Friday Box Office Estimates Archive for November, 2013
Friday Box Office Estimates
Fire bests Frozen.
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Pretty simple analysis… The Hunger Games: Catching Fire grossed more than 4x the rest of the Top 10 combined on Friday. Enuf said. Disney/Dreamworks’ The Delivery Man offers some alternative programming to the over-30s (in body or spirit) and is looking at about $7m for its trouble. The hope, no doubt, is that once the fire stops catching quite as many people, there will be a nice Thanksgiving haul… but still, this is the worst gross for a wide-release opening of Vince Vaughn’s entire career.
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Fourteen years after the original The Best Man, the sequel is looking at nearly the same gross on opening weekend that the original took in its entire successful run. Meanwhile, Thor: The Dark World is doing fine, no matter what “place” it is in on the box office list, actually further ahead of the first in its series after 8 days than it was at the end of opening weekend.
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Thor is back and his opening is about $5m better than the last time he showed up, 2 years ago. Disney is being conservative in projecting the 3-day, but the improvement, opening weekend to opening weekend, looks like it will be 10% – 15%. If that holds through the run, the film would land around the $500m worldwide level… which is strong, but not overwhelming considering the expense of these films.
The expansion of 12 Years A Slave continues, and on 1144 screens, it will be a $5m+ weekend as the film passes the $15m domestic mark.
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Lionsgate’s latest shot at A Franchise, Ender’s Game, gets off to a solid start. We’ll see how it plays on Saturday. 52% off for Bad Grandpa is actually pretty good for that kind of film. CBS launches Horny Grandpas (aka Lost Vegas) to an okay-ish number. And Relativity’s animated knock-off of Angry Birds doesn’t fly. Focus sends Dallas Buyers Club out on 9 screens for a reasonably good $20k per screen for the weekend. About Time and Diana get roughed up, allowing themselves to look more like VOD releases than major theatricals.
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