HOLLYWOOD – Maybe Ash Wednesday should be renamed Fat Wednesday.
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is delivering on the promise of its intense media hype. Playing on 4,643 screens at 3,006 theaters, the movie could reach up to $20 million today, distributor Newmarket projects based on early theater reports.
The $30 million production's first day will handily go down the biggest non-summer, non-holiday Wednesday gross ever, and it could rank No. 5 among all Wednesday bows. Although Newmarket's projection includes $3 million from private screenings on Monday and Tuesday for church groups.
With roughly 900 theaters reporting, The Passion had rung up over $7 million from matinees alone. That's about 18% behind what The Return of the King had at the same point on its opening day, and around 4% behind The Matrix Reloaded. Return of the King went on to take in $34.5 million that day, the Wednesday record.
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is delivering on the promise of its intense media hype. Playing on 4,643 screens at 3,006 theaters, the movie could reach up to $20 million today, distributor Newmarket projects based on early theater reports.
The $30 million production's first day will handily go down the biggest non-summer, non-holiday Wednesday gross ever, and it could rank No. 5 among all Wednesday bows. Although Newmarket's projection includes $3 million from private screenings on Monday and Tuesday for church groups.
With roughly 900 theaters reporting, The Passion had rung up over $7 million from matinees alone. That's about 18% behind what The Return of the King had at the same point on its opening day, and around 4% behind The Matrix Reloaded. Return of the King went on to take in $34.5 million that day, the Wednesday record.
Yeah I don't know either, they still have the line hanging out there at -230. It opened at 41 and stayed there. I really don't see this movie going under 41 million when it's going to make at least 20 million today. There's a lot of theater reports out there, I didn't bother posting them as they are easy to find, they're even being reported in the news. Basically theaters have been 60 to 100% full so far today.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big-KO:
The buzz for this movie is CRAZY! People are lining up from here to China to see this film.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Today, even my mom, who never goes to the movies, mentioned that she planned on seeing this one.
This movie will probably compete with LOTR,Titanic, and all the big hitters.
I think I may go and see it tomorrow during the day.
The buzz for this movie is CRAZY! People are lining up from here to China to see this film.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Today, even my mom, who never goes to the movies, mentioned that she planned on seeing this one.
This movie will probably compete with LOTR,Titanic, and all the big hitters.
I think I may go and see it tomorrow during the day.
