EvaAraujo wrote:I don't know why the first weekend is so damn important. It only matter at the end of it when it comes out of the theaters.
Most people never know how a movie goes in the box office so... There's still a chance if other countries also get the movie.
Nope. The first weekend is very important because of the simple fact the theatre-owners do care about the numbers.
When Burt Wonderstone came out, being one of the new movies that week, a theatre wants to have it as much as possible on the schedule. Meaning it takes the place of other movies. When it turns out this movie bombed, the first reaction of the theatre will be to show it less and if possible in a smaller room. That's normal, they need movies to make money. If, for example, The Call did a lot better, it's far more interesting to keep that higher on the schedule. That's how it goes. Everywhere.
Let's imagine that suddenly, in the second week, more people want to see BW than in the first week ... That wouldn't change much, the number of screens went down (way down) because of the bad opening. So many of them won't even have the chance to see it. Plus tree new movies came out, they demand a lot of screens. Those are the screens where Burt Wonderstone was last week.
You can't stop this. This is not the kind of movie that opens small and gets bigger and bigger because of the buzz, like 'Little Miss Sunshine' was. This was a movie that had to open big from the beginning.
Ofcours that tells nothing about the rest of the world. I have the feeling this will do less bad in Europe ... although a lot of countries still don't have a release-date ... Weird for a movie like this. On the other hand, so far this ain't a hit. Nowhere.