LMI Is a Box Office Flop

[abner_mohl]

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE1dOwoYMZJ453

Finally, predicted to round off the top ten this week and slipping two places from last week is was the new horror film from Cloverfield director Matt Reeves called Let Me In, which is based on the extremely popular Swedish film Let the Right One in. The movie stars Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass), Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line) and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor). Last week the film was predicted to open at least at number two on the charts but was considered a failure since it didn't even crack the top five in its debut weekend and could only secure eighth place. The movie only made $2,624 on each of its 2,020 screens for a terrible opening weekend total of about $5.3 million, nowhere near its $20 million production costs. The movie is predicted to earn an additional $1.7 million this weekend. Be sure to check out Box Office Beat Down this Sunday to see who is crowned the King of the box office this week and check back here next week for more box office predictions!

[CyberGhostface]

[DMt.]

Awww... I wish I could be cruelly happy about this, but I just can't. Maybe it'll recoup something more on DVD? Hey, Matt! I didn't mean it! I'm sorry it didn't work out!

[abner_mohl]

With a $20 million budget (which kind of explains the cheesy CGI) they should be able to make a profit off of it thru DVD and cable. I wonder how that budget compares with LTROI? .

[jetboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Ri ... _In_(film)

It was made with 29 million SEK which is about 4 - 5 million US dollars today.

[Gryphon]

I know some LtROI fans didn't like it, but as I've said... I saw LMI first, and it led me here, and to LtROI, and I love every version of the story now, but if it weren't for LMI, I'd never have heard of LtROI. LMI could have brought so many new fans to LtROI, if they'd given it a chance. I makes me mad it's done so poorly in the box office. It had great reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, and even the new Amazon DVD pre-pre-order page has 4 stars. What is it with Americans, anyway? If the vampires don't sparkle and act like spoiled teeny-brats, they don't like it?

[sauvin]

I know some LtROI fans didn't like it, but as I've said... I saw LMI first, and it led me here, and to LtROI, and I love every version of the story now, but if it weren't for LMI, I'd never have heard of LtROI. LMI could have brought so many new fans to LtROI, if they'd given it a chance. I makes me mad it's done so poorly in the box office. It had great reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, and even the new Amazon DVD pre-pre-order page has 4 stars. What is it with Americans, anyway? If the vampires don't sparkle and act like spoiled teeny-brats, they don't like it?

LMI has no sex.

[danielma]

I know some LtROI fans didn't like it, but as I've said... I saw LMI first, and it led me here, and to LtROI, and I love every version of the story now, but if it weren't for LMI, I'd never have heard of LtROI. LMI could have brought so many new fans to LtROI, if they'd given it a chance. I makes me mad it's done so poorly in the box office. It had great reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, and even the new Amazon DVD pre-pre-order page has 4 stars. What is it with Americans, anyway? If the vampires don't sparkle and act like spoiled teeny-brats, they don't like it?

LMI has no sex.

Yet funny thing is, you go over to a discussion board on Thirst and you hear people complaining about how the sex ruined the movie, usually these people being from America

Correct me if I'm wrong (and no offence to Americans here) but I thought American's were Prudes to Sexual Content in movies...I thought it was Violence = A-Ok, Sex = Big No No

[abner_mohl]

LMI tanked at no. 11 in it's second weekend with box office total of $2,400,000 with a 53.4% drop from last weekend for a total of $9,124,000

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

[sauvin]

LMI has no sex.

Yet funny thing is, you go over to a discussion board on Thirst and you hear people complaining about how the sex ruined the movie, usually these people being from America

Correct me if I'm wrong (and no offence to Americans here) but I thought American's were Prudes to Sexual Content in movies...I thought it was Violence = A-Ok, Sex = Big No No

Depends on whom you ask. Americans, like most other folk, are a variegated lot, and run the full spectrum from "Can't get enough of it" to "Can't get far enough away from it".

I, an American, am often confused and angered by the very attitude you mention because it seems to imply that human life has diminished value: it's OK to see people being slaughtered on the Big Screen in their singles, dozens and sometimes millions, and most of us don't think much about it, but the sight of a single exposed breast is enough to cause some civic-minded citizen to launch a campaign. I have the unresearched impression that prison terms for sex crimes tend to be much longer than for murder.