Monday 12 March 2012

'John Carter' Suffers Disastrous Opening

'John Carter' Pulls Only $30.6M at the Weekend Box Office: "John Carter," Disney's $ 250 million sci-fi spectacular, floundering in the domestic office in its opening weekend, pulling out only $ 30.6 million, according to studio. Universal "Lorax", photo $ 70 million in its second animations week of release, it hit almost $ 9,000,000.

Not that no one expected otherwise.

In fact, the closest thing to a surprise that the "John Carter" did and did. On Thursday, Disney announced that "suck" at the opening of more than 30 million dollars, but if it is followed by a few million dollars less.

The public - the little that was - as in the movie enough to polling firm Cinemascore assigned to "B +" rating.

And "John Carter" numbers, combined with the strength to "Lorax", "Project X" bravery ", were strong enough that the overall box office rose by 6 percent over the same weekend in 2011.

None of the three films that opened in the news this weekend band performed particularly well, and the number five movie in America, "quiet house" was so bad that he had received "F" Cinemascore. Film Entertainment has released an open road for LD, still managed to collect more than Paramount "A Thousand Words", a film Eddie Murphy, left over from DreamWorks.

"A Thousand Words" earned a "B-" Cinemascore, but only 6.4 million dollars at the box office.

As for the "John Carter," $ 30.6 million opening for a terrible movie, which cost $ 250 million to make. Significant factor in the amount spent on marketing the film Disney - and then convert their marketing efforts - and as a result of catastrophic.

Nothing good in the "John Carter" international numbers. The film grossed $ 70600000 outside of North America, for the first weekend of the world more than $ 100 million.

"We certainly appreciate the film of the economy, but happy as he was received by the public, and we hope that the positive way by word of mouth", Disney's head of distribution, Dave Hollis, TheWrap said Sunday morning.

This word-of-mouth is probably largely responsible for the growth of 25 percent on Friday.

"John Carter" the audience in the vast majority of men, and a little over 64 percent of the audience were men and 59 percent were 25 years or older.

The film has played particularly well in IMAX locations. It has attracted more than $ 5 million - 16 percent of total domestic take - those theaters big screen, and eight top-10 "John Carter" IMAX theaters.

3D locations account for 64 percent of gross domestic product.

Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed a highly successful animated film "WALL-E" and "Finding Nemo", made his first feature fiction film with the "John Carter".

The film is based on the character of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, which is transported to Mars, where he became involved in a battle between the exotic breeds.

Taylor Kitsch stars in the film a PG-13, which opened in 3.746 points.

Other new films at the weekend, "Silent House" and "A Thousand Words", has opened poorly, too.

"Silent House", starring Elizabeth Olsen, took a $ 7 million - a respectable figure for the film, which cost about $ 1 million to make. But the R-rated film was almost unheard of "F" Cinemascore.

LD Entertainment has acquired "quiet house" at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is much more expensive "A Thousand Words," PG-13 rated comedy Eddie Murphy, took sixth place at the domestic box office only $ 6.4 million.

This figure is that Paramount's box office observers outside the studio had expected, but nothing unusual for a film with a budget of $ 40 million. He appealed mostly women, who account for 55 percent of the audience. People aged 25 and older accounted for 61 percent of the audience.

"A Thousand Words" also shows that Murphy can not count on it to open the movie. His "Imagine" as well as Paramount, opened to $ 5.5 million in June 2009 and "Meet Dave" for Fox, debuted to 5.2 million in July 2008.

His "Tower Heist", later a universal image that shows Ben Stiller, Murphy and Casey Affleck, opened to $ 24 million.

The winner of the weekend - the winner of the weekend - a "Lorax".

The versatile Dr. Seuss book, plus about $ 39 million in the second week of release. This decline of 44 percent of its first weekend, when he took a whopping $ 70.2 million.

"This is a remarkable result goes off record," Nikki Rocco, head of the distribution of Universal, said TheWrap on Sunday morning. "We ... beyond the ideal family. "

"Lorax", which costs about $ 70 million to make, brought about 122 million U.S. dollars, and the country is on track for continued strong race. Animation is the family the next Sony "Pirates! Band of Misfits", which debuts April 27.

This weekend, the film offers an in-line media, Sony "21 Jump Street."

The weekend after the film only new wide release in Lionsgate "The Hunger Games", which can open up to 100 million dollars.

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