Apparently, a lot of you went and watched The Amazing Spider-Man over the weekend. Did you love it or not? Even though I really dig Emma Stone, I didn’t see it myself because Spidey has never appealed to me although I do admire his flexibility. Regardless of my hangups with the character, the movie (which broke the Tuesday opening record last week) pulled in an additional $140 over the weekend to bring its worldwide total to an estimated $341.2 million. That’s not too shabby for a man in tights.
Holdovers Ted and Brave claimed the second and third spots while Savages entered the fray in fourth place. The other wide-release newcomer, Katy Perry: Part of Me, landed at (ouch!) number eight with a mere $10.2 million. At least the budget was only $12 million, right? I reviewed the movie for Pajiba, and it wasn’t as bad as I imagined it would be, but it was still fairly insufferable. Here’s a box-office analysis from Deadline:
The Amazing Spider-Man is an easy #1 with a $65M first weekend. That gives the 3D reboot a 6-day total of $140M through Sunday and $341.2M cume worldwide. The film opened last weekend in 13 countries and this weekend is open in a total of 70 territories. It grossed an estimated $129.1M this weekend, bringing the overseas cume to $201.6M. “In the world of relaunched franchises, this is a spectacular success by any measure,”Sony gushed. The film received an ‘A-‘ Cinemascore “and that strong word of mouth is also supported by our own exit scores with very high definite recommend numbers across all demos,” All in all a nice haul, but only middling when it comes to top moneymakers for any first 6-day time period. Especially considering Spidey is Marvel’s most popular character. Little wonder that Sony is fast-tracking the next installment of its new trilogy with fresh villains and storylines that should spark more interest and box office in this too-soon reboot that was just a retread of the original origins saga.
The newest major studio film, Oliver Stone’s adult crime drama Savages, is looking like $16.1M for the weekend. That’s a better than expected opening for a violent ‘Hard R’ pic with no proven stars. As you know, Universal made the decision to move this R-rated actioner from the safe harbor of a September 28th release (where The Town, a similar R-rated crime film, performed so well in 2010) to this very crowded summer slot. As a result, Savages could only release on 2,627 screens. Dumb move? Those better-than-average trailers made this look like a perfect fall movie. But the studio felt midweek numbers would be better and Savages could counterprogram Ice Age 4 next weekend. On the other hand, audiences gave Savages only a ‘C+’ CinemaScore, which will result in poor word-of-mouth. Good thing it was made for only $45M.
Struggling is the $12M low budget Katy Perry’s Part Of Me which will do around $7.1M for its first weekend and $10.2M for its first 4 days in release. “I guess it will take 5 days to gross its budget,” a Paramount exec joked about the Insurge pic’s cold reception at the box office. Earth to Hollywood: no one cares about Katy beyond a handful of tween/teen girls. Not even Russell Brand anymore.
[From Deadline]
Blakc Lively won’t take kindly to having Savages described as a film “with no proven stars,” right? Well, it’s a true statement, especially with Taylor Kitsch and hit-and-miss Benicio Del Toro on board … along with John Travolta. Remember when Travolta used to really be a draw? Now he’s just known for (allegedly) grabbing masseuse butts and is finding himself downplayed in studio promotional materials. How sad.
As for Katy Perry, it’s nice to learn that her reign as pop princess might soon be coming to an end. Even with a small budget, $10.2 million over four days is pretty embarrassing considering that the Justin Bieber movie was made for $13 million and still managed to gross $29.5 million during its opening weekend. At this point, the Bieb is now more powerful than Katy, and he didn’t even bother to exploit an ex-husband during his movie. Give him time though. Give him time.
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i went to see it.
i really really like the chemistry between Emma Stone’s and Andrew Garfield’s Peter. despite them being over high school age in real life, they really have this sweet/awkward/aww vibe that reminds me of those stupidly heartfilled highschool days. good job.
that. and the roller coaster sequence.
the rest, sort of a hit and miss.
btw, i was somewhat amused to find out that Rhys Ifans have played against two Garfields! Garfield the Spider and Garfield the cat. not even Andrew can claim that distinction, eh?
on a side note, did anyone watch Murray’s wimbledon run? I wish it’ll be immortalized in film. Andrew Garfield will be so ace as Andy Murray.
/end-of-ramble, i swear.
“i really really like the chemistry between Emma Stone’s and Andrew Garfield’s Peter..” That just sounds…awkward lol. I’m glad you liked it though, I really want to see it.
LoL!
I actually forgot what Emma’s character name was, so I thought I’ll post it and then I’ll google her name, and come back to edit.
I forgot to come back and edit. LoL. Emma Stone’s Gwen!
or maybe Emma’s Stone.
either way.
them kiddies are just so adorbs together.
I like their chemistry too, and I think Garfield is gonna be a big star one day. I only saw the movie because my daughter wanted to, but I gotta say, even as weak as aspects of the plot were, and as annoying as Spidey’s “wooooohoooo” and “wheeeeeeeeee” were when he first started flying, I quickly became totally down with both leads because I so liked them together, and even more because I was so taken with Garfield. He brought actual depth and magnetism to what would otherwise have been a silly, superficial role.
‘As for Katy Perry, it’s nice to learn that her reign as pop princess might soon be coming to an end.’? I think that’s wishful thinking. Her damn movie already made over 10 million, and it has only been out 4 days. I don’t think that ‘it will take 5 days to gross its budget’ means that it’s a big fat flop. Unfortunately.
Agreed. It’s hardly the end of her career.
I disagree. The first few days of the opening has always been used as indication of how successful a movie is going to be. 10 million over 4 days is really NOT good for a movie that is being show in almost every state and province. It IS an indicator that her star might just be dwindling a lil bit since no one apart from her fans are remotely interested in paying 10-15 bucks to watch some self aggrandizing flop. I, for one, I am very glad. Hopefully gaga can be next. But I reckon she still has at least one to a couple years.
I agree with Cherry. Despite the fact that there’s no good reason Perry should have a whole movie about her own annoying self, she still sold $10M tickets.
She’s like that rash you think is gone but keeps coming back.
I loved it! It was much more faithful to the comics than the previous trilogy (which I like a lot, too), Spiderman and Peter were better drawn – both physically and as characters, and the movie itself was really good. I don’t like Emma because…I can’t stand her face, strangely, and I find her bland – too bad she’ll probably return for the next movies.
I’m also crushed because I’m sure they will probably introduce Goblin in the future (because of Osborne and Gwen), and I loved Willem Dafoe ;_;
Love the Dafoe myself, Theuth!
As much as I hate her, Katy Perry’s film is not a flop. It almost made its entire budget back in 4 days.
Savages is leaning more towards flop with a 45 million budget. And that’s not counting marketing costs which is at leaaast 30 million seeing as they’ve been advertising it everywhere. So opening with a 16 million dollar weekend and with a C+ cinema score does not bode well for its entire run
Katy Perry’s movie budget was low, but the PR budget was not. I think it was around 20 million. Half of the money from proceeds is taken by the theaters so this movie will have to make about 60 million before it’s really profitable. I think it was a horrible idea.
It was such a relief to see and enjoy skillful actors – I haven’t realized that Garfield is such a good actor, Emma was not bad at all, chemistry was there, papa Sheen was very endearing – I kept imagining he was talking to Charlie. And I went to see it because of my dearest Leary! Anyway, I’m so proud of my Andrew – and since for mysterious reasons I bump into him at least once a week, I might end up stealing his cat or something. Oh, and I did not realized that Radcliffe, Pattinson and Jamie Bell tried for this Spidey part, too…
Whenever I see Denis Leary on screen a saber-tooth tiger just pops into my head 🙁
That’s a very complicated image, i just can’t appreciate it on hangover monday…
It was a poor script but the casting was spot on. I enjoyed it.
Does anyone here prefer Tobey Maguire’s portrayal of Spidey to Andrew Garfield’s?
I haven’t seen the new movie yet, but just physically I prefer Garfield. Peter Parker should be tall and thin imo. Tobey was just too pudgy for the part.
I thought Andrew’s too handsome to be the dorky Peter Parker. His head is huge and his waist is too small but he looks like one of the popular boys I see in school.
i prefer Tobey Maguire as Peter parker/Spiderman because Garfield is too cool but he’s very cute and Sam Raimi’s 2 first Spiderman were better movies with very “classic instant” scenes (the kiss!!!)and better &coherent scripts
Couldn’t stand Tobey as Spiderman. He was pushing it age wise, in my opinion. And they just made the character so ridiculous- wtf was with the dance number in the third movie?
Lainey likes to point out that Shannon Woodward (garfield’s ex) is katy’s new bff. And Katy hangs out with the Biebs and Pattinson/kstew (though Pattinson and Garflield are friendly). If there’s any rivalry here, team Emma/Andrew win.
Can we give them a name now? Garstone?
Well, gastone is definitely better than andemma 😉 it looks like the consensus is that they are either fake or already done.
I am fascinated that the fact that Andrew and Emma obviously cheated in some capacity on their significant others during filming isnt bigger news. I say obviously because all through promo, ey talked about their intense connection and how thru knew they were the one. Andrew had a serious girlfriend of three years who he took to the oscars which was after filming commenced and then dumped her for Emma. No grace period, no keeping mouth shut or to themselves. Sucky.
Well, speaking of Oscars invitation, they must have RSVPed well in advance, so there was no way to change it without being scandalous. I think it’s a big plus that he brought his ex to Oscars, it still gave her publicity,etc…
Wait, so they are really dating? I thought all along that it was just a publicity stunt. I can’t tell, because they’re still showing Spidey on cinemas and they still need to continue PR for the film.
@Lola…That was a weird situation. Andrew is in his late 20s and dated Shannon Woodward for a long time (several years) and took her to the Oscars. A few weeks later, he was photographed out with Emma Stone. I get that a lot of people who are 18-21 break up and hook up super quickly…but that’s more unusual the older you get, at least in my experience. If I remember correctly, one of the tabloids tried to pull the old Andrew and Shannon broke up a while ago card to make it look less suspicious. That sounded like a major PR spin. Eh. I would have given it less of a sideye if he had broken up and then hooked up with Emma a few months later or after the film wrapped. People leave their SO for others, but their situation seemed more like something was going on before he left Shannon. I think the reason people ignore it is because they like Andrew and Emma so much. If it was Blake Lively, people would have freaked the f–k out.
@A. The way Emma and Andrew talked about their “connection” during filming leads me to believe something happened. And I agree, if this was other actors, some folks here would be mighty judgmental. I think Amdrew and Emma are awfully full of themselves which is funny because I find them rather dull IRL. I am over Emma S and her wisecracking side mouth talking. Hope she mixes it up in her next role.
I’m sort of sick of all things Spiderman, but it looks like a lot of people just never tire of it. I expected it to do well but not that well.
Happy to see Katy Perry bomb! She was delusional for releasing a movie about herself. She’s talentless and arrogant. I’m a fully grown adult and I’d even take Bieber over her.
This will be a rental for me.
However, I happened to catch Emma on Leno Fri night though and I thought she was really funny and charming.
After watching Leno, Emma seems to play herself in a lot of her movies. Same mannerisms and facial expressions. My husband thought she sounded like a dumb, know it all teenager. He couldn’t believe she is 23.
“dumb” and “know it all” are a bit of a contradiction no? She came across as smart, snarky and self-deprecating.
I’ve only ever seen her in Easy A (loved) and The Help (hated) so I don’t know whether she “plays herself” in movies. But then again, I’ve never really understood what people mean by that. Actors bring subtle nuances to a roll that are often relective of their personalities-I’ve never seen that as an automatic failure at acting. Given the excellent reviews Emma Stone got for The Help and Easy A, I’m pretty sure that it didn’t hurt her performance.
@theorigkitten dumb know it all TEENAGER. The hubs said that she apparently thinks her stories are more entertaining than they actually are as most dumb know it all teenagers often do, except she isn’t a teenager. We were cringing at her ridiculous doctor story, Emma wasn’t the highlight of the help, in fact she was completely overshadowed by everyone else. She was the highlight of easy A but she was essentially playing herself so that’s not much of a stretch. She is quite limited IMO.
*shrugs*
I hated The Help and wasn’t particularly fond of any of the performances. I like Emma though, regardless of what your husband thinks of her.
Savages…”no proven stars” – Travolta, Salma hayek, Blake Lively, Benicio Del TOro, Taylor Kitsch…Oh wait, maybe that’s why. Box office poison, Tim Riggins was in the cast. C’mon Taylor, not his year but I’d expect him to bounce back next time. Good thing Savages was pretty good and got good reviews.
Loving Spider-man, Ted, Moonrise Kingdom. Haven’t seen Katy Perry but a friend who saw it told me everything felt so staged and would be better if her music was not involved. Haha.
Savages is getting mixed reviews at best. I’ve been following because I was interested in seeing it but the reviews are turning me off.
‘I had orgasms; he had wargasms.’ This alone makes me NOT want to see the movie. Then again, it’s Stone right?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/savages_2012/
That line is straight from the book. There should have been more showing and less telling to give the back story for the characters and set up the story, and more of the book’s deadpan humour would have been appreciated, but otherwise Stone and his actors did a good job. That includes Blake Lively, who would probably be the first to say she’s not a proven movie star. With all due respect Kaiser, she doesn’t seem like the arrogant punk you sometimes seem determined to paint her as. It’s not a flashy role — she’s either the girlfriend or the captive while the veteran actors chew scenery (very enojoyably so, I might add) — but she holds her own in the dramatic scenes.
Many of the major critics gave the film and cast solid reviews. Ebert gave it an A-, it got a B+ Entertainment Weekly, the NY Times liked it, and some others. Even some of those who didn’t gave the performances good marks. Audiences seemed split. Some loved, some hated.
The story is not an easy sell. There are no real heroes and the violence is graphic. The main theme is we’re all capable of savagery. It’s almost the anti-summer movie, even though it starts out in Laguna Beach.
Universal should have kept the September release date for the U.S., as they did with the foreign markets. Still, it opened better than they projected up against more typical summer fare of blockbusters and comedies.
My hubby and I saw Savages on the weekend. Yes, Blake’s narrative throughout was a little cheesy at times but hey, she didn’t write that stuff, right? She did an okay job though, I’m surprised to say. Travolta played such a douchy character and I have to say, any scenes with him alone with the guys creeped me out a little. Overall, the movie was pretty good – very violent but quite enjoyable. Rent it.
Oh I didn’t realize that line was from the book, Mercy. It’s just such a cheesy line, it’s hard for me to get past it.
Now you and Lindylou are making me re-think it…maybe I will see in in the theater.
I’m glad to hear Lively pulled out a decent performance. I always say that her biggest critics in the blogosphere are the ones who have never even seen her act before.
Adrien, Moonrise Kingdom kicked butt! Love that film.
Yep, saw Spiderman in 3D IMAX. Absolutely incredible. No other words…
Didn’t see it, probably will wait for DVD. I did see Moonrise Kingdom though, which I really enjoyed.
Why is there a Katy Perry movie to begin with, and why did anyone pay money to see it?
I don’t see how Katy’s numbers are bad for this. Hardly a flop. I saw it. It was good and plenty of people in the theatre. The part with Russell and then having to go on stage was kind of heartbreaking.
I adore the Spiderman movies, but I am on the fence about this new guy. I will be seeing it, though. How was he — for anybody on here that saw it?
As someone has already said her PR budget was around 20 mill which comes out for the ticket sells. Add that to the movie cost were talling 32 mill the movie would have to make just to break even and opening weekend is the most a movie is going to make. Not to mention Katie movie was in 2,730 theatres And only made 10 mill is really low.
I took my daughter (8) and her friend to see Katy Perry and it was so much better than I expected. Of course, I had hoped to pull my sunglasses down and catch a nap but we had to sit on the front row b/c our theater was sold out.
It was very pro-Katy and only her perspective. I thInk the real money will be made from residual sales of music etc after the movie.
Interesting that 8 year olds are her audience.
I loved your review of “Part Of Me” on Pajiba Bedhead. Especially the part you describe when she gets the divorce papers.. Made me feel sorry for her a little bit..
The sooner Ms. Perry fades away the better. I am glad to see that other, better movies have displaced her and eagerly await other musicians to do the same.
Also, I was glad to see Alec Baldwin’s “Rock of Ages” movie is already gone from my local theaters.
I loved your review of “Part Of Me” on Pajiba Bedhead. Especially the part you describe when she gets the divorce papers.. Made me feel sorry for her a little bit.. To have to go on stage to perform after getting such news takes guts.. Say what you will about Katy but she seems to be the consummate professional
with the exception of travolta, there really were no ‘proven stars’ in the cast. Salma Hayek? Name one movie she was in that was a commericial success that she was the lead in (or even in for that matter). Desperado? That was banderas all the way.
She, like Aniston, are only known for their breasts (and hair in aniston’s case). Show cleavage, run around in a bikini and that makes you a ‘proven’ actor? Granted, aniston has the ex-pitt factor, but then again, salma maried a billionaire…
Guess you never saw “Frida” huh?
Puss in Boots?
Katy will have at least one more album. Her music owns the radio right now, you can’t escape it. You have to admit, even if you hate her music, that her second album exceeded everyone’s expectations. She was supposed to be a one hit wonder with “I Kissed a Girl”, and then BAM! she had another album with ten #1 songs.
I saw it! And I really liked it! Though some parts are slow, it’s a rally fun, entertaining movie. And good too! Also, I do prefer Andrew’s Spiderman to Tobey’s. So much better in my opinion. 😀
I just feel like the Katy movie is pointless. I like all things celebrity, but don’t much care for her or her music, but as someone who just likes this kind of stuff, I’m still not that interested. But because she’s every where all the time and the movie wont reveal anything we haven’t already heard a million times in her interviews. Christian upbringing, being dropped, working hard, yeah yeah.
Saw it. Loved it! I loved AG portrayal in fact I think I prefer it. Not that I didn’t like Tobey Maguire, I did/do but… Tobey’s Spidey was soft physically and character wise. AG’s has more of the snark that comic book Spidey has always had.(that man in tights…*whistles*)
Good points kelly and ainsley; if people in hollyweird are so hip cool and knowing, how could they have thought that aside from her 8 yr old fans, anyone would want to see this calculated piece of dreck about a talentless nitwit. Hasn’t she made enough money inflicting her goat screeching and caterwauling on us. SHe may be all over the radio but most people, including millions of music savvy young people, don’t listen to pop radio – everyone knows they cutsomize their playlists from all the internet sites,etc – so Katy’s music is played at your local bank or mall – that’s just annoying background noise.
I saw the movie at the regal theater in Union Square in NYC on Thursday night and there were a lot of empty seats. I thought that was weird, it had only been out a day and I expected it to be packed. I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. It was slow and for all the exposition they tried to set up, it really didn’t reveal anything. I understand that some things need to be left for the future sequels but the storyline line with what happened to his dad left a lot to be desired. Also, there is something about Emma Stone I don’t get. I can’t really put my finger on it but I feel like she plays the same character in all her movies. And maybe because I know they are together in real life I wasn’t able to focus on them as a couple in the movie. Oh and the lizard thing was gross to look at. Of all of the comics I think Spider-man has the lamest villains. Lol a lizard man? really? On the other hand I absolutely loved the Avengers so it’s not the genre. It was the movie. Just my two cents.
Oh and remember when concert movies were epic? For actual legends? Now they are just marketing ploys. Who wants to sit through an entire Katy Perry movie? Eww. Her songs are insufferable enough and those are only 2 minute and 30 seconds long.
Exactly; need i mention THe SOng Remains the same and Another Brick in the wall – so much of pop culture is just a cheap marketing ploy that it drains whatever interest the public may have in it so they create their own “pop” culture through facebook,etc.
Emma Stone will always be better than Lindsay Lohan.
Most of them: DVD.
Spider-man I might want to see. I’m just still into old Spider-man and now I have to get used to new Spider-man despite the raving reviews about Garfields ass :). Stone is meh to me but she can act so I’ll maybe give it a chance (and too much money).
I’m waiting for Batman!
Spiderman is awful and Garfield is repulsive.
I LOVED SPIDER-MAN!! 😀
Yeah, yeah, Katy Perry is the antichrist and everything that happened before is better. I’m not a fan of her stuff, but I just don’t have the energy to hate this kid and her kiddies brigade at anything higher than the ‘Meh, whatever’ level. At some point you just shrug and change the station. Hell, I’m a classical music enthusiast and wonder how anyone can possibly endure Bob Dylan’s mumbling glass-gargling vocal performances and seventh-grade poetry and then just think, ‘because they do and ‘so what if they do?’ And now 72 per cent of the world’s population hates me because of my Dylan crack–far more egregious than even liking Katy Perry would be, huh? So, it goes.
Maybe it is due to years and years down in the trenches with all of the other professional snobs of classical music, but at some point I just started to think, ‘Holy Horses, we’re acting using other people’s work to justify our own existences. Ravel doesn’t need me and the burden of proof isn’t on him and Katy Perry’s current popularity hasn’t begun an arms race and hasn’t stopped say, Ron Sexsmith from existing.
But, I will concede that since I was too lazy to bother with getting anything beyond an internet connection at my place when I moved to my current apartment, I’m not barraged with a lot the pop detrius that other people are and needed my mother to explain to me what a ‘Lady Gaga’ is.
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That said, who the f–k decided we need another spin on the Neverending Franchise Carousel? THAT is truly stupid to me and yes, while she has a killer wardrobe, Emma Stone is as much of a programmed talking points robot as has been any other ‘new blonde girl who has to be in f–king everything this year’. I feel like they’re marketing her as some kind of alternative, but alternative to what, I don’t know. Garfield stopped being interesting to me right after Social Network’s credits started to roll, but that’s just personal rose bloom-removal.
I think I might have effectively said a celebrity only starts becoming annoying to me when it starts taking actual effort to hear about him or her all day when I’m not on a gossip blog. Can’t we all just move along?
Agreed on all points!
I’m so sick of everyone feeling the need to prop up how great their generation’s music was. No matter when a person was born, I’m sure their generation turned out it’s share of crap too. For every Nirvana, there has been a Hanson. For every Madonna, there has been a Tiffany. For every group like The Beatles, there has been a Partridge Family. Having one does not cancel out the other.
Everyone’s favorite artists will still exist whether Katy Perry succeeds or not, and when she does eventually fade away a new musical product will be along to take her place. Let pens generation have their Spice Girls moment, and move on at their own pace. I really don’t see the point in constantly picking at a totally disposable pop star. Just ignore her! Ironically, that’s actually the best way to get rid of her too.
Back to @MamaJo for a minute, I totally agree with you about Dylan. His voice sounds like a cat getting beat down with an accordion to me. I’ll wait with you to get flamed for that. IMO, his music is so much better when someone else sings it.
About the Spiderman movie, I agree that this reboot seems pointless. I like superhero movies, but I just can’t get excited about this one. Too soon.
I think you shall go on record as being the longest winded “Meh, whatever” in the history of “Meh, whatever’s”.
Sorry for the triple post! My phone is being crazy. :-/
No desire to see either film. Not into concert films, even of artists I like. Saw no need for a Spidey reboot.
What? You wrote that review on Pajiba? I have read it days ago. Didn’t know that two sites I visit are connected. Cool! Do you write reviews on that site regularly?
I have another question regarding Spider Man. Is Emma Stone playing Bryce Dallas Howards role from the other spiderman movie?
6 years or so ago I found Celebitchy via Pajiba! It’s my #1 site for movie reviews. Great isn’t it?
Katy Perry didn’t bomb as much as I’d like, but at least it bombed. Now, maybe that will be the end of these concert documentaries for a while until someone who actually deserves one comes along.
Travolta is grabbing masseur butts, definitely not “masseuse” ones!
I literally just got home from seeing Spiderman – I LOVED it. I wasn’t a fan of Spiderman previously, but I loved Andrew Garfield as Spidey, and loved the moments between him & Gwen
what did katy perry expect? i mean really? she’s a horrid singer, she was an ex christian rocker now she made an 180 degree turn and the only thing that is captivating about her are her outfits and hairstyles mostly (her boobs, to some). her image is too exposed, too plastic, too sugary and it adds to the annoyance of her personality. plus, she can’t act. why would anyone pay real money to see her? boobs in 3d? no1curr