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Tom Morrow
07-26-2007, 08:16 AM
Meet the Robinsons sudden B.O. jump


Magical $100,000,000 (http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/magical-100000000.html)
The Animation Guild Blog

In the top half of Daily Variety's Box Office 50 (http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=b_o_weekend&dept=Film), there are ten features over the $100 million mark. Obviously a $100 million domestic gross ain't what it used to be, but the current list isn't too shabby.

Among the 25, there are three films (Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean 3.0, and Spider-Man 3) up at the rarified $300 million level. Two features (Transformers, Harry Potter) hover above the $200 million sign post.And five films (Ratatouille, Live Free or Die Hard, Knocked up, Ocean's Thirteen and Fantastic Four) live on various ledges over the $100 million marker. In the bottom part of the list, only Wild Hogs at $168,0005,066 is still alive and kicking.

But the most interesting activity in our current domestic box office (at least to me) is what's going on with Meet the Robinsons. Robinsons, you see, is still in release. And last week it jumped from #52 in last week's box office hit parade to...(drum roll)... #25. Its domestic gross increased 1,268%. So it now has a grand total of $97,002,175. You think there's the teensiest chance that Disney is trying to get their previous CGI release up over the magical $100 million? You know, for bragging rights?
Just a thought.




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Executioner
07-26-2007, 12:22 PM
As much as I thought this movie was good and liked how they played the whole thing off of a Walt Disney quote, I didn't think it was as good as let's say Ratatouille. I am all for them getting this 100 mil, but I am even surprised this is even around in any kind of theater. I haven't heard of this movie for quite some time now. Well either way. Good for them. At least they are making decent numbers off it.

PeoplemoverMatt
07-26-2007, 12:39 PM
Shows you how few movies there are for the kids on summer vacation and desperate to get out of the house...

-- PMM :cool:

Disneyland Fan
07-26-2007, 04:17 PM
and liked how they played the whole thing off of a Walt Disney quote,

Just curious, what quote?

Executioner
07-26-2007, 04:46 PM
It was at the end of the movie. What the kid as a dad built his company on was a small section of a quote from Walt Disney. The movie says Keep Moving Forward. Thas what the main character/dad always says. At the end of the movie it shows that and fades up the rest of the quote by Walt saying:

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting.
-Walt Disney-

PeoplemoverMatt
07-26-2007, 10:21 PM
It's a shame how far away Disney's wandered away from that ideal...

- PMM :cool:

TopCat8
07-29-2007, 07:25 AM
Lol. I was going to start a topic about this very thing. I saw Meet The Robinson's again at the dollar theater on Wednesday night and it was PACKED! It was just as crowded as it was when I saw it on openeing weekend. I couldn't believe how many people were there for a movie that came out so long ago. I'm glad to see their numbers are still rising because after seeing it a second time, I love the movie even more.