[quote=“Dead Zed”]Friday:
Basterds - $14,350,000
Shorts - $2,050,000
No competition there. Can’t believe that Basterds, a 2.5 hour talky WWII movie, did so well the first day… I expected about 25m for the weekend, now it looks like its gonna be around 40m. It will be interesting to see how the word-of-mouth will affect the crowds…
Feel sorry that Robert bombed, but maybe this will kick him in the ass to start working on Sin City 2…[/quote]
I’m not shocked at all. From what I remeber, when I went to go see Grindhouse, there wasnt that many people, but in IB it was pretty packed. I’m sure alot of older gentlemen went to go see it because it deals with WWII. Actually, while I waiting in line this older gentlemen was saying to the ticket booth(when asked how old is the person he was waiting for was, because the film is rated r) and he said they were in their 70’s, I was just amazed by that. So, from what I saw there were alot more adults(40+) than young adults(20-30) there is something so interesting about that.