This Goes To Show
All right, Harry Potter's latest and Walk the Line combined with another fine week for Chicken Little helped boost this week's box office over the similar period last year...by 19 percent. Which again shows you that not only is there NOT a slump, it was a terrible measure in the first place. Because even if you decided to buy all the slump talk, and that people weren't going to movies anymore, you'd have a hard time explaining how a week during 2005 could so decidedly destroy the same week from last year. The answer is product, and the week-by-week comparisons, are, well...weak.
And, this Harry Potter beat every other Harry Potter opening weekend. So, I'm a media-believing whore and I swallow every bit of information they provide me. I conclude based on their information that movie theatres are barren and filled with cobwebs. And then a movie from this year comes in and has the 4th largest opening weekend ever. I turn to the media to tell me what to think...they say, probably, either "an anomaly" or "slump turns around," neither of which says, "We were wrong," but an early victory nonetheless.
posted by Chris @ 11/20/2005 06:03:00 PM
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It's funny too, because I'm pretty sure that "Harry Potter" was one of those films that mags like EW were using as there barometer. Many people saying that the last one had such a dissapointing showing (even though it still cleared $200 million as far as I remember) and it would probably go downhill from here. Take that EW.
And Kong's probably going to beat this opening weekend in a few weeks, not to mention the possible powerhouse, "Chronicles of Narnia."
There are going to be a lot of people at the theaters this holiday season, and all of a sudden there are quite a few good movies out there to see. 2005 may save itself after all, not just from a box office standpoint, but from a critical one as well.
The slump is falling! The slump is falling!
I'm actually starting to wonder if November and December 2005 might not be the biggest November/December box office haul ever. Kong is definitely going over the $200 or $300 million mark. Narnia...I'm starting to think it could be the highest grossing film ever, but it's at least going to earn multiple hundreds of millions. Christmas is always big for the box office, but have we ever seen three such ginormous films in a Christmas season?
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