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By Lee Tistaert Published March 20, 2004
As for an opening day gross, the only solid comparison I can draw is Phone Booth, per-screen average wise ($5.2 million - $2,086 per-screen).
I originally tried to coordinate showtimes so I could see both Dawn of the Dead and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on Friday night, but since timing didn?t work, I simply saw the latter one, as I was looking forward to it a lot more than Dawn.
I arrived at the Westwood Crest (450 seats) at 9:25 for the 10:00 show, and there was a decent line at the ticket booth, with a few people waiting to get in. When I got in the ticket holders? line, there were probably slightly under a hundred people there, but as time progressed, the line thickened and the ticket booth line grew as well.
The scenario was extremely similar as when I saw Phone Booth here on opening night, as the line to get in (on both occasions) didn?t really start forming until I got there, and the theater was not immediately full once the line went in. The show was not completely sold out when all was said and done either, but it was very close to a full house.
The audience was mostly 20 - 30 years old, with a few people here and there older and younger than that range, and the gender ratio was pretty equally split. However, I saw the 7:30 show let out and it was a dominantly older crowd, but there was a decent showing of younger moviegoers. When I had walked toward the theater from my car, I happened to overhear a few groups of people who had just come out of the film, attempting a discussion on the movie, and the same thing happened after our show let out.
Around 9:50 I was sitting in my aisle seat near the front of the theater, and I was sort of bored, my eyes wandering the perimeters. Then some rather short guy with a hat and glasses on walks by and my eyes immediately locked on him in a tight gaze of wonder. And within a second or two, I realized I was looking at Danny DeVito (and trust me, you know when you see DeVito).
He originally passed my row, and then stopped a few rows ahead and looked back toward my general direction with a confused glare. He then came back toward me, and I let him in the row and he then peeled off the tape from seats that the theater was reserving for he and his family (anyone can reserve seats here, so he probably didn?t put in the special request).
And before I knew it, his wife and a few teens (his kids?) find their way into the row and sit beside me. So before the show began and during the previews, all I could really think about was: ?Danny DeVito is sitting four seats down?.? What made this even more wild was that when I saw the remake of Psycho at the Village theater in Westwood, DeVito was sitting right in front of us.
The Crest traditionally only shows two previews and the first one up was The Last Shot. When the trailer loaded up, some young guy screamed, ?Ferris!? when Matthew Broderick appeared, and the ad did get some laughs, but the overall reception wasn?t too unique.
The second trailer was the teaser for The Day After Tomorrow. When the preview was concluding, someone started to clap, but no one joined in.
You could tell that this room was filled with loyal Jim Carrey fans, as they were ready to giggle or laugh at just about anything odd that he did. That?s not to say that the movie isn?t funny, but there were chuckles at spots (more toward the beginning stretch) where I?m willing to bet that many other crowds wouldn?t respond to. The audience seemed quite hooked into the film, as there was utter silence in between the quirky moments, and fascinated responses when the film dove into its imaginative side. The movie also got a good applause afterwards, and many people were coming out discussing the specifics of the film and commenting on how much they liked it.
As for an opening day gross, the only solid comparison I can draw is Phone Booth, per-screen average wise ($5.2 million - $2,086 per-screen). Going into the weekend, Under the Tuscan Sun ($3.1 million - $2,504 per-screen) looked like a decent comparison for Eternal Sunshine, as they both shared a rather limited theater count (with a bankable lead); and while Tuscan Sun did play at the Crest, I didn?t see it.
I arrived at the Westwood Crest (450 seats) at 9:25 for the 10:00 show, and there was a decent line at the ticket booth, with a few people waiting to get in. When I got in the ticket holders? line, there were probably slightly under a hundred people there, but as time progressed, the line thickened and the ticket booth line grew as well.
The scenario was extremely similar as when I saw Phone Booth here on opening night, as the line to get in (on both occasions) didn?t really start forming until I got there, and the theater was not immediately full once the line went in. The show was not completely sold out when all was said and done either, but it was very close to a full house.
The audience was mostly 20 - 30 years old, with a few people here and there older and younger than that range, and the gender ratio was pretty equally split. However, I saw the 7:30 show let out and it was a dominantly older crowd, but there was a decent showing of younger moviegoers. When I had walked toward the theater from my car, I happened to overhear a few groups of people who had just come out of the film, attempting a discussion on the movie, and the same thing happened after our show let out.
Around 9:50 I was sitting in my aisle seat near the front of the theater, and I was sort of bored, my eyes wandering the perimeters. Then some rather short guy with a hat and glasses on walks by and my eyes immediately locked on him in a tight gaze of wonder. And within a second or two, I realized I was looking at Danny DeVito (and trust me, you know when you see DeVito).
He originally passed my row, and then stopped a few rows ahead and looked back toward my general direction with a confused glare. He then came back toward me, and I let him in the row and he then peeled off the tape from seats that the theater was reserving for he and his family (anyone can reserve seats here, so he probably didn?t put in the special request).
And before I knew it, his wife and a few teens (his kids?) find their way into the row and sit beside me. So before the show began and during the previews, all I could really think about was: ?Danny DeVito is sitting four seats down?.? What made this even more wild was that when I saw the remake of Psycho at the Village theater in Westwood, DeVito was sitting right in front of us.
The Crest traditionally only shows two previews and the first one up was The Last Shot. When the trailer loaded up, some young guy screamed, ?Ferris!? when Matthew Broderick appeared, and the ad did get some laughs, but the overall reception wasn?t too unique.
The second trailer was the teaser for The Day After Tomorrow. When the preview was concluding, someone started to clap, but no one joined in.
You could tell that this room was filled with loyal Jim Carrey fans, as they were ready to giggle or laugh at just about anything odd that he did. That?s not to say that the movie isn?t funny, but there were chuckles at spots (more toward the beginning stretch) where I?m willing to bet that many other crowds wouldn?t respond to. The audience seemed quite hooked into the film, as there was utter silence in between the quirky moments, and fascinated responses when the film dove into its imaginative side. The movie also got a good applause afterwards, and many people were coming out discussing the specifics of the film and commenting on how much they liked it.
As for an opening day gross, the only solid comparison I can draw is Phone Booth, per-screen average wise ($5.2 million - $2,086 per-screen). Going into the weekend, Under the Tuscan Sun ($3.1 million - $2,504 per-screen) looked like a decent comparison for Eternal Sunshine, as they both shared a rather limited theater count (with a bankable lead); and while Tuscan Sun did play at the Crest, I didn?t see it.
