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Cloverfield, the much-buzzed monster movie from Lost mastermind JJ Abrams, topped box offices this weekend.
The film took in $41 million, according to studio estimates ($10 million more than projected estimates). Cloverfield’s budget was only $25-$30 million.
If you’ve already seen Cloverfield and didn’t sit through the ridiculous 12-minutes-long credits, you probably missed this. An audio clip was played backwards!
Pictured below (first row): Cloverfield hotties Michael Stahl-David and Odette Yustman (in J. Mendel). Second row: Costars Mike Vogel, Lizzy Caplan (in white) and Jessica Lucas.
The Katherine Heigl romantic comedy 27 Dresses also doubled projections, raking in $22 million. Here’s the rest of the top 10 films:
3) The Bucket List — $15.2 million
4) Juno — $10.3 million
5) National Treasure: Book of Secrets — $8.1 million
6) First Sunday — $7.8 million
7) Mad Money — $7.7 million
8) Alvin and the Chipmunks — $7 million
9) I Am Legend — $5.1 million
10) Atonement — $4.7 million
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Love it….the golddiggers movie FLOPPED!!! hAHAHAHAHHA
What’s Tommy and Katie going to do now? They’re both LOSERS. Katie’s movie debuted with $2.3 million? That must be a record for the worst opening ever.
Told you so cult lovers. Can’t wait for Team Cult to start posting excuses. here!!!!
The two freaks need to start their own FREAK SHOW. LMAO!!!!!!
first!
all that and Katie did not bring the bacon home.
Famous, Miapocca, and all TomKat - she flopped and so badly.
According to US Magazine:
Moviegoers didn’t flock to see Katie Holmes’ return to the big screen this weekend.
Her comedy Mad Money, co-starring Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, came in at No. 5 with $2.3 million, according to preliminary estimates.
Cloverfield, the sci-fi monster flick, was the box office champ with $16.8 million.
No. 2: Katherine Heigl’s romantic comedy 27 Dresses, with $7.7 million. (See her in a bridesmaid dress here.)
The Jack Nicholson comedy The Bucket List ranked No. 3 with $4.2 million, while the indie comedy Juno (starring Ellen Page, who just signed on for Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut) came in at No. 4 with $3 million.
Critics had slammed Holmes for her role. The New York Times called her “the movie’s weakest link.”
Holmes, who seems to have changed a lot since her early days based on her talk show appearances this week, also recently got blasted for some questionable style moves in NYC.
Her husband Tom Cruise faced his own criticism for a series of newly surfaced videos in which he says he helped save America after 9/11 and declares that psychiatry doesn’t work.
i loved the movie cloverfield.it rocked.nd the rob guy is hotttt
Uh, it says mad money made $7.7 million, not 2.3 million.
wow. mad money’s doing really good.
cloverfield rocked.
It’s a sad day when Jack Nicholson is beat out by Katherine Heigl
[~F a m o u s~] @ 01/20/2008 at 3:10 pm
wow. mad money’s doing really good.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha , mad maney flopped.
It’s a sad day when Jack Nicholson is beat out by Katherine Heigl
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Jack Nicholson’s movie has two weeks at the B O.
Early estimates are “always” higher than the final numbers so each movie above will make 1 to 2 million “less” than the totals listed above. 27 dresses probably 20 million and mad money probably 6 million. They had to have spent millions on promotion for mad money because the trailer/commercial was on tv non stop until Saturday morning. Hopefully mad money will go away now.
ALRIGHT!!!! It’s awesome that both Cloverfield and 27 Dresses succeeded, and 27 doubled it’s projection. Congrats to J.J. Abrams and Katherine Heigl on their success. I’m really interested in seeing how the whole weekend pans out after Monday is done. I bet these two movies will continue to increase their profit. I saw 27 Dresses in a packed theatre, and I loved it. It’s a great romantic comdey, and Katherine Heigl and James Marsden were just downright adoreable.
“Cloverfield” was a good movie. I don’t think its the watershed moment in the history of monster movies that some on-line geeks (Harry Knows of “Aint It Cool News” for one) seem to think it is. It basically felt like “The Blair Witch Project” with a budget. But the good news is I bought the love story that at its core and it had some effectively scary scenes. And the monster once you get a good look at it is fairly original looking.
I loved Cloverfield. It did make me really sick with all the documentary camera movements, but I liked it. I was holding onto my friend the whole time. I saw it 2 times. The ending shocking me though, to be honest. lol. I also saw 27 dresses. That was so cute. I loved it. I love Katherine Heigl and James Marsden! I recommend those two movies.
It got a lot of promotion behind the scenes on the internet and with pre-screenings. I’m not surprised.
Yay, I am so happy for Odette. Cloverfield rocked
People saw it was good and went to go see it. Congrats J.J. Abrams
mmm Mike Vogel and Michael Stahl-David… so attractive.
flop is such a strong word.
damn that diane keaton! she ruined the movie! lol
I’m not surprised that it did good. It got a lot of promotion and people reacted to it positive.
new stars might be born, only time will tell…
OVERRATED. I went to the midnight showing eeeearly Friday, and while the film LOOKED cool, there was no substance to it. The only good thing about it was the camera work.
I preferred 27 Dresses to be honest, lol.
Mmmm, Mike Vogel!
This movie gave me vertigo..seriously.. I saw it Friday and I am still sick, I had to leave the theater, and I never do that.
Wonder how it ended? if they found Beth..found out what the monster was.. oh well… this movie should come with a warning.
I CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!! AND THAT CLIP IS REALLY FREAKY!!!!!!! I HOPE THAT THERES A SEQUEL TO CLOVERFIELD!!!!
Does anyone know where Michael Stahl David’’s Chicago shirt is from?
Went to see Cloverfield wanted to leave during the first 15 minutes. Not worth all the hype. And couldn’t watch the last 30 minutes I just closed my eyes and listened most of the time, verito setting in. Hated the ending. Oh well to each thier own. I didn’t like it.
CLOVERFIELD ROCKS!!!
ROTTEN TOMATOES Rating
FRESH: 76% Cloverfield
ROTTEN: 36% 27 Dresses
ROTTEN: 18% Mad Money
Neither First Sunday nor Mad Money looked appealing. I’m definitely looking forward to Cloverfield. Hope it doesn’t disappoint
vertigo….say it isn’t so. Just read your comment. Hmmm, maybe I’ll wait to check it out from the library
#27 It’s definitely a movie people either loved or hated another similarity it shares with “The Blair Witch Project.” In the showing I went to the guy behind me burst out with this sophisticated review: “What the f**k? I want my f**king money back!”
Ahhh Mike Vogel, hottttttt.
:)
Juno is still holding strong!!
One review said something to the effect of ‘Spin around in a circle for ten minutes. Did you like that? Go buy your ticket.”
ok since ever1 is talking about which movie made money i have to say cloverfield was a pretty good movie although at the beginning it hurts ur eyes the monster and all that was actuelly scary !!
ANyone know where Mike Vogel’s “Chicago airplane” shirt is from?
WHO?
All that promotions that Katie did last week didn’t do much at the box office. She was everywhere on the tube. I saw the trailer and when the bad reviews come in, I know right away that she got a stinker in her hand.
Well 7.7 million isn’t so bad for a low budget comedy like Mad Money
me
@kn: I don’t think you read your stats right. 27 Dresses did very well, in fact, better than expected. It doubled it’s projection, and exceeded all expectations by the studio. Not to mention similar to Cloverfield…27 Dresses the movie had mixed review, but no matter the review critics adored and hailed Katherine Heigl’s acting.
27 Dresses was no stinker……
From Entertainment Weekly
“Of course, we shouldn’t let one great opening overshadow another: Katherine Heigl’s 27 Dresses may have remained a bridesmaid at the box office, walking down the, er, multiplex aisle at No. 2, but it still looked great with $22.4 mil, the 10th-best January debut ever. Its crowd (which was a whopping 87 percent female) was doubly charmed, granting the romantic comedy a respectable B+ CinemaScore mark. In just three days, 27 Dresses has already landed at No. 6 on the list of the top MLK openings, and it should rise to second or third place in that ranking by the end of the holiday weekend.”
From Yahoo
“Fox spent the previous two weekends holding sneak previews of “27 Dresses,” which stars “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Katherine Heigl as a perennial bridesmaid. The News Corp-owned studio said the opening was “fantastic.” The film held at No. 1 in Australia for a second week, it added.”
Yea, some stinker lol……I think your judgement is a wee bit off lol.
#38, Mad Money is in over 2000 theaters and had a huge promotion so it did do “so” bad… Cloverfield is not a big budget movie according to hollywood standards, but it still made big money.
Oops, my bad. My apologizes kn :(. I thought you meant Katie as in Katie Heigl. But you meant Katie Holmes. Ugh, I’m having one of those days where I’m mixing names all over the place. My apologizes.
WHERE CAN I GET THE CHICAGO SHIRT?
I just saw Cloverfield two hours ago….awful. I hated this movie like very few in my lifetime. If you are looking for intelligent dialog, or reasonable decision making, or something other than plain stupidity from every character…don’t go see this movie.
Wow, all the folks that I know actually loved Mad Money. I am not a huge Katherine Heigel fan. She annoys me to no end and I was hoping that damn movie flopped. Oh well, saw the Bucket List last week and it’s hilarious. I see why it was number one last week!
#30 This is just my opnion. Go watch the movie , you might just like it. From most of the posts here , the average opinions thought it was great. By the way I truely do suffer from vertigo which made it impossible for me to watch.
Look retards and haters:
Cloverfield is a blockbuster by Paramount.
27 Dresses is by 20th Century fox and I believe Bucket Lists is by Universal.
Katie’s movie Mad Money did well for an Independent movie and small studio Overture and the budget was only 12 million.
Looks like 7 million is close to its 12 million payoff.
some know nothing about box office analysis and the difference of major studios and indie financing. Its like some dont know the difference of Spiderman vs. Atonement or Valley of Elah. LM6O.
Reatty no.41 you are funny and please do some research!!!!!!!!!!
Go read the L.A.Times,NY Times and Variety……
27 Dresses is by Fox and do you know who owns Fox? Cloverfield was where everywhere with their promotions.
27 Dresses promos were all over too.
SciFi geeks have been solving the puzzles since 2007 on Cloverfield wondering if Cloverfield is Godzilla,Voltron etcccccc
Their first tease was the most hyped online and on the theatres.
All over the fanboys sites it was the most popular trailer even more bigger than The Dark Knight,Narnia,Iron Man etcccccc
Cloverfield has $25 million budget funded by Paramount the same studio he did MI-3 and now Cloverfield and Star Trek.
Mad Money had no publicity budget but they said to Cineblend and Cinematical all they have is Katie Holmes. Other films had publicity money to spend.
Mad Money only cost $12 million to make by Overture.
Overture is not a GIANT company.
My brother and his friends went to see “Cloverfield” at the drive-in on Saturday night. At the end of the movie someone stood on their car and screamed out “that was fcuking sh*t!!” Everyone around burst out laughing and a chorus of expletives about the movie followed.
I saw “Blair Witch” and thought it was the most fcuked movie ever. Got vertigo bigtime.
Then I saw “Bourne Ultimatum” (was that the most recent one?) and lo and behold, I got vertigo with that movie too. Had to close my eyes for half of the movie which was so diappointing because it was such a great movie. I thought if I don’t close my eyes, some poor bast*rd around me is goin to wear my popcorn puke.
Mad Money cost 22 million and is in 2400 theaters. Most small movies will never see that many theaters. If people were interested in Mad Money, It would have made tons of money regardless of how much it cost because it’s in enough theaters for people to see it if they want to and most don’t want to see it.
Very true, Cloverfield was so hyped and promoted but it was alright. Same with all the hype for the final Star Wars,War of the Worlds,I am Legend and they were good but not the greatest.
We shall see how JJ Abrams delivers and redeems Star Trek.
Its scary when Morgan Freeman’s and Nicholsom’s good film was beaten by crappy crude movie 27 Dresses. Mad Money opened good despite the not so good reviews. This weekend alone had 4 comedies out from 27 Dresses,Bucket Lists,Mad Money and Black Sunday. Mad Money and Black Sunday almost has the same opening of 7 million.
Similar to the same opening of 9 million between Sweeney Todd and Charlie Wilson’s War.
Katie had to do lots of promotion because SHE IS THEIR PUBLICITY WEAPON. She is free publicity unlike the other movies that had money for their promotions.
Wrong again Reatty.
Here is the real cost of Mad Money and its not even close to your lies of 22 million:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/batmaninnews.php?id=5142
Only *few* Indie films do big at the box office and its only Juno
by Jason Reitman. The same director for Katie Holmes Thank you for Smoking. TYFS did great for an Indie comedy satire too making the top 10 with $262,923. Not big as Mad Money but its pretty decent for an Indie cred because of the hype it got with the missing sex scenes between Katie and Aaron Eckhart who is supposedly her love interest again in Batman.
Please reports facts not twisted lies.
trolls are quick to slaughter Katie but they ignore the weak box office numbers of other actresses like Little Miss Sunshine, Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth and I am not There when it even got Ledger,Bale and many A listers in it.
I cant think of any Scarlett Johansson’s hit movies or even Jessica Alba except Fantastic 4 when any actress can replace her and that will still be a hit. Angelina Jolie’s Mighty Heart was called a flop along with Witherspoon’s Rendition. P.S. I Love You is by a big studio by Hilary Swank but Mad Money the 1st release of Overture a small studio earned more. Julia Roberts Charlie Wilson only opened 9 million and that stellar cast and many glowing reviews.
Cloverfield was one of the worst movies I have ever sat through, 3 mins in I was already feeling sick from the ’shaky cam’ . I spent almost the entire time with my eyes closed, not because it was scary, bloody or even gruesome - but because the moving camera gave me motion sickness…and I was not the only one with this problem! I don’t think I missed much, as at the end of the movie everyone in the theater seemed very disappointed!
I just feel like I need to warn people about how crappy it was…it got sooo much great hype…and it did really well this weekend - but all that hype didn’t result in an even slightly good movie!
put more pics of the cast please! they are sooo good looking.
I wasted my money on 27 Dresses and Bucket Lists. Wasted my money on Cloverfield too. Its no entertainment when you feel so queasy. Will wait for Mad Money on DVD.
Anne Hathaway’s “Becoming Jane” by Miramax a Disney owned production made much much less than Mad Money.
I bet Katie’s castmate Michelle Williams wont even make any money if she did Mad Money and Im banking Katie’s replacement Maggie Gyllenhaal wont draw any crowd for Mad Money if she starred in this crap. People are not watching The Dark Knight for Maggie Gyllenhaal but for Batman vs the Joker and the other amazing actors and hunks.
they’re all ugly and the guy looks like a wonnabee Vartan and the women look like a wonnabee Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie.
Batman Begins paycheck for Katie is $ 1 million
but she turned down the $ 2 million paycheck raise for the Batman sequel to do a $ 12 million budget small movie and her paycheck for Mad Money
is only $250,000.
I didnt like any movies this weekend except Juno.
I wonna chime in that Nicole Kidman hasnt had a hit for so long. Her last movie* Golden Compass* fell short for New Line Cinema because she is overpaid and the movie was so expensive to make.
Kerri Russell’s *August Rush* didnt open well for Warner Bros. and her Independent film *Waitress* despite glowing reviews only opened 3 million. Naomi Watts blockbuster *King Kong* flopped so badly directed by Peter Jackson.
#47 I think it was a blockbuster because of all the hype. I went to see the movie because of all the hype as I am sure many of us did. And because of it ,we pushed the movie to the number one spot. We manage to put the movie into the number one slot because we were curious not neccessaryly because the movie was good.
hahaha its just a stupid mutated whale that attacks the city. how funny is that?
true its not a good movie at all, the hype for nothing since that summer teaser they put out during Transformers.
i think the people who hated cloverfield hated it cause the shaky cam.
i didnt go out and pay for it at the theaters because so many people online were saying how it made them sick, and i didnt want to wast time and money, so i watched it online. the quality was HORRIBLE, which kind of ruined it for me, but even then, i think it has been one of the most original movies in a while. it was really good. i will now go pay the money to see it in its best quality so i can actually see whats going on in the background.
personally, i think its been in the top 5 best movies over the last few years. it was original, and it had more to it then people getting killed and slashed into a bloody mess. and i really love that they used unknown actors, it was so much more believeable.
oh ya and i thought that girl was zoey deschanel for the entire movie, then looked it up and it wasnt! they look alot alike though.
and also, i hate when people compare EVERY up and coming actress to angelina jolie. just because shes beautiful and has dark hair, means nothing. shes pretty! so what? not every woman is trying to be angelina jolie, and some poeple dont even find her attractive!
every person has such a vast difference and interesting features, why compare? you can see them all in their own way
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