The big movers overseas this past week were Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (up $151 million to $351 million to date overseas) and Skyfall (up $61 million to $568 million overseas to date). Updated worldwide tracks for Twilight and the completely re-energized James Bond follow. Entering the worldwide chart this week are Rise of the Guardians (starting at […]
No great disconnects between Saturday’s estimates and Sunday’s, although one number needs some scrutiny. OPENINGS: RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) was at the top of the new arrivals, but with a very disappointing $24M weekend ($32.6M over 5 days). At that rate, it’s going to have to struggle to hold onto its theatres […]
Franchises and a former President may carry the weekend to record heights, but the newcomers stumbled. OPENINGS: RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) has the advantage of no new animated competition through the entire holiday season (Disney/Pixar is re-releasing a 3D conversion of Monsters Inc in mid-December), and it’s going to need that long […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #47 is now on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by over 20% — a much stronger pace than the Wednesday-Thursday pre-weekend box office suggested. Rise of the Guardians from Paramount/ DreamWorks opened with $8.6 million Wednesday-Thursday and added $9.3 million Friday, putting it on pace for […]
Based on grosses from Wednesday and Thanksgiving, Weekend #47 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by 10% — exactly on the pace we forecast earlier in the week. Breaking Dawn Part 2 is running slightly behind our forecast pace in this second weekend, but still clearly #1 for the weekend. […]
According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, something unexpected happened on Thanksgiving Day: two of the holiday weekend’s openings changed places in the boxoffice ranks. LIFE OF PI (20th), which had been considerably behind on Wednesday, reportedly took a 24% leap on Thursday to $4.5M. This is similar to the track for last year’s Hugo, […]
UPDATE: More refined Wednesday numbers are in via The Hollywood Reporter, and the major difference from the numbers below was for SILVER LININGS NOTEBOOK, which made $656K rather than $550K. still off the pace of last year’s The Descendants, which had a very similar release pattern. Also, RED DAWN made $4.2M rather than $4.5M, […]
This weekend is solid but definitely cooler than last weekend’s torrid pace: $180 million for the top 12 films this Friday-Sunday, up 10% from a typical fourth weekend in November. The final Twilight installment will remain at the top of the chart this weekend, while Skyfall’s third weekend will challenge the family-friendly Rise of the […]