Weekend Boxoffice Chart

[Evil Avatar]

The weekend box office was sheer torture as the bloody Hostel, a tale of buddies who stumble into a den of violent depravity, debuted at No. 1 with $20.1 million.

Here is the Weekend Boxoffice Chart for the weekend of January 6th to January 8th.


Hostel Lions Gate Releasing $20./$20.1
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe $15.4/$247.5
King Kong $12.4/$192.5
Fun With Dick and Jane $12.2/$81.3
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 $8.3/$66.4
Munich $7.4/$25.2
Memoirs of a Geisha $6.0/$39.7
Rumor Has It... $5.8$35.3
Brokeback Mountain $5.7/$22.4
The Family Stone $4.6/$53.1
The Ringer $4.4/$27.9
Casanova $4.0/$5.2

[Suicidal ShiZuru]

Im suprised Hostel is doing this well. I cant wait to see it, probably will later today or tomorrow.

[Captain Awesome]

Bloodrayne took 19th place @ 1 million for its opening weekend.


hahaha :D

[TrackZero]

Okkk....apparently the top movie is watching rich people pay to torture normal people. Mmm, sounds like a great old time at the movies.

[Qoz]

That german tax scheme cannot possibly cover the loss Bloodrayne is gonna make.
Even with hardcore bloodrayne fans buying the DVD.

The funny thing about hollywood is the fact that money talks. If you make crap that sells you are king. If you just make trash nobody wants to see, you are out of friends really fast. I know the actors made some good money for the parts, but the loss of integrity Ben Kingsley suffered will never make up for it. Uwe is the destroyer of good actors. Have we seen Christian Slater since Alone in the Dark? He is tainted with the Uwe virus forever!
;)

[Malovech]

I saw Hostel on opening night, I was totally floored by how many people were there! My friends and I went there casually, thinking everyone else would be going to see Kong or Narnia, we ended up in the front row. Kinda dissapointing, but I will be seeing it again, and again and again...

[51|RandoM]

exact same text as the AP story, one assumes you've licensed it from them?

[Samurai Joe]

Hostel was such a piece of crap. What made a movie like Saw so good was the fact that you actually cared for the characters. It's the total opposite with Hostel. I am pretty sure a lot of people got the false illusion that Quentin Tarantino either wrote or directed this piece of shit. Don't waste $10 on this...

[Captain Awesome]

I saw Hostel on opening night, I was totally floored by how many people were there! My friends and I went there casually, thinking everyone else would be going to see Kong or Narnia, we ended up in the front row. Kinda dissapointing, but I will be seeing it again, and again and again...


I think it's due to the lame marketing scheme for that film. They try and make it sound like Tarantino directed it, watch the wording and how its used in the commercials. I had to talk down so many friends even some relatives who we're sure it was Tarantino's "newly" directed film.

[Deadend]

I went to see Fun With Dick and Jane. It was not too bad. Student discount and going with 2 hot bisexual girls made it much better.

I hope that Bloodrayne bombs and Uwe gets what he deserves.

[kokyunage]

bisexual girls

Speaking of bisexual girls....anyone see Family Guy last night? Hilarious! It may be the cold I have, but there were times were tears were coming out from laughing so hard.

[SynapseLapse]

Hostel was such a revolting piece of crap. 40 minutes of American's acting like assholes abroad, because they can. Followed by an hour of random torture being justified because the bad guys get it in the end. I'm not opposed to violence in a film at all, but this was just needlessly gratuitous and macabre.

On the other hand, some of the Europeans in that film had the funniest caricatures. I swear one of the body guards looked like a super beefed up version of Seann William Scott.

[KarmaGhost]

I've never heard of Hostel, how strange.

And yay for the poor showing of Bloodrayne. :)

[Abednigo]

Personally I'm disturbed that movies like Saw and Hostel are doing so well. Has society reached such lows that people are no longer entertained with horror movies where people are killed quickly, but they need to watch people be tortured in more gruesome and sickening ways before finally being killed? I'm sorry, but I have no interest in seeing movies like that and I hope that genre of horror dies quickly (no pun intended). Violence is one thing, but when it's gratuitous and simply for the sake of shocking people, that's unnecessary.

[Evil Avatar]

Personally I'm disturbed that movies like Saw and Hostel are doing so well. Has society reached such lows that people are no longer entertained with horror movies where people are killed quickly, but they need to watch people be tortured in more gruesome and sickening ways before finally being killed? I'm sorry, but I have no interest in seeing movies like that and I hope that genre of horror dies quickly (no pun intended). Violence is one thing, but when it's gratuitous and simply for the sake of shocking people, that's unnecessary.

Um... the amount of actual gore in SAW and SAW II is suprisingly low, I would say it had less than Se7en even and certainly less than any Friday the 13th movie.

If you are squeamish about the content, that is one thing, but what they actually "show" isn't that much compared to most 80's horror films.

[vivafletcher]

By the way, that OTHER horror movie (Wolf Creek) isn't terrible. It has its moments. A little slow to get going, but great camera work made the time pass until you got to the crux of the movie.

[zyzyx]

I hope that Bloodrayne bombs and Uwe gets what he deserves.
Cancer?

I couldn';t for the life of my figure out what Hostel Lions Gate Releasing was. Sounded like some obscure Anime thing. Then I finally noticed the name Eli Roth. lol.

Saw Jarhead this week. Brilliant film. A war film without war is a real bold move. Brilliantly pulled off.

[Nesta]

Wife and I saw The Ringer. It was pretty funny, but not as funny as I expected. It was also a lot less harsh on mentally and physically handicapped people than I thought it was going to be, which is a good thing. At the end of the movie, my wife and I both thought that people coming to see it might come away with a much better outlook on the mentally challenged.

[absolut taco]

Me and the Mrs saw Brokeback Mountain. It's even better than the reviews. I never thought I could be that emotional about gay cowboys. I mean, I fucking hate country music. It floored me, though. Highly recommended.

[EGO]

Um... the amount of actual gore in SAW and SAW II is suprisingly low, I would say it had less than Se7en even and certainly less than any Friday the 13th movie.

If you are squeamish about the content, that is one thing, but what they actually "show" isn't that much compared to most 80's horror films.

It's not so much about the actual gore they show, but just the mean-spirited torture. It's just a step above a Snuff Film. The whole thing sound dreadful and like it has no redeeming value, whatsoever and I'm a HUGE horror fan, all the way back to the 70's!

As for Bloodrayne, when I saw the trailer I thought, "Is this a Sci-Fi Original?!?" Then I realized it was for theatrical release. Hell, the trailer can't even be bothered to be in stereo! The damn'd thing is in MONO and looks like SHIT! Bloodrayne deserves to die a miserable death!

[HALO 32]

lol boodrayne isnt even close

its bad when a movie about gay cowboys beats a movie with a hot vampire chick

[Mason]

Yeah, torture films supplanting horror is a rather pathetic trend. There's nothing to it, other than the fact that torture films are easy to make. Good horror is a very tricky thing, to do it well you have to play the audience masterfully. Torture films, eh, all you have to do is show people losing fingers and the audience squirms, regardless of context or setup.

Evil weirdos like Miike have done some interestingly horrible things of course, but there's a long distance between his mindfucks and simply shooting scenes of people hurting people.

[Schnoogs]

Yeah, torture films supplanting horror is a rather pathetic trend. There's nothing to it, other than the fact that torture films are easy to make. Good horror is a very tricky thing, to do it well you have to play the audience masterfully. Torture films, eh, all you have to do is show people losing fingers and the audience squirms, regardless of context or setup.

Evil weirdos like Miike have done some interestingly horrible things of course, but there's a long distance between his mindfucks and simply shooting scenes of people hurting people.

If there's nothing to it then why do some "torture" movies fail to elicit any reaction from the crowd and others do?

Plus then you have to ask what is the goal of a film and how does a "torture" movie fail to meet them. If the purpose of a film is to get a reaction then as you pointed out "torture" films do just that.

Now we slip into the whole subjectivity of art and in the end noone can really prove that a "torture" film is any more or less clever or artistic than a "horror" movie is.

Watch what you want...like what you want.

[Suicidal ShiZuru]

I love torture. I'd love to see a movie entitled "The Spanish Inquisition".

[Schnoogs]

I love torture. I'd love to see a movie entitled "The Spanish Inquisition".

They have it. It's called LOTR and by the end you're ready to confess just to get the experience over.

[bobbler]

I saw fun with dick and jane, and the ending alone made it worthwhile.

It was a nice smack in the face to Enron type companies.

Was pretty funny overall, but nothing spectacular like Wedding crashers or 40 yr old virgin (worth a rental when it comes out at least).

[Evil Avatar]

It's not so much about the actual gore they show, but just the mean-spirited torture. It's just a step above a Snuff Film. The whole thing sound dreadful and like it has no redeeming value, whatsoever and I'm a HUGE horror fan, all the way back to the 70's!

I can't speak for Hostel, which I've heard is semi comedy/horror similar to Roth's other film, Cabin Fever, but SAW isn't about mean-spirited torture, it was about a killer who is about to die trying to "teach" people to value the life they have so easily thrown away.

[Magnanimous Gnome]

Brokeback Mountain is doing pretty well considering the subject matter. Hopefully more people in Middle America go to see this one and open their eyes and minds.

King Kong was actually better than I expected. I just saw it this past weekend, and was amazed at the amount of emotion put into it.

[Malovech]

Hostel was such a piece of crap. What made a movie like Saw so good was the fact that you actually cared for the characters. It's the total opposite with Hostel. I am pretty sure a lot of people got the false illusion that Quentin Tarantino either wrote or directed this piece of shit. Don't waste $10 on this...


For horror fans like myself, it's the exact opposite. Saw and Saw II are the tail end of the serial-killer genre - which is tired and declawed - Hostel returns to the glory days of the 80s when showing a few intestines or full-on gore was more accepted. It's nice to see it come back.