> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Running $8M below New Moon at the parallel place in their runs, but with a slower rate of decline (at least until New Year’s Eve opens next week). New Moon earned another $41M after the post-Thanksgiving weekend to end up at $296M in the US; Breaking Dawn 1 could make […]
>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 will drop another 59% this weekend but remain at #1, and its final domestic estimate has been downgraded to $269 million. The Muppets dropped a very surprising 62%, and its final domestic estimate has been taken down below […]
> No miracle turnarounds for this weekend’s dismal boxoffice. BREAKING DAWN PART 1, despite a major decline from last weekend, will be in first place with $16-17M, followed by a disappointing 2d weekend for THE MUPPETS at $11M, with HUGO and ARTHUR CHRISTMAS hovering at around $7.5M (although Hugo is in far fewer theatres than […]
> The post-Thanksgiving weekend is usually brutal, and this year is no exception. BREAKING DAWN PART 1: The likely 60% drop from last weekend is as expected for this very front-loaded series. Right now the film is running $9M below New Moon‘s 2009 total at the same point in its run, but Breaking Dawn 1 […]
>This weekend is looking even weaker than expected. The top 12 films should total only $73 million, down 7% from the same weekend last year. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 remains in the top spot, a little better than forecast ($16.5 weekend versus a $14.8 million forecast). The Muppets while drop a very bad […]
> Sundance announced the second group of its 2012 titles today (Competition entries were announced yesterday; Premieres will be unveiled on Monday), mostly in what are traditionally the most untraditional categories of the Festival: Park City At Midnight, Next, and New Frontier. Also announced were the Spotlight films, which is where Sundance puts films that […]
> The National Board of Review is an organization with a virtually unknown membership that exists in public consciousness for precisely one day per year, and this is their day: the announcement of their film awards. Their claim to fame, such as it was, came from being the first ones out of the awards gate–but […]
>Very lame weekend ahead, as is normal for the first weekend in December. Coming off the last two weekends, which are usually the #1 and #15 weekends of the year in terms of total dollar volume, this weekend is usually ranked 50th overall. After the extravaganza of movie-going leading up to and through Thanksgiving weekend, […]