Relished … Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
The winner
It’sitting a pretty dull forecast when Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs corsets on top at the box office, but that’s the person of the game this unoccupied time of year. Late September/early October is a strange period of changeable weather when Hollywood staggers hither and thither in a post-summer stupor while the marketing mavens finetune their autumn and awards season fare. All credence to Sony towards finding a hiatus and slipping this single in kind lacking. It’s well made and children seem to still love it after it earned a further $24.6m (£15.5m) in its second weekend to raise the cumulative total to $60m. But couldn’t anything else have come along to blow away the clouds? Well, not any, actually. The Bruce Willis sci-fi, Surrogates, opened in second place on $15m, that suggests it have a mind struggle to gross more than $50-60m at a push – especially then the corresponding; of like kind audience may well be lured away next week by Zombieland, which stars Woody Harrelson and looks like it could be merriment. And that brings us without interruption to…
- Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
- Production year: 2009
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): U
- Runtime: 89 mins
- Directors: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
- Cast: Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Mr T, Tracy Morgan
The loser
Rest assured Alan Parker’s 1980 original, unkindly a masterpiece, command be the one people remember. There are quite a lot of hip-hop music dramas being made for a price these days, so it was hard for Fame to stand out. But considering it require to be paid around $18m, the unremarkable $10m box capacity from 3,096 cinemas sets it upon course to execute back its money. But the people behind the movie expected more and won’t be thrilled with this. Furthermore MGM, now in a perilous financial state, could gain terminated with a big hit.
The dark horse
Michael Moore’sitting latest populist essay is Capitalism: A Love Story and it scored a hit for Overture Films in this weekend’s initial limited remit, grossing $306,586 from four cinemas in Los Angeles and New York. This resulted in a $60,000 per-screen average – the biggest of the year so far for any release and something people involved with small releases like to crow about because it always looks more impressive than the overall gross. The difference here is Capitalism will expand into around 1,000 cinemas next weekend and may end up grossing quite a lot. But volition it gross greater degree than the $119.2m taken by Fahrenheit 9/11, the biggest documentary in history? Unlikely. The affecting is that American audiences are sick of hearing about the economy.
The future
While Hollywood is still trying to get over the shock departure of Disney chairman Dick Cook a little by a week ago (was he pushed? Did he jump? Surely the forgoing, on the contrary it’ll be a while before we find out what happened), the studio is gearing up for the re-release of Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 2 as a 3D double bill. The movies will only be in cinemas for a few weeks for a like reason it will be interesting to see how much they make. And perhaps even more feel an interest will be to see how Ricky Gervais fares when Warner Bros releases The Invention of Lying. It premiered at the Toronto international film festival and earned some rave reviews. A big test for Gervais and the movie’s backer Media Rights Capital, who made Bruno.
North American top 10, 25-27 September
1. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, $24.6m. Total: $60m
2. Surrogates, $15m
3. Fame, $10m
4. The Informant! $6.9m. Total: $20.9m
5. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, $4.8m. Total: $44.5m
6. Pandorum, $4.4m.
7. Love Happens, $4.3m. Total: $14.7m
8. Jennifer’s Body, $3.5m. Total: $12.3m
9. 9, $2.8m. Total: $27.1m
10. Inglourious Basterds, $2.7m. Total: $114.5m
