Posts Tagged ‘box office projections’
 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Captain America: Civil War” Towers Over “Money Monster,” “The Darkness”

  If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, the Weekend 2 drop for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Marvel/Disney) will be in line with comparable superhero epics.  Its second Friday looks like $19.5M, which would be down about...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/22/15

  OPENINGS:  INSURGENT (Summit/Lionsgate) had a stronger Saturday hold than Divergent (down 7% instead of 13%), and based on that, Liosgate is also claiming a stronger Sunday hold (down 35% instead of 40%).  That gives I...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 8/30/13

  OPENINGS:  The $8.9M start for ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (TriStar/Sony), which includes $2.7M from Thursday night, was behind only the Justin Bieber concert movie ($12.4M) among recent debuts in its genre, surpassing ef...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 8/23/13

  OPENINGS:  THE WORLD’S END (Focus/Universal) is off to a very solid start, with a $2250 per-theatre average on Friday in just 1549 theatres, giving it a $3.5M day and a weekend that could hit $10M.  That compares...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: “Man Of Steel” Leaps Over Multiplexes In A Single Bound

  MAN OF STEEL (Warners) had the opening it was looking for, with preliminary numbers at Deadline giving it $46M on Friday.  That includes $9M from Friday midnight shows, but not an additional $12M from Wal-Mart tie-in sc...
by Mitch Salem