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November 6th, 2000
A Heavenly Debut, Fox to screw consumers with
"X-Men"?
A very nice weekend at the box office, as Charlie's
Angels soared to number one with an amazing 40.5 million
dollars, beating out Meet The Parents, which held the
top spot for the past few weeks and dropped to second with a
very respectable 13.1 million. "Angels" at number one must
be very good news for Sony, who released the film through
Columbia Pictures. Unless you have been living in a hole for
the past couple of months, you should be very aware of the
rampant rumors and troubles the film faced, and how so many
predicted it would be a dud. Still, the reviews were very
good and this opening must make Sony beaming. The film cost
about 93 million dollars to make, and considering Little
Nicky opens next week and Adam Sandler is always a huge
draw, the film's number could get deflated next week, and
then destroyed when so many Thanksgiving films open.
Rounding out the rest of the box office was The Legend
Of Bagger Vance, which opened to lukewarm reviews and
came in third with 12 million. Remember The Titans
held on strong for fourth with 7 million, and the sequel dud
Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 made 5.3 million. The
film's gross has been incredibly disappointing. Bedazzled
came in sixth for 4.7 million, Pay It Foward
seventh for 4.3, The Little Vampire with 3.5 and
rounding out the top ten in ninth and tenth were Lucky
Numbers with 2.2 and The Legend Of Drunken Master
with 1.6. So, not a bad weekend for movies at all.
An interesting tidbit I'd like to point out is an article
I read in the New York Post yesterday. Director Bryan
Singer, who directed "The Usual Suspects" and this past
summer's smash hit "X-Men" talked about how he felt about
the DVD format for an article on filmmakers and DVD. Singer
comments about "X-Men", but we learn from the article Fox is
planning another DVD version of the film! Once again, a
studio tries to screw their customers without making an
announcment a head of time, so we all have to pay for the
film twice and give them more money (well, those of us who
care about extras). "X-Men" has been widely anticipated, and
so many of us love supplements. Now, in a common case which
Disney used to do, people are now going to go out and get
the current disc, only to then learn about the upcoming
version, and then feel a bit angry and cheated when it comes
out, and that if they really want it, they'll buy it (the
date of the new "X-Men" disc is TBA). This is very annoying.
Many consumers were a bit disappointed with the features for
the current disc which is due out in two weeks (we've all
been spoiled by Fox two disc special editions), and now when
it seems to get a more definitive edition, we're going to
have to wait a little longer. The point is though it gets
very annoying when studios don't announce these kinds of
things ahead of time. I find this a big turn off myself (How
many of you bought
A Bug's
Life twice?) If you'd like to read the article and learn
what Singer plans to do with the next "X-Men" disc, click
here.
Well, that's it for today. Check out the
monster
update from a few days ago to see what's been going on
with the site.
- Zach B.
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