Mar 24 2008 'Horton' Makes a Bunch of Money This Last Weekend
1. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - $25.1 million, proving Dr. Seuss still has marginally better endorsement credentials than Tyler Perry.
2. Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns - After falling short of the lead with a $20 million opening, T.P. will hopefully return to what he does best: old drag queen morality tales.
3. Shutter - A $10.7 million weekend shows there's still a surprising number of people not yet convinced that Asia is full of young, pale ghosts. Show me one more time, Hollywood!
4. Drillbit Taylor - $10.2 million seems like a paltry number for how much phoned-in wackiness Owen Wilson surely provided. Did audiences really not want to see more half-hearted kicking?
5. 10,000 B.C. - $8.7 million--a number which, if it's anything like the movie, could vary sporadically in the interest of awesomeness.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Mar 10 2008 '10,000 B.C.' Wins Inaccurate Representation of Prehistoric Weekend Box Office
1. 10,000 B.C. - A solid $35.7 million gives it the March record for f***ing up kids' understanding of the past.
2. College Road Trip - $14 million--a typically Raven number.
3. Vantage Point - Which of eight unique perspectives led you to contribute to Vantage Points' $7.5 million: overpowering boredom, desperation to find a way to spend two hours of your life, Matthew Fox, or whatever the other five could be?
4. Semi-Pro - Another $5.9 million, immediately spent on hilarious web-banner advertisements.
5. The Bank Job - Sounds like it wasn't a "bank job" for the Jason Statham flick, taking in only $5.7 million! Haha--banks are related to money!
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Feb 21 2008 New '10,000 B.C. (or so)' Trailer
I have to wonder, was the "a world lost in time" tagline conceived before or after it was realized that 10,000 B.C. was completely and hopelessly lost in its own twisted chronology? Roland Emmerich's latest blockbuster epic looks like one of those Discovery Channel shows where, out of ideas for programming, they start disproving crazy hypotheses under the guise that some scientists actually believe them. "Could saber-toothed tigers have existed alongside the Mayans? If so, might they have been bus-sized? Maybe Ancient Egyptians had lasers, too? Watch how we spent our year's entire effects budget to find out."
Truthfully, those shows are usually pretty great, and if Emmerich had stuck with that format, only breaking up the action for a scientist to explain why it would never happen, he may have had something. Unfortunately, he had to add a plot and some dreadlocks, and that will be its downfall.
Oct 4 2007 AM Poster Post: '10,000 BC' Pits Man Against Snuffalufagus
While I'll stand by the ideal that anything with elaborate, violent battles between mammoth and man is probably worth seeing, I am a bit perplexed that they advertise it "From the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow." Isn't that like Germany making their national slogan "from the country that gave you concentration camps and disgusting sausage"?
The New 10,000 B.C. Poster! [ComingSoon]
