Friday 12/23/11 Numbers

[A Marvel Fanboy]

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> Rank*</th> <th bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> Title</th> <th bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> Friday

12/23

(Estimates)</th> <th bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> Saturday

12/24</th> <th bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> Sunday

12/25</th> <th bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> Monday

12/26</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <big>1</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL

<small>Paramount</small>

3,448</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> $9,740,000

<nobr><small>+51.7% / $2,825</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$42,175,000 / 8</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> <big>2</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS

<small>Warner Bros.</small>

3,703</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> $6,785,000

<nobr><small>+43% / $1,832</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$65,539,000 / 8</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <big>3</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED

<small>Fox</small>

3,734</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> $5,400,000

<nobr><small>+36.1% / $1,446</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$42,340,000 / 8</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> <big>4</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011)

<small>Sony / Columbia</small>

2,914</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> $4,600,000

<nobr><small>+38.9% / $1,579</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$12,976,000 / 3</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <big>5</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

<small>Paramount</small>

3,087</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> $3,525,000

<nobr><small>+45.1% / $1,142</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$11,532,000 / 3</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> <big>6</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> WE BOUGHT A ZOO

<small>Fox</small>

3,117</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> $3,000,000

<nobr><small>-- / $962</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$3,000,000 / 1</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <big>7</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> NEW YEAR'S EVE

<small>Warner Bros. (New Line)</small>

2,585</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> $1,330,000

<nobr><small>+14.1% / $515</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$30,667,000 / 15</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> <big>8</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

<small>Sony / Columbia</small>

1,804</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> $1,050,000

<nobr><small>+22.7% / $582</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$42,518,000 / 31</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <big>9</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> THE MUPPETS

<small>Buena Vista</small>

1,752</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> $930,000

<nobr><small>+31.3% / $531</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$74,487,000 / 31</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> <big>-</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1

<small>Summit Entertainment</small>

1,603</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top"> $700,000

<nobr><small>+14.9% / $437</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$269,502,000 / 36</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f4f4ff" valign="top">

N/A</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <big>-</big></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> THE DESCENDANTS

<small>Fox Searchlight</small>

813</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> $615,000

<nobr><small>+47.6% / $756</small></nobr>

<nobr><small>$30,907,000 / 38</small></nobr></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

N/A</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">

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N/A</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

http://www.boxoffice...11-12-23&p=.htm

Edited December 25, 2011 by firedeep

[kayumanggi]

I hope New Year rebounds big time.

[Gopher]

9.5m for MI4 is right where it should be and Alvin's relatively looking okay. Otherwise nothing worth writing about. Zoo didn't even make anything. Just take us to next summer, geez

[AniNate]

It's up to the Beauty and the Beast rerelease now

[Gopher]

Imagine if the biggest success stories from here on out are 3D re-releases.

[Chrestomanci]

Let's start a new thread...?

Erm, I'm not sure why when there was already a Friday numbers thread and I had posted these numbers in there a few minutes earlier. Anyway, here's my comment on some of these numbers from the other thread:

That would be a great increase for Tintin -- the only movies to increase over 50% in 2005 had significant expansions -- and a very good one for MI4. I suppose it's probably due to theater loss in all cases, but that would be an extremely small increase for BD1, a decrease for NYE and (since it didn't even make the list) either a decrease or only a miniscule increase for Hugo.

[AniNate]

Imagine if the biggest success stories from here on out are 3D re-releases.

I'm going to be real desperate for more John Carter news over the next two months. Nothing looks like it has a real shot of breaking out.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I don't know when should we make a new daily thread.So pls merge the TWO Friday threads.

[Chrestomanci]

I'm sorry if my other post came off a bit . . . gruff. I didn't really mean it that way, but I'm pretty tired at the moment.As a rule of thumb, I think one thread for each day of box office results (estimates and actuals) is generally enough unless it gets totally out of hand. It might sometimes be reasonable to start a new thread for actuals or studio estimates, even if there was already an early estimates thread; especially if the early estimates thread gets really long, such as when there's a really major release like Potter, Twilight, Batman, etc. But I doubt it's ever really necessary (or advisable) to start a new thread for each different set of early estimates (Nikki, THR, Guru, Variety, etc.).As to merging the two threads, I'm afraid that if any of the mods or admins are around they're going to have their hands full for a bit.

Edited December 24, 2011 by Chrestomanci

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Get it. Tks!

[fmpro]

Great friday for MI4. I hoped that SH2 would get a bigger jump, but i guess you cant have it all...

[kayumanggi]

Next weekend is bound to be bigger right?

[Cedarpoint1111]

Looks like Mission Impossible will make more then SH by the end of their runs.

[fmpro]

Next weekend is bound to be bigger right?

Friday will be big.. Sat and sun wont be...So maybe from -20% to 10% increase

[kayumanggi]

I see. Thanks. I hope everything increases. That's how desperate this year is.

[Chrestomanci]

Friday will be big.. Sat and sun wont be...

So maybe from -20% to 10% increase

I think you're significantly underselling next weekend. Look at 2005. Very few movies decreased at all from Christmas weekend to New Year's weekend that year and nearly all of the increases were bigger than 10%, some significantly bigger. Out of the top 25 that year, there was only one movie (Polar Express) which decreased and, setting that aside, the smallest increase was 10.5%. In the top five for New Year's weekend, we had The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which managed a nearly 30% increase, King Kong up 16.5%, Dick and Jane up 14.9%, Cheaper By the Dozen 2 up a tremendous 55.6% and Rumor Has It up a whopping 169.6% (though that's largely due to the fact that it didn't open until Christmas Day, so its previous weekend was only one day long). Edited December 24, 2011 by Chrestomanci

[fmpro]

Yeah.. Just checked.. 2005 increased 30% from xmas weekend..My bad..

[fmpro]

I see. Thanks. I hope everything increases. That's how desperate this year is.

I was wrong.. I got corrected..

[Electric]

Polar Express shouldn't count there for drops. It had been some re-release around Christmas, not a new 2005 movie.

[lab276]

That's great for MI4, everything else ranges from unremarkable to just poor.