Today's gonna be a HUGE day for cinemas I think. Orange Wednesday, and The Hobbit, Life of Pi, and The Impossible are selling out. So happy for the latter. It's also been trending on twitter today, so interest is obviously VERY high,
The Hobbit 2 very likely, Monsters University perhaps, although that'll be difficult...Next year will have a lot of big hits like Iron Man 3, Star Trek 2 etc, but nothing monstrous like this year it seems. Catching Fire could become like Twilight, or it could explode. We'll see.
The Hobbit:UK (3rd): £6.7m ($10.9m) / +12% / £35.8m ($57.7m). Excellent. Should hit $70m by next Sunday and will probably end somewhere between $80-90m. Another massive success.Life of Pi had a nice increase too with $6.6m for $17m. I see it hitting $30m now.
I have a feeling The Impossible could become a mini-breakout. It opens on New Years day, and I've actually heard quite a lot of people talk about it. I'll probably see it on Orange Wednesday.