HOLDOVERS: On a weekend without new wide releases, COCO (Pixar/Disney) had no trouble holding its crown with $26.1M. Its 49% drop from Thanksgiving weekend was better than other Disney animations in that slot (50% for Moana, 56% for Tangled, 53% for Frozen), and it should be on track for $225M+ in the US. Coco […]
MUCH stronger than we forecast, the 26th weekend of 2012 is looking like $196 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up only 2% from this weekend last year but up 15% from the multi-year average for this weekend. R-rated comedy is just what the audience wanted. Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane struck gold with […]
> Sony is taking an interesting strategy this fall: with MONEYBALL in release, THE IDES OF MARCH opening on Friday and ANONYMOUS coming on October 28, they’re cornering the market on upscale, wide-release drama until Warner Bros opens J. EDGAR on November 11. (On that date, Sony will go as downscale as is humanly possible […]
> What a catastrophe at the box office this weekend. No film above $20 million for the weekend, and the top 12 films are down a staggering 37% from the same weekend last year (when Jackass 3-D opened to $50 million). Footloose, The Thing and especially The Big Year missed their forecasts. The Big Year […]
Friday’s boxoffice was like The Good, The Bad & The Ugly–except without the “good.” OPENINGS: All the stunt casting in the world couldn’t make anyone want to see ROCK OF AGES (Warners). The anemic $5.4M opening day was low even by the standards of Broadway adaptations, and there’s no reason to expect a lift […]
OPENINGS: LOVE THE COOPERS (CBS/Lionsgate) was the best of a bad bunch, launching with $8.4M. That’s 30% less than the $12.5M start of 2005’s The Family Stone, but the studio can take some solace from the fact that Stone (which opened closer to Christmas) earned a 5x multiple from its opening weekend. If Coopers […]
Cartoons rule the multiplex. OPENINGS: BRAVE (Pixar/Disney), with its $24.5M Friday, had the highest non-sequel opening day for a Pixar film, beating WALL-E‘s $23.2M. It’s a little behind last year’s Cars 2, which started out with $25.7M, but should also be less front-loaded (Cars 2 fell 9% on its first Saturday, while WALL-E went down less than […]
>Finally, The Help has been knocked off its perch, after facing one turd of a movie after another for four weeks. Contagion will open at #1 with over $22 million (slightly above forecast) and headed for about $72 million domestic. Don’t cry for The Help, though. Its final domestic gross estimate has been upgraded yet […]