Well, that’s the point. It’s half a movie. KBill One got pretty damn decent numbers, so imagine the weekend gross for the second one, no matter the numbers, Mirimax will get twice the money, because they release Kill Bill (one and two) twice. That’s one of the main reasons they split it anyway, twice the profit!
[quote]Well, that’s the point. It’s half a movie. KBill One got pretty damn decent numbers, so imagine the weekend gross for the second one, no matter the numbers, Mirimax will get twice the money, because they release Kill Bill (one and two) twice. That’s one of the main reasons they split it anyway, twice the profit![/quote]
There was someone -- I forget where I read this -- that said if you take the gross for Volume 1 and add on the gross for Volume 2's opening weekend (whatever it may be) that's what Kill Bill would have grossed if it were released as a whole. Now, there's no way that could have happened. There's no way that Kill Bill would have made more on its opening weekend if it had been released in its 3.5 hour length, or whatever the full length is. It probably would have made less. People not wanting to see a 3+ hour samurai/kung-fu film. Less showings per day. As it is, it's only getting 4 showings a day where I am.
I dunno why I posted this. Just felt like saying it.
As was expected, “Kill Bill” has lost the top spot to TCM this weekend:
http://www.imdb.com/Charts/
Kill Bill is still in second place though; with a total gross of $43.3 million. Personally, I’m quite happy with the result. That means another $20 million this past week 
.Miramax are most probably gonna recuperate the total cost of the two volumes combined thanks to the Volume 1 gross alone. This means that the money Volume 2 will make at the box office will ALL be a profit for Miramax. Great!
Was I right or was I right? My predictions actually overshot the actual box office listings, but not by much.
anyone know what the international gross is? i mean, if it’s 40 mil in the USA, it could be another 80 mil worldwide or so
Kill Bill made 12.5mil this weekend, which is about a 50% drop. I figured it’d be about that. Does anyone have any idea what mainstream audiences think of this movie? From what I’ve gathered most of the people I’d consider in the mainstream audience hated this movie. I garuntee 95% of the people I was in the theater with didn’t like it.
I’ve seen it 4 1/2 times. All those times the audience loved it and laughed at the right parts and even snuck into other showings.
To the forum admin, Kill has yet to be released in quite a few countries, and they usually don’t have worldwide figures from a movie till it isnt in theathers anymore, so that will take till Vol 2 is released for you know how much it exactly made.
But if it is over 40 mil in the USA now, you can bet ur ass it will make at the very least 100 million worldwilde, earning back both movies twice with only volume 1 released 
I was looking around to see how it did in other countries and i clicked on some UK link and noticed it was #10
I was suprised, but then i looked at how many theaters it was released in:
1
It should do very well in Japan i think. Hong Kong, not so sure. They seem to be more into Gun play movies and peroid stuff it seems as of late.
Im suprised Kill Bill is doing as good as it is. After its release i havent seen any Kill Bill commercials or Promos.
[quote]I was looking around to see how it did in other countries and i clicked on some UK link and noticed it was #10
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Wha tha FUCK?  That can not be.  I’m going to check on this.  Bearing in mind, the UK cinema going audience is about 1/15th the size of the US and that it opened 3 days ago it should still do at least £2-3 mil ($4mil) on opening weekend. In order to make 10 on the chart it would have to make roughly £1,223.12
Yep, I just check… most of the box office figures out there for UK takings are from the preview weekend (when it was released in the US) and movies only get released in a couple theatres give or take on a preview weekend so it was no.10 which is actually pretty good considering.
Yeah. That’s extremely good for being in only one theatre.
Kill Bill is expected to fall to 6th place this weekend.
http://www.boxofficereport.com/wbon/daily.shtml
With the forecasted $54.7 million intake; that means Miramax has already recuperated the cost for both volumes  in the U.S. alone (ignoring advertising). I was expecting a bit more to say the truth; but hey, for a cult movie it sure did its job. I’d say Volume 1 will probably hit the $70 million mark before it’s taken out of the theatres, which would be a  very satisfying result.
Imdb should post the official weekend figures in a few hours. Keep checking.
WTF, Scary Movie 3 made almost 50 mil in its opening weekend? I mean, Scary Movie 3 might be a mildly entertaining flick, but this amount is redicilous.
Really proves that people go see sequels real easy.
that’s the point.
You know, Scary Movie is a film that a studio can sell to anyone from 10 to 99 years of age. And even if somebody who watches the film doesn’t know all the movie that are being referred to, it’s still a funny comedy.
And that is as main stream as mainstream can get, and that means, you have a huge success at the box office.
My explanation for this rather moderate success of Kill Bill is this:
The advertising went somehow wrong, especially international ad campaigns were very passive and in many countries people just didn’t know anything about the film.
The other thing is time of release: You just can’t drop it into the same month as Bad Boys and stuff like that, that’s killer…
Or it could be that Scary Movie 3 is PG 13 and Kill Bill is rated R. Most of the time, G, PG, and PG 13 movies are going to rake in way more money than an R movie unless its unbelievably hyped ala the Matrix Reloaded or Terminator 3.
[quote]WTF, Scary Movie 3 made almost 50 mil in its opening weekend? I mean, Scary Movie 3 might be a mildly entertaining flick, but this amount is redicilous.
Really proves that people go see sequels real easy.[/quote]
Kill bill is seriously nose diving out of the theatres and will
be pulled entirely in less than 3 weeks (It has already been pulled from some theatres according to some posters here)
Miramax has already worked out a deal with Walmart to significantly reduce the graphic violence in the movie inorder to sell the dvd in walmart outlets. By some estimates its been
bumped as far as no.7 due to its failure to appeal to the mainstream audience (i guess i fall in that category) The movie which was has a price tag of 65 million according to the ap (not 55 as previously posted by some members) is struggling big time overseas and will be fortunate to last one more week in some countries..In the Uk even if it was released in over 300 theatres (previous posts of its being released in only one are wrong..That was only one night) it has only reached the no 3 ranking and fallen to 10. It has earned about 4 million in the Uk and daily averages are dropping fast. In Germany japan and hong kong the movie has failed to make even 1 million...Total international gross is
estimated at 9 million.
Some on this board had made estimates of this movie reaching 100 million in the US alone will be dissappointed because Kill bill will be no where near that mark. It might not
even make more than 20 million overseas due to the extremely picky international audiences (This movie can not begin to be appreciated in other parts of the country that will most definately not understand the overkill of various movie references that have little or no cultural significance in other countries. While one may argue that this movie has martial arts that will appeal to the asian market, it would do to recognize the trends of martial arts movies in Asia that are very absent in Kill bill... The much maligned "CGI" and "wire fu"
are currently the norm in most Asian martial arts movies being released today (Like "Hero" featuring Jet li and China's biggest
star Zhang Ziyi) The asian market will resoundingly reject this
as a martial arts movies and this will be reflected in the ticket sales. Asian Qt fans will similarly be dissappointed as this movie deviated from his previous movies.
All in all, kill bill 2 will have far stronger expectations to live up to following the release of Matrix Revelations and Lord of the Rings and even the movie "Hero" if the bastard at Miramax (most notably H.weinstein who is known as Harvey Scissorhands in hollywood) ever release this movie that was believed to be a true oscar contender. Those of us familiar with the baffoonery at Miramax regarding these types of features are not holding our breath. Most are quite convinced it will not be released at all in feeble attempts to herd the martial arts crowds into the second installment of kill bill.
Its also been reported that miramax does not intend to promote kill bill 2 due to the mediocre performance of part 1.
The entire series will be lucky to make just a little over 100 million because the second installment WILL NOT enjoy the sucess of the first..Its only fair to assume a far larger drop off
of fans because the movie has failed to garner fringe audiences due to word of mouth like previous Qt features. And being that a fair portion of the audience for this feature were dissppointed in it, the numbers will be significantly lower.
All in all Kill bill is only the sucess it is due to the ingenuity (read as greed) of Miramax execs who cunningly split the movie thus avoiding the box office flop this movie could have turned out to be.
Rekings may I ask where you got this information?
Im gonna look into it but since i only go to boxofficemojo.com I saw that Kill Bill Vol. 1 made just over 50 million. WHere did you hear the budget was 65 and not 55? Anyway even if the budget was 65, Vol. 1 will make up for it alone and Vol. 2 will be pure profit, and we’re talkin US alone
JW
[quote]Rekings may I ask where you got this information?
Im gonna look into it but since i only go to boxofficemojo.com I saw that Kill Bill Vol. 1 made just over 50 million. WHere did you hear the budget was 65 and not 55? Anyway even if the budget was 65, Vol. 1 will make up for it alone and Vol. 2 will be pure profit, and we’re talkin US alone
JW
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Just ignore him. He’ll just go into another spiel about the Matrix, and we don’t need another of those threads clogging up the forum.
I think the main reason behind this moderate success is not because Kill Bill is rated R; but because QT has a cult following and is not that known among mainstream audiences. The same thing can be said, for example, for the Coens and"Intolerable Cruelty"; which had a budget of approx. $60 million, and starred two major Hollywood figures; yet it’s still struggling at the box office.
The main thing I’m worried about regarding Volume 2 is that by the 20th of February, there will probably be no dvd for Volume 1 yet. Hence, the second part will appeal mostly to those who had already seen Volume 1 in the theaters; and those who didn’t have the opportunity to catch it will be less likely to be motivated in seeing the end of the story.