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I sort of called BS too!

Hopefully Expendables does great next week.

Everyone.

Expendables 3 can still break out fellas...

Nice to see Turtles succeed. GOTG has an expected drop. The Storm movie is doing ok. Step up? lol.Get on Up just collapsed completely.I'm here for Hercules numbers.

Tee Hee.

No. Apes was special.

I assume Turtles will stay flat today?I see no signs of being front loaded.

65M would be insane!

5th UPDATE, Saturday, 6:58 AM: This morning the little Turtles movie that rose out of a comic book 30 years ago before finding its way onto Saturday morning cartoons to begin building its kiddie audience reached even higher. With all theaters’ ticket sales weigh in, it’s now expected to land between $64.5M to $65.1M. That means that this revamped Michael Bay version of the franchise is going to have a higher opening weekend than all previous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opening combined when they debuted in the early 1990s ($57.8M). That’s when the reptiles were at New Line Cinema instead of Paramount.Family audiences — which Paramount specifically marketed to — should fuel box office through today and tomorrow as the weekend is prime time for taking the kids out to the theaters. The downside to this as it heads into its second weekend is that it’s gotten bad reviews and it received a B CinemaScore last night which should affect its multiple.Meanwhile, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy — as reported last night — will bring in around $42M+ over its three-day dropping about 55% in its second weekend out. Of the new offerings, Warner Bros. Into the Storm will swim in with an estimated $17.8M to $18.1M, so it did a little better than its original tracking numbers which had it around $15M to $17M initially. It took the No. 3 spot. Both this disaster movie and the No. four movie of the weekend — The Hundred-Foot Journey (DIS) — have a decent per screen average. The Hundred-Foot Journey will serve up around $11M+ this weekend for a per of around $5,700. The picture with the highest CinemaScore of the newbies with a B+ is Lionsgate’s Step Up All In which stepped over the James Brown biopic Get On Up in its second weekend to take the No. 6 spot with about $6.3M. The top five below did not change positions. The chart is coming.

We still don't have official estimates. Perhaps GOTG found a way to 14M today.

GOTG estimates are down. Expected.Great for Turtles!

I'm going to say there hasn't been an update

RTH wasn't here last night either so we may have to just deal with Nikki's updated numbers later.

Still early estimates.

Stupid Turtles question.

Eh duck you Chewy.1) Will Turtles gross more than 44.44M? NO2) Will Into the Storm gross more than 15M? NO3) Will Hercules drop between 54.8% and 57.3%? NO4) Will Planes gross more than Purge? YES5) Will Purge increase by more than 21.5% on Saturday? YES6) Will Apes drop less than 45%? NO7) Will Step Up gross more than 10M? NOSOTMTell me the day each film will pass the target #. You have a one-day cushion, and must get 3/5 correctGuardians - 200M = August 15thEdge of Tomorrow - 100M - NOT DURING THE BSGLucy - 100M August 17thHercules - 70M August 21stChef - 30M August 31st

I guess, but Apes wasn't grossing the same amount of money of course. Still hard to believe, but possible.

So Nikki believes GOTG will increase about 87% today.That's just ridiculous.

FRIDAY 5 PM, 2ND UPDATE: It’s Superheroes vs Reptiles vs Mother Nature at this weekend’s crowded domestic box office plus Helen Mirren and a fifth dance franchise as the 2014 Summer movie season limps along. No less than 4 new movies opened wide today.1. Paramount/Nickelodeon’s rebooted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles already is overperforming for #1 and $56.5M this weekend. This overperformer began with a strong $4.6M start from 2,651 locations at Thursday late shows (which passes the biggest family hit of the summer Malificent‘s $4M) and is looking at $22.5M based on early evening grosses from 3,845 North American theaters today. Fueled by nostalgia and curiosity, Hollywood is now raising its opening weekend estimate for the $125M-costing family fare produced by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes banner from $40M to $55+M this weekend. So the studio has a fresh franchise. (There’s already a new TV series.) Internationally, the film opens in 17 markets, representing 25% of the international marketplace, including Russia and Mexico.2. Disney/Marvel’s blockbuster holdover Guardians Of The Galaxy (playing in 4,088 theaters) is looking at $14.2M, or -62% from a week ago. It won’t atop the film order after grossing nearly $134.3M domestically, and $226.8M globally, in less than a week. But it’s targeting $47.7M this weekend for a new cume of $182.1M.3. Warner Bros’ CGI-loaded extreme weather Into The Storm (reminiscent of the 1996 Twister) opened Thursday night with $800K in late shows. It’s bowing in 3,434 theaters today to $6M for what should be a lower-than-expected $16.5M first weekend. Heck this no-stars pic is the same stuff we can watch on cable’s Weather Channel.4. Hurt by disappointing reviews (even by AO Scott in The New York Times, which usually loves foodie movies), DreamWorks’ The Hundred-Foot Journey (2,023 theaters) wasn’t supposed to march much past $10M despite even co-producers Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey personally shilling for Lasse Hallström’s film. Well, their names and appeals are working because the Franco-Indian chefs’ battle is making $4.5M today towards a bigger-than-projected $13.7M weekend.5. Still very alive, Universal’s female actioner Lucy after three weeks is earning $2.5M for an $8.3M weekend and a $96.3M cume.6. Rounding out the newcomers, Lionsgate/Summit’s Step Up All In (2,072 theaters) is the 5th installment in the cheap-to-make dance competition which the studio expected to pull in $8M. But today’s gross is $2.5M for only a $6M first weekend. Looks like this franchise is played out. MORE LATER- See more at: http://nikkifinke.com/box-office-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-starts-strong-4-6m-thursday-late-shows-storm-800k/#sthash.qXNSTH8B.dpuf

GOTG 47M?What the fuck is going on right now with this lady?That's huge.

Stupid TMNT tracking.

The hate on Michael Bay is truly ridiculous.His movies are so bad we keep going to see them.

I did the math. Turtles will make 52M.

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