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Behind the Friday Box Office – 7/11/14

OPENINGS: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th), with $27.7M on Friday and a likely $70M weekend, will probably have a significant US box office bump over its predecessor Rise ($176.8M, after a $54.8M opening), but it ...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 7/4/14

OPENINGS: Star/co-writer/co-producer Melissa McCarthy reportedly took a fraction of her usual fee on TAMMY (Warners) to keep the production budget down to the low $20Ms. After a $6.4M 4th of July (up 17% from Thursda...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Moana” Stays On Top

There don’t appear to be many surprises in the Friday box office numbers, based on preliminary estimates at Deadline. As usual, ticket sales declined on Thanksgiving itself (particularly for family movies), then ...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 3/7/14

OPENINGS: 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (Warners/Legendary) did well in late-night shows, raising its Friday estimate to $17.7M, which may bring its opening weekend to $43M or more. That’s still not in a league with t...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 6/28/13

OPENINGS: Almost all the “early Friday” numbers turned out to be overly optimistic, but THE HEAT (20th) is still having a great opening, with a $13.6M first day that should put it in the neighborhood of a $...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 12/13/13

Well, bah humbug. OPENINGS: Start the spin machine: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Warners/MGM) has opened with $31.1M, $6M below the start for last year’s An Unexpected Journey. That’s more than ...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/15/14

After 2 weeks of unexpectedly smash hits, the dog days of summer attacked multiplexes with a vengeance. OPENINGS: THE EXPENDABLES 3 (Lionsgate) squeezed ahead of Let’s Be Cops on Friday, $5.8M (including $875K fr...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 7/12/13

What kind of summer movie season has it been, really? For the past several weeks, business has been consistently up, erasing the losses from a soft spring, and even with 3D, Imax and inflation taken into account, more ...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/29/14

OPENINGS: AS ABOVE/SO BELOW (Universal) cost just $5M to produce, but its big-studio marketing campaign will add at least $30M to that, and after a $3.2M Friday, it’s headed for $9.5M by Sunday and $11.5M for the...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Venom” & “A Star Is Born” Big, “The Hate U Give” Starts OK

VENOM (Tencent/Columbia/Sony) is the first big-budget action movie to open since The Meg in mid-August, and that (plus a huge marketing campaign) seems to have gotten it past murderous reviews for an enormous start, the ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Dumbo” Flies Low, “Unplanned” OK, “Hotel Mumbai” & “The Beach Bum” Dim

The Disney machine is hitting an atypical pothole with DUMBO (Disney), which according to preliminary numbers at Deadline had a $14.8M Friday ($2.6M of that from Thursday night). That’s very much on the low end o...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Last Jedi” Conquers The Cosmos, “Ferdinand” Meek, “Shape of Water” Expands

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Lucasfilm/Disney) was expected to be gigantic, but not quite as huge as 2015’s The Force Awakens, which benefited from a decade of pent-up expectations. That’s exactly where itR...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/27/14

On Friday, the big alien robots blew things up. OPENINGS: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (Paramount) got the Friday it was hoping for, the biggest day of 2014 at $41.6M, and one that gives the blockbuster a strong (al...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Coco” Stays On Top, “Wonder” Solid, “3 Billboards” & “Lady Bird” Expand

There were no new wide releases on this pre-holiday, pre-Last Jedi weekend, so all the action was in holdovers and limited releases. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, COCO (Pixar/Disney) easily retained its...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 2/7/14

Note: all weekend-to-weekend comparisons to Jan 31-Feb 2 will look better than usual because of last week’s Super Bowl Sunday, which sharply depressed box office for the day. OPENINGS: THE LEGO MOVIE (Warners) ...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 7/11/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 7/4/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Moana” Stays On Top

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 3/7/14

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 6/28/13

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 12/13/13

Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/15/14

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 7/12/13

Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/29/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Venom” & “A Star Is Born” Big, “The Hate U Give” Starts OK

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Dumbo” Flies Low, “Unplanned” OK, “Hotel Mumbai” & “The Beach Bum” Dim

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Last Jedi” Conquers The Cosmos, “Ferdinand” Meek, “Shape of Water” Expands

Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/27/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Coco” Stays On Top, “Wonder” Solid, “3 Billboards” & “Lady Bird” Expand

Behind the Friday Box Office – 2/7/14

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