Monday Morning Quarterback Part I

By BOP Staff

December 30, 2008

Chad Pennington: The Musical is coming to Broadway any day now, replacing Favre: The Legend.

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Eric Hughes: Because Bedtime Stories didn't exactly meet expectations (even our own Reagen predicted a weekend north of $50 million), I'd assume the comedy will exit theaters rather quickly. But then again, the next family film doesn't come around until Hotel for Dogs on January 16th. Bedtime Stories is basically all by itself over the next few weeks to make up some ground. Thank God Delgo bombed or this one would REALLY be in trouble. Crisis averted!

Scott Lumley: Hotel for Dogs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Marley & Me... is this the new tentpole release for Hollywood? Find a cute dog and a not very bright script then sit there and laugh heartily as the money pours in? This is three seriously produced and promoted dog films raising serious hell at the box office in less than six months. I don't think anybody saw or even imagined this happening. Nostradamus couldn't have predicted this stuff.

Eric Hughes: Even more troubling is that teasers and posters for Hotel for Dogs show at least a dozen dogs are in the pic. Multiply Marley & Me's $37-million weekend by 12 and you get...

Joel Corcoran: God help us all. We may have to bring out a Garfield sequel to combat this menace (and I hear Jennifer Love Hewitt is looking for work, anyway).




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Reagen Sulewski: Obviously I was expecting a swap between this and Marley, but this isn't terrible, especially with the upcoming bonanza of a week ahead of us. I do think Night at the Museum is a pretty good analog here, and this could make a bit of a run post-holidays. The bigger question in my mind is if this represents the start of the Eddie-Murphyization of Sandler, where he does nothing but talk to animals and make poop jokes (OK, not much of a change, but with a different target) for the next five years.

Daron Aldridge: Yes, I think it could be good enough, especially if it sustains over the next week. I am not convinced that it can pull in Night at the Museum business, especially since that one was the number two movie of 2006. If it could duplicate Museum's mulitplier (5.9), which I doubt, then Bedtime Stories could end with $166 million but I don't see that Happening. See what I did there, since it's got a worse freshness rating than Shyamalan's movie.

Pete Kilmer: It's decent, but it's not really an Adam Sandler film, just as Night at the Museum isn't really a Ben Stiller movie. Both those projects are in the "family" section of each actor's resume of films. And that's not a bad thing at all. I think it might limp along and do well enough in the theaters so that when it hits On Demand and Redbox dvd rentals people will snatch it up.

Kim Hollis: If not for the surprise of Marley & Me, we'd be singing this one's praises. It wasn't that long ago - after the release of Don't Mess With the Zohan - that a number of us were positing right here in Monday Morning Quarterback that perhaps a turn to family films would be the right move for Sandler. And now we're going to gripe about an almost $40 million during holiday season when big numbers are sure to follow in the coming days? This is going to be a solid little family flick - and frankly, the reviews for this type of thing don't really matter terribly much.


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