Life of Pi is gathering a lot of momentum overseas, with $45 million more internationally (bringing its overseas tally to $106 million to date). Worldwide, the film is sitting at $188 million and 17th on our chart. It could keep climbing to over $200 million, bringing it to 15th or maybe 14th on the chart. […]
OPENINGS: LES MISERABLES (Universal) fell behind DJANGO UNCHAINED (Weinstein/Sony) for the first time on Friday, because Les Miz was up only 3% from Thursday, while Django rose more impressively by 17%. Both should be around $85M by New Year’s Day. Conventional wisdom has it that Les Miz will benefit more from Oscar season than Django, […]
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (Warners) climbed in its 2nd day of release, but not high enough to make any real difference. Jack, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, had a 60% Saturday bump, a good-but-not-great family audience increase (Escape From Planet Earth rose 80% on its 2d day a couple of weeks ago), which […]
Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, Saturday was a step down from Good Friday’s boxoffice–and Easter Sunday is likely to be sharply worse. GI JOE: RETALIATION (Paramount/MGM) fell from $15.5M to $15.2M on Saturday. That’s a small drop, but normally a picture with strong word of mouth rises from Friday to Saturday. (It is […]
IRON MAN 3 (Disney) added some territories to its overseas footprint on Thursday, and had a huge $23.3M day, giving it a total of $36.5M in just 2 weekdays, with many more territories to open today. It’s been pulling ahead of Iron Man 2 in many markets, and opening not far behind The Avengers, […]
Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now totals just over $3.1 billion, down 13% from 2012 and down 5% from the prior four-year average 2009-2012. Still a very mediocre year. Each year-to-date period below is defined as the first Monday after New […]
According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, MAN OF STEEL (Warners) dropped 18% on its second full day of release to $36.1M. That’s a good but not exceptional hold for a mega-opening; some recent comparisons are a 10% slip for Iron Man 3, 9% for The Great Gatsby, and an 18% decline for Fast & […]
The 28th weekend of the year is looking like a very good $209 million for the top 12 films, up 15% from the comparable weekend the last few years. Opening at around 3,000 theaters Friday (somewhat above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends), Grown Ups 2 from Sony should average $15,300 per theater for the three-day weekend (for a $45.5 […]