Pirates Opening Numbers

Bhrigga J. Holla wrote:
> Boxofficemojo is reporting a Wednesday opening tally of over 13 million for the
> POTC movie, coming in first at the box office...thats really good considering
> its only counting ONE day of totals...if it maintains that 13 mil a day,it will
> make around 52 million this weekend...a good opening weekend...more then likely
> the "weekend" days it will pull in a bit more then it did on wednesday...so my
> prediction of POTC making around 60-80 mil opening weekend is about
> right.....good job Disney..

You are using figures from a 5 day opening. Most movies to compare it
against are only 3. Many times movie producers do a 5 day on purpose
for the very reason to show a high opening $ amount in the 1st week.
That report often leads to higher viewer counts in following weeks.

Bhrigga J. Holla wrote:
> well at any rate...13 million for the first day is a very strong
> start.especially since it was a wednesday!..POTC will definatly be successful.

Yep, it looks like it will be a success. Not sure which movie will be
the top grossing though. Whats up at top now? Matrix?

chris wrote:

>good job Disney..
>

With Uni's help of course, gotta use somebodys sets.

; )
Brian Kast, Aka DSuperBee@

It was I, you fools! The man you trusted wasn't Wavy Gravy at all! And
all this time, I've been smoking harmless tobacco!

What was I laughing at now? ...Oh yes, that crippled Irishman!

Brian wrote,
>>good job Disney..
>>
>
>With Uni's help of course, gotta use somebodys sets.

Also got to give some credit to the writers... the same writers who did Shrek

(What's this I hear about Shrek being taken to broadway?)

~Ben

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." --Walt Disney

DSuperBee wrote:
> chris wrote:
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>>good job Disney..
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> With Uni's help of course, gotta use somebodys sets.

Yep, much of pirates was filmed at UNI.

"Bhrigga J. Holla" wrote:

> >With Uni's help of course, gotta use somebodys sets
>
> yup-DIsney used Uni like a cheap whore,used them for the sets and now DIsney
> rakes in all the money.,..thanks Uni =)

ROFL...UNI made quite a bit of money providing a large scale set that few others
including Disney have. Alot of movie companies use UNI sets because UNI has
bigger and more technilogically advanced sets than anyone in the world. They
make more movies than anyone else too!

"Bhrigga J. Holla" wrote:

> >Yep, much of pirates was filmed at UNI.
> >
> >
>
> and much of the technology UNI uses for its rides was invented and pioneered
> by Disney.

Ah, not much. Most of Disney technology was developed by independent engineering
firms who had already used the technology elsewhere. Are you aware of just what
companies built the rides in DCA? Hint, it wasn't Disney.

Miles wrote:
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> DSuperBee wrote:
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>> chris wrote:
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>>> good job Disney..
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>> With Uni's help of course, gotta use somebodys sets.
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> Yep, much of pirates was filmed at UNI.
>

Why is this important?

Bhrigga J. Holla wrote:
> my sentiments exactly Jon....I do not understand why it matters where a movie
> is filmed,who care if PTOC was filmed at Universa,Miles just gets hard with
> anything that involves Universal

No, just give credit where credit is due. It was you who called UNI a
cheap whore for their roll in POTC or did you forget that already?

Jon Nadelberg wrote:
> Disney has filmed several times on the Universal lot. Tracy, for
> example, was filmed there. Studios rent and use each others facilities
> all the time. They even cooperate in making films. Popeye was Disney's
> first film produced in conjunction with another film studio (I believe
> it was Paramount).

Yep. UNI tends to make films in conjuction with Warner Bros. more than
anyone else I thought.