>Through Thursday, the gap between Team Salem and Metcalf has been reduced to about $172 million. Look for Transformers: Dark of the Moon to add another $100-105 million through Monday, while Larry Crowne should garner around $20 million. Now if only Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses were runaway hits, Team Metcalf might be able to withstand […]
>Although the race is officially over (with Team Metcalf conceding to Team Salem in the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft), here’s the latest update. Team Salem currently leads by $110 million ($1.775 billion to $1.665 billion in domestic summer gross through Thursday). It was a close race the last several weeks, but Rise of […]
> THE HELP continues to have a strong head start on the weekend boxoffice. The Hollywood Reporter says the film grossed $4.3M on Thursday, down only around 20% from its opening day on Wednesday, which gives it almost $10M for the 2-day period. This suggests the picture isn’t particularly front-loaded, and may foretell a solid […]
> Deadline has some preliminary numbers for Friday’s boxoffice, and as expected, REAL STEEL is headed for a weekend victory. Assuming that it gets the Saturday bump that usually goes to pictures targeted at family audiences, Steel should reach around $26-27M for the weekend, in line with Mitch Metcalf’s predictions. That number will still leave […]
> Deadline has preliminary boxoffice figures for Wednesday, and there doesn’t seem to be great news for anyone. BREAKING DAWN PART 1 appears to be the easy winner for the day and probably for Thanksgiving weekend, but its $12.5M for Wednesday, if it holds, would be more than 10% off the parallel date for 2009’s […]
> As detailed in Mitch Metcalf’s Weekend Boxoffice Report, New Year’s Day wasn’t the bonanza the studios were expecting it to be. PARAMOUNT: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL‘s Sunday increase was less than half of the 33% projected, and it’s likely to fall another 15-20% today, giving it a bit over $140M in total and […]
> Moral of the weekend: If you’re going to spend $250M+ on a movie, check first whether anyone wants to see it. OPENINGS: With a probable $27-28M opening, just how big a flop is JOHN CARTER (Disney) going to be? Hard to tell until full weekend and international numbers are in. But its sheer cost–probably […]
> THE HUNGER GAMES (Lionsgate/Summit) continues to overperform. Based on preliminary Saturday numbers at Deadline, it’s headed for a $21.7M weekend and a total so far of $335.7M, a spectacular 35% decline for a blockbuster in its 4th weekend (and even better than it sounds, because last weekend included the Good Friday holiday). If it […]