Canadian Box Office: April 13-15, 2007
1 DISTURBIA Paramount 1,627,781
2 BLADES OF GLORY Paramount 1,129,672
3 PERFECT STRANGER Columbia 1,083,311
4 MEET THE ROBINSONS Walt Disney 693,147
5 ARE WE DONE YET? Columbia 664,458
6 GRINDHOUSE Alliance Atlantis 471,840
7 SHOOTER Paramount 434,203
8 300 Warner Bros. 422,169
9 THE REAPING Warner Bros.. 364,477
10 WILD HOGS Touchstone 330,350
*All figures in Canadian Dollars
Should we cheer that Blades of Glory was partially filmed in Montreal?
For those of you that have seen Andrew Currie's FIDO, it's been released for a whole month now.
Fido's total box office take: $91,879
Fido's total estimated budget: $8,000,000
Hey, money isn't everything.
3 comments:
Fido is a good example of a film that could have done very well if it was market properly. It's rather "high concept" for a Canadian film (Zombies + Lassie) and has two well known actors. In other words, it's not a "difficult" film, nor an "art" film (the two main tendencies in english Canadian cinema, or so it seems.)It is very clearly aimed at a broad audience, and would have struck a chord if it had been promoted properly.
Also, I think it should be noted that Box Office Mojo seems to only follow the gross of film playing in the US of A. Fido lasted three days down south, but is still playing in Canada. Their total gross figure has not been updated to account for its Canadian box office.
Still, its hard to imagine that the film has earned much more than $100,000.
And, I believe the budget of the film was around $11 million CDN. So, yep, its made back about 1% of it's cost. Go Canada!
Fido's box office revenue is solely from the Canadian release. We're a sad, sad country.
On Anagram Pictures website they list the American release as June 15, 2007 and opens in Japan on 18 August 2007. Will it be big in Japan? Who knows.
Hopefully they manage to have a coherent marketing campaign that works by then. So far they have had multiple posters that all convey drastically different genre films: art house film, slasher/horror, comedy, neo-noir.
Anagram Pictures
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