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The Black Kid Killed Me

Who does Lindsay Lohan have to blame the complete failure of herI Know Who Killed Me, which co-stars Garcelle Beavais-Nilon? Probably the black kid.

Embarrassingly enough for Tracey Edmonds & Co. Who's Your Caddy made a half a mill less this weekend than the horribly reviewed B-movie starring the barely legal, cokehead, alcoholic basketcase. The Simpsons Movie, which seriously had the most intense marketing campaign I've ever seen, ruled with a $71.9 million weekend gross. Check out the box office top 10 after the jump.

Movie, # of Weeks In Theaters, Weekend Gross (millions)
1. The Simpsons Movie, 1, $71.9
2. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, 2, $19
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 3, $17
4. Hairspray, 2, $15.5
5. Transformers, 4, $11.5
6. Ratatouille, 5, $7.2
7. Live Free or Die Hard, 5, $5.3
8. License to Wed, 3, $3.7
9. I Know Who Killed Me, 1, $3.4
10. Who's Your Caddy, 1, $2.9

Jul 30, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 5 Responses

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Tagged: Black Box Office, Garcelle Beauvais, Lindsay Lohan, Movies, The Simpsons, Tracey Edmonds, Who's Your Caddy

Comments (5)

No. 1 · blackmistressdiva

The Simpsons was ok. Sunshine was decent, but didn't even place in the top 10. Too bad.

Posted: Jul 30, 2007 at 2:50 pm

No. 2 · JillyBean819

blackmistress:

I want to see Sunshine so bad. It looks creepy. Now that you've said it was decent, I'll go see it. I was afraid it might completely suck.

"Embarrassingly enough for Tracey Edmonds & Co. Who’s Your Caddy made a half a mill less this weekend than the horribly reviewed B-movie

Boohoo how sad. I can't believe it made that much.

Posted: Jul 31, 2007 at 4:47 pm

No. 3 · blackmistressdiva

JillyBean - yea, Sunshine was decent, but I am not taking responsibility for the last 10 minutes of the movie if you go see it. It was VERY good until then (I am loving Cilian Murphy!), and at that point, I don't know what happened to the flick…it got kinda weird, and tried to do some avant stuff with camera angles and then it started to remind me of a certain cult horror flick. I won't spill too much of it. It caused a 30 minute argument btwn me and my boy. He thought it ended lame, and had all of these questions about it. I had to give him the "if you were a movie professional like me, you'd understand it" line. Which I do to really get under his skin after we watch movies. He HATES that. Hahaha. Anyway…it was decent like I said, and the production value, acting, etc. is really good. It's just that last 10 minutes that makes a great movie only a decent one.

Posted: Jul 31, 2007 at 5:24 pm

No. 4 · blkmaleperspective

Can someone please explain to me why you release a good movie in limited markets? And then it doesn't even make the top 10? I have been waiting to see Talk To Me for the past 3 weeks and it still hasn't made it's way to my city. And consequently, it hasn't made the top 10. Don Cheadle is my fave actor, so something has to give.

Posted: Jul 31, 2007 at 6:44 pm

No. 5 · blackmistressdiva

There could be several reasons. I'd say the main one is that Don Cheadle is not big enough to carry a movie on his own yet, and he's the biggest above the line name in that film. he makes great films, but ones that aren't breaking any records $$ wise. Unless he's with other (bigger) actors like he was the Ocean's flicks. His day is coming though.

The other thing that producers know, and black ppl never want to talk about is this: we have a nasty habit of not supporting decent black films in favor of the Soul Planes of the world. Which is why we get stuck with crap like White Chicks, but Don Cheadle's film is in limited release.

Sometimes a movie won't test well, and they'll scale it back, but that's not the case here I don't think.

Posted: Jul 31, 2007 at 7:03 pm

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