The Simpsons Movie (Fox) dipped an estimated 17% from its meteoric Friday opening, but the animated TV adaptation still grabbed approximately $24.15M. With a conservative 20% Sunday drop, the first big screen adventure for Homer and family will still have banked a phenomenal $72.5M. That’s 45% more than industry tracking services NRG, MarketCast and OTX were calling for at the start of the weekend.
If the $72.5M number holds, it will the 22nd-best opening weekend in modern box office history and the all-time 3rd-best opening weekend for an animated film, trailing only Shrek the Third ($121.6M) and Shrek 2 ($108M). Not only does this monstrous start guarantee a movie sequel, but it will almost certainly reinvigorate the television series on Fox, which finished the 2006-2007 season as only the #60 primetime show of 142 programs.
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July 29th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I totally didn’t see this coming….I thought it would be overhyped and underperform. Guess the die-hard Simpsons fans did it some justice.
I have to think that a sequel will be greenlighted soon….
July 29th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Of Course The Simpsons was going to be big, they have 5-7 million hardcore fans that was going to go see this movie not matter what. People talk about how the Simpsons isn’t as good as it use to be, well M. Groening just proved everyone wrong. The Simpsons has been so good these past seasons that it reflected on how great the movie is. The Simpsons is basically the cartoon version of Saturday Night Live, great writing, great jokes and is just a great combo of smart and stupid smart humor. I remember some piece of crap site wrote how Family Guy is better than The Simpsons, well I guest the movie just proved that Family Guy won’t even come CLOSE to the power of Homer. I will be waiting for the sequel, even though it won’t be for another 6-8 years.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
People haven’t given up on the Simpsons yet, I too would love to watch them and actually laugh like the good ‘ol days. Don’t forget this is the first one ever, many years in the making so just about everyone who’s ever wanted to see the Simpsons on the big screen finally gets to do so now. Bottomline, I don’t think the actual series will be helped much unless the writing and humor can get back on track.
And OnE, comparing The Simpsons to SNL is as sure a sign of death as any. :P
July 30th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Didn’t think much of the movie, was pretty bored to be honest but i’m glad that i’ve seen it. Bart skateboarding naked was pretty funny though.
July 30th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Sorry, but Simpsons does not do it for me anymore, it was great when it
was newer (yknow the All Star Softball team epi was awesome) but now
it just seems like it is trying way too hard, and is pretty bland (I guess if
you just started watching it it would seem great, but it is old, and tired).
Not too mention all this movie would appear to be is a 3 episode arc that
happens to be in a theater. Why pay 10 bucks for episodes that are
normally on TV (Which Fox will get on their Stations anyway)??