 3rd week of release is now #15. Meanwhile SPACE CHIMPS plummeted from #11 to #17.
But WALL•E has now pulled ahead almost $2.2 million in total gross ahead of KUNG FU PANDA. It would be nice to see that gap widen though (significantly!), so a lesson is more loudly proclaimed about quality vs. formula movie-making!
I've also read in Variety online that the Disney merchandise machine has been slow to capitalize on WALL•E's popularity — so it looks like we can expect more WALL•E stuff in the Fall and the Holiday shopping season, alongside the DVD! It would be nice though to see (somewhere) merchandise sales added into the movie's total gross, to give a more complete picture of public support for the film!
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Post by SexyChaos on Aug 19, 2008 23:24:27 GMT -5
I know it had to be big 'cause when Fructose and I went there was a school of kids lined up against the wall. So we waited a few days before deciding to watch it lol.
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 29, 2008 19:28:36 GMT -5
Total US Gross $216,668,606 International Gross $163,100,000 Worldwide Gross $379,768,606
I think it's on track to make the 450 million to 500 million range. I hope it's huge in Japan and the other places it hasn't opened yet. If it is we're probably looking at 500 million easy.
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 29, 2008 19:40:13 GMT -5
Wow. This is fantastic news. I keep saying the money doesn't matter, but I still get a kick out of this . . . and we haven't even started DVD sales yet!
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 29, 2008 19:41:51 GMT -5
Yep, while box office gross is no measure of a film's quality...it's still nice to have the bragging rights. I want it to hit 500 million just so I can say it made half a billion dollars.
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Post by Khodhum on Aug 29, 2008 19:44:45 GMT -5
Half a billion dollars...that does have a nice ring to it.
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 29, 2008 19:47:39 GMT -5
Yep! And WALL-E better hope he makes it....I have a feeling EVE would be an expensive date....even if she doesn't ask for much, he'll probably shower her with gifts (I guess that technically makes WALL-E the expensive date? ). That trash-pile can only last so long!
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 29, 2008 19:52:36 GMT -5
*spit take*
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 29, 2008 19:54:51 GMT -5
;D
He already had to hitch a ride into outer space and save an entire race! Just imagine when she decides she wants a honeymoon in Alpha Centauri!
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Post by vanessajoyce on Aug 29, 2008 19:58:50 GMT -5
*choking on french fry*
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Post by bima on Aug 30, 2008 0:43:36 GMT -5
Ratatouille makes more than 600 million last year, and it 'only' gets 206 million in north America. I guess Wall-E could make it better.
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Post by MidgardDragon on Aug 30, 2008 11:56:24 GMT -5
Possibly, but I don't think WALL-E's doing quite as well overseas as Ratatouille did.
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Post by Norwesterner on Sept 2, 2008 3:34:09 GMT -5
The Box Office Mojo.com 3-day weekend actuals are out; and while WALL•E has slipped from #17 to #21 in total weekend grosses, it actually had a respectable 15.2% increase in gross over the previous weekend, where as most other movies in release for several weeks experienced declines in grosses and audiences from previous weekends.
This all bears out what I experienced. The audience at my 11 AM Sunday cineplex matinee seemed bigger, even though the cineplex had added an additional matinee showing of WALL•E over the previous weekend. And then I went for an extra dose of WALL•E on Monday, as my local restaurant/2nd run cinema in my town was only showing the film over Labor Day weekend, but will bring it back sometime later. The Monday afternoon 3 PM showing was packed, the theatre was literally almost full — more than I had witnessed for any other film in 2nd run that I had ever seen there! And there weren't just seasoned fans like me packing the theatre either, as there was lots more laughter than us seasoned viewers tend to make! But I still got misty-eyed at the end . . . even seeing it two days in a row!
Plus, a check of the Box Office Mojo Daily Charts of WALL•E vs. KUNG FU PANDA show WALL•E raking in more than twice the gross of KFP for the same 65th and 66th days in release ($880,000 total for WALL•E vs. $335,468 for PANDA!) KUNG FU PANDA by the way has dropped off Box Office Mojo's radar, but I think, given WALL•E is still playing at my cineplex (albeit in the next town) . . . I think it has a ways still to go in US release, and will outlast KUNG FU PANDA in theatres by a decent margin, and WALL•E is now ahead of PANDA in US gross by about $5 million as of last Sunday's actuals.
Keep going WALL•E, and strike a financial blow for quality storytelling with heart!
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Post by vanessajoyce on Sept 2, 2008 8:00:17 GMT -5
Wow . . . thanks for that personal observation, Norwester! I'm hearing this more and more from the people who are still able to go see the film locally ( ) -- the audiences are NOT shrinking. It's almost as if people are realizing that there is truly nothing else like WALL-E and it would be better to see it (or see it again) than to go see something cheap like "Clones". Again, I just wish WALL-E had been released in KFP's date slot in North America. I really think that was the fatal straw to allowing WALL-E to perform to its full potential. Oh, and hearing this only makes me more excited for the DVD release. How cool would it be if WALL-E broke DVD sales records? That would be MORE exciting to me than theater ticket sales because DVD sales are what really matter to the execs who call the shots.
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Post by MidgardDragon on Sept 2, 2008 9:52:37 GMT -5
I think, provided TDK doesn't come out during the same week or within a week of WALL-E's release, that WALL-E will most certainly at least outperform expectations, and possibly even break sales records (at least as far as animated films in first-week release go).
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