Box Office Archive for April, 2006
Friday Numbers by Klady – April 29
Not a memorable weekend at the box office… except…
RV making a $13 – $15 million dent at the box office is hardly overwhelming. It may be enough for #1, but with Sony knocking $20 million openings out of the park with cheap goods lately, Robin Williams in a Barry Sonnenfeld comedy with a significant budget doing less than The Benchwarmers is not a win. It
Friday Estimates by Klady
The Benchwarmers, in the official
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This week’s 20 Weeks of Summer is about what I got wrong from my April predictions last year… hmm…
“Last year’s first chart, published on April 21, had eight films on it that ended up not being released during the May-August summer season. (This allows me to avoid the disastrously wrong call on xXx2.)
Of the remaining 42 movies, I was within $10 million of the final actual gross on the films. That leaves 30 movies on which I ended up being less accurate.
My biggest misses, by percentage, were the films that performed significantly better than I expected. Two of the films were late season films that offered no clear signals of being nearly as successful as they were
Friday Estimates by Klady
Those teenagers are really staying away from the theaters in droves!
I didn
Klady's Friday Estimates – 4/8/06
Ice Age: Meltdown is pretty much in the expected trajectory. And so is The Benchwarmers.
This is where it gets frustrating for film critics. This film could open to $20 million, despite features smacking it around, followed by no reviews, followed by scathing reviews. The irony is that even a tough critic like Manohla Dargis gave the film a fairly negative review
Friday Estimates by Klady
Looks like Ice Age 2 will be the second biggest opener outside of summer or holiday slots after The Passion of The Christ
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