Jonwo

Bond films tend to start production quite late in the year, from September/October to February/March so the next film will follow the same pattern, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies filmed in January for release in November/December.

Isn't Madagascar 3 only out in Scotland? It's released today in the rest of the UK and had previews last week so it'll be number 1 this weekend. £0.8m is pretty bad for two days, I wouldn't be surprised if it fails to break £3m, £2-2.5m might be a struggle as well.

With previews it'll be number two for the weekend but I wonder if Taken 2 will outgross it Friday-Sundays if sales don't improve. Madagascar will easily top this weekend.

This is the first new Bond film 4 years so the ancipation for a new film is high. It'll likely break the October record which was set by QoS.

Untouchable lost cinemas but its done well.

I think a film with the Paperman style animation will be released by 2016/2017. I do hope we get a hand drawn animated film from Disney in the future, I wouldn't even mind if was in 3D given it's possible to have a 2D animated film done in 3D due to the 3D rerelease of The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast.

Clearly the success of HT have prompted Sony to bring Cloudy forward a few months. I imagine most of their future family and animated films with a few exceptions like The Smurfs will be released in September/October time.

December 19th has Dreamwork's Mumbai Musical but I wouldn't be surprised if that moves to 2016.

Do Pixar have a film scheduled for Summer 2015? I imagine if they don't, Disney might release their 2015 animated film in June or July 2012.

I imagine most of the advance bookings are restricted to one or two screens then expand nearer the release date, the length of Skyfall will prevent it from having a lot of showtimes but it'll make up for that with more screens.

The Evening performances should sell out easily but I imagine it'll have a lot of walk in business. I imagine it'll probably up to 5-7 screens in the bigger multiplexes but those times won't be released until next week.

I think that has a limited run so hard to predict where it'll land but a top ten position would be great. Both Ruby Sparks and On the Road did okay business, wonder if Untouchable managed to crack £1m despite the loss of cinemas.

Madagascar 3 isn't officially released until Friday so the previews won't be counted until then. The Scotland release will be counted where did £1m.

I think PA4 may drop from PA3 but its low budget means it'll be a hit regardless.

I think excluding previews, it'll do £5-6m for its opening weekend although i think it's already out in Scotland so we might see Madagascar enter the top ten this week from just Scotland. Paranormal Activity should do £3m or so for five days but it's possible it could be slightly lower if Taken 2 continues to hold well. Paranormal Activity 3 decreased from PA2 so it's possible PA4 to decrease from PA3. I think box office will decline for the two weeks of November with Skyfall dominating then pick up with Breaking Dawn Part II and Rise of the Guardians.

It must had an awful Friday but I think it would have done better had it not launched against the Madagascar previews but still a decent result. Probably get a boost nearer Halloween.

Think Madagascar 2 had previews as well, it's very rare for a Dreamworks film not to have previews although Puss in Boot I believe didn't have them, I wonder why other studios don't do it as much? I know Fox did it with Ice Age and Alvin 3 and Universal with The Lorax but weirdly not Disney or Sony. Hotel Transylvania should be able to gross a respectable amount against the more known Madagascar, I saw it today and thought it was pretty good. Probably will see Madagascar next week along with Frankenweenie.

Wasn't sure where this should go but with Dreamworks Animation expanding its slate to 3-4 films a year and going into areas such as television, theme parks and live entertainment plus recent acquisation of Classic Media and its venture Oriental Dreamworks, I wonder if the next step is to go into full live action films, its probably not going to happen for a few years to avoid conflict with Dreamworks SKG but I could see them doing one or two live action/animated hybrid films given the success that FOX had with Alvin and Sony had with The Smurfs.

Good for HT considering it faced Madagascar which is a known quantity. It'll finish at 2 for the weekend as Madagascar's numbers won't be included until next week.

Come Half term, there will be three kids films so while I think Madagascar will get the lion share, HT and Frankenweenie should benefit as well. Dreamworks also has Rise of the Guardians at the end of November which I think will do good business especially with no similar competition.

HT will cross $100m this weekend, with three weeks until WIR is out, I wonder if it can get to $120-130m.

Not surprise at HT, Friday night isn't exactly a good night for kids films, it'll do much better business tomorrow and Sunday, it'll still be beaten by Madagascar 3, both will have their best weeks when Half Term arrives.

Judging from the good reviews, it seems Skyfall may be a return to form for the Bond franchise and that will translate at the box office, given the lack of competition until BD part II, it'll be number 1 for three weeks.

Hotel Transylvania is doing decently, it's on course to be SPA's highest grossing animated film but I'm not sure if it can beat The Smurfs $142m final total.

I imagine Thursday will be nearer Monday numbers so it'll be at £10.7-10.8m by Thursday which is good considering how frontloaded the four day weekend was. It should number 1 this weekend although it wouldn't be surprise if the Madagascar previews are number 1 but that won't counted until next week.