Well done Quentin, against all the odds it looked like you pulled it through. No critic, box office analyst or even the average "post on movie sites/blog" fan had any faith in
Inglourious Basterds making a dime over the weekend but the intriguing and unusual premise gave the general movie-goer a curiosity which accompanied by the "Tarantino Epic factor" which we haven't seen since the
Kill Bill saga
-has produced surprising but very welcomed results. InglouriousBasterds earned
$14.3 million on Friday alone in the U.S, and if it holds steady it will shoot up to a
$35 million taking by the end of play Sunday. That's an incredible figure by all accounts as we all expected the spaghetti-western meets Tarantino's World War II mostly trashed since Cannes epic to be D.O.A. Instead, it will be Tarantino's best performing opening weekend ever and the second biggest in the history of The Weinsteins, a company that so badly needed a hit and were dangerously pinning their hopes on this movie to keep them a float. Well today they have been rewarded for keeping faith in Quentin after
Grindhouse. Those days seem so long ago now, thank God.
"Cousin, Business is a boomin" as Lt. Aldo Raine would say!