A slight change of role for Jodie Foster, has meant her latest flick The Brave One is her lowest starring vehicle in a big movie for 8 years and has shown that one of Hollywood's most bankable female stars isn't always guaranteed a $20 million+ opening.
The Western is back on top of the Box Office charts for the first time since 1992 but there was actually a Western three years ago which made more money in it's first weekend, which hints that Yuma might be somewhat of a disappointment.
OK, a good opening but no better than H20. Remember what happened to the franchise after that movie?
A slow week for big releases means that the top three of this weekend's box office are unchanged from last week.
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM is a big example of a franchise which has grown to it's third movie whereas RUSH HOUR 3 looks to be running out of steam.
$70 million for Homer and his family!
Though I didn't see either.
As things stand right now, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX had the third widest opening of all time resulting with $140 million over 5 days.
No matter how you slice it up, TRANSFORMERS is one of the big successes of 2007 and is likely to be the start of a multi movie franchise which will dominate the summer months for years to come.
Stephen Soderbergh has made THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE which he has played around festivals. His next studio movie THE INFORMANT, a C.I.A. thriller opens in October starring Matt Damon. His future projects include MONEYBALL with Brad Pitt, a LIBERACE biopic with Michael Douglas but probably not CLEO which he has had trouble financing.
