SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/20/12
No authoritative boxoffice figures will be available until Sunday or Monday, as the studios would prefer that they not be associated with financial issues this weekend. Although–properly–the focus of the ...
FRIDAY MAY 11 BOX OFFICE RESULTS
The 19th weekend of 2012 is looking like a solid $155 million for the Top 12 films, up 20% from both this weekend last year and the four-year average for the same weekend. Marvel’s The Avengers will definitely smash the...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 6/1/12
Vulture picked the wrong weekend to predict Universal’s demise. OPENINGS: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (Universal) had a very good $20.3M Friday, and will do better than $50M for the weekend, successfully selling (mal...
SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 6/10/12
Don’t look a gift boxoffice in the mouth? OPENINGS: Unsurprisingly, both studios pushed their estimates on MADAGASCAR 3 (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) and PROMETHEUS (20th) to the highest round number available, meani...
FRIDAY JUNE 1 BOX OFFICE RESULTS: Snow White Surprises But Total Business Still Sags
The 22nd weekend of 2012 is looking like a soft $130 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 15% from this weekend last year. Snow White and the Huntsman is opening much stronger than forecast (and the weekend overal...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS June 15-17 — Adam Sandler & Tom Cruise’s Weekend of the Banal
Weekend #24 of 2012 looks like it will total a just okay $146 million for the top 12 films, down 1% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 6% from the four-year average for the weekend. Two films with once-big sta...
FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE May 21-27
Now 21 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is running 15% ahead of last year’s pace. Just two weeks ago, box office was running 21% ahead of 2011. The past week was off a stunning 32% from the sam...
ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT Update
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...
Weekend Studio Estimates 5.22-24.2015
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #21 of 2015 now looks like $143 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, significantly below the norm for this weekend. A definite clunker Memorial Day Week...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Awaits the Witching Hour – 5/3/12
> It seems like only yesterday that we were reviewing the records for midnight openings (actually, it was March 23, when The Hunger Games opened with a 7th-highest $19.7M Thursday midnight–the highest ever for a non-seque...
FRIDAY 5.1.2015 Box Office Report
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #18 of 2015 looks like $249 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, well above the norm for this weekend as summer gets going early. Opening at 4,276 theaters Friday, Avengers: Age...
Weekend Box Office Predictions 6.5-7.2015
Weekend #23 of 2015 is looking like $154 million for the top 12 films this weekend, very much on par with the same weekend the past few years. Spy from Fox should open with a $39.5 million three-day weekend. Early reviews at...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES May 25-27
Men in Black 3 now looks like a $55.0 million weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (up from yesterday’s early estimate and now exactly hitting our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowBuzzDaily Weekend Pre...
Weekend Box Office Predictions 5.8-10.2015
Weekend #19 of 2015 is looking like $126 million for the top 12 films this weekend, somewhat below the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 2,700 theaters Friday (slightly below the 2,886 average theater count for opening ...