Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #25 of 2014 looks like $144 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 11% below the norm for this weekend and a big 38% below the same very successful weekend last year. Opening at 2,225 theaters, Think Like a Man Too from Sony grossed $12.2 million Friday and is on […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #21 of 2013 looks like an outstanding $256 million for the top 12 films, 50-75% above the comparable weekend the past few years. A fairly deep bench of films is currently playing, although don’t count on Hangover III to contribute much in the coming weeks. Opening at 3,658 theaters Friday, Fast […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #43 of 2013 looks like $96 million for the top 12 films, less than forecast but still up 12% to 18% from the same weekend in recent years. Opening at 3,336 theaters Friday, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa from Paramount grossed $12.6 million Friday and is on track for a $30.0 million opening weekend […]
>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 […]
Franchises are the lifeblood of Hollywood, so it has to chill studios to see three of those entries falter in a single 2-weekend period, especially since the stakes are higher for this week’s arrivals than last week’s Neighbors 2. Based on the preliminary $27M Friday number at Deadline, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (TSG/20th) is running almost […]
>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 #2 of 2015 looks like $110 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down from the norm for this weekend and down from the same weekend last year. Opening at 3,593 theaters Friday, Taken 3 from Fox is on track for a $39.5 million opening three-day weekend (above our $30.5 million ShowBuzzDaily […]
The winning streak is over after four straight up weekends. Weekend #43 will just about match the multi-year average for this weekend and actually under-perform the same weekend last year. None of the openers this weekend will make an impact on the box office beyond next week, while Argo continues to quietly pack them in […]