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Pixar’s WALL-E sparked at $23.2 million — best opening day ever for them – and Wanted fair pretty well too with $19 million. The Friday’s total box office scored a whopping $42 million between these two openers.
With WALL-E being G-rated and Wanted being R-rated the whole specturm of targeted audience members goes to the movies.
Last weeks Get Smartlost 50% of the gross but still faired well on Friday with $6.6 million.
Speculatively and conservatively we can expect WALL-Eto bring in about $60 million or more this weekend. If he wants to beat his Disney/Pixar cousins, The Incredibles ($70.4 million) and Finding Nemo ($70.2 million), he’ll need to bet on the critic-driven adult audience and kiddies’ matinees.
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With Wanted opening this weekend it only makes sense that the movie’s writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas announce their latest venture – animals taking over the planet. The script All Creatures Great and Small was drafted for Sony after the idea came during a brainstorming session with producer Neal Moritz. Moritz had been throwing the idea around and told the Brandt and Haas about it. They immediately went to work.
The writing duo describes Creatures as a big, creative movie like Jurassic Park with an environmental flare. The humans destroyed the planet with their thirst for oil and consumption of natural resources that the animals took over and fought back to save the planet. Wicked. The humans become the minority.
Brandt and Haas are the writing force behind such films as “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “3:10 to Yuma.”
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James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman join Angelina Jolie as they dodge and curve bullets - and fires off plenty of rounds - in the action-packed, extended trailer for Wanted, her sexy, new action thriller.
Personally, I am pretty excited about this movie with McAvoy in tow. Although, it does appear a little like the original "Matrix," but don't fret. It is different.
The story focuses on a young man (McAvoy) who discovers that his father is an assassin. After his father's death, the son is trained to follow in his father's footsteps. Wanted arrives in theaters on June 27.
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Pixar’s WALL-E sparked at $23.2 million — best opening day ever for them – and Wanted fair pretty well too with $19 million. The Friday’s total box office scored a whopping $42 million between these two openers.