Friday numbers: THG3 - 6.8, HB2 - 2.8, PoM - 2.6 (weekend actuals on p12)

[kayumanggi]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count /Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	LGF	$21,600,000	-62.1%	4,054	-97	$5,328	$257,700,000	$125	3
2	2	Penguins of Madagascar	Fox	$11,100,000	-56.4%	3,775	+11	$2,940	$49,591,000	$132	2
3	5	Horrible Bosses 2	WB	$8,600,000	-44.4%	3,400	+25	$2,529	$36,075,000	$42	2
4	3	Big Hero 6	BV	$8,130,000	-56.8%	3,168	-197	$2,566	$177,548,000	$165	5
5	4	Interstellar	Par.	$8,000,000	-49.2%	3,028	-38	$2,642	$158,657,000	$165	5
6	6	Dumb and Dumber To	Uni.	$4,169,000	-50.1%	3,088	-42	$1,350	$78,081,000	-	4
7	7	The Theory of Everything	Focus	$2,668,000	-46.8%	826	+24	$3,230	$13,613,000	-	5
8	8	Gone Girl	Fox	$1,500,000	-39.2%	1,205	+31	$1,245	$162,861,000	$61	10
9	N	The Pyramid	Fox	$1,350,000	-	589	-	$2,292	$1,350,000	-	1
10	9	Birdman	FoxS	$1,150,000	-38.6%	738	+28	$1,558	$18,919,000	$18	8
11	10	St. Vincent	Wein.	$1,085,000	-36.4%	1,432	+176	$758	$40,766,000	-	9
12	14	Nightcrawler	ORF	$1,076,000	+27.3%	1,257	+687	$856	$30,021,000	$8.5	6
13	12	Fury (2014)	Sony	$870,000	-43.7%	896	-163	$971	$83,234,000	$68	8
14	11	Beyond the Lights	Rela.	$717,000	-54.4%	827	-360	$867	$13,809,000	$7	4
15	N	Wild (2014)	FoxS	$630,000	-	21	-	$30,000	$677,000	-	1
16	13	Foxcatcher	SPC	$575,000	-44.3%	75	+3	$7,667	$2,842,000	-	4
17	28	The Homesman	Saban	$501,000	+131.2%	154	+104	$3,253	$1,067,000	-	4
-	18	The Imitation Game	Wein.	$402,000	-16.1%	8	+4	$50,250	$1,013,000	-	2
-	16	Whiplash	SPC	$351,000	-29.2%	175	-4	$2,006	$4,415,000	$3.3	9
-	19	Guardians of the Galaxy	BV	$255,000	-44.8%	276	-9	$924	$332,215,000	$170	19
-	24	The Maze Runner	Fox	$232,000	-31.2%	275	-	$844	$101,356,000	$34	12
-	22	Ouija	Uni.	$216,000	-44.3%	354	-101	$610	$50,627,000	$5	7
-	21	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	BV	$194,000	-51.4%	329	-47	$590	$64,384,000	$28	9
-	23	Rosewater	ORF	$176,000	-49.1%	204	-12	$863	$2,910,000	-	4
-	29	Citizenfour	RTWC	$136,000	-28.6%	104	+1	$1,308	$1,724,000	-	7
-	26	Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas	Gold.	$135,000	-46.7%	294	+17	$459	$2,656,000	-	4
-	42	The Babadook	IFC	$66,600	+121.9%	22	+19	$3,027	$112,300	-	2
-	34	Dear White People	RAtt.	$53,000	-31.3%	43	-3	$1,233	$4,276,900	-	8
-	39	Awake: The Life of Yogananda	CF&SR	$31,600	-9.3%	6	-	$5,267	$735,100	-	9
-	49	Boyhood	IFC	$25,700	+49.0%	18	+8	$1,428	$24,050,000	$4	22
-	47	My Old Lady	Cohen	$16,200	-16.6%	19	+2	$853	$3,942,000	-	13
-	N	Zero Motivation	Zeit.	$9,700	-	1	-	$9,700	$13,400	-	1
-	69	Keep On Keepin' On	RTWC	$6,700	+294.3%	6	+2	$1,117	$159,700	-	12
TOTAL (18 MOVIES):				$59,790,700	-63.5%	21,578	-11,779	$2,771

 

[kayumanggi]

Top20 this wknd slumps to lousy $75M - 2nd worst of 2014 after SEP 5-7 frame. Full chart: http://t.co/y4XTkFENXm

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

December 7, 2014

[#ED]

8M for IS?

Nice.

[AdamKendall]

Wow @ Interstellar, almost passing BH6 this weekend.  Feel pretty good about 180 now.

[Plain Old Tele]

It'll be overestimated.

[James]

That is also a nice drop for HB2. And Nightcrawler passed 30M.

[Alpha]

That's just a sad number for The Babadook.

Was hoping it would connect with American audiences.

[Aplandg]

I still want that $23m for MJ1!

[filmlover]

Great start for Wild. I'm pretty excited to see it.

[kayumanggi]

INTERSTELLAR is really having a leggy run.

[kayumanggi]

Projecting $88M final domestic gross for #PenguinsOfMadagascar. That would be worse than 15 of last 16 $DWA films.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

December 7, 2014

[miketheavenger]

 

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Man DWA has really had a bad year. Would be horrible if this couldn't even crack $100m.

[Jonwo]

Man DWA has really had a bad year. Would be horrible if this couldn't even crack $100m.

 

They've been declining since Rise of the Guardians with only Croods and HTTYD2 breaking over $150m. It's more telling that they've not had a $200m film since Madagascar 3

[miketheavenger]

They've been declining since Rise of the Guardians with only Croods and HTTYD2 breaking over $150m. It's more telling that they've not had a $200m film since Madagascar 3

I think they're oversaturating the market a bit. 3 movies a year is too much IMO. Look at Pixar. Regardless of what you might think of their quality, their last few films were still quite successful (especially MU) because they only released 1 movie per year.

[grim22]

What a lousy weekend. Hopefully Exodus breaks out next week.

[Fancyarcher]

That's just a sad number for The Babadook.

Was hoping it would connect with American audiences.

 

What did you expect? It was given a limited release and limited marketing, of course it wasn't going to connect moviegoers.

[kayumanggi]

They've been declining since Rise of the Guardians with only Croods and HTTYD2 breaking over $150m. It's more telling that they've not had a $200m film since Madagascar 3

 

It will be difficult for their original films to break 200 M considering the fact that even their sequels or spinoffs have failed. HOME will be another disaster for DW.

[kayumanggi]

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS snagged $23.1 million overseas this weekend ahead of domestic release.

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

December 7, 2014

[kayumanggi]

Saw EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS yesterday. Was just 'ok.'

[Mango]

That 49.2% drop for Interstellar this weekend looks sexy even if it will end up being 52-53% with actuals.