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Author Topic: The Pink Panther 2 box office. John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-08-2009 05:38 PM                     12 million on 3243 screens and opens 4th. Hopefully this will end these moronic PP re-hashes.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-08-2009 05:42 PM                        It might have helped if they had put the title of the movie on the damn posters.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-08-2009 06:12 PM                     I was laughing a lot during the trailer... maybe that's all you really need to see!  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-08-2009 07:31 PM                     screens != theatres 3243 theatres, probably 4-5000 screens. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-08-2009 10:04 PM                     That's even worse then.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 02-08-2009 11:00 PM                     Panther attendance has been PATHETIC at the theater I'm at in San Francisco. When I left earlier tonight, I had exactly FOUR people watching the 7:30pm show. I think the biggest crowd we had at any show since it opened Friday was about 50. The late show on opening nite had maybe 12 people. However, I think it has something to do with the upscale neighborhood the theater is in. Generally speaking, this type of comedy never does well there. It's considered a "mall movie", and most of the people who live in that area wouldn't set foot in a a mall multiplex. On the he other hand, "He's Just Not That Into You" and "Slumdog Millionaire" are selling out almost every night lately. "Frost-Nixon" "Revoloutionary Road" and "Benjaman Button" are still doing extremely well and occasionally still selling out depsite the fact we've been playing all since their opening dates. (Well,actually, the last few "Frost-Nixon" sell-outs don't really count since we moved it into a tiny "screening room" size theater that can hold maybe 40 people, if they all take their coats off! We could probably show home movies in there and sell out most nites)  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-09-2009 04:14 PM                        After the first movie did relatively well, I was floored by the weak opening for the sequel. And given what I saw at my theatre, I wouldn't be surprised if that $12 million is somewhat inflated. What really had me surprised was the continued strength of Mall Cop. In the fourth weekend it did 50% more than the opening weekend of Pink Panther 2.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-09-2009 05:52 PM                     quote: Justin Hamaker After the first movie did relatively well, I was floored by the weak opening for the sequel. And given what I saw at my theatre, I wouldn't be surprised if that $12 million is somewhat inflated. The first movie made $20 million opening. Not great but not terrible either. But you're missing something big: People who didn't want to see the first one are unlikely to watch this one at all and a lot of the people who did watch it hated it. So you've got a medium size pool of people who saw the movie and from that you get to find the few that actually liked it enough to sit through a couple hours of the same thing.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-09-2009 06:59 PM                        Chris, I have to disagree with you about the first movie. While it didn't break any records, it did go on to make $82 million - about 4 time the opening weekend. And the week to week drops were relatively small - less than 50% for each of the first 6 weeks and all but one week was less than 40%. Furthermore, it made $50 million from DVD rentals and another $23 million in DVD sales. Plus it had a B rating from over 25,000 Yahoo users and a 3/5 rating on Netflix. I'm not trying to argue that The Pink Panther was a big hit. I'm just saying there was no reason to think the sequel would do so poorly.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-09-2009 07:22 PM                     quote: Justin Hamaker I'm not trying to argue that The Pink Panther was a big hit. I'm just saying there was no reason to think the sequel would do so poorly. That's true, but I'm mightily glad it did. Now, put the series to rest already.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-09-2009 07:29 PM                     quote: Justin Hamaker Plus it had a B rating from over 25,000 Yahoo users and a 3/5 rating on Netflix. Weird because on imdb it has over just over 21,540 votes and an average rating of 5.1 out of 10.  |  IP: Logged

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