BOX OFFICE: ELYSIUM Opens To $1.6M In Thursday Night Showings

BOX OFFICE: ELYSIUM Opens To $1.6M In Thursday Night Showings

Sony's highly anticipated sci-fi thriller Elysium finally opened late last night, and the Matt Damon-starrer debuted with an impressive $1.6M as it's on its way to an estimated $30M+ opening weekend.

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By PaulRom - Aug 09, 2013 08:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi



After a couple of major misfires earlier this summer with After Earth and White House Down, Sony Pictures appears to have a box office success in the sci-fi thriller Elysium, which stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. The Neill Blomkamp-directed movie opened at 10 PM Thursday night, and grossed a solid $1.6M. Despite a crowded weekend of new releases (Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters, We're The Millers and Disney's Planes) and an R-rating, Elysium will stand out as a $30M+ opening weekend is predicted. The film, which has a reported $115M budget, may even surpass $35M. Reviews have been solid, but suggest that the movie isn't on par with Blomkamp's directorial debut, 2009's District 9 (which earned $37.4M in its opening weekend in August 2009 and made $115.6M domestically). Do you plan on checking out Elysium this weekend?


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MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 8/9/2013, 9:04 AM
I'm catching the 10:15 showing. Excited.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 8/9/2013, 9:06 AM
It looks fantastic! Really want to see this!! :D
saasouza
saasouza - 8/9/2013, 9:10 AM

Does anyone who saw the movie on theaters know if there was a RoboCop trailer on it ?
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 8/9/2013, 9:10 AM
I will be seeing this Saturday. I would love to see it today but will be working late. So tomorrow will have to do. I really hope this does well & gives Neill a better shot at getting to do more films. Plus gets more of a say in them too.

That being said I would enjoy seeing an Inhumans movie or Martian Manhunter film from him some day.
MisterBabadook
MisterBabadook - 8/9/2013, 9:26 AM
I wouldn't say it's "Better" than District 9, I'd say its completely different.
District 9 was great because it was a big blockbuster on a next to nothing budget telling a fresh story at a time when immigration reform was at the forefront.

Regardless, I enjoyed it, my lady who doesn't enjoy action movies liked it, so you can make it a date night.
MisterBabadook
MisterBabadook - 8/9/2013, 9:29 AM
Plus: Krueger is my favorite original villain of 2013 thus far
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 8/9/2013, 9:41 AM
I gotta wait another goddamn week for this one to get here but the day it does come ill be sure to check it out, but I'm worried Blomkamp might have shoot himself in the foot by setting the bar so high with District 9 I fear all of his later movies people are gonna say "It was pretty good but not as good as District 9".
DangerDuck83
DangerDuck83 - 8/9/2013, 9:48 AM
Can't wait to see it tonight!
PanochaLibre
PanochaLibre - 8/9/2013, 9:48 AM
I walked out of the 10 pm showing last night. Right when he meets the girls daughter. I love district 9 but this was vapid .
teinen
teinen - 8/9/2013, 9:52 AM
@PanochaLibre you paid money, got 1/4 though to film and left? Yikes, at that rate I doubt you made ten minutes into any movie this summer.
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 8/9/2013, 9:55 AM
@SpecialKail

Was it really that bad?
Liderc
Liderc - 8/9/2013, 9:57 AM
Interesting that you walked out PanochaLibre. I've started walking out of movies that disappoint me in my own little protest. Sometimes managers even offer me my ticket back for another movie without me even asking.

Originally I didn't seem interested in Elysium, it felt like Oblivion with Matt Damon. But in the latest footage it's peaked my interest and while District 9 didn't impress me, I feel like there's a small chance I could enjoy Elysium.
Superman1974
Superman1974 - 8/9/2013, 10:08 AM
THIS movie was Horrible, good thing it was a free screening if not I would have ask for my money back...
saasouza
saasouza - 8/9/2013, 10:11 AM

Can somebody confirm if there was a ROBOCOP TRAILER with this movie ?? Thanks
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 8/9/2013, 10:28 AM
COULDA BEEN...
3DWitchHunt
3DWitchHunt - 8/9/2013, 10:28 AM
Cant wait
Watching it tomorrow morning
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 8/9/2013, 10:33 AM
WHEN I FIRST SAW THE ERECTOR SET BODY HARNESS I THOUGHT OF...
TiVo
TiVo - 8/9/2013, 11:01 AM
Call me old fashioned but I want to go to a movie to be entertained not be brainwashed by a propaganda film and that's all this is....
CPBuff22
CPBuff22 - 8/9/2013, 11:23 AM
Meh I say. Between this and Planes (seen both in the past two days), Planes was better.
CaptainAmerica31
CaptainAmerica31 - 8/9/2013, 11:23 AM
Emminem could've been the lead.......
3DWitchHunt
3DWitchHunt - 8/9/2013, 11:27 AM
LMAO brainwashed
Floke
Floke - 8/9/2013, 11:52 AM
JettJagguarrr
JettJagguarrr - 8/9/2013, 11:55 AM
Two dudes in Exoskelton suits fighting it out.....I like it.
Webhead007
Webhead007 - 8/9/2013, 12:17 PM
JeremyJahns liked it.....
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=7QypzAgLb8A
MarkV
MarkV - 8/9/2013, 12:53 PM
liberal porn
MediaMan
MediaMan - 8/9/2013, 1:46 PM
I wouldn't even consider wasting my time with this. Obviously propaganda. I don't mind social commentary, but hitting the audience over the head with it ain't my thing.

And $30-35 million is lame for movie that cost up to $200 million or whatever (including marketing).
3DWitchHunt
3DWitchHunt - 8/9/2013, 1:56 PM
Propaganda?
None have been worse in recent memory than this:
jcfrommars9
jcfrommars9 - 8/9/2013, 2:00 PM
@saasouza

No Robocop trailer and just in case, no Thor: The Dark World trailer either.
3DWitchHunt
3DWitchHunt - 8/9/2013, 2:24 PM
[frick]. I wanted a Robocop trailer
Oh well. Cant wait to see what Blomkamp delivers
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 8/9/2013, 2:29 PM
@MediaMan

It cost 90 million and the 30-35 estimate is probably just domestic.
MediaMan
MediaMan - 8/9/2013, 2:58 PM
@Ekrolo2- re the budget, I was just going by what this story says. After seeing your post, I looked it up on IMDB, and it said $100m.

Regardless, that's not a promising opening, IMHO.
marantaz
marantaz - 8/9/2013, 3:13 PM
Yes, $100M is what I've seen also, and throw in post production cost and you're looking at $150 - $175M total, which means it will have to make twice that to be considered a success by the execs. It looks good enough to get that, but its got a lot of competition that appeals to major segments of the audience more, and its got some seriously bad press and a couple of stars that don't have the appeal they used to. They're lowballing expectations to avoid being embarrassed by poor performance, and that's a very bad sign. By Saturday we'll know which film wins the weekend; if this one doesn't win, it will be considered a bomb.
savageguitarist
savageguitarist - 8/9/2013, 7:57 PM
LOL @ all the angry republipigs who hate this movie. sorry no one wants a conservative movie. you're a dying breed. get used to it.
Berean
Berean - 8/9/2013, 9:29 PM
Blomkamp is a stud and the movie was good. Shaky cam was very distracting to me though. Would have been much more rewarding without it.
It was a little heavy handed politically but I was still able to enjoy the movie.
@saveageguitarist...Zero Dark Thirty was a "conservative" movie and it was good.
sameoldthing
sameoldthing - 8/10/2013, 12:50 AM
District 9 is a better movie.
Elysium isn't bad but I expected more from this director on his second film.

Shooting action was good but when it came to the hand to hand combat it was very shaky & way too much quick cuts.

Do they do that to make the actors seem like real fighters?
In martial arts films when the combatants are skilled fighters,the camera generally stays still.
The performers sell the fighting action,not the crazy camera movement.
PirateOpossum
PirateOpossum - 8/10/2013, 6:03 AM
loved it ... this director really has a talent for this kind of film.
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