Posts Tagged ‘Hunger Games’
 

 

THE BOXOFFICE GAMES: “Hunger Games” Day 1 – Early Numbers – 3/23/12

> Boxoffice numbers have been bouncing around all day (Per-theatre averages as of 3PM Pacific time!  Number of left-handed, red-haired patrons sitting through the entire end credits!), and they’re still not final or ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS March 23-25

>The 12th weekend of the year should be a whopper: about $176 million for the top 12 films.  How big is that for the fourth weekend in March?  Enormous, unprecedented: up 62% from last year’s comparable weekend ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 4/20/12

> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THINK LIKE A MAN (Screen Gems/Sony) is overperforming in a big way, and should easily take the first non-Hunger Games weekend in over a month.  Man‘s opening day is est...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 11.28-30.2014

Weekend #48 of 2014 is looking like $165 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down 8% from the norm for Thanksgiving weekend but down a bigger 15% from the same weekend last year (when Frozen opened its long run). Opening...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE BOXOFFICE GAMES BEGIN: “Hunger Games” At Midnight

> THE HUNGER GAMES has an excuse. Last night at midnight, The Hunger Games began its long-awaited run in theatres by grossing $19.7M.  Which is, by any estimation, a lot of money–the most ever earned by a non-sequel,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 3/30/12

> UPDATE:  The Deadline numbers have shifted quite a bit from their earlier incarnation:  HUNGER GAMES is now estimated at $19.5M for Friday (a 71% drop from opening day) and a $55M weekend (down 64%).  If that n...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 4/27/12

> Hollywood, like teen girls before a Twilight opening, counts the hours until THE AVENGERS arrives. OPENINGS:  Universal badly miscalculated when it scheduled THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT for a weekend when Think Like A Man a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”



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FRIDAY APRIL 6 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

> The 14th weekend of 2012 is looking like $119 million for the Top 12 films, up 15% from this weekend last year and up 11% from the four-year average for the same weekend.  The Hunger Games is heading for a very decent 45...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MEMORIAL DAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD

    Beware of studio estimates and round numbers. OPENINGS:  In order to get MEN IN BLACK 3 (Sony) to a round $70M for the 4-day weekend, the studio had to claim the lowest Monday drop of the market’s Top 9 fil...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Weekend Studio Estimates NOVEMBER 22-24

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #47 of 2013 now looks like $222 million for the top 12 films — up from yesterday’s estimate thanks to a stronger than expected Saturday for Hunger Games:...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Box Office Year to Date: Signs of Life

With March in the books, the North American box office is showing some signs of life.  Through 12 weeks (84 days), 2013 totals $1.898 billion (looking at wide-release films playing on at least 400 screens).  2013-to-date is m...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 12.26-28.2014

Weekend #52 of 2014 is looking like $156 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down -2% from the norm for this weekend and down -14% from the same weekend last year.   Opening at around 2,400 theaters Christmas Day (so...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE HUNGER GAMES, MAD MEN and Marketing Restraint (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 7)

> The eagerly-awaited Season 5 of the most honored series on television, an interminable 17 months in the making, contents itself with a single enigmatic image:  Don Draper staring into a department store window, his refle...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11/15/15

  OPENINGS:  LOVE THE COOPERS (CBS/Lionsgate) was the best of a bad bunch, launching with $8.4M.  That’s 30% less than the $12.5M start of 2005’s The Family Stone, but the studio can take some solace from the...
by Mitch Salem