For those who care about the weekend box office and want a bit more analysis than the usual IMDB blurb, check out Joblo’s commentary. For those too lazy to click, Poseidon underperformed, Mission Impossible III is still on top (although it, too, had a disappointing first weekend), and the only other new movie to make the top ten, the Lindsay Lohan vehicle Just My Luck was not even able to beat out a second week Robin Williams comedy, R.V..
What does any of this mean? The big focus is the failure of Poseidon; combined with last weekend’s mediocre numbers, it looks like theater audiences aren’t as automatically interested in the big budget splodey movies as they once were. The summer movie season doesn’t really start till Memorial Day weekend, with X-Men 3; but there’s a lot of attention centered on this coming weekend when The Da Vinci Code hits. If a movie directed by the most populist director this side of Spielberg, starring one of the most famous actors in Hollywood and based on what may be the most popular novel in the world can’t pull them in, the sequels and remakes that pepper the rest of the warm months ahead might be in serious trouble.
Personally, I will laugh long and hard if The Movie That Lets People Feel Naughty About Their Religion While Still Confirming Their Core Beliefs tanks. I’ve never read the novel; I just like seeing large, stupid things fall down.
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