Summers pretty much over but POTCII is still creeping up the all time domestic boxoffice charts. To date it’s pulled in $414 million in the U.S. alone and it’s still pulling about $5 million a week.
That puts it at #6 all time. It needs about $15 million more to pass The Phantom Menace.
The closest runner of 2006 was Cars with $242 million which ranks it #42.
So can any movie climb past these in the foreseeable future?
The only ones I can imagine would be Pirates III or Spiderman III.
Adjusting for inflation, PotC2 has just bumped into the Top 50, just behind 1989’s Batman. The only two other films ahead of it from this century are Shrek 2 ( :shudder: ) and the first Spider-Man, neither of which it’s likely to catch. Still, not a bad haul.
As things stand, the two Pirates films have earned $719M vs. the two Spidey films at $777M (unadjusted). That means not only will they both be vying for BO champ next year, but also for the Visual FX Oscar, since SM2 won it two years ago, and PotC2 will likely win it this year.
It upsets me that such a shitty movie is making so much money.
I saw it with a friend last night and we were the only people in the theater…! But then again, it was the second time seeing it for both of us.
I’m frankly a bit surprised that the Spiderman movies have made more money than the Pirates of the Caribbean ones. I prefer the Spiderman movies, but I thought Pirates would have more popular appeal.
Too bad for you. I liked it.
I saw it in August and liked it. Many people told me that it wasn’t as good as the first PotC, but I didn’t see that one and thus can’t compare them.
I saw POTC2 and it was good in spots and not so good in others. Definitely not as good as the first one, but it had its moments. There was some original stuff there, though I think they’re still borrowing a bit from Tim Powers’ “On Stranger Tides” – the scene where they go to visit the witch in the swamp vrey much had the look and feel of the scene in “Stranger Tides” where Blackbeard goes to visit the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
I wish somebody would just do “On Stranger Tides” and get it over with. But I guess they wouldn’t have a ride to promote then.
The first one was amazingly tight and well scripted. Plus it was a stand alone movie. This one was "we know the characters, and we are only going to get halfway through the storyline. So it wasn’t as tight, left you hanging (understandable and necessary - but made it a weaker film).
I’ll hold off on “bad” “good” or “great” until I see the second half of the movie. You can’t tell how tight this is scripted until they start wrapping up ends. My gut is that four hour movies are seldom tight.
When they do that - are they adjusting for overall inflation or movie-ticket inflation?
When I was a in middle school 12-13 years ago a nighttime movie was $3.25 (I think matinees were $1.75 but I hardly ever went to them.) Now a matinee is $7.50 and a nighttime movie is $11 ($15 if you want to let them rip you off by selling you an “Imax” ticket - some of the regular screens are bigger.)
I doubt overall inflation has gone up that much in that time period, has it?
You must have lived somewhere awful cheap. I worked in a movie theater in a small city from 1983-1987 and during that period, full-price adult tickets went from $4.25 to $4.75. I think kids/matinee tickets were around $2.75.
I take that back, I may be misremembering. MAybe it was $3.75 to $4.25. According to this site the average movie price in 1983 was only $3.15. But they say the average movie price now is $6.58 and everything around here is $8.00. I guess the average price includes all the matinee and kids tickets as well.
Ahh, good point. Rural NC.
It upsets me that The Phantom Menace is #5.
Little Miss Sunshine continues to enjoy some of the highest per screen averages. So you owned a movie theatre, you would be liking Little Miss right now.
Litttle Miss Sunshine, btw, is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a loooooong time.
Given that it is only half a movie, it will be rereleased again just before PotC3 (probably in some sort of “special edition” format), and that could easily add $20-30 million to its box office. That could put it at #3, unadjusted.
(It is quite telling how bad the movies the last two weeks have been that two movies in wide release for some time went up in the relative standings last weekend. PotC2 and that bulls-with-udders film.)
I am really astonished at how well this has done. 2:30 and for half a movie. The TomatoMeter rating on this one is quite generous.
I guess that would depend on if they release part 2 on DVD before part 3 debuts.
What would make them the most money?
Release part 2 on DVD for the 06’ Christmas season,
Release part 2 on DVD the month before part 3 debuts,
Put part 2 back in theatres a month before part 3 debuts then sell part 2&3 together for Christmas 07’.
…Okay… Have some pie.
After 6 weeks out, it’s still steadily in the top 5 and has a killer per-screen average. My local place is still showing it on two screens and I finally got to see it on a Thursday (of last week) and it was mostly packed.
The audience spontaneously applauded when it was over. “The Scene” ALMOST literally had people rolling in the aisles. People were up out of their chairs, trying to catch their breath, periodically clapping.
I know. . .it sounds insane to think back on it, because on paper it’s not a real funny scene, but the vibe just took the theater over. That’s why you go.
Some of it probably has to do with the fact that the two Spidey films, on average, weigh in as over 20 minutes shorter each than either of the two Pirates films. Every theater in my area showing P2 only has 4 screenings daily, but you could easily fit a 5th with the time you’re saving with a shorter film.
Hit 1 Billion dollars today!!!
Couldn’t happen to a better film. I’ve seen it seven times and it gets better with each viewing.
Congrats, Pirates!