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October 9, 2011
 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES Coming

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Complete Weekend Studio Estimates and tables are coming shortly.  In the meantime, a brief update.  Real Steel had a good Saturday and the weekend is now looking like $27.3 million (up almost $2 million from yesterday’s weekend projection).  The Ides of March is looking like $10.4 million (about the same as yesterday’s projection).
Details to come.

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About the Author

Mitch Salem
MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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