Who wins the weekend ?

[Aintdisablast]

Kong or Narnia ?

 

[All Aboard]

Kong wins the weekend mostly because Narnia will be in weekend #2 and Kong only has a couple of days burned up. The Wed and Thu results show Kong more than doubling Narnia's take. I would expect Kong to continue that trend through the weekend.

In the long-run, it should be a close battle. I'm interested to see if the run time of the movie hurts it down the road. Word of mouth that includes "but it was so long" usually isn't good. And the feedback I've heard (ok, I only know one national critic personally - one I work with) is that you really feel the length of the film. Otherwise it's a marvelous spectacle.

 

[Planogirl]

Kong by far is my prediction

 

[2Xited4Disney]

Kong.

 

[Aintdisablast]

My first impression was that Kong would win also. Now I'm not so sure. It bled off 15 mill with it's Wed opening. Narnia will benifit more from kids getting out of school Friday. And on the weekend before Christmas, how many parents can afford to spend 3 hours in a theater.

I'm going with Narnia.

 

[cristen]

Well, I am sure you have seen this Aintdisablast, Box Office Mojo is predicting Kong to do 58 million and Narnia only doing 32.

Which surprises me that Kong is projected to do so little. I really thought with the hype and word of mouth that this movie would open to bigger numbers.

The only thing I can think of is A.) last true weekend for shopping before Christmas B.) I am so conditioned by the HP and LotR movies that a blockbuster must now have 100 mil openings, that 58 seems like a bad opening.

I will go with B with a little of A thrown in.

 

[Planogirl]

I think that a lot of people are too busy to see movies much nowadays and this will probably affect all of the box office take. Kong may have good legs though as people play catch up.

That is if the horror movie opening on Christmas Day doesn't pull them all in. I'm only kidding about that but you have to admire a studio that releases a horror movie on Christmas Day.

 

[JimB.]

Which surprises me that Kong is projected to do so little.

Could this be because the movie is 3 hours + long??

 

[CarnotaurDad]

Early results are out at boxofficemojo.com:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2005&wknd=50&p=.htm

Kong at $50.1 and Narina at $31.1.

Instant analysis: Kong did worse than expected. Narnia was right on target.