New at BOP: Review: Matrix Resurrections Movie Review: Moonfall Movie Reviews: Scream The #1 Movie in America November Forecast The Many Saints of Newark October Forecast New Trivia Question All site updates Share & Save   Tweet Print this column

Reagen Sulewski: Is there a popular actor out there who more consistently avoids going for the big movie than Clooney? I can't think of anyone who's embraced the "quality, not quantity" mantle like he has. So while his films are almost never huge, they're big enough to keep him in starlets.

Kim Hollis: This will be a good enough performer for Overture Films. Clooney does the movies he wants to do rather than the movies he has to do. As a result, they're not going to earn the big bucks, but they're almost always going to be well remembered, at least by a certain segment of audience.

Jason Lee: Considering the bizarre (but somehow, somewhat true) story, the strange title and the schizophrenic marketing, I think Overture should be overjoyed to get this goat over double digits.

Sean Collier: If this had opened to $5 million, I wouldn't have been surprised. It already looks like it may be an afterthought come awards season, so opening to some money is about as good as it gets here.

Michael Lynderey: It's a perfectly acceptable number to me. Realistically, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey are supporting actors these days, not box office draws. Ewan McGregor's track record is hit and miss. George Clooney is the only outright star here, and the opening weekend Men / Goats delivered is frankly typically Clooney-esque (think Syriana or Michael Clayton). If the legs are good enough for this to finish between $40 and $50 million, and I suspect they will be, then it's a winner, at least for what it is. Wanting more out of such an odd little title is unrealistic.

David Mumpower: Reinforcing Michael's point, Syriana opened to $11.7 million. Good Night and Good Luck was in theaters almost 40 days before it reached $12.7 million. North American audiences are attuned to Clooney's eclectic movie choices. He is given free reign to pick the ones he wants and there is an implicit understanding that they'll only support him so far when he's not robbing Al Pacino and Andy Garcia.On a sidenote, reviews of this film have been mixed, but I would argue that if you like dry humor (and as a BOP reader, you probably do), this is a hysterical film.

Continued:       1       2       3       4       5