RENT's Weekend Box Office

[AndSoItBegins]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:26pm

RENT ends up 7 this week taking in $4.6 million according to cnn.com

1. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," $20.45 million
2. "Aeon Flux," $13.1 million
3. "Walk the Line," $10 million
4. "Yours, Mine & Ours," $8.4 million
5. "Just Friends," $5.9 million
6. "Pride & Prejudice," $4.62 million
7. "Rent," $4.6 million
8. "Chicken Little," $4.5 million
9. "Derailed," $2.4 million
10. "In the Mix," $1.9 million

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/04/boxoffice.ap/index.html

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:29pm

it's tanking.

FYI, it's a $75 mil (50 to make, 25 for all advertising) movie. Will it make it back?

It's up to like $23 now.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:33pm

Here's my guess - it's promoted as a feel-good holiday movie - singing, dancing, snow - whoopee!!

People get there and see what it really is and tell their friends it's not what it's cracked up to be. End of box office bonanza.

Updated On: 12/4/05 at 05:33 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:34pm

sigh.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:41pm

Not good.

[WhatDoINeedWithLove?]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:41pm

If it doesn't recoup in box office sales it will in DVD sales. That is where most of the money is in movies.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:43pm

The movie's a bomb

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:44pm

well the one silver lining to all this:


it might come to DVD sooner than i thought!


this really is sad though, i hope it does better soon. youd think it would since ebert and roper gave it "2 thumbs up"

[DAME]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:44pm

I'm sorry it flopped.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:45pm

Fun times.

[Blue J]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:46pm

Hopefully it'll pick up over the Christmas holiday season when people aren't in school, aren't working, etc.

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:46pm

Well it's obviously not pulling a CHICAGO....

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:49pm

Probably because it's missing the draw Chicago could get from its star power, as has probably been suspected for a while.

meh. I hope it picks up.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:50pm

*tear*

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:52pm

It's not even pulling a "Phantom" at this point. I hope it does better too, but it doesn't look like it's going to.

[Tanssia]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:53pm

I wonder how it will do internationally. The advertising for the film, while not misleading, didn't exactly highlight the plot... which unfortunately a large percent of americans aren't comfortable with which could have produced some negative word-of-mouth.

I don't think its dead in the water yet... but with Narnia coming out next week, i don't see it climbing the charts anytime soon either.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:53pm

I would call the advertising in fact misleading.

[DamnYankees101]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:54pm

At least it's doing better than an Usher movie. This I am happy with.

[Barnaby12345]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:55pm

that's odd! The first two times I saw it the movie was sold out and last night the theater was full.

[DAME]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:56pm

It is alo hard to sell something that is not very good.

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 5:59pm

along the lines of what Tanssia said, it prolly will do much better once its released internationally. wasnt phantoms release worldwide? the fact thats its not even playing in 3,000 theaters all together with 5 or 6 showings a day is prolly a major issue. once its released internationally it will be playing in a lot more theaters and prolly do a lot better business.

[grizzabella]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 6:00pm

I tend to agree, Rath. The Rent I'm seeing on the commercials gives little indication of what the story is really about. However, is box office take up or down for other movies? I haven't had the chance to look, and as much as I want to see Rent (and several other movies), I know I probably won't get there because of my work schedule and other responsibilities, this side of Christmas. Wonder how many other people find this a ridiculously busy time of year...

[DAME]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 6:02pm

YankeesFan175,
I don't think it will do that much better internationally. I don't even think the stage show did well internationally.

[Tag]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 6:13pm

I think it is safe to say that if a movie musical doesn't have 'star' names attached, then it generally will not do well in theatres. Phantom and now Rent prove that.

In one way I am saddened by its performance at the box office but on the other hand I am secretly laughing at all the Rentheads who thought this movie would be huge. Outside of the Broadway community, no one could care less that the OBC is in it. It would have be HUGELY successful if in fact Justin Timberlake for instance had played Roger or Mark or whoever.

So there we go, after years of waiting for Rent the movie...look what happened.

How long do you think it will be before it is out of theatres? A week or two?

[OrdinaryJukebox1]

Posted: 12/4/05 at 6:18pm

People are stupid, basically...when "Yours, Mine, Ours" is doing better than "rent," it just says that people are stupid and don't know what's good...hehe...sorry, my little immature rant, now i feel better...i'm sad it's not doing better, however...i liked it, that's all that matters...it can make 10 billion dollars, that won't matter to me in the long run...i just wish they didn't have to cast BIG NAMES to make money...however, that's the nature of the beast...

-vincent