Official Weekend Est: MJ1 56.9M Penguins 25.8m BH6 18.77m Interstellar 15.8M

[kayumanggi]

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 earned an estimated $24.1M on Friday. Estimated domestic total stands at... http://t.co/VAjxufM5jy

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

November 29, 2014

[kayumanggi]

Lionsgate reports THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 has eclipsed $400M worldwide. #TheHungerGames #Mockingjay

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

November 29, 2014

[kayumanggi]

DUMB AND DUMBER TO earned an estimated $3.4M on Friday. Estimated domestic total stands at $67.3M. #DumbAndDumberTo

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

November 29, 2014

[Ezen Baklattan]

 

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice  1m1 minute ago

BIG HERO 6 earned an estimated $7.74M on Friday. Estimated domestic total stands at $156.2M. #BigHero6

 

If it follows WIR's holds, that's a 4% drop for the weekend. 

[kayumanggi]

#HungerGames #Mockingjay #1 on #BlackFriday w/ big $24.1M going to about $58M wknd. Global total has now shattered $400M.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

November 29, 2014

[Quigley]

Why do you even care about Deadline cumes? They are always wrong. Just use the daily numbers.

[kayumanggi]

#Penguins takes in $10.5M FRI heading to 5day debut of about $37M, lower than 3day openings of all #Madagascar pics.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

November 29, 2014

[kayumanggi]

$6.2M FRI for #HorribleBosses2 going to about $16M wknd & $23M 5day debut falling below 3day non-holiday bow of 1st pic.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

November 29, 2014

[Lordmandeep]

So is GOTG still safe? 

[redfirebird2008]

So is GOTG still safe?

Probably.

[kayumanggi]

INTERSTELLAR earned an estimated $6.6M on Friday. Estimated domestic total stands at $137.9M. #Interstellar

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

November 29, 2014

[kayumanggi]

Huge FRI debut for #BenedictCumberbatch's #ImitationGame w/ $181k in only 4 thtrs. May hit $475k wknd & sizzling $118k avg!

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

November 29, 2014

[Jonwo]

You know DWA has had a bad year as none of their films this year have opened at number 1, although Mr Peabody and Sherman did rise to the top spot the weekend. They're lucky HTTYD2 was successful and had virtually no competition from animated films aside from Planes 2 otherwise it would have been a lot worse. 

[Dingdong123]

Went to box office mojo and they had the friday estimates of Big Hero 6 at just 4M. Please tell me that's wrong.

[druv10]

Went to box office mojo and they had the friday estimates of Big Hero 6 at just 4M. Please tell me that's wrong.

 

 

7.74M for Friday. 

[DAJK]

Poor poor Dreamworks...

Did they movie Penguins to Thanksgiving so they could have a sure fire hit before Home? Maybe they should have just stuck with the original release, and have Home underperform initially, but have Penguins open to much more in March.

[Dingdong123]

7.74M for Friday.

They better fix it it's killing me. Lol. And BH6 is looking to drop less than 5% this weekend. That's a lot better than Ralph's 10.8% drop last thanksgiving 2012. Imagine a world where penguins didn't exist. Baymax would've soared even higher. Haha.

[Jonwo]

Poor poor Dreamworks...

Did they movie Penguins to Thanksgiving so they could have a sure fire hit before Home? Maybe they should have just stuck with the original release, and have Home underperform initially, but have Penguins open to much more in March.

 

I think they switched Home and Penguins to avoid another writeoff but it looks like they're going to have another writeoff anyway now that Penguins has underperformed

[The Panda]

They better fix it it's killing me. Lol. And BH6 is looking to drop less than 5% this weekend. That's a lot better than Ralph's 10.8% drop last thanksgiving 2012. Imagine a world where penguins didn't exist. Baymax would've soared even higher. Haha.

 

It might have been because Rise of the Guardians + (kind of) Life of Pi is much more competition than Penguins.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Based on comparison with 9 other animated films that played during Thanksgiving (Bolt, Happy Feet, Frozen, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, The Muppets, Rise of the Guardians, Megamind and Madagascar 2), Penguins will earn $36-37M over 5 days. That is higher than the $32.3M 5-day opening of Rise of the Guardians. However, that film was Christmas-themed which allowed it to have a very impressive post-Thanksgiving weekend hold (-43%) and very small decreases in the weekends leading to the Christams holidays (no bigger drops than -31%). Guardians made $103M in total. Penguins had a lower CinemaScore (A- vs A) and is a prequel so it will definitely be more front-loaded. I don't see how it could cross $100M. Also, if we compare it to The Muppets, another franchise-based film that opened over Thanskgiving to $41.5M, Penguins could earn less than $80M by the end of its run.

Hopefully Penguins does great OS!