Amityville Horror, The (2005)

Everyone wants to make a Hollywood blockbuster for the summer season each year, but the fact remains that if there was many weeks that films of this type can be released. Most movies have to be drawn for other advantageous time of year, often around major holidays like Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas. Some films, however, will have all the weekends they can get, even the weekend before the season officially begins summer blockbusters being. Historically, this is not a good weekend for new releases.

So what's the problem with opening a new movie the weekend before the first weekend of the summer Hollywood blockbuster? Essentially, you have one week to get what you get, and if movies are not strong chances are that you will soon be forgotten because all the kids and dogs to be big, big, high film big weekend next. In this case, everything is about to get wiped out by the Premier Iron Man 2, May 7

In the meantime, has opened two new films this weekend in a fairly mediocre. The family comedy Furry Vengeance, starring Brendan Fraser, opened to a very slow, finishing in fifth place with 6.5 million dollars in box office receipts. Probably not what the good people at Summit Entertainment had in mind. Expect it to DVD sooner rather than later.

The other new movie this weekend was the much anticipated A Nightmare on Elm Street, which is presented as a new imagery of the original 1984. A $ 32.2 million that can not be called a great opening weekend, but he shines in a few categories. It was a new record for horror movies in April or May (October is a horror month), surpassing The Amityville Horror 2005.

Nearly half of the movie box office, all events are on Friday, which is typically a bad sign for the film. As mentioned above, it is a bad weekend for movies in general. Overall, the weekend was down. How To Train Your Dragon was in the 2 first place with nearly 11 million dollars of box office receipts, but even that was down 30% compared to the previous week. Date Night was also down almost 30% in the # 3 spot with $ 7.6 million for the week-end and back-up plan has been 40% excluding the previous week with revenues of only $ 7.2 million.

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