Weekend Estimates: Riddick - 18.6M | The Butler - 8.9M | We're the Millers - 7.9M

[Fancyarcher]

Does INI get expanded this weekend?

 

Yes, but it dropped instead of increasing like so many people predicted. 

Edited September 7, 2013 by Boxofficefanatic

[baumer]

TITE: 585K

[cookie]

TITE: 585K

Nice jump. $100m is in reach.

[kitik]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?view=1day&sortdate=2013-09-06&p=.htm

 

 

 

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	-	Riddick	Uni.	$7,300,000	-	-	3,107	$2,350	$7,300,000	1
2	1	Lee Daniels' The Butler	Wein.	$2,369,000	+110%	-35%	3,330	$711	$85,370,000	22
3	2	We're the Millers	WB	$2,300,000	+189%	-27%	3,445	$668	$118,219,000	31
4	3	Instructions Not Included	LGF	$1,640,000	+193%	-15%	717	$2,287	$13,852,000	8
5	4	One Direction: This is Us	TriS	$1,165,000	+172%	-87%	2,735	$426	$21,056,000	8
6	5	Elysium	TriS	$900,000	+126%	-43%	2,241	$402	$82,877,000	29
7	6	Planes	BV	$893,000	+149%	-48%	3,033	$294	$75,897,000	29
-	11	Getaway (2013)	WB	$640,000	+169%	-55%	2,135	$300	$7,129,000	8
-	9	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	SGem	$600,000	+88%	-59%	2,519	$238	$26,244,000	17
-	-	This is the End	Sony	$585,000	-	+2,807%	2,161	$271	$97,531,000	87
-	12	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Fox	$550,000	+187%	-45%	2,045	$269	$57,898,000	31
-	13	2 Guns	Uni.	$419,000	+158%	-35%	1,165	$360	$71,087,000	36
-	16	Despicable Me 2	Uni.	$305,000	+164%	-49%	1,050	$290	$356,404,000	66
-	14	The Grandmaster	Wein.	$294,000	+95%	-60%	804	$366	$4,222,000	15
-	-	Salinger	Wein.	$29,600	-	-	4	$7,400	$29,600	1

 

[filmnerdjamie]

TITE: 585K

 

Well... I helped.

[baumer]

I'll be helping tonight too.  Me and my brother are seeing it.

[zackzack]

WERE THE MILLER will burst through $140M barrier.

A nice surprise for Warner...

Edited September 7, 2013 by zackzack

[baumer]

Yea, Miller's with an almost 200% increase on Friday is insane.

[Gopher]

I'll be helping tonight too.  Me and my brother are seeing it.

 

I'm taking a group of friends. Third viewing for me and I'm still utterly excited. 

[kitik]

WERE THE MILLER will burst through $140M barrier.

A nice surprise for Warner...

 

Looks like 150 is still on the table for WTM!

 

 

 

I'm taking a group of friends. Third viewing for me and I'm still utterly excited. 

 

 

I saw TITE 3 times back in June and July. I already did my duty.

[baumer]

Didn't Diesel foot the bill for this movie?? Like put up his mansion or some shit like that??? If so, the payoff isn't going to be worth this.. Should've went straight to DVD and VOD...

 

I doubt it.  This is the same studio as FF.  It looks like this is throwing him a bone to keep him happy.  I have nothing to back this up, but that's how it appears to me.

[baumer]

Didn't Diesel foot the bill for this movie?? Like put up his mansion or some shit like that??? If so, the payoff isn't going to be worth this.. Should've went straight to DVD and VOD...

 

It's a 30 million dollar budget and it's looking like it will gross at least 100 mill WW.  That's before HV and TV.  This should be a good sized hit for Universal.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Can we expect a sequel?

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Also I have noticed that Riddick is the last Universal film I plan to see in theaters until Dracula.

[Chewy]

I'll see TITE again sometime today or tomorrow. Hopefully it can eek out 100M

[kitik]

I doubt it.  This is the same studio as FF.  It looks like this is throwing him a bone to keep him happy.

 

 

???

That's not how I understood the story. I thought they gave Diesel the Riddick rights, and then won the bid to distribute this specific movie after he made it.

[Sam]

I see if I can persuade a few of my friends to see TITE with me again. Would be nice if it can get over the 100M mark.

[Jonwo]

Riddick was partly self financed by Diesel as loans fell through but Universal footed some of the bill in exchange for Domestic rights, the film is being distributed by local distributors worldwide so Universal isn't going to earn anything from foreign box office. Diesel is likely earned scale just from the acting side but he'll make some money if the film overperforms.

[CJohn]

Besides The Heat (which I already saw and it was hilarious) and The Butler (which I will see on Monday if everything goes according to the plan), there was another movie opening this weekend here.

 

It was the one and only RIPD, released exclusively in 2D. And I saw it today. And good God it was amazing. Glorious just like I expected. Jeff Bridges performance was bizarre and ridiculous. I am almost throw up and the indian food scene. Ryan Reynolds was just lost the whole time. I feel that he just wanted to stop and say 'FUCK THIS SHIT'. Kevin Bacon was just enjoying the stupidity happening around him. The movie probably got cutted 20 or 30 minutes. Half of Boston is destroyed and in the next day everything is just fine. The world was invaded by deados but in the next day is like if nothing happened. A true trainwreck. After Earth is just bad and boring. This is a glorious trainwreck of epic propotions that makes no sense.

Edited September 7, 2013 by CJohn

[baumer]

???

That's not how I understood the story. I thought they gave Diesel the Riddick rights, and then won the bid to distribute this specific movie after he made it.

 

Like I said.  I was guessing.  I have no knowledge of the business behind Riddick.