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Un-Wanted

Kim Hollis: Wanted fell 60% to $20.6 million, giving it a running total of $90.8 million. Is this better, worse or about what you expected after ten days?

Brandon Scott: I believe this was foreseen in last week's MMQB. Wanted is getting kicked out of the fraternity of big box office flicks with the quickness, as they say. This film has been exposed for what it is, a fun, fast, furiously stylized, but ultimately forgettable ride. No need to have repeat viewings of this one.

Pete Kilmer: It's about what I expected for this film, it came out at JUST the right time - between The Hulk and Big Willie Weekend and made its money with the extra holiday days. Now with Big Will here and Hellboy this coming week and Batman the week after...it did okay.

Tim Briody: What you look for from second weekend holdovers in an extended holiday weekend would be the equivalent of the opening weekend, so the fact that it's still $10 million off $100 million after making $50 million in three days is bad news. It's not seeing $150 million.

Scott Lumley: It's actually outperforming expectations. This is a film that has come out of nowhere and on the strength of its trailer, some shrewd timing involving its release date and Angelina Jolie's naked bum has really done well for itself. I can't think of any other film this summer that was greeted with such a lack of anticipation that has done so well. There have been a lot of surprising failures this summer, but this is a surprising success.





Jason Lee: With the 4th of July cannibalizing Friday's gross, I think this is a great hold for Wanted. Even the girls from Sex and the City fell 62.8% in their second weekend.

Daron Aldridge: It is a higher running total than expected for no other reason than the $50 million last week was shocking. I will confess that I didn't see that one busting out of the gate like that at all.

Joel Corcoran: Yeesh ... it's worse than I expected. But a lot of movies are just falling off a cliff and experiencing a 60% (or larger) drop from opening weekend to the next. At the end of the summer, we might look back and see Wanted having an average box office performance this year.

Max Braden: Maybe they should consult the Loom of Fate to decide which studio exec to shoot. At least it did better than The Love Guru, which dropped 68%.

D. James Ruccio: This doesn't surprise me at all. I think Internet fandom drove the opening weekend of this film and once all the fanboys went, there was no one else left.

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