“W” Sinks Like A Stone At Box Office
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And yet another Hollywood, self-aggrandizing, self-gratifying, self-important, delusional flick bombs.
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There’s been tremendous interest by the public in the box office fate of Oliver Stone’s W. for its second weekend in release. Well, it ran out of steam. QED International/Lionsgate’s Bush biopic sank 58% to No. 7 with a $5.3M weekend from 2,050 dates and new cume of $18.7M. The $30M negative cost film should end up with $23M domestic box office gross by the end of its North American run. That means, with a $25M P&A investment and Lionsgate’s distribution fees, the film won’t recoup.
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So, what beat it out at the box office this weekend? Something silly and entertaining, I’m sure. Stupid people and their stupid ‘entertainment dollars’ … Ignorant unwashed masses …
SUNDAY AM: Disney’s G rated tween/teen audience pleaser High School Musical 3: Senior Year sounded the right note at the box office this weekend to become what the studio boasted was the biggest musical ever both internationally and domestically, and the first global #1 opening since The Dark Knight. HSM3 opened with a big $16.9 million Friday from a very wide release into 3,623 North American theaters. But then it surprisingly fell 9% Saturday to make $15.3 million. So now its domestic weekend total, counting Sunday’s estimated gross, is a hefty $42 million. Overseas, it did another $40 million after launching day and date in 19 territories through Sunday, including the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Brazil.
But keep trying, Hollywood. Nothing says love like having the beat out of you time and again … and coming back for more and more.
Hollywood … hooked on sex, drugs, alcohol, public masturbation, and domestic violence.
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