Audiences sank Universal’s Battleship. OPENINGS: There’s no way to spin the arrival of BATTLESHIP (Universal) as anything other than a horribly expensive flop. Its $9M opening day is even less than the infamous John Carter‘s $9.8M, and it may not have the 3x weekend multiple that got Carter to a $30M weekend. Battleship […]
How big a flop is BATTLESHIP (Universal)? Even bigger than the catastrophic John Carter, that’s how big. According to early Friday numbers at Deadline, Battleship is headed for a $9.5M opening day, and if that number holds, it’ll be less than John Carter‘s $9.8M. Carter made it to $30M in its opening weekend, thanks to […]
Weekend #20 of 2012 looks like it will be about $156 million for the top 12 films, down 2% from last year’s comparable weekend and down the same amount from the four-year average for this weekend. Three movies open, with Battleship headed for the biggest opening of the trio (about $42.5 million). The Dictator starring […]
With the only two movies that have opened so far in the ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft, Team Metcalf has expanded the early lead to $402.8 million. Dark Shadows (the #17 pick overall) opened this past weekend with an okay $29.7 million, but no one expects the Tim Burton film to have much impact long term. However, Marvel’s The […]
Now 19 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is now running 21% ahead of last year’s pace and now 17% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years. Marvel’s The Avengers turned in $103.052 million in its second weekend, a mere 0.1% below what Disney estimated Sunday morning and only $1 million away from the ShowBuzzDaily […]
Marvel’s The Avengers continues to tear up the record books. The studio is projecting the second weekend will come in at $103.2 million (now almost exactly hitting the $104 million in our ShowBuzzDaily Weekend Predictions) and leaving the old second-weekend record in the dust ($75.6 million for Avatar in December 2009). Avengers now also holds the record […]
Marvel’s The Avengers (distributed by Disney) has jumped again to $629 million to date overseas (up from $441.5 million last week). United Kingdom continue to lead the way overseas ($48.2 million so far now — up from $25.7 million this time last week). Mexico moved up to the second-biggest territory ($40.7 million to date — up from […]
THE AVENGERS: Simply spectacular. The 50% drop in Weekend 2 ripped past the $75M record to an amazing $103M. The level of the weekly decline isn’t unprecedented (Avatar dropped an insane 2%, Shrek 2 33%, the original Spider-Man 38%, Alice In Wonderland and Toy Story 3 46% each), but it’s better than […]