Hollywood Just Keeps On Crankin' 'Em Out

On Fridays here at BlogPulse, we roll up our sleeves and start really tweaking our blog machine to see which movies are going to make money in the upcoming weekend. But after no end of tinkering today, the future looks kind of uncertain. What we know for sure is that the three biggest pictures are "Doom," "North Country" and "Stay," and, when the tickets sold are tallied, they probably will end up ranked in some varation on that order by Monday. "Doom" looks like the sort of big, dumb, shoot-'em-up that packs 'em in, especially since this is the era when underemployed Linux wranglers play the game on their iPods. "North Country" is all-star Oscar bait in which beautiful stars smear coal dust on their faces and talk in campy rural accents — and the last time lead actress Charlize Theron did that, she won an Academy Award. "Stay" is more difficult to gauge, because its reviews are poor but it's the kind of scary psycho-drama many moviegoers like. (Think "Saw"). So our official prediction is that "Doom" will have the biggest draw this weekend, because it's generally a safe bet that sci-fi video-game based violence is more lucrative than the bleak lives of mine workers. Also, check out this chart indicating which movie has been on the mind of most bloggers:

Posted by Philip Ewing at October 21, 2005 10:20 AM

Category: Moving Pictures