Friday Box Office Estimates Archive for May, 2014
Friday Estimates
Godzilla does the monster smash with $38.4 million expected from almost 4,000 Friday roars. Neighbors shares another cup of mixed greens at $8.4 million, while your friendly neighborhood web-slinger settles for a kind-hearted $4.5 mil. Million Dollar Arm eggs on Hamm with $3.4 million of so-so-so pitching power.
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Neighbors had the sixth best comedy opening day ever and the third best for an original. Extremely impressive. And if anyone tells you that they know what the final domestic is going to be based on this weekend, they are fools. The final domestic gross difference between, say, The Hangover and the stronger-opening Jackass 3-D was over $150 million. We suspect that Neighbors will be on the high end of that scale, but only time will really tell this story. And as importantly, international success will tell the bigger story. Amazing Spider-Man 2 has a reasonable 2nd Friday drop and looks to cross the $500 million mark worldwide by the end of the weekend.
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Spider-Man returns, $1.6 million behind Captain America‘s return a few weeks ago. What does it mean? Let the endless speculation begin! Elsewhere, The Grand Budapest Hotel passes $50 million. Ida and Kevin Spacey’s Acting Show have nice per-screens. And Belle is the belle of the indie ball with what looks to be a $20k+ per-screen weekend on 4 screens.
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