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Pearl
Harbor Fails to Break Records
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Disney's
$140 million epic Pearl
Harbor racked up $75.1 million estimate over the four-day
holiday weekend, making it the second highest grossing film for the
holiday after Lost World: Jurassic Park II. While this sounds
like an impressive haul, it is well below earlier estimates and has
left Disney backpedaling on its earlier predictions. Execs were anxious
to point out that with a running time of 3 hours it is not possible
to screen as many shows. (Why it runs for that long is beyond me -
they ought to hand out No-Doz at the door.)
In an impressive show of power, Disney pulled out all the stops for
its flagship summer flick, persuading hundreds of media outlets to
run endless stories about the movie or the actual event.
Second place for the holiday weekend went to DreamWorks' Shrek,
which gathered an estimated $54.2 million, bringing it to $110.7 million
over 11 days. The Mummy
Returns fell to third position with a $19.1 million estimate,
while A Knight's Tale
brought in an estimated $9.3 million for the fourth slot. Rounding
out the top five was the Jennifer Lopez starrer, Angel Eyes,
with $6.2 million estimated.
Also noteworthy is Moulin
Rouge, which is currently playing in only two theatres but
racked up an impressive $127,049 per screen estimate (Pearl Harbor's
per screen estimate was $23,367) for a two-week total of $571,050.
The film goes wide next week. |
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Today
in history... |
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68 - Roman
Emperor, Nero commits suicide at the age of 31. Initially
a popular ruler, it didn't take him long to mess things up.
Killing his mother didn't do much for his rep, either.
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