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Weekend Box Office: Feb 1-Feb 3

#1 Warm Bodies from Summit Entertainment opened at #1 with a gross of $19.8 million in 3,009 theaters.  Total gross to date is $20.4 million.  Budget was unknown.

#2 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters from Paramount fell from #1 to #2 with a gross of $9.4 million (-52.1%) in 3,375 theaters (+3).  Total gross to date is $34.7 million.  Budget was $50 million.

#3 Silver Linings Playbook from Weinstein Company rose from #4 to #3 with a gross of $7.7 million (-18.1%) in 2,809 theaters (+168).  Total gross to date is $80 million.  Budget was $21 million.

#4 Mama from Universal fell from #2 to #4 with a gross of $6.6 million (-49.6%) in 2,781 theaters (+99).  Total gross to date is $58.1 million.  Budget was $15 million.

#5 Zero Dark Thirty from Sony/Columbia fell from #3 to #5 with a gross of $5.2 million (-46.6%) in 2,871 theaters (-58).  Total gross to date is $77.7 million.  Budget was $40 million.

#6 Bullet to the Head from Warner Bros. opened at #6 with a gross of $4.5 million in 2,404 theaters.  Budget was unknown.

#7 Parker from FilmDistrict fell from #5 to #7 with a gross of $3.3 million (-52.9%) in 2,238 theaters (+14).  Total gross to date is $12.5 million.  Budget was unknown.

#8 Django Unchained from Weinstein Company fell from #6 to #8 with a gross of $3 million (-39.3%) in 1,777 theaters (-230).  Total gross to date is $150.9 million.  Budget was $100 million.

#9 Les Miserables from Universal held at #9 with a gross of $2.42 million (-42.6%) in 1,848 theaters (-353).  Total gross to date is $141.5 million.  Budget was $61 million.

#10 Lincoln from Buena Vista rose from #11 to #10 with a gross of $2.4 million (-37.8%) in 1,756 theaters (-153).  Total gross to date is $170.8 million.  Budget was $65 million.

#11 Argo from Warner Bros. rose from #18 to #11 with a gross of $2 million (+12%) in 935 theaters (+300).  Total gross to date is $120.4 million.  Budget was $44.5 million.

#12 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey from Warner Bros. held at #12 with a gross of $1.9 million (-43.8%) in 1,300 theaters (-375).  Total gross to date is $296.2 million.  Budget was unknown.

 

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $68.4 million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

 

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Back Seat Quickies Shows

Back Seat Quickies #78: Justice League – Crisis on Two Earths

In the seat:

  • Scott

Recorded: 01/31/12

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Back Seat Producers Season 08 Shows

BSP Episode 256: 12 Monkeys

Release date:  12/29/1995

Universal Pictures

Directed by

  • Terry Gilliam

Produced by

  • Charles Roven

Screenplay by

  • David Peoples
  • Janet Peoples

Based on Le jetee by Chris Marker

Cast

Bruce Willis

  • James Cole

Madeleine Stowe

  • Kathryn Railly

Brad Pitt

  • Jeffrey Goines

The hosts review:

  • Pimpin’ Back Seat Book Club!
  • Hugh Jackman is the Wolverine of singing.
  • Les Miserables singing reviews.
  • Loving and hating ABBA.
  • P….a….c….i….n…g
  • Great example of time-travel sci-fi.
  • You can’t change time.
  • Bob… another time traveler or Cole’s psychosis?
  • “I wouldn’t mind seeing a Brad Pitt Joker
  • Brad Pitt’s rants made Fight Club unnecessary.
  • Breakdown of Terry Gilliam’s successes.
  • The music is insane and off, it works really well.
  • “All I see are dead people.”
  • Glad that it didn’t have a Hollywood ending.
  • Time is fixed.  Time loops are fixed.  Time travelers are fixed.
  • This sci-fi was a mind game, as opposed to special effects.
  • Setting the movie in the year that it came out was a great move, but a few things didn’t age well.
  • Any time you have a character in science fiction named Cassandra, PAY ATTENTION.
  • Cole, as the time traveler, didn’t do actually change time himself.
  • It wouldn’t have worked if it was faster paced, and it wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam movie.
  • On to Batman.
  • Tony reads another of Goines’ rants.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

  • Terri Gilliam gave Bruce Willis a list of “Willis acting clichés” NOT to use, including Steely Blue Eyes Look.
  • Most of the actors took a pay cut because they wanted to work with Gilliam.
  • In a scene where Cole is drawing his own blood, there is a shadow of a hamster in a wheel.  This took a whole day to film because the hamster wouldn’t move, and Gilliam is a perfectionist and insisted that this detail should work as intended.  For the rest of the production, Gilliam’s perfectionism was nick-named “The Hamster Factor.”

Your Producers for this episode were:

  • Tony
  • Darrell
  • Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 1/17/2013