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Hooray! According to several box office results listings, including Movies.com, Beowulf topped the box office this weekend with a weekend gross of over $28 million! It blew two other first-week runs right out of the water (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and Love in the Time of Cholera – both movies I actually want to see too), and pretty well trampled everything else.
Awesome news!
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1018 days ago
lol@Cheryl.
The tabloids are the ONE’s who “over-exposed” them.
It’s amazing that they never take responsibility for their actions. Two years ago a producer was asked if MI 3 did not do as expected because TC was over exposed? His response: “Who over exposed him?” ‘It’s strange/weird
that you guys create a situation then exclaim that the situation exists.’
Or words along those lines anyway.
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1018 days ago
Jesse James is Warner Bros’ baby and they have decided to throw it out with the bath water, (for reasons best known to them), despite almost EVERYONE cooing over the baby.
It cost less than 35m to make, they could easliy have made back their money, especially international.
It’s in ?100 screens now, nowhere near me. :(
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1018 days ago
Thank you Sherry and Ligaya for the update on Beowulf. I was all set to see it Sunday but then I got sick after working 18 hours straight Saturday! I still plan to see it this weekend.
Hello to all the wonderful fans!
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1018 days ago
**Bijou – I am happy for Angie, people were saying she is box office poison.
The reason it tops the box office, is that the movie was great..beautiful..not because of Angelina.. so whether Angelina is not in the movie..still it will tops the box office….
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1018 days ago
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I respectfully beg to differ & how can you possibly KNOW that? Would you say the same if Anthony Hopkins or John Malkowich weren’t in it? I doubt it. I love all three of these actors and it DOES matter who’s in the movie.
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1018 days ago
There’s lots of things which make Beowulf successful. IMO, it’s the combination – not any one thing – that made it #1 on opening weekend. Some people love Zemeckis, some love the different actors (like Angelina), some love the story, some love gore/sword/sorcery/dragon/demons/witches action epics, some love the animation & technology, etc. I think if anyone of these were missing, including Angelina Jolie, it wouldn’t have been as successful. It’s like a delicious, complex gourmet recipe which would be totally thrown off without all its ingredients.
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1018 days ago
ANGELINA RULES!!!CONGRATS FOR A JOB WELL DONE!!
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1018 days ago
Having said that (my post is under moderation ;-) ), Angelina Jolie contributed a LOT to Beowulf’s success. First of all, Grendel’s mom is Beowulf’s counterpart. Without them, there wouldn’t be a movie. 2nd, Robert Zemeckis said Angelina is the only actor he envisioned who could have played Grendel’s mom the way he wanted – absolutely no one else.
Third the entertainment media’s interest was first & foremost on Angelina. She was the one people wanted to interview, and she worked hard doing all the press work & premieres. I can guarantee a lot of the 75% male audience’s #1 or #2 reason for going was Angelina.
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1017 days ago
[...] Beowulf tops the box office. [...]
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1017 days ago
even i would like to see a little naked animated angelina! *lol* i also love her voice, there.
she’s not a box office poison. c’mon! she made so many box office movies. an actor or actress doesn’t always have to make a box office movie.
anybody can tell me, is this movie save enough for 5 year old girl? cuz i’d like to bring my daughter to see it.
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1017 days ago
Vivabrangelina, IMO, Beowulf (a hard PG-13)wouldn’t be appropriate for a 5 y.o. Even though it’s animated, it’s still very bloody and gory, people are dismembered and thrown at the audience, the sea monsters/Grendel/dragon are very scary & fierce. It’s very adult, harsh and dark, albeit with comic moments. It’s definitely not a fairy tale or comedy. Your daughter might end up having nightmares if she sees it.
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1017 days ago
Vivabrangelina, my complete answer is under moderation :-) . Beowulf is PG-13, IMO it’s not appropriate for a 5 y.o.
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1016 days ago
No it’s not appropriate for a 5 year old, although when we went there were children under 10 there. There’s a lot of violence, then the nudity, I think that’s why Angie was surprised it only got PG-13 here and 12 at home.
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1013 days ago
ITS a great movie, i watch the movie in hongkong, and i reallly love her voice. thanks sherry for the updated, and have a nice weekend!
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1012 days ago
Sherry, any way to filter out the following spam: “gigi,” “rogue,” spymac, and paraguaydelivery? Theyre clogging up the threads and I don’t want to encourage them.
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1012 days ago
thanks ligaya!
actually i finally took my daughter to see it! and as you can guess, at the first 10 minute i and my husband were busy covering up her eyes with our hands, and the next 5 or 7 minutes she cried to get out! *lol* my husband finally took her out of the theatre meanwhile i stayed. what a mother, rite? *lol* i wanted to see my angelina and ray winstone looked kind a hot! hahaha. my mistake. now i can totally understand why angie doesn’t want her kids to see this movie. and also why she was shy being animated THAT way. but i really love her accent! good movie anyway.
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1011 days ago
Variety, By Dave McNary:
TOP STORY
‘Beowulf’ wins overseas box office
The animated re-telling of the epic poem, handled by Warner Bros. internationally, has cumed $48.5 million overseas for a combined worldwide total of $105 million. With little competition on the action front until “I Am Legend” opens in mid-December, “Beowulf” should remain a decent draw for several more weeks with openings next frame in Australia, Brazil and Japan.
“Beowulf” easily conquered the foreign box office, dominating the weekend with $26 million at 5,400 playdates in 43 markets for its second straight international victory.
“Beowulf,” which more than doubled its foreign run, scored best in its Russian launch with a first-place $4.3 million, 20% better than “Van Helsing.”
In a French frame held down by a public transport strike, “Beowulf” put the bite on $2 million in its launch. It won in Mexico with a $1.9 million opening, stayed in first in South Korea with $1.4 million.
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