I’m a little bit amazed that The Expendables managed to hold on to its number one slot at the box office the weekend. I figured people would get their little nostalgic kick and it would fade into the background. But it held strong with another $16.5 million in ticket sales.
Although, admittedly, the newest offerings at the theater were pretty weak sauce. Vampires Suck? Seriously? Who is this movie for? Twilight fans are gonna reject it on principle alone. People who probably hate Twilight are probably smart enough to recognize a crappy parody movie when they see one.
What’s been REALLY surprising is watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World tumble from 5th to 10th place. It lost over 50% of it’s business in one week. That stings. Whatever happened to the strong word of mouth on this thing that was going to give it a bounce in its second week? I gotta admit I’m feeling a little sorry for Bryan Lee O’Malley at this point.
Then again, he had a major motion picture adapted from his work and that will never, EVER happen for me. So I’m sure he’s doing just fine. 🙂
Quick bit of site news and life news that I want to share with you guys…
Since I redesigned the site earlier this year, one area of the site that’s been lacking has been the store. To say that it’s impacted sales is an understatement. However, I was content to overlook it because I was busy packaging and trying to find time to complete sketches for people who had pre-ordered Theater Hopper: Year Three. I wasn’t really in the position to take on new orders.
But in the next month, I’ll be going through a major life change that has forced my hand in regard to getting rid of some merchandise.
At the end of September, Cami and I are packing up Truman and the kids and moving to a new house.
It’s not a drastic move. We’re still staying in central Iowa. We’re pretty much trading one suburb for the other. Actually, we’re moving back to our hometown to be closer to both my parents and Cami’s parents, who still live there.
One of the big reasons Cami and I never moved away from Iowa is because knew when we had kids, we wanted them to have a strong relationship with their grandparents. Now that Henry is 3 and Pearl is almost a year, it didn’t make sense to live a half hour away anymore. So we decided to move closer!
ANYWAY… as you know, moving can be a chore and I’m sitting on a bunch of merchandise I’m not really interested in moving to the new house if I don’t have to – ESPECIALLY the books.
SUPER SECRET SHOPPER TIP: People who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will be entitled to EXTRA savings!
Right now all books are $11.00 and all shirts are $7.00. There are also a few clearance items that I have priced to move. There’s limited inventory on those clearance items. So if you want them, you’ll need to move fast!
This sale will be taking place from now until Sunday, September 19. But if you want to be sure you get your pick of the litter, be sure to order early! Also, the likelihood of you receiving your orders in a timely manner will GREATLY improve in the weeks before moving to a new house slowly drives me insane.
Don’t miss a great opportunity to to buy Theater Hopper merchandise! Even if you own everything we’ve ever produced, this is a great opportunity to buy something for a loved one on their birthday or even for the holidays!
Please help spread the word and thanks again for your support!
Right this way, m'lday.
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Now THAT was a manly movie!
YEAH! Thanks for the heads up, jerks!
I’m thinking Scott Pilgrim is going to find a huge following on DVD/BluRay. I didn’t get to see it until just this past weekend, and while the theater wasn’t full, there were still quite a few people in it. I loved it. There’s no reason Brian Lee O’Malley shouldn’t be proud of the movie.
I’m trying to create a Rocky Horror Picture Show thing for Scott Pilgrim. So far I have, put on a nerdy shirt that you own, and whenever someone says ex-boyfriends you say “Evil Exes”. I’m working on it. I just gotta go see it a bunch more times.
i had this idea too. Obviously we can sing along to all the songs.
OMG! That movie turned Cami into Francis Ford Coppolla!!!
Bryan Lee O’Malley is probably actually one of the biggest WINNERS in all of this since Scott Pilgrim vol. 1-6 are still (I think) near the top of the Amazon sales charts.
The real losers are Universal, Michael Cera (guess it’s time for that Arrested Development movie!) and Edgar Wright (though last week’s $10M opening is the biggest in his career which is quite sad).
Good call.
If anyone is going to take this hit, it’s Cera. Dude just can’t open a movie.
It’s depressing to see Scott fall like that, but also not too surprising. As people have said, it should do just fine on DVD, and Edgar Wright shouldn’t be too affected (it’s not like he was making big money makers before. Just really phenomenal movies). Sad to see fun movies get so little attention (having not seen Expendables yet, I cannot comment on its funness). As for the new releases, Piranha was amazingly enjoyable (well, if you’re into super-gore and a metric ton of exposed breasts), so its too bad its not doing a little better.
Good luck in your move! Hopefully everything goes smoothly.
Dude: I saw “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and it was like the best movie I’ve ever seen. It sucks that it’s gone so low on the box office charts. Oh well. I want to see “The Expendables”, but will wait for dvd.
I have some friends who really want to see Vampires Suck. I also have some friends who genuinely like Twilight. I need new friends.
Tom, totally off topic here, but I think you should see this. It’ll feed your Iron Man fantasies like nothing I can think of (outside a working Mark 6 ^_^).
http://gizmodo.com/5619441/iron-man-xbox-360-mod-turns-your-games-into-arc-reactors
Sadly, I have already seen it and it turned my eyes green with envy! 🙁
I love the fact that Cami’s beard is fuller than Tom’s…
This was very much intentional. 😉
LMAO! I called it! I was joking with my guy friends for the longest about walking into to that movie and getting an overdose of testosterone.