REVISED Weekend Estimates 6/14--6/16: Man of Steel OW $116.7M($128.7M including WM)

[#ED]

FRIDAY 7 AM UPDATE: Not even torrential downpours in NYC could dampen enthusiastic crowds forming long lines for Thursday late shows. Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures just announced its hotly anticipated Man Of Steel opened with a midnight show of $9 million. Combined with $12M from a corporate group sale screening program at 7 PM, this third Superman franchise begins its North American run with a cume of $21M. “Off to a flying start!!!” A studio exec gushed to me just now. More

Edited June 17, 2013 by #ED

[Jessie]

Wow looks like this will flop.

 

fucking rotten tomatoes

Edited June 14, 2013 by Jessie

[Olive]

Not bad

Edited June 14, 2013 by Olive Wazowski

[Heretic]

OH MY GOD.

Edited June 14, 2013 by Heretic

[The Futurist]

Nope, 9m midnights only.

[#ED]

lol wtfuk?

 

Since when was 9M bad? It's the highest midnight grosser after IM3...

[filmnerdjamie]

Nope, 9m midnights only.

 

Not unlike the 8PM screenings for Iron Man and Star Trek Thursday night.

[baumer]

9M is fucking huge!!!

[Jessie]

so what is it with this 12m from walmarts??? someone care to explain?

[Neo]

What does this mean?

[baumer]

This locks in 100 mill OW.

[Jack Nevada]

[kayumanggi]

Huge $9M midnights + $12M from 7pm Walmart/corp shows for SUPER $21M in THU night biz for #ManOfSteel. Amazing start!

https://twitter.com/giteshpandya/status/345550397655638017

[Jandrew]

damnnn son. keep in mind, without walmart, that $9M woudve been higher.

Edited June 14, 2013 by jandrew

[Jessie]

What does this mean?

[Archdemon]

UP UP AND AWAAAAAY!

[#ED]

What does this mean?

 

Combined with $12M from a corporate group sale screening program at 7 PM, this third Superman franchise begins its North American run with a cume of $21M. “Off to a flying start!!!” A studio exec gushed to me just now. More

 

Walmart Numbers.

[bballman24]

MAN OF FLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[baumer]

Free bought 12 million dollars worth of tickets and basically sold or given away at their locations that is why the twelve million figure is there as well as the 9mill.

[Derpity]

$9m midnights is pretty good, higher than I expected.

 

lol @ wal-mart paying $12m

 

so WB sold them their tickets at a gigantic premium.