By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com

The Weekend Report

There Will Be Flood ​

Noah provided a 6.3 tremor at the box office that translated into an estimated $44.2 million debut. Otherwise there wasn’t a deluge among new openers. The Governator was barely electable in Sabotage that bowed to $5.2 million and limited wide launch of the biopic on union organizer Cesar Chavez bore a modest crop of $3 million.

There were a couple of bright spots among incoming exclusives. Nonfiction Finding Vivian Maier clicked with $78,100 on six and the Indonesian-set The Raid 2 provided a potent $174,000 onslaught from seven locations.

In the niches Telugu Legend had an OK bow of $327,000 at 69 venues. Also fair was the $68,000 debut of local tall poppy Xavier Dolan’s fourth film, Tom à la ferme, in Québec.

Session box office revenues generated slightly better than $145 million for a slight 2% improvement from the prior weekend and a comparably slim 2% downturn from 2013. A year ago the first weekend of G.I. Joe: Retaliation led the field with $40.5 million tally with The Croods in second with $26.7 million.

Awash in alleged controversy, Noah nonetheless brought in the faithful as well as religious skeptics. Domestically, the film’s opening weekend audience was evenly split between the sexes with 74% of the crowd aged 25-years and older.

Internationally, Noah opened in Mexico and South Korea a week ago to excellent business. The current weekend count saw the addition of 18 territories that included a potent $17.2 million bow in Russia and a total estimated gross of $33.6 million.

The biggest noise overseas belonged to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which stepped out a week ahead of its North American bow in 32 countries with approximately $75 million. Early estimates have South Korea and the UK vying for bragging rights with respective estimates of $10.9 million and $10.7 million.

He may be back, but since leaving elected office Arnold Schwarzenegger has yet to find the commercial footing he enjoyed back in the twentieth century. Sabotage, a tale of a DEA squad targeted by drug lords appears to be another programmer doomed to a quick theatrical hasta la vista.

The session also saw an excellent expansion for The Grand Budapest Hotel and a passable result for Bad Words. Last weekend’s freshmen class had generally good holds with the inspirational God’s Not Dead proving the most resilient of a trio that also included Divergent and Muppets Most Wanted.

This past weekend, Frozen ascended to a $1 billion plus global box office—a first for an animated feature—and now ranks as Disney’s biggest grossing non-live-action picture.

Weekend (estimates) March 28 – 30, 2014
Title Distributor Gross (avg) % chng Thtrs Cume
Noah Par 44.2 (12,380) NEW 3567 44.2
Divergent Lionsgate 27.1 (6,880) -50% 3936 95.8
Muppets Most Wanted BV 11.4 (3,580) -33% 3194 33.3
Mr. Peabody & Sherman Fox 9.5 (2,890) -19% 3299 94.9
The Grand Budapest Hotel Fox Searchlight 8.8 (9,020) 30% 977 24.4
God’s Not Dead FreeStyle 8.4 (7,240) -9% 1164 21.4
Sabotage Open Road 5.2 (2,100) NEW 2486 5.2
Need for Speed BV 4.3 (1,590) -46% 2705 37.7
300: Rise of an Empire WB 4.2 (1,630) -50% 2601 101.1
Non-Stop Uni 4.1 (1,620) -36% 2515 85.2
The Lego Movie WB 3.1 (1,540) -26% 2001 248.3
Cesar Chavez Lionsgate 3.0 (4,550) NEW 664 3
Bad Words Focus 2.6 (3,120) 421% 842 3.6
The Single Moms Club Lionsgate 1.1 (1,000) -63% 1139 15
Son of God Fox 1.1 (850) -60% 1277 57.9
The Monuments Men Sony .44 (880) -54% 501 76.6
Frozen BV .35 (900) -53% 387 398.4
Ride Along Uni .34 (940) -47% 360 133.7
Legend 14 Reels .33 (4,740) NEW 69 0.33
The Nut Job Open Road/eOne .32 (1,090) -5% 294 63.1
The Lunchbox Sony Classics .31 (4,210) 67% 73 0.9
Queen Viva .22 (3,440) -23% 64 1.2
Le Weekend Music Box .22 (4,540) 60% 48 0.47
3 Days to Kill Relativity .21 (610) -65% 340 30.2
The Raid 2 Sony Classics .17 (24,880) NEW 7 0.17
Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) $138.10
% Change (Last Year) -2%
% Change (Last Week) 2%
Also debuting/expanding
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 Magnolia .11 (3,530) -29% 32 0.35
Tim’s Vermeer Sony Classics 93,600 (990) -40% 94 1.4
Finding Vivian Maier IFC 78,100 (13,020) 6 0.08
Particle Fever Abramorama 71,400 (2,230) -10% 32 0.44
Tom à la ferme Seville 68,700 (3,820) 18 0.07
The Great Beauty Janus/Mongrel 53,500 (1,570) -22% 34 3.5
Jodorowsky’s Dune Sony Classics 34,200 (4,890) -5% 7 0.09
Mistaken for Strangers Abramorama 26,400 (4,400) 6 0.03
Breathe In Cinema Guild 14,300 (790) 18 0.01
Dishkiyaoon Eros 8,100 (7360) 11 0.01
Fiston Remstar 7,900 (1,310) 6 0.01
Greencard Warriors New World 3,500 (1,170) 3 0.01
Boys of Abu Ghraib Vertical 2,300 (290) 8 0.01
Domestic Market Share (January 1 – March 27, 2014)
Distributor (releases) Box Office Mrkt Share
Warner Bros. (8) 469.6 20.70%
Universal (8) 372.1 16.40%
Sony (8) 280.8 12.40%
Buena Vista (7) 238.8 10.50%
Paramount (7) 220.8 9.70%
20th Century Fox (7) 198.2 8.80%
Lionsgate (9) 159.6 7.00%
Weinstein Co. (7) 68.8 3.00%
Open Road (3) 58.3 2.60%
Fox Searchlight (3) 34.1 1.50%
Focus (3) 31.9 1.40%
Relativity (3) 31.4 1.40%
eOne/Seville (9) 28.6 1.30%
FreeStyle (2) 13.1 0.60%
CBS (2) 10.9 0.50%
Other * (82) 50.6 2.20%
2267.6 100%
* none greater than 0.4%
Top Global Grossers (January 1 – March 27, 2014)
Title Distributor Box Office
Frozen * BV 502,573,595
The Lego Movie WB 397,405,057
The Wolf of Wall Street * Par 335,848,166
300: Rise of an Empire WB 299,217,068
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug * WB 276,077,451
RoboCop Sony 243,693,751
Mr. Peabody & Sherman Fox 192,552,441
The Monkey King Global Star 180,124,680
American Hustle * Sony/eOne; Panorama 174,539,304
Non-Stop Uni 171,397,017
Lone Survivor Uni/eOne; Foresight 149,613,885
Ride Along Uni 147,164,217
Need for Speed BV 140,766,216
The Monuments Men Sony; Fox 140,409,284
12 Years a Slave * Fox Searchlight 135,738,586
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Par 134,113,605
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty * Fox 112,802,927
Dad, Where Are You Going? Enlight 112,464,023
47 Ronin * Uni 98,369,322
The Man from Macau Mega-Vision 95,075,161
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Par 88,935,785
Pompeii Sony/eOne; Lionsgate 86,833,282
Divergent Lionsgate 74,120,952
I, Frankenstein Lionsgate 73,768,830
August: Osage County Weinstein Co. 70,312,768
* does not include 2013 box office
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Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
Title Gross Thtr % Chgn Cume
Venom 33 4250 NEW 33
A Star is Born 15.7 3686 NEW 15.7
Smallfoot 3.5 4131 -46% 31.3
Night School 3.5 3019 -63% 37.9
The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls 1.8 3463 -43% 49.5
A Simple Favor 1 2408 -50% 46.6
The Nun 0.75 2264 -52% 111.5
Hell Fest 0.6 2297 -70% 7.4
Crazy Rich Asians 0.6 1466 -51% 167.6
The Predator 0.25 1643 -77% 49.3
Also Debuting
The Hate U Give 0.17 36
Shine 85,600 609
Exes Baggage 75,900 62
NOTA 71,300 138
96 61,600 62
Andhadhun 55,000 54
Afsar 45,400 33
Project Gutenberg 36,000 17
Love Yatri 22,300 41
Hello, Mrs. Money 22,200 37
Studio 54 5,300 1
Loving Pablo 4,200 15
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
No Good Dead 24.4 (11,230) NEW 24.4
Dolphin Tale 2 16.6 (4,540) NEW 16.6
Guardians of the Galaxy 7.9 (2,550) -23% 305.8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.8 (1,630) -26% 181.1
The Drop 4.4 (5,480) NEW 4.4
Let's Be Cops 4.3 (1,570) -22% 73
If I Stay 4.0 (1,320) -28% 44.9
The November Man 2.8 (1,030) -36% 22.5
The Giver 2.5 (1,120) -26% 41.2
The Hundred-Foot Journey 2.5 (1,270) -21% 49.4