Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office

[ellenoshalom]

Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#0

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:29pm

I am going to see the movie today. I will come back with all my comments and accolades.

Peace. Surely they should have been higher then the Johnny Cash movie. They was also below average expectations. They gross 18 million when they were expected to gross between 20-25 million.



Rent's ranking this weekend Updated On: 11/27/05 at 02:29 PM

[ljay889]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#1

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:32pm

Atleast it did better than Phantom!

[jrb_actor]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#2

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:33pm

Actually, it does sound like a respectable amount despite being under projections.

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[luvtheEmcee]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#3

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:36pm

Call me crazy, but I read that article three times.

1. Harry Potter
2. Walk the Line
3. Yours, Mine and Ours
5. Rent

Where's number four?

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[ellenoshalom]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#4

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:38pm

#4 could be Chicken Little

[luvtheEmcee]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#5

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:38pm

Ah, probably.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[loridunn]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#6

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:39pm

Yeah I don't see #4 either but then they skip to #9 for that In The mix with Usher. I wonder what's #4

"First and foremost I want to thank God, because there is no way that somebody with my name from South St. Louis ends up at Radio City Music Hall holding one of these without some divine intervention" -- Norbert Leo Butz (Tony Speech)

[greenegirl87]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#7

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:40pm

I bet next weekend Rent will hold pretty strong. There are a lot of more "casual" Rent fans who have seen the show once and are interested in the movie that just didn't rush to see it the first weekend, and are planning it more around their schedule.

"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."

[ljay889]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#8

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:41pm

www.imdb.com

has the full top 10.

[ellenoshalom]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#9

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:41pm

...well I am sure we will be provided with a formal list soon.

[bwayondabrain]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#10

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:42pm

grrr! how could yours, mine, and ours beat rent?!?

let me go shoot myself, and ill come back later...

[luvtheEmcee]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#11

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:43pm

Because it's a family movie released on a holiday weekend.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[ellenoshalom]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#12

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:43pm

^^^weird isn't.

[ethp23]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#13

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:44pm

Sadly, no, Rent dropped off almost every day from it's opening day, that means people did rush out to see it and that word of mouth is not good. Look for it to gross about 5.5 next weekend and start to shed theatres. It will probably come in with a final gross around $38-$42 million. Nowhere near the $90 or so it would need to be profitable in its domestic run.

Honestly, it deserves less. It is a terrible, cheesy and campy recreation of something that was once a truly beautiful work of art.

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#14

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:44pm

Haha, and Britney Spears' Crossroads had better numbers than that opening weekend. Ouch.

Well, at least Rent stole a scene from that film!

[ellenoshalom]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#15

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:45pm

^^Well I will go see it today...I been hearing a couple of reasons why that might be the case but I refuse to repeat them until I see the movie.
Updated On: 11/27/05 at 02:45 PM

[orangeskittles]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#16

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:48pm

Well, I guess this just means I'll have to see it again!

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[ellenoshalom]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#17

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:49pm

^^^that will do...big smiles...

[Marlene]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#18

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:50pm

*blink* Are you pulling my leg? I remember Crossroads doing pretty awful in the box office, or at least I used it as justification to make smug comments to some obsessive Britney fan I disliked. ARGH.

[ljay889]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#19

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:51pm

I really don't think the movie is that bad.

[ellenoshalom]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#20

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:51pm

Crossroad did okay opening weekend but the movie wasn't too good. Britney did pretty well however.

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#21

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:52pm

No, I'm not pulling your leg, Marlene. Sad, isn't it?

[greenegirl87]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#22

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:53pm

That is sad.

Don't forget the point Anthony made on the other box office thread, next week teens actually will have more of a say on what movies they see... and I think that will really boost ticket sales alone.

"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."

[bwayondabrain]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#23

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:55pm

well, i wish i could support RENT by seeing it again, but the parental unit is saying "no way!!!!"
and im saying "MAMA, IM A BIG BOY NOW!"

[MargoChanning]

re: Rent ranked #5 in America's Box Office#24

Posted: 11/27/05 at 2:57pm

Crossroads made $17 million its opening weekend and had a total domestic gross of $37 million.

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