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$10.2 m for Catching Fire, the exact # could still change very slightly in a bit.

WB's daily split for Smaug: FRI: $10.11 m SAT: $10.67 m SUN: $9.07 m

Probably going to be very, very close either way, but in the past when the calendar has lined up similarly (2002, 2007, 2012), this is one of those rare weekends where films aimed at adults hold up slightly better than films aimed at families on SAT/SUN. Prob. due to some people going back to work on FRI, while hardly any kids will go back to school that day.

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past2. The Hobbit: There and Back Again3. The Wind Rises4. Her5. The Monuments Men6. Interstellar7. Dumb and Dumber To8. Muppets Most Wanted9. Big Hero 610. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Walter Mitty -- $7.825M Walking with Dinosaurs -- $1.735M

9.0 / A-1. The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)2. No (Pablo Larraín)3. Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)4. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson)6. From Up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki)8.5 / B+7. Mud (Jeff Nichols)8. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)9. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)10. The Wolverine (James Mangold)11. Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi)12. Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams)8.0 / B13. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)14. Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)15. This Is The End (Evan Goldberg/Seth Rogen)16. 42 (Brian Helgeland)17. Frozen (Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee)18. Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)19. The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)20. Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper)21. Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)22. After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan)23. Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)24. Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)7.5 / B-25. The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski)26. Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer)27. Kick-Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow)28. Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez)29. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)30. Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier)31. Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud)32. Elysium (Neill Blomkamp)33. Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)34. The Croods (Kirk De Micco/Chris Sanders)35. Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski)7.0 / C+36. Machete Kills (Robert Rodriguez)37. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Jon M. Chu)38. Riddick (David Twohy)39. Dead Man Down (Niels Arden Oplev)40. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli)6.5 / C41. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)

BTW, Saving Mr. Banks has tended to have stronger pre-sales %s than grosses so far.

Wolf of Wall Street is now #1 on MovieTicket's updated current sales rankings. Walter Mitty is now at #5 1. The Wolf of Wall Street 16% 2. American Hustle 15% 3. The Desolation of Smaug 14% 4. Saving Mr. Banks 10% 5. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 9%

The Wolf of Wall Street is in MovieTicket's Top 5 now at #3. First and only one of the new openers in the top 5 so far.

Walking with Dinosaurs: $1.05 m

BTW, not being made to work today, just wanted to take a moment to pass those #s along. heheh

Any daily numbers I ever post are from the studios. I work here.

Studio Estimates from WB & Disney: The Desolation of Smaug: $5.25 mFrozen: $4.782 mSaving Mr. Banks: $1.918 m Not sure how many more will be sent to us today.

That's kinda like telling Olaf he will melt in the summer

Frozen: $7,242,689 Saving Mr. Banks: $2,128,406 Thor: The Dark World: $365,540

Walking with Dinosaurs: $1,657,444 Have to think Frozen held up better %wise than Catching Fire and Walking with Dinosuars. Pretty sure Disney will be sending out MON #s later today.

Catching Fire: $2,278,758 A Madea Christmas: $1,664,660 Inside Llewyn Davis: $210,325

BTW, actual on Dhoom 3 is $3,422,590. There was a typo in the data that was sent out for that earlier.

That one was just a typo by BOM.

One thing to keep in mind about Anchorman 2's cost, is that I don't think there's much of a question that it had a larger marketing push than a typical $50 m film. Just some food for thought.

The daily split for American Hustle is: FRI: $6.5MSAT: $7.1MSUN: $5.5M I'm thinking they under-estimated Sunday a bit.

Some of the studio estimates are starting to come in: http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/bo_numbers/studio_estimate/2013-12-22

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past2. The Hobbit: There and Back Again3. The Wolf of Wall Street4. The Wind Rises5. Her6. Grudge Match 7. The Monuments Men 8. Interstellar9. Dumb and Dumber To10. Muppets Most Wanted

WB's Thursday estimates: The Hobbit 2: $5.05 m Her: $45,000

Going to throw a few $ into Smaug's change cup in a bit (someone should make a gif of Smaug with a change cup). Adios.