Yes, yes, I know: The Dark Knight Rises wasn’t quite as awesome as The Dark Knight, so therefore that tiny margin of less awesome makes the entire thing a failure. That makes total sense. But naysayers be damned, it still managed to bring in another $36.4 Million over the weekend, which is nothing to sneeze at, especially when compared to …
Total Recall … oh, in another lifetime, maybe you would have been a more successful movie. I mean, you weren’t terrible, but you weren’t all that great either. Plus, you were kind of following a summer of major blockbusters, so you never really stood a chance, only taking in $26 Million on your opening weekend. Oh well, you can make it up in DVD sales.
Fun fact! I honestly had no idea that Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days was even a movie until I read about how it landed in third place at the box office with $14.7 Million. For all I know, this could just be a clever satire on how kids movies are routinely pushed away from the limelight yet somehow always manage to turn in a decent revenue because they’re cheap to make and kids don’t understand how quality works. But nope. This is real. They made three Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies.
Speaking of kids movies that somehow managed to make it to numerous installments, Ice Age: Continental Drift earned $8.4 Million at the box office, which isn’t bad when you consider that it’s a movie about Ray Romano voicing a woolly mammoth. And his daughter is Nicki Minaj. HOW?
The Watch, which had to contend with some of the worst timing ever, is still struggling to hold on, scraping together another $6.3 Million. But in brighter news, Celeste and Jesse Forever is doing some crazy good numbers, premiering in four theaters and earning an average of $28,000 per screen. To put that in perspective: That’s three times what The Dark Knight Rises did.
Jeremy Feist is an (ahem) entertainer from Toronto, Canada. He writes, acts, and performs on stage, and has been a writer for Popbytes for almost three years now. He lives in Toronto with his boyfriend, his incredibly dumb but cute puppy, and his immortal cat.
