Night at the Museum and Terminator Salvation Box Office Battle
Posted in T3: Rise of the Machines Movie News, T4: Terminator Salvation Movie News on 26-05-2009
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McG’s “Terminator Salvation” scored a very healthy $43 in its opening weekend, but that wasn’t enough to impress a whole lot of people who look at such numbers. People seem to be concentrating on the fact that “Salvation” was beaten in the 3-day tally (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) by Ben Stiller’s “Night at the Museum” sequel, which scored $53.5 million in the same time period. Except if you include “Salvation’s” opening day Thursday take, “Salvation” actually came out on top of “Museum” for the week with a 4-day total of $56.4 million for its opening week.
For those hoping for a T5, any good box office for “Salvation” is good news. We’ll have to wait until next week to see how well “Salvation” holds up, though. The movie boasts an estimated production budget of $200 million, so it still has plenty of ways to go before earning back its money. Plus, the fact that T4 made less in its opening week than the much-derided T3, which pulled in $44 million from 3-days in its own opening week in 2003, is not a good sign.
Box office numbers via BoxOfficeMojo.
That do’nt surprise me.
so what? i still have to see it i think ill go saturday and ill bet itll be hard to get a seat:)
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Unfortunately, Terminator Salvation is total mess.
I would like to see a T5 and believe the franchise has some serious potential. Bale is a higly capable actor and given the right material would fit the conner role well. We just need a different creative team behind the camera; from what i can tell the problem lies less with McG than the idiots who wrote the picture but that just MHO.
From Box Office Mojo
“Terminator Salvation held a tad better than Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, retreating 50 percent to an estimated $8.2 million and hitting $105.5 million in 18 days, though it still trails its predecessor by a wide margin overall.
Overseas, it was a different story as Terminator Salvation dominated in its major foreign rollout. Playing in 70 markets, the sci-fi action picture drew an estimated $67.5 million, lifting its total to $97.2 million and out-pacing Terminator 3 in comparable markets by around 20 percent through the same point. The Night at the Museum sequel was second with an estimated $26.7 million ($148.4 million total), “