Box Office: Hannah Montana Rules, Dragonball Flops
Box Office News, Dragonball: Evolution (2009) Movie, The Fast and the Furious 4 (2009) Movie — By Nix on April 12, 2009
So does this mean when Hannah Montana (aka Miley Cyrus) and her buddies made fun of Asian people in a photograph a few weeks ago, it didn’t affect her popularity with the kids anyway? It would appear that is indeed the case, because the Disney Channel princess has scored another hit on the big screen with “Hannah Montana The Movie”, beating out last week’s top dog “Fast & Furious” by $6 million with an impressive $34 million weekend debut. Now let this be a lesson to you: never, ever doubt the power of tweens to force their parents to do things they don’t want to do, like shell out money to see something in the theaters they could have seen for free on TV.
Justin Lin’s “Fast & Furious”, which last week claimed the box office crown, continues a strong showing at the theaters despite falling to second place in its second week. The car racing flick earned $28.7 million, giving it $118 million in just two weeks of release. Add in its foreign gross, and the film has made just south of $150 million in two weeks. A fifth installment, one presumes, is coming sooner rather than later.
The week’s other new films, Seth Rogen’s “Observe and Report” and the much-derided “Dragonball: Evolution” came in 4th and 8th place, respectively. The PG-rated “Dragonball” arrived on the heels of terrible reviews and word-of-mouth from fans, many of whom have been prowling our comments section since the movie was announced last year. It would appear they were true to their word and didn’t go see James Wong’s live-action take on the incredibly popular Japanese anime. In it’s debut, “Dragonball: Evolution” took in a pitiful $4.6 million despite opening in over 2000 theaters.
So, er, about that “Dragonball” sequel — don’t bother?
Here’s the Top 10 at the U.S. Box office over the weekend (via):
1 —–Hannah Montana The Movie —–$34,000,000 —–$34,000,000
2 —–Fast and Furious —–$28,783,000 —–$118,042,000
3 —–Monsters Vs. Aliens —–$22,617,000 —–$141,009,000
4 —–Observe and Report —–$11,140,000 ——$11,140,000
5 —–Knowing —–$6,670,000 —–$68,006,000
6 —–I Love You, Man —–$6,412,000 —– $58,997,000
7 —–The Haunting in Connecticut —–$5,710,000 —– $46,297,000
8 —–Dragonball Evolution —–$4,650,000 —–$4,650,000
9 —–Adventureland —– $3,433,000 —–$11,450,000
10 —–Duplicity —–$2,997,000 —–$36,848,000
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Hopefully poducers, investors and all other involved reads this:
You said in an interview that you didn’t want to take the same story as is in the Mangga and series, making a story of your own to adapt to a movie. I agree of the necessity, as I know that it isn’t worthwhile to copy & watch the same story, but it doesn’t mean you have to do it so horribly. The story in itself had a good line but the way everything was just bottled up into situations happening too fast is really repulsive.
The idea of creating a link with Piccolo for Osaru was good.
The special effects for the fireball wasn’t too bad (needs a little work for different characters as colors isn’t enough), but many scenes are just plain ugly. The ugliest of all is the scene where both Piccolo & Goku shoot their fireballs and Goku going straight to him was downright idiotic (come on it’s a Chi move!!! Supposedly a flow of energy and air pushed by a persons aura!!! Goku flying straight to Piccolo with his fireball pretty much counters the principles). Even in Japanese tv series Ultraman Nexus, at the last episode, they made a better Fireball collision scene than this (and it’s a TV series!!! Meaning they have even less investments than a movie!!!).
Osaru was well made only we don’t see enough of him (as if you paid the special effects by water drops).
The acting was sometime a bit terrible (although in the actors behalf i think they did much much better than the actors in the Transformers movies).
Yamcha’s introduction in this movie was exactly as bad as the introductions of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons movie (why is he following them since he’s got his due with the trap? Because they promised money with dragonballs? Come on they were speaking of saving the world even a lowly robber would just take the bike & go after hearing the true purpose of their search).
Quite frankly I’m more disappointed in this movie than any other movie ever created. Either the budget was really the lowest ever in history or the hired experts in Dragonball stories are plain stupid.
This movie was just an attempt to make a little money because the board directors investing in this movie opened their wallet one day and said “damn I’m running out of money I have to make a quicky dollar so i can sustain my life. I know let’s make a stupid movie that idiots from around the world would look at and pay for!! And i don’t care if they hate it as long as the dough comes in and I can buy me that little Italian haute coutured mens wear. With a little luck I could afford a brand new sports car also. And I will spend almost nothing making this scam hahaha!!!”
Quite frankly whichever person or entity that permitted the realization of this movie needs to recheck his idea of perfection. As for the Movie Director, if I were you I would’ve quit even in the middle of making this movie rather than follow through and create my ugliest work ever.
miley cyrus is juss a teen pplz aways talk about her and mabe the ppl who talk about her watch her show!!!