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The real story for Prisoners is how it holds up in the long-run. It has good word-of-mouth, though it also faces tough competition in early October. Based on other similar movies at this time, it's likely that Prisoners winds up with between $70 and $80 million, though it's possible that it goes a bit higher.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I thought that Prisoners was pretty well known. I prefer Redbox for a dollar.

Mute Witness was an excellent film, doesn't seem like many have heard of. Excellent tension, suspense, and a "mystery" star in the cast.

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I thought that Prisoners was pretty well known. I prefer Redbox for a dollar.

Mute Witness was an excellent film, doesn't seem like many have heard of. Excellent tension, suspense, and a "mystery" star in the cast.

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I remember there being little buzz about this movie, word of mouth is key but it needs a good outing to succeed. So, how did it do at the box office, let's see:

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The real story for Prisoners is how it holds up in the long-run. It has good word-of-mouth, though it also faces tough competition in early October. Based on other similar movies at this time, it's likely that Prisoners winds up with between $70 and $80 million, though it's possible that it goes a bit higher.

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It made $122,000 million overall - $61M both here and overseas; not exactly breaking records is it? By comparison, IT made nearly $80M in one weekend. Prisoners made $20.8M in it's first weekend and it lasted another 10 weeks (until Dec. 3, 2013); so that means it made an average of $4M a week the rest of the way.
Again, not exactly burning theaters down now, is it?

Redbox it is then.

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The real story for Prisoners is how it holds up in the long-run. It has good word-of-mouth, though it also faces tough competition in early October. Based on other similar movies at this time, it's likely that Prisoners winds up with between $70 and $80 million, though it's possible that it goes a bit higher.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
First, Serenity..............

According to Brandon Gray: "It was neither hit nor flop"

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=1910&p=.htm

Opening weekend it made a little over $10M - it grossed domestically $25,515,000.
Overseas it didn't do as well; only $13,355,000. Of course, Universal didn't do much to promote this film. As I remember, none of the film's starts ever appeared on late night shows.

But the film's stars are well known enough to have appeared on other hit shows: The Last Ship, Suits, Chuck, Gotham, oh and Castle (since Firefly ended it's run). We even have a blockbuster hit in which Morena appears - Deadpool.

Prisoners
Prisoners opened at Number 1 at the Box office with $20.8M, and dropped to $10.8 in it's second weekend; it fell to #2. By the 3rd week it fell to #4 and made just $5.7M (another 47% drop). In it's 4th and 5th weekends it dropped to 6th place; making $3.6M and $2.06M, respectively.

What was Prisoners competition: Rush (Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde) and Battle of the Year (Josh Holloway, Chris Brown)

Not exactly blazing competition. The film was expected to make more...

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The real story for Prisoners is how it holds up in the long-run. It has good word-of-mouth, though it also faces tough competition in early October. Based on other similar movies at this time, it's likely that Prisoners winds up with between $70 and $80 million, though it's possible that it goes a bit higher.

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3732&p=.htm
Like I said, not exactly a barn burner. Did you think it was a popular word-of-mouth movie?

SGG

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
First, Serenity..............

According to Brandon Gray: "It was neither hit nor flop"

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=1910&p=.htm

Opening weekend it made a little over $10M - it grossed domestically $25,515,000.
Overseas it didn't do as well; only $13,355,000. Of course, Universal didn't do much to promote this film. As I remember, none of the film's starts ever appeared on late night shows.

But the film's stars are well known enough to have appeared on other hit shows: The Last Ship, Suits, Chuck, Gotham, oh and Castle (since Firefly ended it's run). We even have a blockbuster hit in which Morena appears - Deadpool.

Prisoners
Prisoners opened at Number 1 at the Box office with $20.8M, and dropped to $10.8 in it's second weekend; it fell to #2. By the 3rd week it fell to #4 and made just $5.7M (another 47% drop). In it's 4th and 5th weekends it dropped to 6th place; making $3.6M and $2.06M, respectively.

What was Prisoners competition: Rush (Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde) and Battle of the Year (Josh Holloway, Chris Brown)

Not exactly blazing competition. The film was expected to make more...

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The real story for Prisoners is how it holds up in the long-run. It has good word-of-mouth, though it also faces tough competition in early October. Based on other similar movies at this time, it's likely that Prisoners winds up with between $70 and $80 million, though it's possible that it goes a bit higher.

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3732&p=.htm
Like I said, not exactly a barn burner. Did you think it was a popular word-of-mouth movie?

SGG

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Definition of "only s few people know about it" is #1 at the Box Office, and opening weekend was twice the Box Office that Serenity had.

ok.

Rush - that was an enjoyable film, many memorable scenes in this Ron Howard pic, but I do forget the name of it easily.

Maria Bello?
Until just now I didn't know she was best friends with Carrie-Anne Moss.
I thought she did well in Payback, History of Violence, and Thank You For Smoking.
Been keeping an eye out since she was on the Due South episode One Good Man - the episode following Carrie-Anne's episode, Feb 1996.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
First, Serenity..............

According to Brandon Gray: "It was neither hit nor flop"

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=1910&p=.htm

Opening weekend it made a little over $10M - it grossed domestically $25,515,000.
Overseas it didn't do as well; only $13,355,000. Of course, Universal didn't do much to promote this film. As I remember, none of the film's starts ever appeared on late night shows.

But the film's stars are well known enough to have appeared on other hit shows: The Last Ship, Suits, Chuck, Gotham, oh and Castle (since Firefly ended it's run). We even have a blockbuster hit in which Morena appears - Deadpool.

Prisoners
Prisoners opened at Number 1 at the Box office with $20.8M, and dropped to $10.8 in it's second weekend; it fell to #2. By the 3rd week it fell to #4 and made just $5.7M (another 47% drop). In it's 4th and 5th weekends it dropped to 6th place; making $3.6M and $2.06M, respectively.

What was Prisoners competition: Rush (Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde) and Battle of the Year (Josh Holloway, Chris Brown)

Not exactly blazing competition. The film was expected to make more...

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The real story for Prisoners is how it holds up in the long-run. It has good word-of-mouth, though it also faces tough competition in early October. Based on other similar movies at this time, it's likely that Prisoners winds up with between $70 and $80 million, though it's possible that it goes a bit higher.

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3732&p=.htm
Like I said, not exactly a barn burner. Did you think it was a popular word-of-mouth movie?

SGG

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Definition of "only s few people know about it" is #1 at the Box Office, and opening weekend was twice the Box Office that Serenity had.

ok.

Rush - that was an enjoyable film, many memorable scenes in this Ron Howard pic, but I do forget the name of it easily.

Maria Bello?
Until just now I didn't know she was best friends with Carrie-Anne Moss.
I thought she did well in Payback, History of Violence, and Thank You For Smoking.
Been keeping an eye out since she was on the Due South episode One Good Man - the episode following Carrie-Anne's episode, Feb 1996.

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Maria Bello?
Until just now I didn't know she was best friends with Carrie-Anne Moss.
I thought she did well in Payback, History of Violence, and Thank You For Smoking.
Been keeping an eye out since she was on the Due South episode One Good Man - the episode following Carrie-Anne's episode, Feb 1996.

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Apparently not many people know about Wind River. Hopefully that will change come Awards season.

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S.Korean cinema, very impressive

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