MCN Weekend Archive for May, 2015
The Weekend Report
Avengers: Age of Ultron arrived with kapow! results estimated at $186.4 million and rank it as the second biggest domestic box-office debut of all time. The film also accounted for roughly 82% of the session’s total gross business. Exclusive newcomers provided encouraging results of $52,400 for Albert Maysle’s penultimate portrait Iris, at five sites, and a $37,200 tally for the offbeat comedy Welcome to Me at two screens. More dynamic was the Hardy bow of Far From the Madding Crowd with almost $170,000 from 10 hayfields.
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Avengers 2. About $2 million more on opening day (with Thursday previews) than the first. $287 million already counted internationally. Likely to be #1 all-time worldwide opening, though until this weekend, there have only been 14 ever taking in over $300 million, the earliest being 2005’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Furious 7 just opened to $398 million. No other film is likely to draw more than $7 million domestically this weekend. Searchlight’s 10-screen release of Far From the Madding Crowd should take about $15k per-screen to lead limited releases.
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: The Gambler, Wedding Ringer, Boy Next Door, Paddington, Eddie Coyle, Wolf Hall and more
Bennett isn’t as much a degenerate gambler as one who refuses to win, even when he’s holding a pat hand. No matter how much he’s up, everyone from the pit bosses to viewers knows he’s going to give it all back and borrow even more money to keep losing. When he convinces his beleaguered mother (Jessica Lange) to give him a small fortune in cash to pay off the debts, everyone, including Mom, knows he’s going to piss it away.
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