Comments on: Box Office Preview: ‘The Proposal’ and ‘Year One’ aim to take down ‘The Hangover’

By: H-Man

H-Man — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:43:20 +0000

I hate the fact that Harold Ramis hasn’t really had a hit in a while. I really want to see Year One, but I don’t think it will win the weekend.
#1 The Proposal: 30 million
#2 The Hangover: 24 million
#3 Year One: 17.5 million
#4 Up: 17.1 million
#5 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 14 million

By: The Hangover

The Hangover — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:25:04 +0000

How can you keep calling this the surprise hit of the summer. It has been promoted to death most everyone knew it would be a hit despite not having and stars in it.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:03:08 +0000

oh I am going to go see the proposal again today… I just saw it last night!!!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:02:11 +0000

The Proposal was def better than hangover… Dont get me wrong hangover was good… the propsal beat it… I love it!!!

By: Matt2

Matt2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:16:55 +0000

Hey Josh!
I’m thinking also that this weekend is too close to call but I’m going with:
1) The Hangover- 22 million
2) The Proposal- 21.5 million
3) Up- 19 million
4) Year One- 17 million
5) Pelham 123- 12.5 million
I do think that you’ll see a shift on Sunday in which some longer playing films that a Dad might like such as Star Trek, Terminator, etc will see an uptick as children gift their dads with a trip to the movie theater. Overall though, the box office will be weak compared to last summer. The good news for Hollywood is that all changes next week with the opening of the probable box office giant of this summer, Transformers 2.

By: m.

m. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:44:12 +0000

saw hangover today, not as good as old school (but it’s one of my favorite comedies ever), but still very enjoyable. I like to be treated as adult, not a kid (like most comedies do). Saw trailer of year 1 before Hangover and it looked weak and rip off of several movies (Homo Erectus and some others).

By: brandon

brandon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:58:28 +0000

proposal-$25m
hangover-$22m
up-$21m
year one-$18
pelham 123-$12
the top 4 films could all see #1 this weekend. should be fun!

By: cfren

cfren — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:05:10 +0000

Decent buzz for the Proposal?? Umm…no. 33% fresh on RottenTomatoes is not “decent buzz”. This will bomb; Ryan Reynolds is box office poison.

By: graeme

graeme — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:42:18 +0000

Yeah, Bullock is a very interesting case. Her movies always have insane legs at the box office, but nothing ever opens big (Speed, While You Were Sleeping, Miss Congeniality, A Time To Kill, Crash, Two Weeks Notice, Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Prince Of Egypt, The Net). So yeah, something in the high 20s would be amazing, but either way, I expect the film to have a long life at the box office and come close to breaking $100 million.

By: IMHO

IMHO — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:33:56 +0000

Have a feeling Hangover will win again. Just saw it yesterday because of word of mouth. Wow! I laughed so hard I cried. In these economic times, nothing beats a GREAT comedy that makes you laugh from beginning to end.