An interesting note here:
Incredibly, The Avengers‘ 50 percent drop is the smallest second weekend decline of any film that achieved one of the Top 10 opening weekends of all time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 fell by 72 percent after its $169.1 million debut. The Dark Knight dipped 53 percent after its $158.4 million start. The Hunger Games and Spider-Man 3 both sank by 62 percent after their debuts of $152.5 million and $151.1 million, respectively. Those sorts of drops are just expected when dealing with gargantuan openings like these, but Avengersstarted much higher and fell by much less — a clear indicator of positive audience reception.
So in other words, people really like this movie.
The multimillion-dollar cinema has been showing only one film, “Turkmenistan the Heavenly Land,” since it opened in central Ashgabat about six months ago.
“Perhaps people got tired of the film,” said a cinema employee who didn’t want to give his name. “Most of our customers are not interested in the film, they just come to see the movie house itself.”
He said the theater needed at least five customers to show the movie, but most of the time the number of visitors didn’t reach five and the showing was canceled.
Looks like they don’t like the gimmick of 3D any more in former Soviet states than they do in the US.
In which, in a column for Mediaite, Philip Bump discovers that the real reason the box-office is down is because the movies suck way more this year than they did last year, with the exception of one: “The Help.” However, Bump noticed an interesting trend: “2011′s top movies were worse and movies on the whole took in less money. But the worse the top movie, the more theaters earned. In other words, we have no one to blame but ourselves,” he wrote. “Oh, and movie studios. We can also blame them.”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” has grossed $162.1 million through Sunday and should make over $180 million by end of day Monday. “Larry Crowne” fell behind “Cars 2” and “Bad Teacher” for a disappointing $15.6 million take over the Fourth of July holiday.
It’s official: Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks can no longer sell a movie anymore — even one with as memorable forgettable a name as “Larry Crowne.” Meanwhile, Michael Bay can throw some anonymous actress in the place of Megan Fox and the Transformers machine doesn’t skip a beat.
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