Weekend Estimates: The Lego Movie - 31.5M | 3 Days to Kill - 12.3M | Pompeii - 10M

[grim22]

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke  5m

Weekend Box Office: #1 still 'Lego' (WB - very wide 3890 runs) with $31.8M and cume $183.5M to murder '3 Days To Kill' and bury 'Pompeii'.

 

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke  1m

Weekend Box Office: #2 Kevin Costner-starring '3 Days To Kill' (Relativity - 2872 runs) for weak $12.5M. Moviegoers seem sick of actioners.

[Fancyarcher]

"Weekend Box Office: #2 Kevin Costner-starring '3 Days To Kill' (Relativity - 2872 runs) for weak $12.5M. Moviegoers seem sick of actioners".

 

Looks at the movies being released next week, notices non-stop.

 

Well played Nikki, well played.

[a2k]

 

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke  5m

Weekend Box Office: #1 still 'Lego' (WB - very wide 3890 runs) with $31.8M and cume $183.5M to murder '3 Days To Kill' and bury 'Pompeii'.

 

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke  1m

Weekend Box Office: #2 Kevin Costner-starring '3 Days To Kill' (Relativity - 2872 runs) for weak $12.5M. Moviegoers seem sick of actioners.

 

 

36% drop for Lego is great considering last Friday was inflated. Could have 4 #1 weekends if it drops sub-30% next week. Even a 30% drop would take it to 22.5m. The Grey and Unknown both opened to <22m.

Edited February 23, 2014 by a2knet

[a2k]

10.5m for Bombeii

 

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke  24m

Weekend Box Office: #3 Paul W S Anderson's 'Pompeii' (Sony/TriStar - 2658 runs) crumbles to $10.5M at $100+M cost. Only hope is foreign.

[BadAtGender]

Thanks to the "what was number one when you were born" thread I've been checking through to see how many different films held #1 each year.

 

The 60s saw from 23-31 films hold the top spot each year, but starting in 69, it dropped precipitously. In fact, only 15 films held #1 that year, which is a record low.

 

It stayed rather low (high teens or low 20s) for about 2 decades, but starting in about 1988 it's been trending generally upwards. 2009 holds the record with 43 different films in the top spot.

[CJohn]

That is good for 3DtK. 

 

Pompeii

[Donald]

Can someone pliz change the freakin title!!!:@

[A Marvel Fanboy]

American audience seems really sick of action movies.

 

Crazy for LEGO.

[baumer]

Non Stop will shock everyone when it opens to 35 mill next weekend.

[chuck0]

Non Stop will shock everyone when it opens to 35 mill next weekend.

 

could be... so much floppage going on in the action genre has to mean that there is pent up demand for a good action movie

[baumer]

Airplane drama

Neeson

lack of any good action films

 

Perfect tonic for a giant opening.

[kayumanggi]

The audience will get sick of any genre if there's a glut of it.

[CJohn]

The audience is saving their $$$ for Neeson.

[baumer]

The audience will get sick of any genre if there's a glut of it.

 

What kind of glut is there for action films right now?

[The Panda]

I agree, nobody saw 3 Days to Kill because it wasn't appealing, give the audience an appealing action movie and they'll go see it (We saw that last year with Olympus has Fallen)

[picores]

Yeah, Non Stop is breaking out. +30 OW are locked and 100m finish could happen, imo.

[CJohn]

ENDLESS LOVE? Not so much. Universal's rom-dram had a heart attack in its 2nd weekend, dropping -68% w/ $4.3M, $20M total.

[druv10]

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice  4m

THE LEGO MOVIE took in an estimated $31.45M this weekend. Domestic total now stands at $183.16M. #TheLegoMovie

[CJohn]

WINTER'S TALE was whitewashed in its 2nd week, falling -71% w/ $2.1M, $11M total. Not a horror film, but sure feels like one for WB.

[CJohn]

Wanna make a movie about vampires that appeals to tween girls? Don't. VAMPIRE ACADEMY fell -86% in week #3 & has sucked up just $7.6M