#1 with a Bullet

Congratulations Jake.

With a come from behind the underdog  EoW went to the top of this weekend's box office.  And with that Jake has something he has never had before,  opening a movie at #1.

It was done without a three ring circus or a bearded lady. 

So here's something to think about Jakey.

Maybe the reason that you done so well  is because you're letting your craft shine again, and not let it get dimmed by all the others shenanigans of playing the game in HW.

People get to see what a great actor you are on screen instead focusing on the other act off screen.

Good news, good reviews, good things....

EoW got a strong start on it's opening weekend with a Friday over expectations, making an estimate $4.6 million the first day.  With a movie that was made for just $7million it had already recouped it's production budget.

But Jake was still out there working and talking about the movie.  And ok having some fun with Jimmy Fallon.

Jake is getting great reviews for his work on EoW and he's getting good mentions for his role in the play "If There Is"

For those how want to see Jake but can't get to NYC , here's a clip courtesy of Broadway World.

Flipped Flop?

When is a flop a flop? And when is one not really a flop but gets the label one?

Is a film a flop when it underperforms in the US but is strong internationally?

Can it be successful in a genre but a flop overall?

All questions that can be asked about PoP.


While PoP might not have met the expectations of opening weekend in the U.S. , it did beat out SaTC2 when all the totals were in after Memorial Day weekend. But it didn't do enough to take first.

After that was when the first time you heard the f-word (flop) about PoP.

While PoP has only taken in $60 million in the US, it has done triple that internationally and coupled with DVD sales it could come out ahead. Not the by the margin they wanted but ahead. Will it still be considered a flop?

“'Prince of Persia was really an attempt at starting a new franchise in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean or The Mummy, so it completely failed on that front,' says Brandon Gray, the president and publisher of BoxOfficeMojo.

Gray thinks the tag 'flop' is often assigned too quickly. Some films have significant disparity between their reported cost and their receipts, but they still are widely seen."

Gray thinks a true flop is more about audience than money. By that standard, Prince might end up qualifying only as a modest flop.

Foreign markets can, financial standpoint, change the definition of a flop, they can be the savior of a movie. They also can create demand for franchises, which tend to grow overseas rather than fall off in the US. Ice Age 3 was the least viewed of the three in the franchise in the States, but 78 percent of its worldwide take was from foreign markets, where it was the most popular of the three.

And here's something you might not be aware of:

With a worldwide total of $262.6 million, PoP is set to pass Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ($274.7 million) by next weekend to become the world's highest-grossing video game adaptation ever.

So is it a flop?

And has the door on a sequel been completely shut?

'Cause I can play the part so well

Weekend Box Office Summary
1 30 Days of Night (2007) $16M
2 Why Did I Get Married? (2007) $12.1M
3 The Game Plan (2007) $8.12M
4 Michael Clayton (2007) $7.1M
5 Gone Baby Gone (2007) $6M
6 The Comebacks (2007) $5.85M
7 We Own the Night (2007) $5.5M
8 The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) $5.14M
9 Rendition (2007) $4.17M
10 The Heartbreak Kid (2007) $3.9M

The beard doesn't look so good.


But here it works.


"One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,"