It wasn’t even a contest, let alone a drag race. FAST & FURIOUS 6 (Universal) had a sensational $36M Thursday night/Friday, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline. That’s better than the $34.4M opening for Fast Five, and thanks to the holiday weekend, 6 should have a far better 4-day start that Fast Five‘s $92.4M. […]
Team Weil, with Ice Age 4, had the biggest gain this week, up $97 million to $325 million to date. The coming week will be huge for this slate as Dark Knight Rises opens Friday. Team Salem had a decent week with an $88 million gain (thanks to continued strong business from Amazing Spider-Man). The slate now totals $644 million […]
PAIN & GAIN (Paramount) may take the last weekend before the summer movie season starts, but based on the preliminary numbers at Deadline, it’s not going to win very impressively, with a $7M Thursday night/Friday that should give it a $17-19M weekend, right where Mitch Metcalf’s weekend predictions had put it. Pain was shot on […]
Pixar’s Brave has a modest $13.5 million overseas to date, obviously with a big international potential as it rolls out around the world. Pixar films generally have a healthy multiple over the domestic gross, which we are projecting to be $219 million based on the opening weekend. An overseas target of $320 million seems reasonable […]
Marvel’s The Avengers now looks like a $55.1 million weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (now exactly hitting our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowBuzzDaily Weekend Predictions). The new films this weekend are trailing badly, however. Battleship looks like a $25.4 million opening weekend and we are projecting a final gross of $62 million domestically. The […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2014 is still running -5% behind last year and -3% below the average for this point the past four years ($7.784 billion). Over the same […]
>As Dandy Don Meredith used to sing on ABC’s Monday Night Football, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” It’s looking grim for Team Metcalf as Team Salem’s lead remains a hefty $239 million. The gap between Cars 2 and Bad Teacher was simply too narrow for Metcalf to pick up any significant ground this […]
>With over $3 billion of summer box office through Wednesday, only $53 million separates Teams Metcalf and Salem. Metcalf’s slate of movies leads with $1.59 billion versus $1.54 billion for Salem’s. Only one film (30 Minutes or Less) is left to open, and Salem should enjoy a strong second weekend for Rise of the Planet […]