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The Director's Chair => Paul Thomas Anderson => Topic started by: modage on January 27, 2008, 03:03:40 PM

Title: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: modage on January 27, 2008, 03:03:40 PM
goodbye per screen averages, hello middle america!

After being nominated for seven Oscars, P.T. Anderson's fifth movie There Will Be Blood doubled its theaters and made its first move into the Top 10 with $4.9 million, bringing its gross to just under the $15 million mark.

8 / There Will Be Blood / Paramount Vantage / Weekend $4,887,000 / 885 Theatres / $14,764,000 Total / 5 Weeks 

so US Box Office SO FAR is...

Boogie Nights $26,384,919
Magnolia $22,450,975
Punch-Drunk Love $17,791,031
There Will Be Blood $14,764,000
Hard Eight $142,356

is there any doubt whether it will surpass all his other grosses?  with the 8 nominations i guess that seems fairly certain at this point which is great for Paul since they had been heading steadily in the other direction.  do we have any new estimates for how much we think this will make theatrically when all is said and done? 
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: JG on January 27, 2008, 04:30:41 PM
i didn't realize that so few people saw hard eight in theaters.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: godardian on January 27, 2008, 07:54:55 PM
I've gotten over thinking that the films I think deserve to be "number one film in America" box-office-wise will ever be that, but I do still hold out hope for the films I like and the directors I like to at least recoup the film's budget and thereby have a better chance to make their next film. That seems likely here, so I'm happy just because of that.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Stefen on January 27, 2008, 08:35:42 PM
Quote from: godardian on January 27, 2008, 07:54:55 PM
I've gotten over thinking that the films I think deserve to be "number one film in America" box-office-wise will ever be that, but I do still hold out hope for the films I like and the directors I like to at least recoup the film's budget and thereby have a better chance to make their next film. That seems likely here, so I'm happy just because of that.

:yabbse-thumbup:

Basically the way I feel. As long as it makes enough money or gets enough accolades that said filmmaker can make another movie, that's all I care about.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Kal on January 29, 2008, 10:03:56 AM
Problem with his films (or these type of films) is that the studio does not push them enough. Now with the nominations I'm sure they will, and then hopefully it will continue to be in the top 10 for the next few weeks. It does not need much to beat his other movies, so hopefully it will.

Either way after the nominations and the critics he has his next project green-lighted for sure.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Alexandro on January 29, 2008, 11:26:08 AM
Hopefully so. But even Spielberg and Scorsese have problems to get certain films financed, so it's really fucked up out there. I read Spielberg is basically doing Indiana Jones to be able to do Lincoln. That's inexplicable. Anybody knows is there some truth to that?
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Fernando on January 29, 2008, 02:14:50 PM
Were did you read that? I don't think it's true, check out his recent world wide box office numbers (in millions):

Munich   83
War of the worlds   591
Terminal   219
Catch me   352
Minority   358

Total: 1,603 in his last five films, that's success if you ask me.

q to the admins or anyone that knows: how do you use the table function?
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Alexandro on January 29, 2008, 02:23:42 PM
i dont remember where...

just as i dont remember who's the filmmaker who just last week i read saying something along the lines of "steven and marty scorsese still have problems getting some of their films made". i think it was cronenberg.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Alexandro on January 29, 2008, 02:30:18 PM
also, munich "only" made 83 million, which in the spielberg scale means a weird "letdown"...an "underplayer" and so on. I would say projects like war of the worlds and minority report get the easy greenlight, and when the money people sense he's "getting serious", as with munich and the lincoln project, they get picky.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Fernando on January 29, 2008, 03:03:05 PM
Quote from: Alexandro on January 29, 2008, 02:23:42 PM
just as i dont remember who's the filmmaker who just last week i read saying something along the lines of "steven and marty scorsese still have problems getting some of their films made". i think it was cronenberg.

IIRC it was Francis Ford Coppola who said that.


btw. I just saw cmbb last saturday.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: MacGuffin on January 29, 2008, 03:37:44 PM
Quote from: Fernando on January 29, 2008, 03:03:05 PMbtw. I just saw cmbb last saturday.

Now do you know what my avatar meant?
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Fernando on January 29, 2008, 04:27:23 PM
Finally I do, and now I need to read all the articles and ints you've been posting...

BTW, I went to the noon showing and we were like 10-12 ppl there, bad for pta but awesome for me, I was alone in the row I sat and all 158min. were death silent which is a bliss now days; also I was the only one that stayed for the credits. I might post my useless comments in the proper thread when I have time, right now I have way too much work.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: tpfkabi on February 04, 2008, 03:05:32 PM
10 There Will Be Blood  $4,761,000
$21,146,000
well dang, it went down one, but if it keeps about the same it will be close to BN.

i wonder if the theatres will all consider it a dropping 'stone' just because it went down one spot even after adding over 600 more theatres?

then again, it only made 200k less than Cloverfield in half the amount of theatres, so per theatre average is still very good.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: bonanzataz on February 10, 2008, 05:22:42 PM
Quote from: Fernando on January 29, 2008, 04:27:23 PM
all 158min. were death silent which is a bliss now days

i don't understand what fuckin' theaters you're all going to? i haven't been in a theater with an annoying audience since gangs of new york.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: modage on February 10, 2008, 07:23:49 PM
10 / There Will Be Blood / Paramount Vantage / $4,073,000 / 1,620 Theatres / $26,782,000 Total / 7 Weeks

so US Box Office SO FAR is...

There Will Be Blood $26,782,000
Boogie Nights $26,384,919
Magnolia $22,450,975
Punch-Drunk Love $17,791,031
Hard Eight $142,356

now officially highest grossing PTA film.   :bravo:
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Gold Trumpet on February 10, 2008, 07:29:25 PM
I went to a showing in Green Bay. It's the home of Middle America and my theater was packed. I expected a dead theater but got the exact opposite. I expect good returns on this film.

The funny thing about seeing it in Green Bay is that the city is right next to Fon Du Lac. Everytime the city was mentioned the crowd gave a big cheer. Even I was clapping with applause. An awesome moment.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: cine on February 10, 2008, 11:08:32 PM
now if only we could get him a writing oscar..
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: mogwai on February 14, 2008, 01:01:54 PM
Quote from: modage on February 10, 2008, 07:23:49 PM
10 / There Will Be Blood / Paramount Vantage / $4,073,000 / 1,620 Theatres / $26,782,000 Total / 7 Weeks

so US Box Office SO FAR is...

There Will Be Blood $26,782,000
Boogie Nights $26,384,919
Magnolia $22,450,975
Punch-Drunk Love $17,791,031
Hard Eight $142,356

now officially highest grossing PTA film.   :bravo:

currently it's:

$34,286,960, including foreign gross. i still haven't seen this fucking movie. maybe in a week.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=therewillbeblood.htm
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: tpfkabi on February 26, 2008, 04:19:47 PM
now over $40 mil worldwide.

it got back in the top 10 this past weekend though it actually performed poorer.

perhaps Oscar Sunday will give it a boost?

that was the first i noticed that the budget was $25 mil.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: tpfkabi on March 07, 2008, 10:53:56 AM
so Best Pic win will add you almost a 1,000 theatres,
while Best Actor and Cinematography will lose you a 154?

retardo geraldo faldo, man.

i wonder if it will lose even more this weekend?
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: mogwai on March 07, 2008, 11:15:57 AM
Quote from: bigideas on March 07, 2008, 10:53:56 AM
so Best Pic win will add you almost a 1,000 theatres,
while Best Actor and Cinematography will lose you a 154?

retardo geraldo faldo, man.

i wonder if it will lose even more this weekend?

after the oscars it has grossed 55 million worldwide. all thanks to oversea business and pubrick.
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Pozer on March 07, 2008, 11:47:37 AM
can we start a new thread with a poll on if we think Pubrick liked it or not?
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: Fernando on March 07, 2008, 01:00:34 PM
I (think) know the answer for that, but I won't say a thing out of fear of being virtually deleted from xixax. :shock:

Instead, we should make one if he's ever gonna to post again or not...   :yabbse-undecided:



p: just post it already!
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: cine on March 07, 2008, 01:51:29 PM
as far as i know, he hated it.

pubrick RIP
Title: Re: Blood - Box Office Results/Predictions
Post by: john on March 07, 2008, 02:21:04 PM
Quote from: bigideas on March 07, 2008, 10:53:56 AM
so Best Pic win will add you almost a 1,000 theatres,
while Best Actor and Cinematography will lose you a 154?

retardo geraldo faldo, man.

i wonder if it will lose even more this weekend?

Not to mention, currently, the lowest grossing of the BP nominees domestically.

I mean, it's still kicking some considerable box office ass... but what the fuck? This was pretty much toe-to-toe with No Country as far as hype went going into the Oscars, and it couldn't even do Michael Clayton business? Did people even know Michael Clayton was nominated?