Friday numbers first post

[rcalcagn]

People shouldn't be surprised by Titanic's drop; it was the only date movie these past two weekends and now there's two films that appeal to couples from teenagers to black couples to young and old. Paramount and Fox should be extremely happy though considering it could get something like $300M international when alls said and done.

[wboxoffice]

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 - Think Like a Man SGem $12,200,000 - - 2,015 $6,055 $12,200,000 1 2 - The Lucky One WB $9,130,000 - - 3,155 $2,894 $9,130,000 1 3 1 The Hunger Games LGF $4,000,000 +178% -38% 3,752 $1,066 $346,400,000 29 4 - Chimpanzee BV $3,536,000 - - 1,563 $2,262 $3,536,000 1 5 2 The Cabin in the Woods LGF $2,475,000 +151% -55% 2,811 $880 $21,705,000 8 6 5 The Three Stooges Fox $2,300,000 +233% -59% 3,482 $661 $22,455,000 8 7 3 American Reunion Uni. $1,700,000 +126% -50% 3,033 $561 $44,744,000 15 8 4 Titanic 3D Par. $1,400,000 +99% -58% 2,515 $557 $49,228,000 17 9 6 21 Jump Street Sony $1,375,000 +162% -33% 2,427 $567 $123,841,000 36 10 8 Mirror Mirror Rela. $1,090,000 +145% -47% 2,938 $371 $52,182,000 22 11 7 Wrath of the Titans WB $1,030,000 +112% -47% 2,502 $412 $74,341,000 22 12 9 Lockout FD $939,000 +147% -58% 2,335 $402 $8,908,000 8 - - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen CBS $172,000 +105% -33% 445 $387 $6,561,000 43 - - Bully (PG-13) Wein. $144,000 +155% -11% 263 $548 $889,000 8 - - Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day Code $43,400 +51% -80% 106 $409 $822,000 8

How do you copy/paste charts like that, when I try to do it from boxofficemojo to here, it automatically transforms into a normal text after I post it, instead of the original chart/table layout. Thanks

EDIT: As proven with my post! lol

Edited April 21, 2012 by wboxoffice

[Taylor]

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[RTX]

People shouldn't be surprised by Titanic's drop; it was the only date movie these past two weekends and now there's two films that appeal to couples from teenagers to black couples to young and old.

Yes, in the end zac efron movie killed not THG as widely expected, but Titanic.

[rcalcagn]

Yes, in the end zac efron movie killed not THG as widely expected, but Titanic.

Exactly; it got older couples and hell even gay couples; it's amazing how many of my gay friends love that Zac Efron.

[blackspider]

Damn TLAM exploded. I had a feeling this could have been big. Also pretty good for TLO. Nicolas Sparks books are guaranteed BO successes I guess.And great Friday for THG. Should be able to get around 13-14m this weekend. This will be nearly neck and neck with DH2 at the same point. DH2 had a 36m lead on THG through their opening weeks so THG has closed that gap really fast. 400m is still on the table, let's hope THG can have a decent Sunday hold for once.

[wboxoffice]

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[MovieMan89]

Does CiTW have a chance at 40M+ total?

I think it can. Would love to see a 3x multi and about a 45m finish for it.

[Deep Wang]

Drag Me To Hell got to $42 off of a slightly larger opening. However, based on estimates, Cabin is looking like it will have a better second weekend hold. If that is the case, could one assume that the rest of the drops will be better than those that Drag had? I miss you Cocho!

[Robertron]

Is there a Deadline report for the numbers?It's the only estimates report I like because of the format and the weekend estimates as well.

[Robertron]

Oh and Paramount/Fox should be absolutely over the moon with Titanic. If I remember correctly, it was $18m for the conversion, so it's made a nice little profit from DOM alone. Then add in even the little amount it'll get from China and they're still laughing all the way to the bank!

[filmscholar]

Too bad urban movies like TLAM do so poorly overseas. I wonder what the highest grossing predominantly black movie overseas is.

Urban genre films do bad overseas but it's not cause they aren't good films though they just aren't marketed and distributed overseas to have the success they could have. George Lucas was very vocal about Hollywood politics when it comes to race and all black cast with his struggles to make "Red Tails". I am very happy for "TLAM" success. It was based on a very popular book which mostly minorities made a best seller which was by comedian Steve Harvey. With a very low budget (Like most all black cast films) it could go north of 75 Million at the Box Office. I think Hollywood needs to take more chances on minority cast cause there is an audience out there that doesn't only want to see Tyler Perry influenced films.

And that's no disrespect to him he's been very successful but I'm disappointed in Tylers choice to make the same old films over and over again. A good movie is a good movie regardless of race but Hollywood rarely puts the budgets in all black cast cause of fear it won't do well. The Irony of the whole thing is I'm sure nobody in Hollywood thought an All Black Cast would end "Hunger Games" Reign at the top. As for your questions, the Biggest All Black Cast film to do major numbers overseas was "Coming To America" with a budget of 39 Million was at the time the highest budget for an all black cast. Red Tails now has the record:

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic: $128,152,301 44.4% + Foreign: $160,600,000 55.6% = Worldwide: $288,752,301 Edited April 22, 2012 by filmscholar

[Jandrew]

I drove by my theater a few hours ago and it was PACKED TO THE MAX, i havent seen that many parking spaces filled since Hunger Games and the Valentines Weekend. Happy for TLAM and TLO, just image if Think Like A Man made it to around say 2,800 theaters! Cant wait to Saturday numbers. Kevin Hart might have only 1 scene in T5YE, idk, but they better market him in QUICK, just like they did with the "im Katniss" line.