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 […]
Not the disaster we expected, the 25th weekend of 2012 is looking like $158 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 7% from this weekend last year and down 10% from a more normal third weekend in June. Brave is on track to open solidly (about $7 million more than forecast for the weekend), […]
The numbers at Deadline are very preliminary, but it’s clear there will be no surprises at the boxoffice this weekend. Pixar/Disney’s BRAVE has expertly shot arrows into the backs of everything else in the market, and will tower over the weekend. Reports are that the film made $25M on Friday, on par with Cars […]
Weekend #25 of 2012 looks like another disappointment: a soft $150 million for the top 12 films, down 12% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 14% from the four-year average for the weekend. Pixar’s Brave should open well, but the other two openers will struggle to find any audience and there certainly won’t be […]
The domestic box office was back down this week. Volatility has been the operative word recently. The first two weeks of May (April 30-May 13) were up more than 35% each from prior years, followed by the next three weeks (May 14-June 3) which were down around 15% each week. Then last week was up […]
And now the waiting game begins for Team Metcalf. With all but one movie now open, the Metcalf slate now totals almost $1.1 billion to date, with a little but of upside remaining in Madagascar 3 and to some extent Prometheus. Team Salem’s top two films open very soon: Brave from Pixar this Friday and Amazing Spider-Man […]
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted had a good week around the world, now $157 million overseas to date (up from $76 million last week). Madagascar is headed for $600+ million worldwide ($215 million domestic according to our ShowbuzzDaily projection and the overseas total to date should approach $400 million). For comparison: Madagascar 2, November 2008, $604 million worldwide […]
Will it really be that happy a Father’s Day? Almost every movie in the market is estimating an unusually low Sunday drop because of the holiday, although the Father’s Day effect normally helps only all-family titles. OPENINGS: It hardly matters whether ROCK OF AGES (Warners) and THAT’S MY BOY (Sony) hit their round-number $15.1M […]