Weekend Estimates: The Hobbit - 73.6M | Frozen - 22.2M | Madea - 16M

[a2k]

The Variety has nothing on 'Classical film theory'...I am still gunning for 107 mill. 108 if it does not snow. Textbook stuff.

[Moviefanatic]

31m best case? LOLOLOLOL

[AdamKendall]

That's bullshit. Fuck that theater. I wouldn't go again.

I have one theater with 9 screens ... I have no other place to go.

[Impact]

Showings will have different trailers sometimes-when I saw TS1 and 2 in 3d it was odd-I saw part 2 first then part 1 which both had a different set of trailers.

When I saw Avengers the screen was having problems so I went to another screen and it had a different set of trailers.

[ShadowGuardian]

80-85 mil ow

[Heretic]

80-85 mil ow

[AdamKendall]

Showings will have different trailers sometimes-when I saw TS1 and 2 in 3d it was odd-I saw part 2 first then part 1 which both had a different set of trailers.

When I saw Avengers the screen was having problems so I went to another screen and it had a different set of trailers.

They pulled the same shit last year with Hobbit 1 ... Man of Steel was shown in the '3D' showing ... but not in the 2D showing.  I saw 2D first and was livid ... 

[Plain Old Tele]

In all honesty-if any film wants to be accurate-the women should not be kicking butt.

 

Well, Elf woman have a history of kicking ass in Tolkien. And it's not like she was man-handling (orc-handling?) the orcs around.

[Biggestgeekever]

Initial results for Lionsgate’s “Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas” was also coming in below forecasts of $20 million-plus. Friday grosses looked to be about $4 million for a potential $12 million weekend.

Ummm, this is way more shocking to me than if Hobbit came in <$60m this weekend.

 

Ray Subers vindicated again. 

Edited December 14, 2013 by Biggestgeekever

[Noctis]

26m would be truly glorious.

[Impact]

Well I saw Liv Tyler in real life-she is so cute.

[kayumanggi]

Source puts #Hobbit on track for about $27M today incl midnights. Opening wknd may reach mid 60s, 20-25% below last pic.

https://twitter.com/giteshpandya/status/411683475436339200

[Rthmessiah]

Oh man, do I have to say it?

LOL I was about 30sec away from saying something but I'll refrain

[Impact]

They started marketing a lil late on this one for some reason.

 

Anyway still is surprising how well this year is going.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Cumberbatch is bad luck

[Fancyarcher]

Cumberbatch is bad luck

 

Your one to talk Green Lantern, R.I.P.D., Turbo guy.

[AdamKendall]

Cumberbatch is bad luck

... enter possible Sith Lord 2015

Edited December 14, 2013 by Adam

[yjs]

Oh and also time for some classic film theory:

 

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 107M

Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - 27M

Hours - 17M

 

We actually looked at the grosses of AUJ and whatever the last Madea movie was before predicting. Everyone except me said a Hobbit increase up to at least 96M. Also, I made a $5 bet with someone that Hours would not be released in more than 1000 theaters. They were insisting anything less than 2000 theaters would be intense disrespect for Paul Walker.... Whatevs, they just paid for a movie for me

aren't you interested in publishing a toilet book out of these all hilarious episodes of your film theory class? haha and another thing I've wondered is do they ever correct themselves after seeing the actual box office results? well it's a way exciting film theory class in any way than the one I took. Mine was just a far more traditional one showing dr. caligari's cabinet, the battleship potemkin and citizen kane;)

[Heretic]

That would mean less admissions for the full day than CF had in it's previews/midnights. That's pretty terrible.

[John Marston]

Hopefully this can go up to at least 30