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

[Michael Seng Wah]

Friday Update #2: Sources tell BoxOffice that Man of Steel is on pace for at least $45 million on Friday. The final Friday figure will likely end up closer to $50 million, which means that Man of Steel's first weekend in North America could bring in $120 million or more.

More coming soon...

[kitik]

Basically everyone's wrong and everything sucks and Man of Steel is doing okay or it may be a bomb but who the hell knows

 

 

we need some friday numbers

[Kvikk Lunsj]

You think? Using NotFabio's theater chain, Wal-Mart tickets sold would be around $2.7m total. They shelled out $12m for it, so a loss of over $9m. Do you think the customers who bought the $2.7m worth of tickets ended up spending more than $9m on other stuff at Wal-Mart?

I am guessing most did. They could grocery or some clothing. Wal Mart does this again then Wal Mart did make a profit from this.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Wouldn't DOS do Windows previews?

Either will do, who cares ... 

[kitik]

 

Friday Update #2: Sources tell BoxOffice that Man of Steel is on pace for at least $45 million on Friday. The final Friday figure will likely end up closer to $50 million, which means that Man of Steel's first weekend in North America could bring in $120 million or more.

More coming soon...

 

 

 

right on cue!

[Michael Seng Wah]

right on cue!

 

Just updated I think on the site.

Queen Nikki is slow...

[redfirebird2008]

That's some crazy wild extrapolation. It's simply not possible to garner any sort of estimate as to what Walmart's net was.

 

It isn't crazy. NotFabio's theater chain projects very well with the rest of the country. The Wal-Mart tickets sold 30% of the number of tickets for regular midnight shows. If that trend was true across the country, then they are looking at a $9+ million loss unless they got lucky and the folks who actually bothered to buy the Wal-Mart tickets also bought a bunch of other crap in the store.

[sdeezy]

 

Friday Update #2: Sources tell BoxOffice that Man of Steel is on pace for at least $45 million on Friday. The final Friday figure will likely end up closer to $50 million, which means that Man of Steel's first weekend in North America could bring in $120 million or more.

More coming soon...

 

sweet

[ecstasy]

right on cue!

 

 

At least a 45m Friday. I'm assuming that includes 9m midnight.  Impressive. That number is bound to go up with late shows.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

No to IBM and Apple there is not enough stores. IBM does not have any stores

 

I see this happening

Thor: DW Target previews

Catching Fire Barnes and Noble Previews

Hobbit Walmart previews.

Stores are not necessary since they dont really need to resell the tickets ... 

[A Marvel Fanboy]

 

Friday Update #2: Sources tell BoxOffice that Man of Steel is on pace for at least $45 million on Friday. The final Friday figure will likely end up closer to $50 million, which means that Man of Steel's first weekend in North America could bring in $120 million or more.

More coming soon...

 

Too early to take these projections seriously ...

[RichWS]

Basically everyone's wrong and everything sucks and Man of Steel is doing okay or it may be a bomb but who the hell knows

 

Thanks for filling me in on the last ten pages I've missed.

[Dementeleus]

http://www.wehrenberg.com/theaterDetail.asp?theatre=138

 

For the moment, what I find odd is that if this movie did so well on Midnights with all the WALMART inclusion brouhaha, how the hell is my local theatre not sold out of 1 afternoon show for this if this is so good??? I mean, it's summer for heaven sakes.. This thing should be selling out left and right..

 

It's playing on a ton of screens with a ton of showtimes. That means lots of availability and fewer sellouts. Happens with every major movie that opens super-wide -- in LA, you didn't see massive sellouts at all for IM3 (to name one example).

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Stores are not necessary since they dont really need to resell the tickets ... 

To make a profit they do. Stores that do a preview need to make a profit.

[Sims]

Latest conspiracy theory for baumer's archives:

 

1) Big corporate chain buys stock from film distributor

2) Big corporate chain buys tickets en masse for one of distributor's films

3) Big corporate chain resells tickets (or not, it doesn't really matter)

4) Distributor's stock goes up from the boosted opening

5) Corporate chain sells stock

6) Profit!

[kitik]

It isn't crazy. NotFabio's theater chain projects very well with the rest of the country. The Wal-Mart tickets sold 30% of the number of tickets for regular midnight shows. If that trend was true across the country, then they are looking at a $9+ million loss unless they got lucky and the folks who actually bothered to buy the Wal-Mart tickets also bought a bunch of other crap in the store.

 

You're looking at it wrong. The Walmart promotion was for a specific number of screens at specific times. Once they sold those screens out, more were not added. (Because theaters generally don't have empty screens just lying around.) So high volume theaters, like notfabio's, likely did a much higher percentage of midnight's (vesus Walmart tickets) than some small town theater in Ohio or wherever.

[Dementeleus]

It isn't crazy. NotFabio's theater chain projects very well with the rest of the country. The Wal-Mart tickets sold 30% of the number of tickets for regular midnight shows. If that trend was true across the country, then they are looking at a $9+ million loss unless they got lucky and the folks who actually bothered to buy the Wal-Mart tickets also bought a bunch of other crap in the store.

 

That's a single theater, unless you think notfabio's chain sold a total of 1200 tickets. Add in that only certain theaters were doing the Walmart promos and some areas were exempt entirely (like NYC, for example) and I don't see how you can make any sort of accurate statement whatsoever.

[dashrendar44]

To make a profit they do. Stores that do a preview need to make a profit.

 

We don't care, studios already got the money in the pocket.

[Lordmandeep]

45-50 including previews means less then 120 not 120+ ...

[The Stingray]

It's playing on a ton of screens with a ton of showtimes. That means lots of availability and fewer sellouts. Happens with every major movie that opens super-wide -- in LA, you didn't see massive sellouts at all for IM3 (to name one example).

Did you have to name IM3 as an example?