>After a pretty long string of accurate box office predictions, ShowBuzzDaily really missed the boat on The Lion King in 3D. We were debating between an $11 million or $15 million forecast and decided to go with the lower number. But wow was there interest in the 3D version of the Disney classic: an estimated […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #12 of 2015 looks like $119 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, below the norms for this weekend. Opening at 3,875 theaters Friday, Insurgent from Lionsgate/Summit is on track for a $50.1 million opening three-day weekend (somewhat below our $59.0 million ShowBuzzDaily forecast earlier this week). The film is pacing toward $12,900 per […]
>THERE IS A GOD! Adam Sandler’s latest movie in which he plays a brother and a sister will not be the #1 movie of the weekend. While not a flop, it failed to open to the $30-35 million his fans usually pony up. Best of all, the film will not come close to the $100 […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #4 of 2015 looks like $143 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, well above the norm for the fourth weekend of the year, which usually struggles to get above $100 million. (See complete weekend track below.) All credit goes to American Sniper, which is truly extraordinary. As for the […]
Despite a trio of new arrivals, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT (Skydance/Alibaba/Paramount) will ride strong reviews and word of mouth to an easy second consecutive weekend crown. Preliminary numbers at Deadline have Friday at $9.8M, down 57% from last week, and better than the 60% drop for the 2nd Friday of Rogue Nation. With that […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #10 of 2013 is the first weekend in 7 weeks to match the pace for this time of year: $122 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday (even with last year and up 5% from the same weekend average for the last few years). Most of the credit for the […]
>Green Lantern and Mr Popper’s Penguins both come in at forecast, while weekend is down 23% from last year.Green Lantern opened with $21.4 million on Friday, and it looks like the Ryan Reynolds film will gross $56 million from Friday-Sunday. The film is headed for $156 million in North America when it crosses the finish […]
The bulk of the week’s openings arrived on Wednesday, and as usual for this weekend they were led by a Disney family attraction. This year it was COCO (Pixar/Disney), which was more or less on target at $13.2M, down 15% from last year’s Moana and its $15.5M opening day. That suggests the 5-day weekend […]