If preliminary weekend numbers at Deadline hold, THE WORLD’S END (Focus/Universal) will be a bit more frontloaded than it would have liked, slipping 10% from Friday to Saturday for $3.1M on its second day, and a bit behind THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (Screen Gems/Sony) for the title of weekend’s biggest opening, with Mortal Instruments earning $9M and World’s End at $8.5M. Less surprisingly, YOU’RE NEXT (Lionsgate) also fell 10% on Saturday to $2.6M, for a $7.5M weekend. (Mortal Instruments rose 20% Friday-to-Saturday to $3.7M, but since it had been playing since Wednesday, the day-to-day dynamics are somewhat different.) It’s worth remembering, though, that World’s End is in only half as many theatres as Mortal Instruments (and 60% of those housing You’re Next), so on a per-theatre average basis, World’s End is well in front; also, World’s End will be considerably ahead of the previous Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg/Nick Frost collaborations Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which opened respectively with $3.3M and $5.8M. For its part, Mortal Instruments at least looks better than the $7.6M start for Beautiful Creatures, so there’s that.
All of the newcomers, though, are behind reigning holdovers THE BUTLER (Weinstein) and WE’RE THE MILLERS (Warners). Butler is headed for a $15-16M 2d weekend, an excellent drop of less than 40% that gives it $50M so far with plenty more to come. (It’s not in a league, with The Help, though, which shrank a tiny 23% in its second weekend.) Millers continues to hold splendidly, down less than 30% in its 3rd weekend to $12-13M, which puts its total over $90M, with a real shot of catching The Hangover III‘s $112M.
Woody Allen’s BLUE JASMINE (Sony Pictures Classics), in its first weekend of fairly wide release (1283 theatres), may get to $4M for the weekend. That compares with the $5.8M that Midnight In Paris made when it was in 300 fewer theatres, and it’s also below the first wide weekends of Moonrise Kingdom ($4.9M in 400 fewer theatres) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ($6.4M).
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