Team America Box Office Grabs

October 13, 2004

Bodog.com Sports Poker Casino™ has released odds on how much money “Team America: World Police” will make in the opening weekend.

With the highly anticipated, and perhaps controversial movie opening this weekend, you can wager on what benchmark will be hit in the opening weekend.

#8220;Trey Parker and Matt Stone have outdone themselves again, there has been a lot of hype about the movie already, and Sean Penn has already sent them a letter of disgust,” said Rob Gillespie, former book manager and respected industry author. “From all the trailers and advertisements I have seen this looks like an absolutely hilarious movie, and it will clearly hit a nerve this close to the U.S. presidential election.”

With an increased interest in political and controversial movies at this time of year, the current favorite has the movie grossing between $25-$30 million US in the opening weekend. The odds are listed at 2/1. Next in line has the movie hitting the $20-$25 million range at 3/1 odds, tied with the $30-$35 million range. Should the advance screenings of the movie affect its weekend box office performance, you can wager on $10-$20 million at 6/1 odds. While Fahrenheit 9/11 set a new box office record for a documentary, “Team America: World Police” may do the same for the puppet movie market. Grossing above $35 million in the opening weekend is listed at 4/1 odds, with the long shot option of under $10 million sitting at 10/1 odds.

#8220;This movie is more than likely going to offend anyone and everyone at certain points, but that has been the allure of the South Park creators since day one,” said Gillespie. “I would bet that this will be the highest grossing $32-million puppet movie ever made.”