Posts Tagged ‘forecast’
 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS September 21-23

This weekend will be respectable — the top 12 films should total around $93 million, very typical for this weekend most years, although down 13% from last year when Moneyball and Dolphin Tale both opened.  Four films fro...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS February 8-10

The sixth weekend of 2013 looks like another very bad one.  Only $78 million for the top 12 films, over 50% below the normal pace for this weekend.  That’s three down weekends in a row, and the year-over-year declines a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 1

The 35th weekend of the year is looking like $83 million for the top 12 films, exactly in line with the Friday-Sunday portions of recent Labor Day weekends and among the three or four weakest weekends of the entire year.  Aft...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions JUNE 6-8

Weekend #23 of 2014 is looking like a pretty typical $149 million for the top 12 films this weekend, within 1% of the norm for this weekend and 4% above the same weekend last year.   Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (well...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 9.26-28.2014

Weekend #39 of 2014 is looking like $97 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 3% from the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 3,234 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the la...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 1.9-11.2015

Weekend #2 of 2015 is looking like $118 million for the top 12 films this weekend, very close to the norm for this weekend and down slightly from the same weekend last year. Opening at 3,500 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Studio Estimates 4.3-5.2015

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #14 of 2015 looks like $215 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, way above the norms for this weekend and setting a new record for early April. Opening at 4,...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

FRIDAY 6.26.2015 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #26 of 2015 looks like $168 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down slightly from the norm for this weekend.   Opening at 3,442 theaters Friday, Ted 2 from Universal is on...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY 9.11.2015 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #37 of 2015 looks like $82 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, slightly above the norm for the first weekend after Labor Day (see track below). Opening at 2,221 theaters Frid...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS November 11-13

>Adam Sandler opens Jack and Jill this weekend, and it will be an uphill battle for it to displace Puss in Boots from the top of the box office.  Immortals will be challenging Jack and Jill for the second spot on the chart...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 25-27

Weekend #21 of 2012 (the traditional Friday-Sunday portion of this Memorial Day weekend) looks like it will total about $153 million for the top 12 films, down 29% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 11% from the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Early Friday Boxoffice – 8/3/12: “Dark Knight” Still Above the Rest

  THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Warners) appears to be headed for its 3rd (and probably last) weekend in 1st place, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline.  The Caped Crusader’s Friday is estimated over $10M, which s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS October 12-14

This weekend is poised to be the third solidly up weekend in a row.  Five films open this weekend, with four boasting positive critical acclaim and two in rave territory.  None looks to be a big commercial hit, but the total ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS April 26-28

The two openers this weekend will be forgotten in several days or weeks, while Oblivion has a good chance of staying at #1 in its second weekend and 42 will be the other holdover still above the significant $10 million weekend ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #45 of 2013 looks like $160 million for the top 12 films, not the record we had forecast but still 21% above the recent average for this weekend. Opening at 3,841 theaters Friday, Thor:...
by Mitch Metcalf