Early reports clocked Takers a close second to The Last Exorcism at the box office last weekend. T.I. sat down with Clay Cane for BET to explain why the numbers were off.
Clay: I’m seeing on various web sites that Takers was number one, and then Exorcism was number one. Why is there this indecisiveness on which film topped the box office?
T.I: You know, in film, it’s much different than music; they count dollar for dollar, hour for hour. In doing that there are estimations that are given — they reported this morning from numbers that came in last night. With those numbers they estimated the end-all-be-all would be the competition being number one and Takers being number two. But this morning, after those estimations have already been reported, the final numbers came in from Sunday night. When all those numbers came in, Takers was indeed number one — officially. They made estimations and kind of prematurely got that word out and miscalculated. The final call is Takers is number one. The people demanded it, as they should — and they got what they wanted.
Clay: I know it’s fairly early but do you see anywhere in the future a Takers sequel?
T.I.: I’m a step ahead of you — I just got off the phone with the director, writer, the head of Screen Gems and the label heads over at Sony. We are working not on a sequel, but a prequel to tell the back story of the characters.
