Cloverfield, the J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie, earned $41 million over the three-day weekend, according to box office estimates. With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day tomorrow and many of the film’s target demographic free, the movie is set to make a fair amount of money on Monday, too.
The movie only costs $35 million to make (I’ve heard some reports that say $25 million), and combined with the $41 million three-day take means:
- It has already made more than its production budget
- It beat out the re-release of Star Wars‘ $35.9 box office weekend that up until now has held the January box office record
- It beat out Black Hawk Down’s $33.6 MLK holiday weekend record.
- It goes to show that you can make a high quality film on a low budget.
Congrats to Cloverfield for once again showing Hollywood that you don’t need to spend $150 million to make big action movies.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
cloverfeild made my month…the marks on the statue of liberty are just brilliant..looks like a flesh wound on metal..HUD’s character is the best ..TJ miller is the best stand up comic ive seen in a long time check out his act
http://effinfunny.com/tjmiller
May 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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April 29th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I would not agree that this is a good movie. It makes me sick to watch it as if it were a home video and I believe it would be a much better movie if it were done regularly. Some of the movie doesn’t make sense and what’s with the ending? This movie is like Quarentine but I liked that one a lot more.
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
So you didn’t like the ending to Cloverfield but liked the ending to Quarantine? Thanks for your opinion.