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Movie Heretic _ In the 'Hood _ Jason Voorhees slaughters North American Box Office

Posted by: Jethro Feb 14 2009, 08:26 PM

Opening day prediction of $19 million has Friday the 13th set to score the best ever opening weekend for a horror movie. The target from here should be around the $50 million mark which opens up the possibility of the remake targeting above $100 million (which to be honest was expected).

This could all be down to hype and aggresive marketing of course, last year Cloverfield opened above $40 million but failed to achieve solid word of mouth and dropped to around a 2 times multiplier. Word on the net is solid, for what that is worth, however critical reaction is pretty bad with the RT meter reporting 30/78 and a low 28%.

Posted by: Jethro Feb 15 2009, 06:02 PM

Well reality bites apparently with Jason managing a still respectable $42.3 million opening weekend but well below the $50 million being touted on Saturday morning.

A typical reaction on another site;

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I thought Valentine's Day would've helped Friday the 13th to stay more even but it's already done more now than I thought it would for the whole weekend.

Yes forget flowers and champers and that whole dinner thing, the ladies all want to go see some half arsed slasher remake

Proof positive that the idiot factor is alive and well on the internet and why you take things with a grain of salt.

For those interest the RT meter actually managed to drop to 27% ... wow this could get nasty when the Aussies start reviewing it next month!