There is also Whiteout which looks like a rip off of the Thing.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
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> I expected it to do well. There wasn't any new scifi competition (unless
> you count "The Time Traveler's Wife"), GI Joe has dropped precipitously in
> box office, and while "Panyo" was great, it's a cartoon aimed at younger
> audiences.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo.com>
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:19:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "District 9" Does Well at Box Office
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>
> Wow! I would have thought this as unlikely as Tiger losing the PGA
> Championship.
>
> ~rave!
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, Keith
> Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > [AP News]
> >
> > 'District 9' lifts off with No. 1 weekend at $37M
> >
> >
> > By DAVID GERMAIN
> >
> >
> > The Associated Press
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > LOS ANGELES â€" The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the
> acclaimed sci-fi thriller "District 9 " have given Hollywood a late-summer
> box-office boost.
> >
> >
> >
> > Enlarge photo
> > This movie still released by Sony Pictures shows, left to right, Sharlto
> Copley, Mandla Gaduka and Kenneth Nkosi in "District 9." (AP Photo/Sony
> Pictures)This movie still released by Sony Pictures shows, left to right,
> Sharlto Copley, Mandla Gaduka and Kenneth Nkosi in "District 9." (AP
> Photo/Sony Pictures)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The Sony release produced by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson
> led the weekend with a $37 million debut, according to studio estimates
> Sunday.
> >
> > "District 9" is the debut feature from commercial and music-video
> director Neill Blomkamp, who co-wrote the tale about extraterrestrials
> forced by humans to live in squalor in a ghetto in South Africa.
> >
> > The movie built audience interest with a clever marketing campaign
> playing up the theme of prejudice against aliens, including posters
> instructing citizens to report non-humans and ads on bus benches stating
> that the seats are for humans only.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Everybody was like, 'What is this?' There was a big question mark in
> people's minds," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. "It did
> really pique their interest and drove them to the Internet and elsewhere to
> discover what's going on."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, Paramount's "G.I. Joe: The Rise of
> Cobra," slipped to second place with $22.5 million, raising its 10-day total
> to $98.8 million.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Another sci-fi tale, the Warner Bros. romance "The Time Traveler's Wife"
> starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, opened asolid No. 3 with $19.2
> million. The film joined the previous weekend's "Julie&Julia" as a choice
> for women, with females accounting for 76 percent of its audience.
> >
> > "District 9" and "Time Traveler's Wife" led a wave of five new wide
> releases for mid-August, when Hollywood's summer output normally is petering
> out. The rush continues next weekend with another surge of new releases, led
> by Quentin Tarantino's World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "It's getting very crowded, and it's these films that want to compete in
> the summer time frame but can't compete in the sweet spot of summer," said
> Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "Opening 'District
> 9' against 'Star Trek,' that would not be a good strategy. But to release it
> now makes sense. August is the month of opportunity for films that in other
> months of summer would get slaughtered."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The weekend's other debuts: Paramount Vantage's used-car comedy "The
> Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," opening at No. 6 with $5.4 million; Disney's
> animated adventure "Ponyo" from animation master Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited
> Away"), coming in at No. 9 with $3.5 million; and Summit Entertainment's
> teen rock 'n' roll tale "Bandslam," which tanked at No. 13 with just $2.3
> million despite a cast that includes Vanessa Hudgens of "High School
> Musical."
> >
> > It was Hollywood's second weekend in a row of rising revenues after a
> monthlong slide compared with summer 2008, when the Batman blockbuster "The
> Dark Knight" was smashing box-office records.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Overall receipts came in at $142 million, up 14 percent from the same
> weekend a year ago, when "Tropic Thunder" debuted at No. 1 with $25.8
> million.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Revenues since the summer season opened the first weekend of May are at
> $3.77 billion, just a fraction below where Hollywood was last summer,
> according to Hollywood.com.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Factoring in higher ticket prices, admissions are off 4 percent compared
> to summer 2008, though movie attendance remains strong given how "The Dark
> Knight" dominated a year ago. The biggest blockbuster since "Titanic," ''The
> Dark Knight" topped out with a domestic haul of $531 million.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Considering we had a movie of that magnitude in the mix, I think this
> summer has held up very well for itself," said Dan Fellman, head of
> distribution for Warner Bros., which released "The Dark Knight."
> >
> > Estimated ticket sales are for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian
> theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. "District 9," $37 million.
> >
> > 2. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," $22.5 million.
> >
> > 3. "The Time Traveler's Wife," $19.2 million.
> >
> > 4. "Julie&Julia," $12.4 million.
> >
> > 5. "G-Force," $6.9 million.
> >
> > 6. "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," $5.4 million.
> >
> > 7. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," $5.2 million.
> >
> > 8. "The Ugly Truth," $4.5 million.
> >
> > 9. "Ponyo," $3.5 million.
> >
> > 10. "500 Days of Summer," $3 million.
> >
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