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The verdict is in and Roland Emmerich's it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-again 2012 has found its audience. Theater patrons interested in seeing apocalyptic spectacle strode up to the ticket booth and rung up $65 million dollars worth of box office for 2012. That's the second-best ever opening for one of Emmerich's films, about $3 million behind 2004's The Day After Tomorrow.
The big debut for 2012 marks the financial start of the holiday movie season. Last week's champ, Jim Carrey's motion captured Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, opened with just $30 million. However, this week it only tumbled to second spot and added another $22m to its total accumulation of $63.2m. The picture will make its investors its money back, it'll just take longer and that's fine. Let's not forget that the movie is about Ebezener Scrooge and we've got another five weeks of Christmas hype to get through, the perfect advertising campaign for a holiday movie.
In third place is The Men Who Stare at Goats with $6.2 million in new revenue (total: $23.3m). Fourth spot is held by Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire which catapulted up eight spots thanks to the addition of 150 new screens. The film grossed $6 million bringing its total to $8.9m after playing for one week in limited engagement. This Is It, the M.J. concert film ($5.1m new, $68.2 total), tumbled three places to stand in fifth place this week. Coming in right behindin sixth place is the alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind with $4.7m new, $20.5m total.
It may have been out for six weeks already but Couples Retreat is being held over with audiences. With another $4.2 million dollars in tickets this weekend the film has just crossed the nine figure mark (total $102.1m) and will likely gather another $10 mil and change before it trickles away into the horizon of home video. Over $100 million at the domestic box office and not one registered Coming Attractions user has submitted their HypeScore for it. What's up people? Did no one from the site check it out or are there just not any middle-aged married people frequenting this place?
Paranormal Activity is down three spots to #8 ($4.2 new, $103m total), Law Abiding Citizen is down from #8 to #9 ($3.9m new, $67.3 total) and Richard Kelly's The Box is gone, gone, gone at tenth place ($3.1m new, $13.2 total). And while it was a semi-decent hit in its native England under the moniker The Boat That Rocked, Universal's Pirate Radio failed to find any listeners by coming in eleventh place with a $2.8 million dollar opening.
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mckracken
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yeah we contributed to 2012's earnings at the box office, let me tell you that the effects are superb and mind blowing, the acting well c'mon its John Cusack, oliver Platt and a host of others including Danny Glover and Zombieland's own Woody Harrelson.
Its also big, bloated and stupid with a run time of well over 2 hours, when this flick starts to slow down, it REALLY slows to a crawl.
Also in 2012, apparantly they use cellphones that only lose their signal at the exact moment of death (that actually happens quite often) but cellphone towers never get effected despite Yellowstone turning into a super volcano and going off like an atomic bomb.
John Cusak and family spends most of the movie running away from natural disasters and his survival get progressivly more and more improbable as the movie progresses, as he is literally inches away from certain death only to outrun a huge crack, earthquake or giant flood or whatever natural disaster is threatening to eliminate him and his family. Most of the time he's in the air (because theoretically thats the safest place to be once the ground starts moving under you like jello -and thats also the slowest parts of the movie)
As absurd as all this massive disaster-porn carnage is, all the world leaders and their very oober-rich wealthy powertrippers have a plan... I wont spoil that, but front row seats have cost them everything... floundering author Jackson Curtis hasnt been able to sell a book let alone amass the wealth that other wealthy people have paid for tickets to survive the end of the world, no, he just gets very lucky ALL THE TIME.