Thursday Midnights:STRONG MIDNIGHTS: ‘Star Wars 3D: Phantom Menace’ $1.1M; ‘The Vow $700K; ‘Safe Hou

[Chrestomanci]

Strong may mean under 30M for both. Don't accept that. Journey 2 should have been released next weekend.

True, but her text is about Hollywood hoping that it can get 3 openers over $30M. So I don't think this is a "strong" that rules that out, even if it doesn't confirm it.

[Chrestomanci]

I thought Phantom Menace was "huge." Doesn't that mean its performing better than "strong" performers Safe House and The Vow? I haven't read the article, just going by what Chrestomanci posted.

You would think. Possibly the order is the expected ultimate order of the grosses for Friday because she expects their business to pick up more in the evening than Star Wars will.

[fishstick]

If the order of the movies in the article is anything to go by, we have

1. The Vow

2. Safe House

3. Star Wars 3D

4. Journey 2

Meesa only 3d?

[RichWS]

HOLY SHIT AT SAFE HOUSE!

[blackspider]

You would think. Possibly the order is the expected ultimate order of the grosses for Friday because she expects their business to pick up more in the evening than Star Wars will.

Makes sense. I can see Safe House potenitally making more on Friday than TPM but TPM ultimately make more over the weekend.

[Chrestomanci]

Her projected Friday numbers:Safe House - $14MThe Vow - $13MPhantom Menace - $11MJourney 2 - $4META: Ah, I see someone else has now started a Friday numbers thread. Good.

Edited February 10, 2012 by Chrestomanci

[kayumanggi]

[kayumanggi]

Those numbers are huge! SAFE HOUSE?!

[fishstick]

Why is everyone so surprised? Denzel is a very reliable opener.

[DavidBrennan]

Why is everyone so surprised? Denzel is a very reliable opener.

Totally agree. That's right within the range that I would expect - 12m to 16m, depending.

[CJohn]

Why is everyone so surprised? Denzel is a very reliable opener.

Reliable in the 20-25M range. Not almost 40M! (unless he is the bad guy, I guess).

[kayumanggi]

Why is everyone so surprised? Denzel is a very reliable opener.

Here comes Hermione again.

[Mojoguy]

Fanboy films are expected to do well in midnights. especially like Star Wars which has a following.How many romantic films done well at midnights? Do you know??

Um... the Twilight movies?

[ecstasy]

Um... the Twilight movies?

Twilight is still a fan-driven movie. It has a built in fanbase. Krissy is talking about some random Romantic movie.

[baumer]

Totally agree. That's right within the range that I would expect - 12m to 16m, depending.

Based on what? Denzel has two movies that have opened higher than 30 mill. And you expected this to be like American Gangster? Sure.

[Noctis]

Totally agree. That's right within the range that I would expect - 12m to 16m, depending.

Edited February 10, 2012 by Noctis