Gone Girl vaults to the top of David Fincher’s box-office chart with the best opening weekend of his career. $38 million; that’s 4.5 million tickets. Panic Room made $30 million selling 5.1 million tickets 12 years ago (in 2002, when Ellar Coltrane was 6 years old). In 2010, The Social Network had a $22 million debut weekend and went on to earn $96 million. Last week 20th Century Fox was cautiously estimating Gone Girl would clock in with $22-25 million. It will be interesting to take a look at the demographic breakdown of Gone Girl ticket-buyers. We’ll add those stats as soon as I find them.
I watch Downton Abbey, I loved Gone Girl and I’m younger than most of the people in the theatre were…
Ryan, that’s a cute story. I noticed a lot of pairs of women too, very interesting. I wonder if it will speak to the older Academy member? (Though those are mostly male, from what I understand).
“Everyone in the theatre was in their 50’s or 60’s.”
Meanwhile, I’ve been catching up on Downton Abbey, how old does that make me?
A bit of anecdotal demographic information: I noticed that everyone in the theatre was in their 50s and 60s. Being in my late twenties I was by far the youngest person there.
A bit of anecdotal demographic information: I noticed that everyone in the theatre was in their 50s and 60s.
Same way at the theater in a small midwestern town at the Friday matinee when I saw it too. older couples and pairs of older women, 40s, 50s, 60s.
The last movie my mother wanted to see in a theater was Gravity and she asked me this weekend to take her to see Gone Girl. We’re going this afternoon.
On Friday I sat one seat away from an adorable pair of ladies in their late 60s. The spoke in sotto-voce whispers, but not so quier that I didn’t I overhear this…
Right after Nick and Amy’s first sexual encounter:
Lady 2: [restless, murmurs something…]
Lady 1: Well, do you want to leave?
Lady 2: No we can stay, but it’s a little too sophisticated for me.
Lady 1: Wait till the suspense starts in.
Lady 2: …
Then later, when Nick and his college girl have their encounter:
Lady 1: He’s a real stud, isn’t he?
Lady 2: …umm-hmm… [not happy about it]
Lady 1 had obviously read the book because once or twice whenever her friend was confused, Lady 1 was able to clarify every plot point. They were adorable. They really got into it about halfway through. (They didn’t talk much. Those words were the only thing I could hear clearly enough to quote.)
Brava to Lady 1 for initiating her more delicate friend to Fincher’s world.
And, given the strong reactions from audiences and the nature of the film as a multiple-viewing-type of feature, we ought to see strong holds through the rest of the year. That’ll keep it firmly in the conversation through to the beginning of the awards season in December.
Christophe’s gone nutty.
Why does she have “flour” on her face? Did they hire the same make-up artist that engineered the recent Angelina Jolie red-carpet debacle? Or does that mean Hollywood actresses can’t even stand 15 minutes without their dose of cocaine? Or even better is it a revival of the good ol’ days of the French Monarchy when aristocrats got their servants to “powder” them so they would look whiter than white? I hear some Asian chicks do that too nowadays.
“Gone Girl’s audience skewed older (75 percent 25 and up) and female (60 percent). It received a lukewarm “B” CinemaScore, though anecdotally the word-of-mouth seems stronger than that (think the way The Wolf of Wall Street received a horrible CinemaScore on its way to great holds earlier this year).” (Box Office Mojo)
Older-skewing which suggests it will have a rather leggy run. 120M seems like a done deal at this point.