Tuesday #s 11/25 - MJ1 12.1M

[narniadis]

Here's what happened last year on the Wednesday and Thursday of Thanksgiving week.

As you can see, some movies dropped on Wednesday. Thanksgiving itself was much kinder to adult and older-skewing movies than kids movies:

> Rank* Title Monday

11/25 Tuesday

11/26 Wednesday

11/27 Thursday

11/28 1 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

Lionsgate

4,163 $12,321,722

-64.3% / $2,960

$170,396,008 / 4 $15,960,309

+29.5% / $3,834

$186,356,317 / 5 $20,808,110

+30.4% / $4,998

$207,164,427 / 6 $14,951,629

-28.1% / $3,592

$222,116,056 / 7 2 FROZEN

Buena Vista

3,742 $47,725

-43.3% / $47,725

$291,115 / 4 $51,724

+8.4% / $51,724

$342,839 / 5 $15,161,249

+29211.8% / $4,052

$15,504,088 / 6 $11,037,812

-27.2% / $2,950

$26,541,900 / 7 3 THOR: THE DARK WORLD

Buena Vista

3,286 $1,360,662

-64% / $366

$169,277,785 / 18 $1,941,500

+42.7% / $523

$171,219,285 / 19 $2,346,359

+20.9% / $714

$173,565,644 / 20 $2,054,146

-12.5% / $625

$175,619,790 / 21 4 HOMEFRONT

Open Road Films

2,570

N/A

N/A $1,425,112

-- / $555

$1,425,112 / 1 $1,400,066

-1.8% / $545

$2,825,178 / 2 5 DELIVERY MAN

Buena Vista

3,036 $735,482

-59.7% / $242

$8,680,459 / 4 $1,095,849

+49% / $361

$9,776,308 / 5 $1,306,752

+19.2% / $430

$11,083,060 / 6 $1,437,482

+10% / $473

$12,520,542 / 7 6 THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY

Universal

1,785 $938,650

-68.9% / $460

$51,299,160 / 11 $1,010,295

+7.6% / $495

$52,309,455 / 12 $1,222,725

+21% / $685

$53,532,180 / 13 $1,383,375

+13.1% / $775

$54,915,555 / 14 7 FREE BIRDS

Relativity

2,287 $695,896

-58.9% / $227

$49,352,969 / 25 $925,939

+33.1% / $302

$50,278,908 / 26 $778,683

-15.9% / $340

$51,057,591 / 27 $374,140

-52% / $164

$51,431,731 / 28 8 THE BOOK THIEF

Fox

1,234 $65,741

-63.6% / $939

$1,373,253 / 18 $82,924

+26.1% / $1,185

$1,456,177 / 19 $725,785

+775.2% / $588

$2,181,962 / 20 $818,097

+12.7% / $663

$3,000,059 / 21 9 GRAVITY

Warner Bros.

1,016 $336,165

-59.3% / $182

$245,743,924 / 53 $433,117

+28.8% / $235

$246,177,041 / 54 $454,450

+4.9% / $447

$246,631,491 / 55 $511,370

+12.5% / $503

$247,142,861 / 56 10 LAST VEGAS

CBS Films

1,963 $432,469

-60.1% / $148

$54,317,293 / 25 $579,783

+34.1% / $198

$54,897,076 / 26 $446,732

-22.9% / $228

$55,343,808 / 27 $562,339

+25.9% / $286

$55,906,147 / 28 11 BLACK NATIVITY

Fox Searchlight

1,516

N/A

N/A $436,940

-- / $288

$436,940 / 1 $673,253

+54.1% / $444

$1,110,193 / 2 12 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA

Paramount

1,619 $368,927

-55.7% / $141

$95,803,556 / 32 $443,797

+20.3% / $169

$96,247,353 / 33 $394,191

-11.2% / $243

$96,641,544 / 34 $371,665

-5.7% / $230

$97,013,209 / 35 13 PHILOMENA

Weinstein Company

753 $13,110

-65.3% / $3,278

$141,545 / 4 $12,164

-7.2% / $3,041

$153,709 / 5 $376,097

+2991.9% / $499

$529,806 / 6 $431,612

+14.8% / $573

$961,418 / 7 14 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Focus Features

690 $256,955

-63.1% / $386

$6,631,013 / 25 $319,465

+24.3% / $480

$6,950,478 / 26 $364,676

+14.2% / $529

$7,315,154 / 27 $383,374

+5.1% / $556

$7,698,528 / 28 15 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Fox Searchlight

1,165 $301,896

-60.3% / $205

$29,728,843 / 39 $389,303

+29% / $264

$30,118,146 / 40 $356,606

-8.4% / $306

$30,474,752 / 41 $375,452

+5.3% / $322

$30,850,204 / 42 16 ENDER'S GAME

Lionsgate/Summit

843 $235,822

-56.3% / $116

$57,431,401 / 25 $307,463

+30.4% / $151

$57,738,864 / 26 $221,302

-28% / $263

$57,960,166 / 27 $206,286

-6.8% / $245

$58,166,452 / 28 17 OLDBOY (2013)

FilmDistrict

583

N/A

N/A $212,852

-- / $365

$212,852 / 1 $184,431

-13.4% / $316

$397,283 / 2 18 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Sony / Columbia

807 $182,653

-58.5% / $110

$100,888,487 / 46 $252,487

+38.2% / $152

$101,140,974 / 47 $200,505

-20.6% / $248

$101,341,479 / 48 $234,472

+16.9% / $291

$101,575,951 / 49 - CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

Sony / Columbia

707 $132,814

-55.5% / $118

$114,361,132 / 60 $155,544

+17.1% / $139

$114,516,676 / 61 $87,460

-43.8% / $124

$114,604,136 / 62 $42,732

-51.1% / $60

$114,646,868 / 63 - NEBRASKA

Paramount

97 $29,543

-66.7% / $1,055

$544,911 / 11 $31,578

+6.9% / $1,128

$576,489 / 12 $81,449

+157.9% / $840

$657,938 / 13 $90,428

+11% / $932

$748,366 / 14 - DESPICABLE ME 2

Universal

271 $42,775

-54.7% / $145

$366,418,425 / 146 $56,010

+30.9% / $190

$366,474,435 / 147 $78,590

+40.3% / $290

$366,553,025 / 148 $39,295

-50% / $145

$366,592,320 / 149

And the Wednesday drops had more to do with theater count losses than anything else.

[kayumanggi]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	1	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	LGF	$12,131,853	+35%	-	4,151	$2,923	$143,007,805	5
2	2	Big Hero 6	BV	$3,273,189	+50%	+93%	3,650	$897	$141,204,274	19
3	3	Interstellar	Par.	$2,420,222	+40%	-9%	3,415	$709	$125,080,272	21
4	4	Dumb and Dumber To	Uni.	$1,656,450	+39%	-31%	3,188	$520	$60,579,925	12
5	5	Gone Girl	Fox	$360,625	+24%	-15%	1,609	$224	$157,496,697	54
6	7	Beyond the Lights	Rela.	$317,016	+27%	-23%	1,766	$180	$10,694,858	12
7	6	Fury (2014)	Sony	$312,892	+22%	-25%	1,720	$182	$79,763,718	40
8	8	St. Vincent	Wein.	$283,512	+43%	-30%	1,707	$166	$36,989,661	47
9	9	Birdman	FoxS	$236,629	+29%	-16%	862	$275	$14,826,404	40
10	11	The Theory of Everything	Focus	$214,575	+43%	+208%	140	$1,533	$3,172,942	19
11	10	Nightcrawler	ORF	$184,977	+19%	-48%	1,102	$168	$27,515,636	26
12	-	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	BV	$153,068	+49%	+83%	754	$203	$63,558,598	47
13	12	Ouija	Uni.	$133,480	+17%	-25%	1,341	$100	$49,820,665	33
14	13	John Wick	LG/S	$130,020	+18%	-51%	972	$134	$40,850,383	33
-	-	Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas	Gold.	$97,039	+25%	-	391	$248	$2,086,698	12
-	-	The Book of Life (2014)	Fox	$73,741	+22%	+47%	438	$168	$48,046,340	40
-	-	The Judge	WB	$72,788	+37%	-46%	505	$144	$45,464,931	47
-	-	Rosewater	ORF	$65,100	+13%	-33%	371	$175	$2,188,644	12
-	-	The Maze Runner	Fox	$54,114	+39%	+37%	370	$146	$100,591,291	68
-	-	The Best of Me	Rela.	$44,012	+41%	-31%	432	$102	$26,289,635	40
-	-	The Equalizer	Sony	$37,261	+19%	-12%	269	$139	$99,373,178	61
-	-	Citizenfour	RTWC	$26,982	+20%	+11%	86	$314	$1,262,312	33
-	-	The Boxtrolls	Focus	$26,547	+40%	+146%	174	$153	$49,551,120	61
-	-	Dolphin Tale 2	WB	$19,713	+31%	+108%	191	$103	$41,877,013	75
-	-	Annabelle	WB (NL)	$19,698	+18%	+97%	225	$88	$84,027,366	54
-	-	Dracula Untold	Uni.	$17,550	+29%	-46%	195	$90	$55,974,030	47
-	-	Addicted	LGF	$7,440	-2%	-30%	113	$66	$17,351,494	47
-	-	Let's Be Cops	Fox	$5,245	+13%	-20%	57	$92	$82,365,768	105
-	-	The Good Lie	WB	$5,225	+48%	-15%	29	$180	$2,531,208	54
-	-	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Fox	$5,067	+27%	+26%	76	$67	$176,942,978	166
-	-	The Giver	Wein.	$4,543	+46%	+7%	46	$99	$45,070,017	103
-	-	This is Where I Leave You	WB	$4,078	+28%	-52%	75	$54	$34,269,560	68
-	-	Left Behind (2014)	Free	$2,594	+65%	-7%	33	$79	$13,858,937	54
-	-	Keep On Keepin' On	RTWC	$1,020	+70%	+72%	8	$128	$148,472	68
-	-	Tracks (2014)	Wein.	$658	+88%	-6%	6	$110	$509,815	68
-	-	Kill the Messenger	Focus	$334	-35%	-73%	11	$30	$2,434,455	47
-	-	Hector And The Search For Happiness	Rela.	$45	-58%	-91%	8	$6	$941,533	68

 

[grim22]

That appears to be where it is currently headed unless it develops late legs. That's always possible because for comparison Frozen took even longer than this for its extraordinary legs to show up. Don't get me wrong, Big Hero 6 won't have legs anywhere near that good, but Frozen's weren't any better at the same point, so given the general audience reaction there is still a chance that Big Hero 6 could do even better than it has been doing. At this point the movie underperforming--by any reasonable standard--seems very unlikely, although it will face a test against direct competition this Thanksgiving weekend.

 

Frozen had the 12 days of Christmas box office still to come. It went from 177M on 21st December to 277M on 2nd January. It earned 100M over the 12 days, and reached 300M by the time the first weekend of the new year was done. BH6 won't have the big boost that comes from New Years as it will be down to low dailies by that point.

[Melvin Frohike]

Frozen had the 12 days of Christmas box office still to come. It went from 177M on 21st December to 277M on 2nd January. It earned 100M over the 12 days, and reached 300M by the time the first weekend of the new year was done. BH6 won't have the big boost that comes from New Years as it will be down to low dailies by that point.

My comparison was in no way intended to be direct or of the same scale, for that matter--my only point here is that even extraordinary legs, using Frozen as an extreme example for illustration, can take a fair amount of time to develop (and it's not always gradual, either--in fact, it was quite abrupt in this case). The direct comparison is between Frozen and other Thanksgiving releases, with Tangled being a good example--Frozen took several weeks to prove that it could hold better than Tangled, but eventually it did (and how!).

Accordingly, there is still a chance that Big Hero 6 could prove to hold better than, say, Wreck-It Ralph, which also opened in early November--although it's bigger than the latter in general, it hasn't held better so far, but like Frozen versus Tangled shows, it may do so yet (too early to call). If it doesn't, then we're probably looking at a final DOM gross of about $210-220M, but if it gets stronger legs under it within the next week or so, then even $250M could still be in play despite its lower-than-expected (by many) OW gross.

Edited November 27, 2014 by Melvin Frohike

[Ezen Baklattan]

Frozen had the 12 days of Christmas box office still to come. It went from 177M on 21st December to 277M on 2nd January. It earned 100M over the 12 days, and reached 300M by the time the first weekend of the new year was done. BH6 won't have the big boost that comes from New Years as it will be down to low dailies by that point.

Tangled had that boost too, to a lesser extent. Essentially, the Thanksgiving weekend is best to open an animated film if longevity is what you seek.

[ecstasy]

Are you working today?

 

Telecommuted today.

[ecstasy]

So are we going to ignore how well Theory of Everything is doing?

[kitik]

That data does not fit into my model of a unified view of the boxoffice, so I choose to ignore it.

[narniadis]

Theory is doing well - can't wait to see it and it would be nice to see it and imitation game do extremely well.

[baumer]

So if MJ1 follows BD1 from here until Sunday its heading for abouta 55 mill weekend.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Finally some good news of MJ1.

[dxmatrixdt]

Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay - 4,151 locations - $14,550 average - 60.40 / 87.79 - 230.80 total

 

Penguins of Madagascar - 3764 locations - $11,600 average - 43.66 / 60.04 - 60.04 total

 

Horrible Bosses 2 - 3,375 locations - $8750 average - 29.53 / 43.03 - 43.03 total

 

Big Hero 6 - 3,365 locations - $7,125 average - 23.98 / 33.23 - 174.43 total

 

Interstellar - 3,066 locations - $5,690 average - 17.45 / 23.97 - 149.05 total

 

Dumb and Dumber 2 - 3,130 locations - $3,950 average - 12.36 / 16.90 - 77.48 total

 

The Theory of Everything - 802 locations - $5,410 average - 4.32 / 5.78 - 8.95 total

 

Gone Girl - 1,174 locations - $2,739 average - 3.22 / 4.15 - 161.65 total

 

Beyond the Lights - 1,187 locations - $2,110 average - 2.50 / 3.23 - 13.92 total

 

St. Vincent - 1,256 locations - $1,630 average - 2.05 / 2.78 - 39.77 total

 

Birdman - 710 locations - $2,936 average - 2.08 / 2.76 - 17.59 total

 

Fury - 994 locations - $1,925 average - 1.91 / 2.53 - 82.29 total

 

Nightcrawler - 570 locations - $1,610 average - 0.92 / 1.23 - 28.74 total

 

The Judge - 415 locations - $1,335 average - 0.55 / 0.74 - 46.20 total

 

John Wick - 488 locations - $1,090 average - 0.53 / 0.70 - 41.55 total

 

Alexander ... - 376 locations - $1,230 average - 0.46 / 0.61 - 64.17 total

 

Ouija - 455 locations - $860 average - 0.39 / 0.51 - 50.33 total

 

The Equalizer - 397 locations - $825 average - 0.33 / 0.43 - 99.80 total

 

Book of Life - 279 locations - $900 average - 0.25 / 0.35 - 48.40 total

 

The Maze Runner - 275 locations - $935 average - 0.26 / 0.35 - 100.94 total

 

The Boxtrolls - 266 locations - $775 average - 0.21 / 0.27 - 49.82 total

 

Annabelle - 171 locations - $655 average - 0.112 / 0.150 - 84.18 total

 

The Best of Me - 165 locations - $670 average - 0.11 / 0.15 - 26.44 total

 

Dolphin Tale 2 - 145 locations - $655 average - 0.095 / 0.12 - 42.00 total

 

Dracula Untold - 102 locations - $665 average - 0.068 / 0.091 - 56.065 total

 

Addicted - 43 locations - $560 average - 0.024 / 0.033 - 17.384 total

 

This is Where I leave You ??  +30k??

[Melvin Frohike]

Tangled had that boost too, to a lesser extent. Essentially, the Thanksgiving weekend is best to open an animated film if longevity is what you seek.

Right, but under essentially the same circumstances, some movies still end up having much stronger legs than others, and in some such cases these stronger legs don't reveal themselves for several weeks, as in the case of Frozen versus Tangled--Frozen was bigger, but regarding stronger legs it showed nothing for quite some time. With Tangled's OW multiplier Frozen would have grossed $278M DOM, but instead it grossed $401M, so obviously something happened besides the same holidays. I don't expect anything like this for Big Hero 6, of course, but its legs could potentially show some improvement even at this stage.

[Melvin Frohike]

Big Hero 6 - 3,365 locations - $7,125 average - 23.98 / 33.23 - 174.43 total

That would be pretty tremendous--for that matter even $20M for Friday-Sunday would be pretty tremendous--but personally I wouldn't predict or expect something like that.

[tupek]

 

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 LGF $12,131,853 +35% - 4,151 $2,923 $143,007,805 5 2 2 Big Hero 6 BV $3,273,189 +50% +93% 3,650 $897 $141,204,274 19 3 3 Interstellar Par. $2,420,222 +40% -9% 3,415 $709 $125,080,272 21 4 4 Dumb and Dumber To Uni. $1,656,450 +39% -31% 3,188 $520 $60,579,925 12 5 5 Gone Girl Fox $360,625 +24% -15% 1,609 $224 $157,496,697 54 6 7 Beyond the Lights Rela. $317,016 +27% -23% 1,766 $180 $10,694,858 12 7 6 Fury (2014) Sony $312,892 +22% -25% 1,720 $182 $79,763,718 40 8 8 St. Vincent Wein. $283,512 +43% -30% 1,707 $166 $36,989,661 47 9 9 Birdman FoxS $236,629 +29% -16% 862 $275 $14,826,404 40 10 11 The Theory of Everything Focus $214,575 +43% +208% 140 $1,533 $3,172,942 19 11 10 Nightcrawler ORF $184,977 +19% -48% 1,102 $168 $27,515,636 26 12 - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day BV $153,068 +49% +83% 754 $203 $63,558,598 47 13 12 Ouija Uni. $133,480 +17% -25% 1,341 $100 $49,820,665 33 14 13 John Wick LG/S $130,020 +18% -51% 972 $134 $40,850,383 33 - - Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas Gold. $97,039 +25% - 391 $248 $2,086,698 12 - - The Book of Life (2014) Fox $73,741 +22% +47% 438 $168 $48,046,340 40 - - The Judge WB $72,788 +37% -46% 505 $144 $45,464,931 47 - - Rosewater ORF $65,100 +13% -33% 371 $175 $2,188,644 12 - - The Maze Runner Fox $54,114 +39% +37% 370 $146 $100,591,291 68 - - The Best of Me Rela. $44,012 +41% -31% 432 $102 $26,289,635 40 - - The Equalizer Sony $37,261 +19% -12% 269 $139 $99,373,178 61 - - Citizenfour RTWC $26,982 +20% +11% 86 $314 $1,262,312 33 - - The Boxtrolls Focus $26,547 +40% +146% 174 $153 $49,551,120 61 - - Dolphin Tale 2 WB $19,713 +31% +108% 191 $103 $41,877,013 75 - - Annabelle WB (NL) $19,698 +18% +97% 225 $88 $84,027,366 54 - - Dracula Untold Uni. $17,550 +29% -46% 195 $90 $55,974,030 47 - - Addicted LGF $7,440 -2% -30% 113 $66 $17,351,494 47 - - Let's Be Cops Fox $5,245 +13% -20% 57 $92 $82,365,768 105 - - The Good Lie WB $5,225 +48% -15% 29 $180 $2,531,208 54 - - How to Train Your Dragon 2 Fox $5,067 +27% +26% 76 $67 $176,942,978 166 - - The Giver Wein. $4,543 +46% +7% 46 $99 $45,070,017 103 - - This is Where I Leave You WB $4,078 +28% -52% 75 $54 $34,269,560 68 - - Left Behind (2014) Free $2,594 +65% -7% 33 $79 $13,858,937 54 - - Keep On Keepin' On RTWC $1,020 +70% +72% 8 $128 $148,472 68 - - Tracks (2014) Wein. $658 +88% -6% 6 $110 $509,815 68 - - Kill the Messenger Focus $334 -35% -73% 11 $30 $2,434,455 47 - - Hector And The Search For Happiness Rela. $45 -58% -91% 8 $6 $941,533 68

 

 

How to train your dragon 2 still there. I'm pretty sure if HTTYD had stayed that long in teathers and hadn't relinquished those screens and gave them to Shrek 4 it would've grossed $10m more.