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Friday Estimates by CinderKlady

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17 Responses to “Friday Estimates by CinderKlady”

  1. EtGuild2 says:

    I guess Katherine Heigl decided it was time to give “Zyzzyx Road” a run for its money. Speaking of which, are we really seeing Heigl and Sandler movies open with a less than $1,000 theater average in limited release?

    It’s now five $35 million+ wide releases in 2015, with twenty under $20 million (including ten under $10 million and seventeen at $15 million or less), and just the “Wedding Ringer” in that $20-35 mid-level hit range. It’ll be another skewed result next weekend.

  2. Breedlove says:

    So if Cinderella is gonna make $70 million this weekend are Emma Watson and/or her agents kicking themselves for turning it down?

  3. Kevin says:

    How about Mark Romanek? He could have used a massive hit like this.

  4. jbritt says:

    Isn’t Emma Watson doing Beauty and the Beast instead?

  5. Christian says:

    [Looks at “Eva” grosses.]

    [Rubs eyes.]

    [Looks again.]

    Is that for real? $60 per screen yesterday?

  6. leahnz says:

    little shoutout to homegirl niki caro’s affable ‘mcfarland USA’ hanging in there, onward and upward to the next spider-man or jurassic park

  7. Eric says:

    Anyone know when It Follows is scheduled to go wider?

  8. chris says:

    Next weekend, Eric. (Not sure how wide. Top 25 markets, though, at the very least.)

  9. Stella's Boy says:

    Is It Follows on VOD? I tried finding it but couldn’t. And will Spring and Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter be available on VOD this Friday, or just in theaters? I am dying to see all three. So many good options via limited release.

  10. EtGuild2 says:

    “Spring” will be VOD. “It Follows” is not, and I don’t believe “Kumiko” is either.

  11. Stella's Boy says:

    Thanks EtGuild2. I guess one out of three will have to do.

  12. EtGuild2 says:

    Yeah. “It Follows” doesn’t seem like a great art-house choice, but given these results, who knows? Pleasantly surprised to see an upstart distributor likely to get “Why We Live in the Shadows” to two or three million.

  13. movieman says:

    So “Follows” is Radius’ token “theatrical only” 2015 release?
    Oh, wait.
    Isn’t “Hunting Ground” a “theatrical only” Radius title as well?
    “Follows” would have made a cozy fit w/ Weinstein’s Dimension shingle once upon a time although it’s probably much too subtle (and smart) for the tweener set who thought “Annabelle” was the coolest thing since Instagram.
    But does Dimension, for all intents and purposes, even exist anymore?
    Or has it gone the way of Tri-Star?
    At least TWC (potential Oscar bait), Dimension (exploitation-ish) and Radius (docs and VOD-more-than-theatrical) were clearly delineated entities.
    Can anyone explain to me the distinctions between IFC, IFC Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight?

  14. EtGuild2 says:

    Dimension is pretty much relegated to sequels now I think…Sin City 2, Scream 4, Scary Movie 5, Spy Kids 4…all of which people were clamoring for. As far as I can tell, Blumhouse cast-off “Dark Skies” and the US distribution of “Paddington” are the only two original projects handled by the shingle in the last four and a half years.

    They do have “Regression,” with Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson in the Fall. But yeah, not sure why they disappeared.

    Btw, TriStar is much more active now…

  15. jesse says:

    EVERLY came out with the Dimension label — alongside the Radius label.

  16. movieman says:

    Et-Yes, the current reemergence of Tri-Star has been as puzzling as its former disappearance.
    Not even sure what constitutes a “Tri Star” movie these days.
    Screen Gems is Sony’s equivalent to Dimension; Sony Classics is it’s own groovy thing; and Sony proper is the tentpole division.
    But Tri Star doesn’t really seem to have much of an identity: they just release movies.

  17. cadavra says:

    TriStar was reactivated to be Sony’s sort-of Searchlight (hence Rothman), but now that he’s running the whole schmear it will probably recede again after the stuff he greenlit gets released.

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