Pete Beach (although Treasure Island is also used in those scenes) and then they are arrested in supposedly St. Pete Beach, they commit their crimes in St. "I think the way it's going to be portrayed in the movie is that the entire (setting) is St. Spring Breakers stars James Franco ( Oz the Great and Powerful) as a dreadlocked drug dealer named Alien, who enlists four vacationing students (including former Disney Channel stars Gomez and Hudgens) in a plan to eliminate his competition. Korine's career began with his screenplay for 1995's Kids, about an HIV-positive teenager spreading the virus to virgins. That film has drawn tourists to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where it was largely filmed in 2010.īut writer-director Harmony Korine (rhymes with "machine") never made family-friendly entertainment before and hasn't started now, as evidenced by the movie's R rating and racy trailer. That could lead some to believe it's similar in tone to Dolphin Tale, the PG-rated hit about Winter, the dolphin with the prosthetic tail. Pete Beach and Gulfport in 2012, with a cast featuring Disney starlets and the new wizard of Oz. Spring Breakers was principally filmed in Treasure Island, St. One of the world's most influential film magazines, Cahiers du Cinema, recently featured the bikini-clad trio on its cover. But the movie already made a splash in Europe in late February at premieres in Paris, Rome and Madrid where fans crowded around red carpets to glimpse teen idols Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. release Friday, and in Tampa Bay theaters on March 22. That means it's looking like it's one its way to profitability and, depending on its performance next weekend, and even a decent moneymaker."It does give a wrong impression, that this is what spring break is all about." An extra bonus? While the the films' budget isn't publicly available, The Hollywood Reporter says it only cost about $2 million to produce. Still, it's a standard movie distribution strategem that hopes buzz and strong box office there can help out in the rest of the country and even some places in Canada, which will get to finally get to watch this thing. Since it's already played at the highest grossing theaters in industry hotbeds of Los Angeles and New York, its per-screen average has nowhere but down to go. The movie expands to 1,000 theaters in North America. RELATED: Box Office Report: 'Underworld' OutperformsĮyes will turn towards this weekend when Spring Breakers opens wide. Breakers' success is just the cherry on top of Franco's box office sundae, anyway - he also stars in the movie that's dominated the box office over the last two weeks. Selena’s fans are a little bit younger, so we didn’t go after them directly, but her audience still showed up." Oh yes, James Franco is also in this movie and he's really, really weird in it.
"I think James Franco was a huge draw, and the girls have been everywhere. "The crowd this weekend was overwhelmingly young," Nicolette Aizenberg, a rep for Spring Breakers' distribution company A24, told the Times. It also helps that the movies stars - former teen and Disney starlets Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine - have been everywhere. Spring Breakers got a boost from being one of the most blogged-about movies in recent memory. RELATED: 'Spring Breakers': Girls Behaving Terribly His highest grossing movie before Breakers only took in $167,396 - like, in all.
While plenty of people have seen, or at least heard of, his other movies like Kids, no one really paid to see them. Times' Amy Kaufman was quick to point out. It also should be noted that Spring Breakers is already Harmony Korine's most successful movie to date by a mile, the L.A. RELATED: Scenes from 'Harry Potter's Record-Shattering Opening Weekend It's drawing comparisons to the limited release performances of last year's The Master and Moonrise Kingdom, which were both big time awards movies, from Deadline's Brian Brooks. Breakers pulled in $270,000 over the weekend, which averages out to about $90,000 per theater, and makes it the most successful limited release movie this year. and the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square and the Regal Union Square in New York. You only got to see Spring Breakers this weekend if you crammed into one of the three theaters in in New York or Los Angeles where it was playing, which happen to be among the biggest grossing theaters in the country: the ArcLight Hollywood in L.A. It did really well! It did well enough to warrant a separate report from our usual box office musings because, while it only opened in three theaters, it brought in an insane amount of money. Harmony Korine's ode to debauchery and delinquent youth, Spring Breakers, opened in theaters this weekend.
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