OlderSun, 29 June 2008 at 3:25 pm
‘Wanted’ Breaks Box Office Records
The Angelina Jolie action thriller Wanted scored the best opening ever for an R-rated film released in June and the 6th best opening of all time for any R-rated pic, according to Variety.
The film, which also starred James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman, placed No. 2 at the box office this past weekend behind the endearing toon Wall-E.
At $23.1 million, Wall-E scored the biggest opening-day gross of all nine Pixar films and raked in an estimated $62.5 million for the weekend. Wanted soared beyond expectations, pulling in a whopping $51.1 million.
FYI: If you haven’t seen Wanted yet, you get to see Angie’s derrière in all its glory for a mere split-second.
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Congrats to Angie, James, Timur, Mark Millar and JG Jones! A job well done! Let’s all just sit back and watch troll heads explode.
BTW, where’s good old ShitzySpamSomeInsaneBitchChickGirl The Numbers Queen? Ain’t got jack to say now, does she?
So sick of this haggard looking, tattooed, ugly-faced chick. All she can do is action flicks, cause she just can’t act.
Saw it Wednesday, loved it.
It rocks.
Haters shut the hell up!
It belonged to Angie AND James… and MF kicked **** too, as per! ;) :D :D
Box office Mojo figures through Saturday:
Wall-E
total take estimate $62,500,000
number of theaters: 3992.
Per theater: $15,656.
WANTED
total take estimate $51,118,000
number of theaters: 3175.
Per theater: $16,100.
Budget:
Wall-E: $180 million.
Wanted: $75 million
Wonder how our boy Sambo likes them numbers?
ROTFLMBAO!!
I went to it yesterday, Awesome movie. Angelina was amazing in it
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Using my son’s computer to post since mines in the shop. I just had to give major kudos to Angie and Wanted! Girl Power all the way and hopefully TPTB finally understand we want to see strong women on screen — if they make it we will go see it!
I am so happy for Angie and the numbers that Wanted pulled in. Big Congrats to Angie, James, Morgan, Common, the over cast members and the direct!
btw thanks Jared for the new thread.
Thank you JJ. You always bring us the goods.
Lets shoot the mother fcuk…..(haters) :lol:
Angie is the greatest actress right now in Hollywood . GO ANGIE !!!!!
# 12 Jubilee @ 06/29/2008 at 3:38 pm
With Angelina’s $15 million pay she more than delivered. Great job Angie!
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It’s too bad Angie doesn’t get back-end participation the way Brad and so many of the male stars do. She could easily take in $50-75MIL for this movie. Maybe now that she’s proven she can deliver the goods in a more conventional action film she’ll be able to get that kind of a deal in the future. I’m not holding my breath, but it would be nice. With her giving away 1/3 of her income she could do a lot of good with that kind of loot.
Belle @ 06/29/2008 at 3:50 pm Angie is the greatest actress right now in Hollywood . GO ANGIE !!!!!
Just got back and movie was awesome.Angelina is a true movie star.Well done Angelina.Amazing woman.
thank you jared,baby ,ur the best!
It wasn’t showing in my town so I actually drove an hour drive into the big city to see this movie. It did NOT disappoint. Loved it. Great cast!!!!
deadline hollywood @ 06/29/2008 at 3:43 pm
It’s also the biggest opening ever for a live-action Angelina movie and she proved a big draw: Cinemascore said the main reasons given for choosing to see Wanted were the action (67%) and Jolie (61%). Exit polling showed the audience breakdown was 52%/48% male to female, 51%/49% under age 30 to over age 30.
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Oh sweet, sweet, sweet!!!!!!!!!
Happy birthday Vicki. Hope you have a wonderful celebration! :)
Guli - Have a safe, enjoyable, relaxing, and super vacation. I’m very envious. :)
Thanks Jared for the new thread. Awesome box office news!!!
Oh and Angelina’s butt perfect,Brad lucky man.
# 15 califan @ 06/29/2008 at 3:42 pm
It would be very interesting if they make a prequel instead of a sequel. I would like a movie just with Fox and how she joined the Fraternity of assasins, that would be really cool. However I heard she might be offered a role based on the true story of a CIA.
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Angie and her manager Geyer Kosinski bought the rights to the story of a former UN covert agent, not CIA, who busted one of the world’s biggest arms dealers. Paramount bought the option on it and now that the writers strike has ended I’m sure they’ve approached a few people about writing the first draft of the script. Maybe they’ll have a working draft of a script by the time Angie’s ready to go back to work.
not a fan @ 06/29/2008 at 3:47 pm
So sick of this haggard looking, tattooed, ugly-faced chick. All she can do is action flicks, cause she just can’t act.
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Oh honey… I know how awful you must feel. Three smash hits in less than six months: “Beowulf”, “Kung Fu Panda”, and now “Wanted”. Meanwhile, you’ve been champing at the bit waiting for Jennypoo’s first movie in two years, “He’s Just Not That Into You”, to come out, only to find that the release date has been pushed back for the second time and now won’t come out until next February, if it’s released at all, because the advance buzz on the movie was so bad the studio is afraid it will tank at the box office so it may go directly to DVD.
Hang in there, honey, so we don’t have to put you on suicide watch. Poor Jennifer needs all the fans she can get, and she doesn’t have that many left any more.
GREAT NEWS!!!!
Congrats to all but mostly to Angelina Jolie.
You know what they said: people is not goingto see this movie because angie is in it but the truth is the exact opposite . It sucessed mainy because of her. My congradutation to angie and the whole cast.
#27 Not af fan. If you are so tired of looking at her why are u here?
You chose to look at it , you came here, you even posted a comment.
What’s wrong with you? Are you bipolar? Go ahead you can tell everyone. We are very caring people here.
Yes @ 06/29/2008 at 3:49 pm
Lets shoot the mother fcuk…..(haters)
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Let’s not. They’ve provided a lot of laughs recently.
not a fan @ 06/29/2008 at 3:47 pm So sick of this haggard looking, tattooed, ugly-faced chick. All she can do is action flicks, cause she just can’t act.
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HAGGARD?’DIOT! AND MANISTON IS WHAT?CHOKARD!WORST!MAKE-UP AND RENOVATION CAN’T MAKE HER LOOK A HUMAN.
# 20 deadline hollywood @ 06/29/2008 at 3:43 pm
Cinemascore said the main reasons given for choosing to see Wanted were the action (67%) and Jolie (61%). Exit polling showed the audience breakdown was 52%/48% male to female, 51%/49% under age 30 to over age 30.
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Hehehehehehehehehehe….everybody hear thos snap, pop, crackle noises? it ain’t cereal. It’s haters, trolls and Faniston heads a-poppin’ like the peanut-butter eating rats in Wanted.
passing Through @ 06/29/2008 at 3:54 pm
# 15 califan @ 06/29/2008 at 3:42 pm
It would be very interesting if they make a prequel instead of a sequel. I would like a movie just with Fox and how she joined the Fraternity of assasins, that would be really cool. However I heard she might be offered a role based on the true story of a CIA.
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Angie and her manager Geyer Kosinski bought the rights to the story of a former UN covert agent, not CIA, who busted one of the world’s biggest arms dealers. Paramount bought the option on it and now that the writers strike has ended I’m sure they’ve approached a few people about writing the first draft of the script. Maybe they’ll have a working draft of a script by the time Angie’s ready to go back to work.
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That would be great. I hope it materializes and they get a real good director and maybe even Timor could do the job.
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