THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on October 29, 2007, 12:45:26 AM
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The killer of the "Saw" franchise may be dead, but his sadistic spirit lives on.
Lionsgate's "Saw IV" led the weekend box office with $32.1 million, maintaining the horror franchise's position as a Halloween perennial, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Debuting at No. 2 was Disney's "Dan in Real Life," a romance starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche and Dane Cook that took in $12.1 million.
Overall Hollywood revenues declined for the sixth-straight weekend, though business was off only a fraction compared to the same weekend last year. The top-12 movies took in $86.1 million, down 2 percent, better results than in previous weeks, when business had fallen significantly more.
The results for "Saw IV" were on par with the debut of "Saw III," which pulled in $33.6 million over the same weekend last year. Since the original low-budget "Saw" became an out-of-nowhere fright sensation in 2004, Lionsgate has released a new chapter each October, all hits.
"I would expect to see 'Saw V' next year, 'Saw VI' the year after that and 'Saw VII' the following year if they can keep it up," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "There's just something inherently gruesome and compelling about these movies. I don't know what that says about society in general, but it certainly works at the box office."
"Saw IV" features post-mortem horrors concocted by the fiendish killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell, seen in flashbacks), whose autopsy turns up a cassette tape in his entrails that leads the cops into a new snare of torture puzzles the madman left behind.
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BRING ON SAW 5: THE SAWENING!
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almost everyone I know saw this. :-\
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Why, God, why?
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This has to be one of the most successful horror franchises ever. Usually, a studio keeps green lighting crappy sequel after crappy sequel until the series is run into the ground. And they almost always have diminishing returns with each sequel. Not so with Saw!
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After the sucessess of Spidey 3 and Transformers, is this even surprising? I wouldn't watch Saw 4 even if it were in 2160P.
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SAW 666: THE FINAL CHAPTER will the best one yet!
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This has to be one of the most successful horror franchises ever. Usually, a studio keeps green lighting crappy sequel after crappy sequel until the series is run into the ground. And they almost always have diminishing returns with each sequel. Not so with Saw!
It's not hard when you consider the low production budgets these movies have. The first three films had an average budget of around $5 million each
All my friends saw it on Friday wtf >:(
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Yeah, but usually, audiences lose interest after the second or third sequel, as has been the case for all the great 80s and 90s horror heavyweights. People keep going back to see Saw, though.
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I'm not seeing a Saw movie until they have the Ass Rammer from Scary Movie IV. :lol
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Yeah, but usually, audiences lose interest after the second or third sequel, as has been the case for all the great 80s and 90s horror heavyweights. People keep going back to see Saw, though.
And that's what I don't understand. WHY do people like these sequels? They always have brilliant marketing plans, and the October release dates always give the films a boost...but it seems like each film is just a more over-the-top continuation; Halloween, Friday the 13th, and all the other classic horror franchises flamed out after this many sequels. I know people who love this shit. I can only take so much ham n gore
:/
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I wanted to see Dan in Real Life and while they hosted a preview screening on Wednesday, no theater within 10 miles was playing it. Shrug.
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So what's the story? I know he's in flashbacks and shit in this one, but how will they keep Tobin Bell in the next sequel? I say identical serial cousins.
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So what's the story? I know he's in flashbacks and shit in this one, but how will they keep Tobin Bell in the next sequel? I say identical serial cousins.
Videotapes, most likely. Probably "tutorials" for the next Jigsaw Killer which they can have last up until Saw VI or VII.
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I think that people keep watching this because even the first one was a complete popcorn flick. People figure that "it's got gore and some scary cuts and it's halloween so I"ll feel like watching it". there isn't a great original to fuck up with the sequels and rehashes.
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The reason for it's success is probably when it gets released- Halloween weekend every year.
That and people are stupid idiots.
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Wow.
Saw 2 and 3 were terrible. Why do the masses keep rewarding mediocre projects?
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Wow.
Saw 2 and 3 were terrible. Why do the masses keep rewarding mediocre projects?
Hey, I heard that The Comebacks flopped hard, so there's hope... :-*