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Weekend Studio Estimates 8.21-23.2015

Posted August 23, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #34 of 2015 now looks like $92 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, somewhat above the norm for this weekend (thanks mostly to Straight Outta Compton and definitely not the three openers) but below the same weekend last year (see track below). Opening at 2,766 theaters Friday, Sinister 2 from […]

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FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE December 5-11

Posted December 13, 2011 by Mitch Metcalf

>Another very slow week at the nation’s movie theaters, with high double-digit declines compared to similar weeks the past few years.  The year to date box office total is now down 3.8% from last year — it was -3.7% last week.  Box office should perk up as it always does between Christmas and New Year’s, […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted July 20, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  20th Century Fox has pushed past $2.9 billion worldwide in 2014 to date, as Dawn of the Planet of the Apes gets rolling overseas.  Paramount is the other studio with more than $100 million this past week (thanks to continued strong overseas receipts for Transformers: Age of Extinction) now past $1.5 billion worldwide for the […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates JULY 26-28

Posted July 28, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #30 of 2013 looks like a decent $158 million for the top 12 films, nearly identical to yesterday’s initial estimate and still comfortably above the same weekend the last few years. The Wolverine is way off our projected opening but still but still the best opening in recent years for a […]

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Weekend Box Office Predictions 10.2-4.2015

Posted September 30, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #40 of 2015 is looking like $143 million for the top 12 films this weekend, above the norm for this weekend but close to last year’s strong weekend (see comparisons below). The Martian from Fox should open with a $55.0 million weekend. Strong critical support: 93% positive reviews so far. The film is on track for around $166 million […]

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THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “2 Guns” Starts Small

Posted August 2, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  2 GUNS (Universal), with a 10PM Thursday start, had an unexceptional $1.2M launch, on the low end of the summer.  But while it was below White House Down‘s $1.35M, and that action movie went on to just a $24.9M weekend, it’s in the same neighborhood as Now You See Me ($1.5M) and The Heat […]

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FRIDAY APRIL 20 BOX OFFICE RESULTS — Updated Numbers

Posted April 21, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> The 16th weekend of 2012 is looking like $122 million for the Top 12 films, up 1% from this weekend last year but up 24% from the four-year average for the same weekend.  The Hunger Games has finally been toppled by Think Like a Man and The Lucky One.  However, down only 34% in […]

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Weekend Box Office Predictions 1.16-18.2015

Posted January 14, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #3 of 2015 is looking like $134 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up from the norm for this weekend but down from the same weekend last year. Opening at around 3,200 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), American Sniper from Warner Brothers should average a solid $8,800 per theater for the […]

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