For that matter, most think it will easily top Iron Man 's opening weekend and perhaps even break records. This suggests significant room for expansion. With summer less than a week away, it could even be the first limited release of the season to expand enough to earn some measure of mainstream success.
It wouldn't be the first Nicole Holofcener film to do so. The new releases were a little weaker than anticipated, while the holdovers could only compensate so much. That's the good news. Of course, this weekend last year was the first weekend of May, so the comparison is fundamentally unfair and still has a 6. I expect it to increase its lead next weekend. That's the second-best opening performance for a movie in the franchise, behind only the franchise-crossover Freddy vs. It also helped shake up the market a little after a few sluggish weeks.
Will Nightmare Scare the Competition? April 29th, It's the final weekend of April, which is normally a very bad time to release a big hit. But it appears that one of this year's two wide releases may make it. A Nightmare on Elm Street should be able to open faster than the two films did last week, but comparing it to last year is a bit more confusing. A Nightmare on Elm Street should match that figure. However, the same weekend last year was actually the first weekend of May , which saw the release of Wolverine.
There's a chance that overall box office combined won't match that film's opening. Contest: Prizes of Nightmare Proportions April 22nd, A Nightmare on Elm Street will likely be the only saturation level release next week and it is clearly the best shot at top spot. But I think the studio would agree, more importantly, it is the target film in this week's box office prediction contest.
In order to win, one must simply predict the opening weekend box office number for A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whoever comes the closest to predicting the film's opening 3-day weekend box office Friday to Sunday , without going over , will win a copy of Planet Hulk on Blu-ray.
Entries must be received by 10 a. Follow us on. A Nightmare on Elm Street International Details: Iron Shines Brighter than Predecessor May 30th, Iron Man 2 is starting to see sharp declines in its theater count, but it still hit a major milestone during the past weekend. Buy at AllPosters. You need a Frames Capable browser to view this content. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.
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For more information, please contact us at research the-numbers. Samuel L. All rights reserved. When they go to sleep, they have demented dreams of a maniacal burn victim named Freddy Krueger Jackie Earle Haley.
Freddy chases the kids through his world and if he can get his knife-tipped glove on them, they die in the real world. The remaining teenagers are then tasked with insomnia as they search for the reason why Freddy wants them dead. I'll start with the positives. From an acting and casting standpoint Jackie Earle Haley is the guy you want in this role.
He has a haunting voice that he modulates with perfection, coming up with his own unique take on the notorious Mr. When combining his talents with the usual high production values for horror films provided by Platinum Dunes, you get a workable formula.
Unlike the other films, but like Platinum Dune's other remakes, there is an attempt at a Freddy Krueger origin story. It just so happens I like the way this part of the movie is told and having the cursed teens see it in their dreams is interesting.
With these elements working in the film's favor, there are many conflicts elsewhere. Notable among these are redundant dream sequences. The settings sometimes change but they almost all play the same way: teenagers walk through eerie environments followed by a Freddy attack. For a screenwriter to be so lacking in imagination is mind-boggling.
Freddy's costume is easily recognizable, but the new burn victim look of his face is unappealing. Chances are a real life Freddy would look more like this than he did in the '80s, but The English Patient is not a frightening countenance. What mars the first half of the film is an insistence on not developing characters. We assume these are high school kids, who mysteriously are devoid of personalities, and then they die.
I understand the concept of an ensemble cast, but when main players take such a backseat that when they finally move to the front of the minivan we don't know them. Despite a rocky start things do turn around, but our unfortunately thickheaded protagonists are slow to put things together. They should be going on about a week of sleep deprivation, but the new Nancy Rooney Mara seems only mildly annoyed.
When Heather Langenkamp played Nancy, she was just as active but with more lines we had a better understanding of her frustration. The biggest problem of all is that the A Nightmare on Elm Street is not scary. Scare tactics all center on sound effects and it gets old fast. Every time Freddy appears there is a scream of some kind that pierces the ears of the audience.
No one is jumping at fright; maybe some will jump at the surprise. This is silly, outdated, and uncreative. Almost all of their remakes have been critically lambasted, but most of them managed to be profitable. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they plan to shell out as many sequels as the original franchises generated, but I'd prefer that action since it would keep them busy and off of more esteemed films.
FAQ Is there going to be a sequel, if not a reboot? Is this film a remake, re-imagining, sequel, or prequel to the original film? Quentin takes Nancy to the hospital for cuts on her arm; there, he steals some adrenaline and a syringe to help them stay awake.
Nancy and Quentin leave the hospital and eventually make it to the preschool. Quentin uncovers Krueger's "magic cave" and the evidence that proves Krueger was physically and sexually abusing all of the childre.
Nancy decides the only way to end this is to pull Krueger out of their dreams and kill him in reality. Quentin tries to stay awake long enough to pull Nancy out of her dream when she has Freddy, but he falls asleep and is attacked.
Krueger then goes after Nancy, and explains that he intentionally left her for last so she would stay awake long enough that when she finally fell asleep, she would no longer be able to wake back up. While Nancy struggles with Freddy, Quentin wakes and uses the adrenaline to bring Nancy up and pull Freddy into reality. With Krueger distracted by Quentin, Nancy uses a broken paper cutter blade to cut Freddy's gloved hand off, and then slice his throat.
Afterward, Nancy torches the secret room, with Krueger's body left inside, while she and Quentin leave. Nancy and her mother return home from the hospital, with Nancy being told she should get some sleep. Krueger suddenly appears in a mirror's reflection and kills Nancy's mother before pulling her body through the mirror while Nancy screams. A Nightmare on Elm Street was released on April 30, to 3, theaters and approximately screens, making it the twelfth widest opening for an R-rated film in the United States.
Comparatively, the original Nightmare on Elm Street was only released to theaters on its opening, November 9, ; its widest release by the end of its box office run was theaters. The remake holds the record for widest Nightmare on Elm Street release, beating out Freddy vs. Jason by theaters. The Blu-ray special features include the DVD's featurette along with a deleted scene, an alternate opening and ending, and the "Maniacle Movie Mode".
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