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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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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.
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