DHD Friday (03.23) 68.25 M | THE HUNGER GAMES (Crow-serving on-going :))

[grey ghost]

Big studios have missed 2 franchises in a row now this, and twilight. Quite a shameful performance on their part.(null)

They're too busy recycling old stuff.

[Totem]

Lionsgate has never had so much money to count, probably why they are taking so long to release something legit.

[Cedarpoint1111]

Lionsgate has never had so much money to count, probably why they are taking so long to release something legit.

So true...

[moeSlow]

Lionsgate has never had so much money to count, probably why they are taking so long to release something legit.

they are still using

[riczhang]

Better get used to it they have twilight coming up too...

Edited March 24, 2012 by riczhang

[spizzer]

FRIDAY 11 PM, 6TH UPDATE… EXCLUSIVE: My sources tonight say The Hunger Games is looking to open with $66 million for Friday box office in the U.S. and Canada including the record $19.75M in midnight shows. That puts its 3-day North American weekend gross around $138M. “The West Coast and late shows still need to come in, so this number could bounce around a bit. But, nevertheless it’s everything we thought it to be,” one rival studio exec tells me. This is the biggest movie start ever for Lionsgate, which now can count on a blockbuster bonanza for its franchise trilogy. “I did see some champagne glasses flowing down the hall,” one ecstatic Lionsgate exec gushed to me. Top Friday numbers include the last Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two at $91.1M, Twilight Saga: New Moon at $72.7M; The Dark Knight at $67.2M; Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part One at $61.7M. Audiences gave The Hunger Games an ‘A’ Cinemascore with under-age 18 teens/tweens rating it ’A+’.

[spizzer]

Lowest I can see it going with 66M Friday is 144M, and that would be kind of weak IMO

Edited March 24, 2012 by spizzer

[Noctis]

Do you know the male percentages for recent Twilight and Harry Potter.

43% for Half-Blood Prince, and 46% for Deathly Hallows 2.I think it was 19% for New Moon, and probably even lower for BD1.

[moeSlow]

FRIDAY 11 PM, 6TH UPDATE… EXCLUSIVE: My sources tonight say The Hunger Games is looking to open with $66 million for Friday box office in the U.S. and Canada including the record $19.75M in midnight shows. That puts its 3-day North American weekend gross around $138M. “The West Coast and late shows still need to come in, so this number could bounce around a bit. But, nevertheless it’s everything we thought it to be,” one rival studio exec tells me. This is the biggest movie start ever for Lionsgate, which now can count on a blockbuster bonanza for its franchise trilogy. “I did see some champagne glasses flowing down the hall,” one ecstatic Lionsgate exec gushed to me. Top Friday numbers include the last Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two at $91.1M, Twilight Saga: New Moon at $72.7M; The Dark Knight at $67.2M; Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part One at $61.7M. Audiences gave The Hunger Games an ‘A’ Cinemascore with under-age 18 teens/tweens rating it ’A+’.

[blackspider]

So around 46m non-midnight. Right around DH2.

[iceroll]

Great gross for The Hunger Games! This is a pretty late update so its unlikely to change much

[riczhang]

Is 50 million for tomorrow possible? (null)

[B J]

yummy

[blackspider]

Is 50 million for tomorrow possible?(null)

Yes its possible. It'd be around a 10% increase non midnight Friday to Saturday. Definitely on the high end but I can see it happening.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Is 50 million for tomorrow possible?(null)

doubt that.

[iceroll]

The 46m day gross is especially impressive since it's a weekday during school. I'm quite confident it will at least stay flat tomorrow. Pretty unlikely to decrease.

[kayumanggi]

That's a very impressive number.

[kayumanggi]

I still think 150 M is possible.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

What Sunday drop can we expect ? 20% ?

Edited March 24, 2012 by firedeep

[fmpro]

YEZZZZ.I´m hitting the 142 mill on the nose with this one...