Hairspray Box Office Tracking Thread- Page 3

[mateo]

Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:29pm

is BOM.com subscription only? 'cause I cant find charts.

[jo]

Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:41pm

Here's the link to BOXOFFICEMOJO for HAIRSPRAY --

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hairspray07.htm

This is probably the best choice for tracking box office results as they track the figures on a daily basis for the domestic side. You can update the numbers daily, if you like ... They also provide foreign box office results although at a much less frequency ( usually weekly) and sometimes may not include all countries where the movie is showing.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:42pm

I have a question: When you have gift certificates for a certain movie theater and you use them for a certain movie, does that movie benefit anything from you seeing the movie or does the money the person used to buy the gift certificates just go directly to the theatre and doesn't help the movie in profits at all?

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 11:17am

I believe it counts toward the gross.

According to Showbizdata.com, the movie cooled a bit after fans rushed out to see it opening day, grossing an estimated $9,345,000. The two-day total is $20,312,000.

[Shirley Hemphill]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 11:37am

The weekend estimates at DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com put HAIRSPRAY at #3 for the weekend as expected.

#1 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry - $34.7 Million
#2 Harry Potter/Order of the Phoenix - $33.2 Million
#3 Hairspray - $28.7 Million

Hairspray's numbers dropped from Friday to Saturday, where Potter's numbers jumped presumably due to kids & family's matinees.

Still a nearly $30 million opening for a musical is nothing to be ashamed of.

Even with bad reviews, people have been starving for light summer comedy, which explains why "Chuck & Larry" has done so well. Sandler may not be the draw he once was, but he's still a star, and there hasn't really been a big summer comedy since Knocked Up (unless you count Evan Almighty which many felt was a dud).

Harry Potter's riding a huge wave of publicity due to the final book being released this weekend.

Hairspray's getting great reviews & the final real numbers could flucuate a tad, but still nearly $30 million is pretty damn good considering the failure of Rent, Producers, Phantom & most other musicals...

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 12:03pm

That's still a lot better than most predictions and it provided formidable competition to an Adam sandler movie. Not half bad.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 12:06pm

It will end up with at least $20 million more in total than Chuck and Larry, I'd predict.

[mateo]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 1:44pm

do Sundays not count?

- I dont understand why they estimate... cause anything can happen- or no?

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 2:10pm

That is a pretty damn good opening considering the new HP book and movie and considering that it's a musical.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 2:15pm

Sundays do count, but the studios have a system based on statistical principles which allow them to accurately perdict the gross. They are usually only off by a few thousand at most. So the official weekend tally is a very robust 27.8 million!


# Title Jul 20 - 22 Jul 13 - 15 % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Cumulative Distributor

1 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry $ 34,775,000 3,495 1 $ 9,950 $ 34,775,000 Universal
2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 32,185,000 77,108,414 -58.3 4,285 2 7,511 207,541,000 Warner Bros.
3 Hairspray 27,800,000 3,121 1 8,907 27,800,000 New Line
4 Transformers 20,506,000 37,027,901 -44.6 3,762 3 5,451 262,969,000 Paramount
5 Ratatouille 11,008,000 18,012,196 -38.9 3,402 4 3,236 165,628,000 Buena Vista
6 Live Free or Die Hard 7,300,000 11,279,135 -35.3 2,727 4 2,677 116,466,000 Fox
7 License to Wed 3,760,000 7,311,297 -48.6 2,525 3 1,489 38,678,000 Warner Bros.
8 1408 2,600,000 4,934,516 -47.3 1,451 5 1,792 67,500,000 MGM
9 Evan Almighty 2,455,000 4,895,055 -49.8 1,779 5 1,380 93,469,000 Universal
10 Knocked Up 2,318,000 3,676,500 -37.0 1,288 8 1,800 142,724,000 Universal


http://boxofficeguru.com/weekend20.htm

[mateo]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 2:39pm

So is it the biggest opening in movie musical history?

where are the banners and whistles??

[mateo]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 2:42pm

IT IS!! woohoo!

[singingbackup]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 3:34pm

HAIRSPRAY

Biggest ever opening of a musical
Second Biggest Travolta opening (after WILD HOGS)
Performed better than expected
Impressive $8,907 per theater average
On track to be NewLIne's biggest hit since THE WEDDING SINGER

Mr S and Co CONGRATULATIONS!

[Paulyd]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 4:09pm

This is a great result, and it will interesting to see how it does at the end of it's first week.

Singingbackup - I reckon it's got somewhere to go to become New Line Cinema's biggest hit as Lord of Rings made slightly more than the Wedding Singer.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 4:15pm

Dont forget its whole worldwide box office gross(which has not been estimated yet), The film should have done very well in the UK.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 4:31pm

But Hairspray will still make more this weekend, so is it fair to say that it made 28,000,000 this weekend?

[the_gambler3]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 4:40pm

Some perspective via Entertainment Weekly:

"Less impressive is the fact that Chuck and Larry actually ranks among the comedian's worst extra-wide openers ever; no Sandler movie that has debuted on more than 3,000 screens has earned so little."

"In fact, as it turned out, the big gender-bending winner this weekend wasn't the movie in which straight men were pretending to be gay — it was the film in which a man was pretending to be a woman. Yep, Hairspray, featuring John Travolta in the role of mammoth mama Edna Turnblad (portrayed by Divine in John Waters' original film and popularized by Harvey Fierstein in the Broadway show), clearly wowed crowds, scoring the best premiere ever for a wide-opening musical. The remake sang up a stellar $27.8 mil, a total that exceeds most box office prognosticators' projections by $10 mil or more. (For the record: I came a bit closer, saying it would earn $22 mil.) And considering that its solid A CinemaScore came from a crowd that was nearly three-quarters female and 55 percent over the age of 25, Hairspray should continue dancing through theaters well into August."

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 4:45pm

It really is the winner.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 5:21pm

This movie is doing amazingly well considering what it is up against. Adam Sandler, Harry Potter, and a Harry Potter book launch that will go down in history as the largest on record. It's amazing.

[DrTheatre]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 5:29pm

I have seen the movie 8 times already and plan to see it 5 more times before next week...but what I found fascinating was while in the movie theater lobby, I would find people come out of a movie and see the HAIRSPRAY CAN ad in front of the lobby...then they would quickly go buy a ticket for the next showing...that is great...people are really liking it....I find it cool...as if the movie theater was a theme park, they went on one ride, now let's go to the next...

[singingbackup]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 8:20pm

Biggest hit SINCE Wedding Singer according to our research dept. either way...YAY!

[mateo]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 8:24pm

do you work for Newline?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 8:27pm

There were about 75 people at the early afternoon showing in DC. The demographic ran the gamut. The youngest person had to be about 8, and then there were a group of ladies who were about 70. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, that's all I know.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 9:49pm

It looks like the movie should end up replacing Rocky Horror as the third highest-grossing musical of all time, behind only Grease and Chicago.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 9:56pm

I went again tonight and the theater was packed! My friend who works at our movie theater said it's been like that all day!
This is so great!