Weekend#s BD2 $43.1M/$227M, Skyfall 36/221.7, Linc 25/62.2, Rise 24/32.6, Pi 22/30.2, Ralph 16.8/1

[MovieMan89]

10x is highly unlikely for Lincoln, but with WOM being so good, the holidays, and extreme awards buzz you never know. I'll stick with it having The Blind Side's multi though (7.5x).

[Gopher]

There's no way it can keep 2000+ theatres or keep expanding with the holidays coming up.

Yes it will. The Blind Side kept 2000+ screens through the end of January. And Lincoln is still expanding and should add a few hundred more theaters in the next few weeks. It just had back to back weekends of a 12k PTA. You guys realize The Hobbit is just one movie, right? It'll be competition but it's not going to stop Bond and Lincoln in their tracks. Hobbit will get a lot of screens but it's not going to be playing on more than half of the average multiplex's screens. The rest will go to Lincoln, Bond, Guardians, Twilight, Pi, and that horrible-looking Gerard Butler movie.

[baumer]

Boxoffice ‏@BoxofficeOfficial domestic weekend estimate: $14.6 million for RED DAWN from 2,725 locations. Location avg. = $5,358.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I'd love for you both to explain to me how it will get there. Not many films open to 20 mill and have a 10 multiplier.

Look into middle 1990s or early 2000s.

[baumer]

Look into middle 1990s or early 2000s.

That's an eon ago in terms of box office. Look, I'm all for it, I love Spielberg and I'd love to see it hit 200 mil, but I just don't know how it can.

[The Stingray]

I cut em with these. They call that the quart of blood technique, you do that a quart of blood drops out of a persons body. But you wouldn't know nothing about that cause you a big Barry White looking motherf***er!

[Jake Gittes]

Too bad we are in 2012.

[baumer]

Just a thought. If Lincoln does hit 200 mill, that would give Spielberg a 200 million dollar film in 5 straight decades.

[baumer]

I cut em with these. They call that the quart of blood technique, you do that a quart of blood drops out of a persons body. But you wouldn't know nothing about that cause you a big Barry White looking motherf***er!

This has nothing to do with box office.

[The Stingray]

Lincoln wont do 200m.

[The Stingray]

This has nothing to do with box office.

Well, that's the shit they use on crowds.

[MovieMan89]

Just a thought. If Lincoln does hit 200 mill, that would give Spielberg a 200 million dollar film in 5 straight decades.

Very cool. However I'm sure Spielberg will manage at least one $200m grosser before 2020 if this doesn't hit it.

[baumer]

Boxoffice ‏@BoxofficeOfficial domestic weekend estimate: $24.0 million for RISE OF THE GUARDIANS from 3,653 locations. Location avg. = $6,570.

[Jake Gittes]

3D is on the naughty list. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS was on 2900 3D/IMAX screens (3653 total) & accounted for just 35% of its $32M gross.

[baumer]

Very cool. However I'm sure Spielberg will manage at least one $200m grosser before 2020 if this doesn't hit it.

True. And how about this.....if he makes another 300 mill film, then it will be 4 decades with a 300 mill grosser......that's crazy.

[The Stingray]

Very cool. However I'm sure Spielberg will manage at least one $200m grosser before 2020 if this doesn't hit it.

Robopocalypse and Indy 5.

[baumer]

Boxoffice ‏@BoxofficeNew worldwide total: $577.7 million for BREAKING DAWN - PART 2

[fishstick]

Just a thought. If Lincoln does hit 200 mill, that would give Spielberg a 200 million dollar film in 5 straight decades.

Spielberg deserves to have a 200 mio film in 5-6 straight decades and he deserves to finally get his offical (means unadjusted) billion dollar film.

[MovieMan89]

Robopocalypse and Indy 5.

Please don;'t bring this up. Yes I know it's inevitable, but until I'm forced to face it's reality I'd like to live in ignorance about it.

[riczhang]

Robopocalypse and Indy 5.

Is Robopocalypse even getting made anymore? Didn't it have like a trillion production problems?