OPENINGS: Things didn’t get better for ALLEGIANT (Summit/Lionsgate) as the weekend went on. Its $29.1M opening was down an awful 44% from the $52.3M for Insurgent, and with massive competition arriving next week and word of mouth that’s likely to be terrible, it may struggle to get past $75M in the US. As we […]
>Super 8 now looks like a $37 million opening weekend based on Friday and Saturday results. The weekend top 12 should be down 6% from 2010. The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates now show that Super 8 should finish its domestic run with $109 million. X-Men: First Class has been downgraded a touch to $163 […]
>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), the total box office for this weekend is now looking like $151 million, up 2% from last year. Saturday business (impacted by New Year’s Eve) was not as rough as expected and the studio projections are now fairly rosy, as they are expecting a […]
>The weekend studio estimates (based on Friday and Saturday actuals and projections for Sunday) are coming in slightly above the weekend numbers posted yesterday (based on Friday actuals only). The box office volume for the top 12 films is now looking like $123.5 million for the weekend, up 2% from last year’s weekend but up […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #12 of 2014 looks like $133 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, very similar to the same weekend last year (up 2%) but 7% below the average for this weekend the past several years (which is heavily weighted by the enormous opening for The Hunger Games this […]
OPENINGS: ARTHUR THE KING (Lionsgate) was clearly hoping to emulate the sleeper success of 2022’s Dog, which ran a $14.9M opening into $61.8M in the US. However, the Mark Wahlberg vehicle came up very short with a $7.5M start. Production/marketing costs are reportedly $60M, which will make for a tough road to profit. Arthur […]
OPENINGS: DESPICABLE ME 4 (Illumination/Universal) arrived at the high end of expectations with a $75M 3-day weekend and $122.6M since its July 3 opening. That was a tad below 2013’s Despicable Me 2, which also opened on a Wednesday July 3 with $83.5M/$143.1M. Despicable 4 should pass $300M in the US, which would put […]
The weekend still looks like a very good $132 million for the top 12 films, similar to the estimate yesterday. Taken 2 opened well (ahead of the ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Prediction earlier this week) but probably will degrade quickly the next few weekends, while Hotel Transylvania and Looper are having decent sophomore weekends (each down only about […]